The last tip is about eliminating distractions. Eliminating distractions is essential to avoid wasting time and unfortunately, avoiding distractions is not enough. You have to eliminate them once and for all you have to escape into a quiet place to bury your phone into stop talking to all of your friends and family forever. Seriously, eliminating distractions alone can double your productivity. A lot of great authors only turn on their phones after they write for one or two hours because they understand the importance of focusing and creating while they are not being constantly interrupted by random things. If I've got my phone near me while I'm studying, reading, learning, I'm working I know I will be checking it sooner or later.

So I know I have to put my phone away in order to focus completely on my work if my phone is in another I know I won't get up to get it. So I usually put my phone in another room. As a society, we are completely addicted to our phones. And it's very difficult to be productive when we are constantly checking in. So if you are really interested in increasing your productivity, you have to stop checking your phone. You can also use some apps that allow you to block the use of your phone, or computers such as FOSS forest freedom and rescue time I use the app for rests on my computer and phone.

And it helps me to focus in one single task at a time. The app doesn't allow you to block the use of your phone nor computer. But because it's designed as the game it is very effective. You set a timer for the number of minutes you want to focus on and you plant a seed. If you don't leave the app until the timer goes off, your tree will grow in your ritual garden. But if you do leave the app To check social media, your tree will die.

And you will have a black tree of like that tree in your visual garden, which doesn't look good. As you focus more and more, your garden starts to grow and you will have a lot of different trees, which for several reason is a great motivation for me to continue focusing in remember, focusing in one single task is really important and you have to completely eliminate distractions to be able to focus in only one thing. But if you do manage to build your focus, which I'm pretty sure you will, it's also important to focus on the right things. being distracted doesn't only mean checking your phone every 10 minutes. It also means avoiding your real priorities and replacing them with meaningless tasks that are not going to make you move forward. distractions are everything that is keeping you away from achieving better results.

It might be checking social media, but it also might be the time you spend answering emails that are are not really going to help you to move forward towards your biggest dreams. So make sure you eliminate all of those distractions that might emerge in focus on the real priorities because it's really easy to end the day without accomplishing anything meaningful, even though we spend the whole day busy. As David said, it is not enough to be busy. The question is, what are we busy about?