{"id":11571,"date":"2022-08-04T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/04\/how-to-minimize-distractions-when-you-work-from-home\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:11:33","slug":"how-to-minimize-distractions-when-you-work-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/04\/how-to-minimize-distractions-when-you-work-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How to minimize distractions when you work from home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23274524\/work-from-home-distractions-wfh-how-to<\/a>
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I\u2019ve been working from home for close to 15 years. I also have ADHD. And a lot of streaming subscriptions. And a PlayStation. And hundreds of books. And a partner who also sometimes works from home and is equally aware of the presence of said streaming subscriptions, PlayStation, and books.<\/p>\n

The point is that my home is full of distractions. Yours probably is, too. Maybe different distractions from mine, but distractions nonetheless. And, like many workers<\/a>, it may have taken you a pandemic to discover that it can be hard to avoid these distractions when working from home. (Work itself provides plenty of distractions already, if you\u2019re not careful\u2014 the continuous pings of emails and Slacks can make you feel like you\u2019re working all the time but never actually getting anything done<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Sure, there are productivity<\/a> and project management<\/a> apps. But Todoist isn\u2019t going to help you resist the siren call of TikTok, and Trello isn\u2019t going to play catch with the dog. At a certain point, you can only manage your distractions by managing yourself.<\/p>\n

Accept your distractibility<\/h2>\n

The first step to mitigating distractions when working from home is to accept that you become distracted because humans are distractible. It is part of your nature. And that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

Take, for instance, someone who keeps oversleeping because they hit the snooze button on their alarm nine times before finally getting up. Seasoned oversleepers know that one way to overcome this is to keep the alarm clock several feet from the bed \u2014 requiring the would-be oversleeper to get out of bed and walk across the room to hit the snooze button each time the alarm goes off. At a certain point, it becomes more restful to just stay awake.<\/p>\n

You can do the same thing with distractions \u2014 by setting yourself up to be distracted from<\/em> your distractions when you inevitably succumb to them (if not beforehand).<\/p>\n

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