It's amazing. So many people don't take in the state of their immediate environment until it comes time to buckle down and do something. I never see the piles of paper on my desk waiting to be processed until I need to design something. I never see the emails waiting to be filed until I need to send a difficult email. I never see the partially empty coffee cups until I need to plan out my month's blogging schedule. I never see the state of my baseboards until it is time to empty the dishwasher and cook dinner. I never see the broken pencils and dead pens until it is time to write the novel. It's all about the things that I see that distract me from the difficult or undesirable work ahead.

Most of us don't even realize how much our phones are begging for our attention. They whir, beep, buzz, ping and pop up messages. They put numbers on the screen to remind us of what we are missing. And every time we look, we are pulling our attention away from what we should be doing.Unfortunately, it takes time for us to get our attention back to where it should be, and that time switching - not to mention the time checking out the cause of the whir/beep/buzz/number - is lost.Today we will look at how to lower your phone distraction.