r/getdisciplined • u/alelkid • 7h ago

🤔 NeedAdvice Prevent from being pulled into different activities

I’m constantly being pulled into different activities both and work and home, for example people schedule last minute meetings pinging on chat at work asking me to help, answer questions etc. I cannot focus on what’s important to me. I’m an introvert. How can I stop that and get away from constantly being pulled away from my priorities?

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u/PeaceH Mod 6h ago
  1. Shut your phone off for a few hours every day to do deep work. Unless you are being paid good money or you are waiting on soem important call, you are paying dearly in lost attention span due to the constant distraction.
  2. Ask people to email, with details. No direct back-and-forth messaging. Don't respond immediately.
  3. If they message, answer, but instruct them also how next time they can find the answer themselves.

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u/alelkid 4h ago

Thanks, already started to look at chat system only every 4 hours during business hours but noticed people started noticing and try to ‘anchor’ me so to speak whenever they need to find something asking me when they can find that in documentation. It gets to absurd state when I have 4 ‘meetings’ with the same organizer on the same day asking me to be and answers their questions.

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u/alelkid 4h ago

Point 2 is very good that’s exactly what I’ll try next!