We all have things that distract us, for some people, it is their hobbies.
Many things can distract me but I get to know my weaknesses and stay away from some of those things...
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During my secondary school days, there is one thing that used to happen to me which I also figured out because it kept repeating itself when I gained admission into junior secondary school, I took the first position in my class but my position kept going down in each term, second term in jss1 I took 27th position, in jss2, I took 49 and second term in jss2, I got 247!
My school was changed when I got the JSS3 to a private school and my performance became good again, they don't use positions in the secondary school and there were not as many as in the public school, but still, I noticed my performance started dropping again in second term till I graduated and went to another school for my senior secondary school.
As usual, on my first day in the new school, I met them having a class and I joined and when the teacher asked a question, I raised up my hand to answer and the students clapped for me, the first term, as usual, was great but again in ss2, I started doing badly.
I was even promoted to ss 3 on trial and I was glad I didn't repeat... It was later after school that I figured out why I was like that, my first time somewhere I had no friends so I always focused on my studies but the moment the students got to know me and I became friends with them, I lost focus and that used to affect my studies terribly.
The thing still happens to me now, I easily gain the attention of people and it affects my work but I have learned to have alone time and one thing I refuse to do now is to keep offline friends because that will reduce my online time, I have more online friends and since we are all working online, no effect! but yeah friends are distractions so I try to keep the numbers very small.
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Social media is a big distraction and I think this applies to most people using browsing phones, there are some social media sites that you will enter that you won't be able to leave, the number 1 on the list is TikTok, I rarely post on TikTok, I have just 6 posts on my account but I am always there watching different things ranging from dancing videos to motivational quote, trending gist, and other fun stuff...
Sometimes I will follow one gist and enter another account, from there I might find a comment which gets me curious about the commentator and again move to the person's account, so exploring does not end on TikTok and you won't realize you have spent 5 hours streaming what does not concern you lol, so sometimes I found myself lost in some videos that I would abandon the work am doing, TikTok is a big distraction for me but I am not planning to stop watching the videos there anytime soon.
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This is another big distraction of mine, I love watching movies but I had to stop because I can't be working and watching film at the same time, I like giving my full attention to the movie so I can understand it, just like yesterday, I rewatch the movie Alice in borderland and that cost me 4 hours that I could have used being productive but one must learn to have fun too.... All work without play ain't healthy.
Rather than see these two as a distraction, I see them as my go-to whenever I am tired of working, they keep me happy...
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