Comments on: Driven to distraction? Don’t just play defense https://lauravanderkam.com/2010/10/driven-to-distraction-dont-just-play-defense/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:42:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2010/10/driven-to-distraction-dont-just-play-defense/#comment-19161 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:42:01 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=908#comment-19161 In reply to Denise.

@Denise – I am also finding it is helpful to plan limited numbers of things for each day. If I only have 5 things on my to-do list, they get done, and then I don’t feel guilty about doing a little web wandering. If I have 15 things, i don’t make it through, and feel bad, and then still wind up wandering around…

]]> By: Denise https://lauravanderkam.com/2010/10/driven-to-distraction-dont-just-play-defense/#comment-19160 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:36:22 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=908#comment-19160 I am wrestling with the same issue right now, and it seems to boil down to discipline–to plan great things for my day, and to stick with them, despite the mind wandering and the temporary losses of focus. At the end of the day it is much more satisfying to realize you had fun with your family and real people, than virtual people. A computer really should be a tool, a means to an end, rather than the goal itself. (as my husband is calling me to talk, I will leave this world, and join the real one again)

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2010/10/driven-to-distraction-dont-just-play-defense/#comment-19159 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:05:13 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=908#comment-19159 In reply to sj.

Exactly. When I’m spending too much time aimlessly surfing, it’s usually because I haven’t figured out something more exciting or meaningful that I’d like to be doing.

]]> By: sj https://lauravanderkam.com/2010/10/driven-to-distraction-dont-just-play-defense/#comment-19158 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:17:37 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=908#comment-19158 It boils down to building the life you want and doing the work you want to do….how are we choosing to spend our 168?

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