Tactic for combatting distraction

Tactic for combatting distraction Its frog and toad mating season on the farm. The nighttime is noisy with nature sounds and the pond water ripples with round tadpoles. The farmer is full of mating factoids, like toads enjoy a threesome. Heres a photo from the farmer: Meanwhile, Ben Casnocha sent this link to me about sexual harassment at work. I write a lot about harassment (like you should not report it) because the rules of harassment fascinate me. What is harassment? And what is I love you? For someone with Asperger Syndrome, it is not obvious. Also, like all women, I have had to deal with my fair share of harassment. It turns out that men and women in their 20s report the same levels of harassment. Some cases are considered harassment when a female manager calls a male subordinate sweetie. And because showing any porn at work sets the tone for disrespect among co-workers, (a big problem at the SEC,) this post might pass for harassment if I called a male subordinate in to my office to look at it. But now Im thinking about distractions. Sexual harassment is really only a problem to you if it distracts you from what youd rather be doing in your life. The same way you judge if alcohol is a problem is, maybe, the way you judge everything. I am so easily drawn into an email like Bens. I click his link, then links within his link, and then, six hours have passed and Im an intelligent conversationalist on a topic I had never heard about before that morning. To the farmer, the farm is like the Interneta tunnel of treats to fall into instead of getting back to work. There are the blackberries and deer and barn swallows and the frogs. But the farmer has self-discipline. He carries a camera, snaps a picture of the frogs, and then gets right back on the tractor. My transitions are much more leisurely and, to be honest, I never know if I will make it to my intended next task. So I have started chanting a mantra to myself, (which I found on Lifehacker), that I think is going to help. The chant is all the productivity books in the world, distilled down to eleven words: One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.