Here's a common scenario: You sit down in front of the computer, head overflowing with ideas, all pumped up to do a blog post. Suddenly, you heard your stomach roaring for food, you have the inkling to check your facebook, or you want to play your favorite online games. Disruptions are hindrance and takes away your mood to blog. When a blogger is distracted, the quality of his article suffers.
Disturbance affects the blogger's storyline and it also goes to the quality of his article. It's important to be focused when writing a blog entry because it helps the blogger produce a seamless article rather than a patchwork of thoughts. If you feel that you are on the same situation, you should continue reading this.Here are some useful tips on how to get rid of blogging distractions.
1. Have a willpower. A dedicated blogger has self-control and can avoid other things while working on his blog. It means we have to stay
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Avoid multitasking. We all love to multitask - it makes us feel like a superhero. However, multitasking is not applicable to everybody, and it would be impossible when you are doing blog works. You may have thought of many potential ideas to incorporate on your blog, but it would only work one at a time or you wouldn't be able to finish a single write-up. Put everything in order like do a research as your initial work, start with your article, then edit as your final step so that distractions can be avoided while doing your blog works.
4. Stay away from online temptations. Who would have thought that blogging is only possible when you are online? If you know for a fact that you can be easily disturbed by online temptations, better think of doing the blog work offline, by merely writing down your thoughts on a paper! Just publish it once you're done. Being away from the internet even for a short period of time can give you full concentration. Besides internet, you should also stay away from TV and radio if it gives you confusion instead of
Nicholas Carr states that spending too much time on the internet has caused him to lose focus while reading, writing, and focusing in general. He claims that he gets too wrapped up in the pleasures of the internet such as shopping, scrolling through Facebook, paying bills, etcetera. In summary, it is shortening his attention span. Carr thinks that he needs to step away from the internet in order to correct his “neural circuitry”.
The influx of competing messages that we receive whenever we go online not only overloads our working memory; it makes it much harder for our frontal lobes to concentrate our attention on any one thing. ...the more we use the Web, the more we train our brain to be distracted — to process information very quickly and very efficiently but without sustained attention. That helps explain why many of us find it hard to concentrate even when we’re away from our computers. Our brains become adept at forgetting, inept at remembering (Carr
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Actually, that's not true - I feel really guilty about neglecting the blog since getting a PS4 and Killzone Shadowfall, so I forced myself to write today.
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This one being your first year in college, you may have trouble concentrating while you study. Some techniques that can help your concentration are being selective, relaxing, and over learning. Being selective means to make choices about what is most important to learn. When you are studying, you should be able to know what may or may not be on the test, your notes for the week can be helpful. In addition, pay attention to charts, tables, and illustrations that you think may appear on the test. Relaxing is a good technique to use because when you are relaxed you are able to absorb more information. One way to relax is to use a breathing technique (inhale, count from one to ten, and exhale, and count from one to ten, and so on). Over learning can help you fight mental vagueness. When you are struggling in a class, it is best for you to learn more than you need to know about the subject. You can use these techniques every time you are studying or when you cannot concentrate.
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