Distractions, they are all around. Perhaps even reading this blog is a distraction? Back in 2009 I wrote a blog post with the title, `I could spend hours doing this...`, in which I went through all the distractions that were available then - and there were a lot. I revisited that post in 2017 and the list was even longer, so perhaps I am due a 2018 version. In the older posts, the list of things that I could be doing included: checking emails, scanning Flipboard, browsing LinkedIn, etc. Each of them has some value, but these are not the things that will make a difference to my day, month or year. The word most often associated with getting things done is productivity, which is defined as `the...
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