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“Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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All those messages, social updates, and perfect Insta pics. It entertains you now but it will hurt or bore you someday, it is a distraction. Try not to exchange what you want most for what you sort of want at the moment. Study your habits. Understand where your time goes, and remove distractions. It is time to focus on what matters.
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If you are constantly attached to your smartphone or listening with your ears as your eyes check for the next social update, you are loosing out of actually experiencing real relationships and real life. The same is true for texting too. Yes, someday you will be slapped with the reality of a missed memory being far more unsettling than a missed message.
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We steal a few extra minutes here or there to enjoy it. But the number of hours in the day never change. So eventually, we start to sacrifice the most important things in order to indulge ourselves even more into the distraction. Before we know, it has become a way of life, not a welcome detour from it.
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The greatest danger of entertaining distractions, it seems, is the temptation and likelihood of them becoming a lifestyle.
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Learn to be more human again. Do not hide behind gadgets. Interact with people . Smile often. Ask about people’s stories. Listen. You cannot connect with anyone, including yourself, unless you are undistracted and present. And you can not be either of the two when you are Facebooking, Instagramming or Snapchatting your life away.
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We steal a few extra minutes here or there to enjoy it. But the number of hours in the day never change. So eventually, we start to sacrifice the most important things in order to indulge ourselves even more into the distraction. Before we know, it has become a way of life, not a welcome detour from it.
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Be vigilant and intentional in removing the distractions. It can be difficult and requires moments of wrestling within ourselves. But learn to fight. remember, distractions do not get to define you. You get to define you.
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“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.”
Sunday Adelaja
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