ALWAYS ASSUME YOU’RE BEING DISTRACTED.

The media wants you.

Social media gurus want you.

The government wants you, oh yes!

Every faddish diet and those that push them want you.

That’s one side of it. Here’s the other.

Your baser, primitive and destructive instincts want you. Resentment wants to occupy your system. That’s why you’re drawn to news and media, they feed the beast.

I’ve started going on morning walks without my phone. No technology. I found myself when I returned from my constitutional this morning looking for pedometers on Amazon. Sinful behaviour.

Here’s a maxim I do my very best to live by – wherever you are, be there. Don’t be trying to take photos or capture bits on video. Be there. 

Now, I must hold my hands up and admit that, yes, when I go on my second longer walk of the day, I do take my bag with phone and credit card and tripod to record my daily YouTube video but the sheer pleasure of being out, totally unencumbered by gismos and gadgets is something I highly recommend.

People want you distracted because they want to believe in ‘their thing’ so they look to other people to do it for them – they are not completely convinced in it themselves. Remember that.

Being focused on doing the right thing is a challenge, we’re taught to build other people’s dreams but when you zoom in on what you’re doing, you’ll get far more done and be far more useful than you can imagine.