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Need Encouragement?
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Really struggling with distraction
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This seems like a simple problem, easy to fix. It proves otherwise. I am extremely prone to distraction, to the extent that I lose hours on end checking news websites, playing iPhone games, basically just screwing around and not working. Simple fix: Just work harder. Use a to-do list. Etc. Etc. I've worked at all of this, and have good days. But it seems to be chronic. I don't think it's a technique, or trick of organization I need. I think I have some kind of problem. It's like I can't stop doing it. It has been three years that I've struggled with this at my current job. I feel foolish even bringing it up, because there are so many serious issues raised in these forums. Mine is "how do I quit screwing around while working". But it's really starting to affect my work, and like I said I cannot seem to stop. I had a good day yesterday, but here we are at 12:40 in the afternoon and I've done literally nothing so far this morning. Any thoughts, words of encouragement or prayer would be appreciated. Is anyone else dealing with this? Thanks.
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Jim 05/18/2010 12:40 |
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Yvonne
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05/18/2010 23:29 |
Hi Jim. Some people are A D D . Which sounds like your having trouble staying focus. Praise God you are not taking Drugs to change that. I will pray Our Lord Jesus will give u peace of mind. A sound mind his words says. Help Jim to be able to concentrate on his Job. or on one thing. It is hard I have trouble too. I some time take a hormone pill. and lots of prayer. Confess I have a sound mind in Jesus Name. Lord Jesus help my brother in the Lord. You r on the right path to recognizes this. I know your serious about your Job, Lord Jesus help him to glorify you in his work. I give you Jim Lord to have a creative mind towards his Job. use his distraction towards a better ideal for work. I don't have the answers but to pray. God Bless you Brother.
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Calico
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05/29/2010 13:21 |
Hey Jim,
I saw this a week or so back, and wanted to respond to it, but was on the wrong shift at that time and then in the subsequent days it slipped off my radar. My apologies for that, because I know that this is important to you and you've turned to community for support. It is good to see you share the way that this thing hinders you.
Distraction is not something I am heavily struggling with in my own life, but that doesn't matter. And, if I may, neither does it really matter if the rest of the DAB community experience shows all of us that "there are so many [other] serious issues raised in these forums;" because the reality is that those other things are irrelevant to your own situation (even if they are serious for others!): it is THIS issue that is the one that affects you most. :-)
Would it be ok to ask about just confirming or answering a few things?
- how often are you regularly spending time with God; not only in daily reading/DAB listening but also in times of thinking/dwelling/meditating on what you've read/heard? ie. what does it look like in your life when you "hear these words of mine and put them into practice?" (Matt. 7:24; NIV)
- whom outside of the DAB online community, if anyone, do you have in your life to share your Christian journeying with; not so much "Sunday church life," but daily, ongoing, deeper relationships with godly people who "know you" in loving, responsive ways? (see Matt. 22:37 - 40, and Gal. 6:1 - 5).
- what (if any) do the hindrances look like in other areas of your life; ie are there notable (that is, greater than "average" sorts of) hindrances with personal/marital relationships, or home organization, or timeliness for meeting with friends, or online responsibility of conduct, or stewardship of finances, or annual/quarterly work appraisals from managers, etc.? Are you aware of anything that might hinder; or, going even further, are you even aware of where struggle is?
I don't know if that sounds to invasive to ask of you, or if asking any of these things will be of help. If this seems to public to ask, you can click on my screen-name and my contact info is there; you could respond privately. But if you are open to having the thread here keep going, others might be able to respond with insights and sharings too.
Praying with you, Jim...
Tom
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Kelley
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05/29/2010 13:52 |
Is it distraction? or procrastination? I know if I have something I am avoiding doing, no matter how much I feel I need to do it, every other little thing will proove a distraction from actually getting started. For me the getting started is the huge pill to swallow. I kind of coax myself into beginning by setting a timer before I let myself start anything else and saying to myself I will work on this for "X" many minutes, then take a break. I might have to try this two or three times but I find that soon the momentum of the project captures my attention and I go on to finish it. Procrastination is a painful brutal injury to ones self. I know it well! ugh. Yours might be simply distraction and not procrastination, if so, fill us in, please! :)
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Jenna in Austin
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05/31/2010 08:14 |
Oh my gosh, Jim, I struggle with this too! And I find it quite embarrassing to admit to... When I pray, I often pray for motivation, but then I feel silly, like it's something I should just automatically have. But when it comes right down to it, I feel like I'm lazy. I'll find so many other things to do instead of what I should do. (Like right now, I should be making a grocery list and heading to the store before it get's too crowede, but no, I'm here...) I say to myself, I'm a grown woman, a single mother, I do not have the luxury of time to waste, but I get so overwhelmed with my to-do list that I just shut down.
Jim, I am going to pray for you, and for the others (because I know there are) that also struggle with this.
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Davidwayne Lackey
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06/01/2010 21:40 |
Praying
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Helga
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06/02/2010 15:05 |
Jim what I like about you is that you are totally honest. I just wonder what work you do? Is there a sort of a time limit to what you have to show what you have done or do you just be left of your own. Why I am asking this is, I am the boss of my own day and time. I walk to my office and computer which is 20 meters away from my bed. I spent also time to read DAB requests etc but I never play games on the computer. My business is my farm and home. But the big thing with me is that I am very disciplined when it comes to doing my job. I do my housework, do the office work and helping run the business. So what I am actually want to say is, that either you are bored, or you do not need to show any work which you have done which gives you time to just do your own thing. I maybe would do the same if I would be in your boat, who knows. So Lord help each one of us to do our work which we are blessed with the the best of our ability .........and let us not drift away doing things which do not benefit us....
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