How to Overcome Distractions When Prepping for the SAT & ACT

When it comes to distraction, you can make one decision or endless decisions.

You can decide over and over again not to look at your phone. Not to go to the website. Not to check your email. You can decide to leave the website after you absent-mindedly landed there (or after reading just one more post…). You can decide to answer the text now or later. You can decide again, and again, and again, until your work is finally complete.

Or, you can switch your phone to “do not disturb” or “airplane mode.” You can use the SelfControl computer app to block time-suck websites for an hour. You can quit your email program.

It is much easier to make the decision not to engage in distracting, disadvantageous habits once than to have to make the decision over and over again.

It takes less energy, less willpower, and less awareness. It allows for fewer slip-ups. 

Then,  you have more mental space (and time!) for things like homework, learning, creativity, and play. 
All of those things you are turning off or away from? They will still be there in an hour.

We often think of these habits as mindless or automatic, but they aren’t. They are a choice. Or a series of choices.

Choose once. Choose better.
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