The more tired I am, the more easily I’m sucked into distraction.
The more easily I’m sucked into distraction, the more tired I get.
At some point, the cycle needs to be broken.
The cycle can be broken by getting more sleep (which makes it easier to avoid/resist distraction and then again get more sleep) or by further removing distraction (which makes it easier to get more sleep and then again further remove more distraction).
The problem is that most people have a really hard time making this up front investment.
They get to the end of their day and don’t want to go to bed early (because they just want to ‘relax and unwind’) so they allow for unnecessary and excessive distraction.
Or while they’re staring at the priority workload they have to complete, they succumb to the distractions instead because it’s easier and more pleasant to get a couple quick dopamine hits than trying to complete a daunting work load.
But once you make that initial upfront investment and deliberately make choices that lead to more sleep or allow you to focus on the priority tasks over the cheap dopamine hits… and the cycle is actually broken… what begins anew is a fresh cycle… an upward spiring cycle… one where more sleep leads to more willpower over distraction and/or less distraction leads to less struggle with sleep.
And THAT is where the real pleasure in life is found.
Inner Work Prompt: How can you break the tired and distracted cycle in your life?
P.s. ICYMI you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week here.