Deal With The Distractions And Create

If you’re a creative who wants to get productive, learn to work round the diversions.

There are always going to be distractions in life —dogs barking, phones bleeping, the annoying fly on the window. The question is — are you going to let those distractions keep you from being productive?

I’ve sat down at my laptop this morning to write. It’s Monday, so I want to get the week off to a flying start. Recently I concluded that because so much of what I do and want to do revolves around writing, it makes sense to actually set aside time for doing just that. Every single day.

It’s not that the writing itself is the final product, it’s that I need a place to draw things together. For me, writing is where ideas coalesce and begin to take on a form other than pure thought. And that’s exciting, because you start to see something begin to grow. You begin to see potential and possibility bursting forth.

But today, the last Monday in August, the gardener across the road has decided to trim the hedge. With power hedge-clippers.

If I was still living in England it wouldn’t have bothered me. There we had double-glazing to cut out most of the noise, and anyway, I’d probably be in the office at 9:30am. And it would most definitely be raining.

Here, at the end of an incredibly hot summer on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, I want the doors and windows open to let in the last of the cool morning air, before it gets too warm.

So I have a big distraction or two. There’s a diversion in my road. Hedge-clippers buzzing and cars in a continual stream as families flock to the beach to soak up the remains of summer.

What can I do? Surrender? It would be so easy. Save being productive for another day. Plenty of other things that need my attention.

Hold on! I’ve set my feet on this path! I’m not going back!

My goal is to write, and so write I will!

I know the hedge is only in for a trim, the gardener is not going to be working on it all day. I know the traffic becomes white-noise once I get into my zone.

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