I know you’d rather have yourself bored to death looking at all the social networks, gag sites and youtube videos you’d find rather than doing that assignment or business report you have for tomorrow. It is completely understandable. The Internet has become a primary source of distraction for many people given the many things one can do using the internet. Whether or not all of the internet is a way to get people to buy products or services, the problem is us, the users are having trouble with doing our daily tasks properly. In short, the world’s productivity may have shortened because of people like us who find it difficult to be productive. So here are a few ways to get you to discipline yourself and start working on things that matter and not just laugh with your friends or chat.

1. Schedule

Before you start your day plan a schedule. It would be wise to plan a schedule for an entire week, including your weekends. Make sure that you indicate that you can only use the internet for certain periods of time, but never the whole day. This is to help impede your daily internet usage and ensure that you’re using your time wisely for more productive things. During your weekdays, plan that you spend your time working on your task for the next day then spending some quality time with your family or your wife or husband without the use of the internet. I promise you it’ll make a great difference in your life.

2. Focus

Making your work interesting is very difficult, especially if you’ve been in the industry for decades. Having focus means being distracted with the right kinds of things. Now you might ask “how can I distract myself using work?”. Try to challenge yourself, try typing with one hand, try using different words you’ve never used before or not using a calculator to make your assignments. Now they might not be fun, they might make your work slower, but they’re investments; they ensure that the next time, you can do it faster. When you get bored with it, you can always try new things.

3. Try New Things

You can say to yourself that during the weekends you’ll be free to do everything you want right? You’ve been working for so long and so hard that you deserve a break from that kind of routine right? However, weekends pose the greatest threat to productivity; being too relaxed even for one day can disrupt your body’s discipline, allowing you to give in to things that you deem can relax you. Relaxation depends on one’s definition or feeling of relaxation. If you can exercise yourself every morning and accomplish a task or make something productive during the day instead of wasting away in front of movies and the Internet, your system recognizes a new routine, which includes discipline.