Staying Focused - Quit Playing Around!

I guess for me, its not bad as anyone could imagine as long as you can handle the situation. Like me, if i am cleaning the house, when i get tired, i will open my laptop and then see who are online in a certain site. I chat a little, I play a little. When i restore my vigor, i stopped exploring on the net and get back to cleaning. That's what I'm doing. It is okay as long as you know your target. Doing two things at the same time.

One thing that helps is that I hate those Facebook games! Seriously, I've found the best way to stay on track is to make a list of things I need to accomplish. I even put things like "do the dishes" or "clean the bathroom" on the list because when I glance at it I can see immediately how much I have left to do for the day. My goal each day is to cross off everything on the list. If I have time left or if I don't have a particularly busy day, then I allow myself time to play. Just not those Facebook games!

I do have a couple of games open when I'm working on the computer. I write articles and sometimes--well, a lot of times!--get stymied about what to write next, how to phrase something or I need ideas. Then I go to my games and play awhile till I solve my problem. Getting my mind off my work helps me complete it. Sometimes I'll go outside, other times I'll play games but it helps the creative process.

I play on Pogo more than I should. I try to be sensible about it though. I take classes online, so I try to make sure I do some school work each day before I get involved in any Pogo games. I work out of the house so my gaming never interferes with work, thank goodness. Our computers at work do not allow us on any websites that are not company owned, so I cannot play games from work. I do let other things slide though like household chores and taking the kids out. The kids wanted to go to the pool today but I decided to stay in and play computer games instead. I tried to get them to go play in the yard but they came right back in. Now I'm going to force myself off the computer to do some dishes and figure out something for dinner.

Yes its important to stay focus on the tasks in real life rather than in the virtual world. When i was young, i used to be addicted to playing Dota, a warcraft 3 custom map game and this addiction drove on for 3 years and i played the game every single day up to 10 hours a day. This cause me deep trouble as my result of a top student became one of the worst in the college. However, i manage to quit the game eventhough i am still spending much time online, i am using it for better purposes like learning new stuff and programming.

playing games in leisure time is good.You should not play games whole day because you will be addicted to such games.Give importance to work first,then you do what you want.If you are focused on what are you are doing then nothing will happen beyond you.

Luckily I am not into games or social sites that do not pay. I have some memberships but you will not find me there. I go out to a real job, and I do my other stuff. It is not always easy to pay attention to what I need to do though. More particularly I have lots of sewing or hand work that I would like to do. I just have to make them more attractive to do.

not really, I belong to a scrabble club and I do the games for that, but that is about it. I am not writing as much lately. I am too tired for that.

Hi Ldyjarhead, I get on the internet almost everyday. Nowadays I just keep on doing online works which are beneficial and useful to my job. Unlike those earlier days when the fist time I could access internet at home. Due to the convenient, I spent lots of time surfing net randomly on account of curiosity as well the huge virtual world was so fresh, attractive and exciting for me to explore. I stayed up late indulged in playing games or watching tv series too. Just imagine how much precious time had been wasting doing such silly things. It's unhealthy as well to sit in front of the pc until wee hours frequently After I realized that there wasn't any productivity in income I then did my best to refrain myself from indulging in doing so. I had stopped playing fb games for quite a long time I enjoy doing work on my laptop and listening to my favorite music at the same time. Lol...I'm tough enough and can leave the game after playing a short while to get myself refreshed. Have a nice day and happy posting

Yup. I spend too much time playing solitaire when I should be doing something else just a tad more constructive, like vacuuming or doing the dishes. (Welcome back, btw.)

Well, considering I live too far from town and have no car, most of what I do is either here or FB, both I use primarily for social, but also some money making from mylot and encouragement from FB and mylot. I don't play games on FB though, but that doesn't mean time doesn't get away from me. Then I rush to clean the house, and on Thursday I clean a neighbor's house and sometimes get extra hours, but not often enough as now it seems every single bit of money I get, (not counting my online money) goes to my husband for gas so he came make it to work. So, though I do get lost here, (not bad since I am making money) or FB,(bad because I am not making money, but I am making friends)I do feel quite overwhelmed.. Oh, I forgot, I had taken a lot of time trying to figure out why I can't get online on my laptop and now see it is my router which I bought in Oct. and paid the 3.00 for a year warranty. So now I have to go through that paperwork, but is will be worth it, because I need my laptop to get away from family if I end up working on my story.. So in a way, it is a distraction, but not totally controlling my life...

Well It depends on you and what is your job there. Lots of people play games simply to relax when the day is really hard with many problems. However there are people that play all day games and think that they do their job perfectly but one day they got fired. And yeah it is likely for someone when work with computer to get unfocused in his job. So it depends on your job. If you have free time in your job and you have finished all tasks than there is no problem. But if you haven't done your job and first playing games than this is not ok for you.

Well playing games are one of the best past time for me especially when I am alone here at home but of course I am playing when i am doing the laundry. I admit that in browse internet and responding some discussion here in mylot to while working because it keeps me awake but made sure that finished all my obligations before I do that. For me it hard to get focus if you do two things at the same time without mistakes, so I always finished what important things first before i browse and play games.

I am terrible for getting distracted online when I am at work. If I log onto the Internet to do a work related task, I will usually spend twice as long then doing non-work related stuff!

I have my rounders and schedules. I do visit social sites that doesn't pay but I know my limitations. I always give myself some break from earning sites. I set my goal everyday and that helps me to refrain from staying unproductive everyday while on the net.