Distractions and Time

What price do you pay for allowing yourself to be distracted?  Are you ever really able to return the focus to what you were working on? Does one distraction turn into a string of distractions and you are never really able to accomplish what you set out to do?  Could this really be a $588 billion problem facing our nation?  Can you develop the discipline to see the job through this time? No one or thing gets my attention until this job is done?  

"Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself."

-Marilyn vos Savant-