How do you deal with lack of focus?

October 9th, 2009

Ever have those days where you just can’t seem to focus?

You’re working on writing an article and then *poof*, you’ve lost focus and are browsing recent tweets.

Then the tweets lose your attention and you’re logging into Facebook?

Of course, once you’ve looked through everyone’s news feeds, you head over to your email to see what’s new.

Email gets boring, so you get up for a fresh cup of coffee or a snack and chat with someone about their weekend (or text someone if you work alone).

And pretty soon, it’s 3 hours later and you haven’t finished your article.

Yup, we’ve all had those days. In fact, today has been one of them. With some serious struggles, I was able to get some work done on a new clients wedding site (The Diffenderfer Wedding), and I finalized the new copy for another clients site, but I still been feeling out of focus. Nothing has been coming easily, and I had to physically force myself to log out of facebook, close tweetdeck and even turned off my music to try to reclaim my brain.

How do you deal with those days? What do you do in order to refocus your mind and make sure that your work gets completed?