Social Distancing and the new Online World

It bad enough that the distractions in the online world can cause in one’s life, but now with more dependency on the online world it can be even more challenge with social distancing.  This comes from decades of experience with computers and being able to manage working at home for the last 10 years.  The challenge can be in many areas depending on age.  Some examples are new messages, social media, playing online games and even porn.  However, the computer can be a major asset for knowledge when trying to solve problems, especially in computer science.

The challenge is how to keep one in focus and reduce the distraction that the online community provides. This is where the accountabilities of others on the team or even just as simple as school mates can come in play and be a great asset.

This is where I came up with the 3 A’s in helping in this issue

1. Accountability
2. Assurance
3. Allegiance

Accountability

To maintain accountability, I believe that the best way is to break assignments down into small groups.  Having the right mentors on the team will improve the accountability of the team.  Some monitoring of the teams may be nice to increase productivity and rearrange distracters.

One struggle is to improve the ones that are more productive without abandoning ones that are less.  The goal is to increase creating with co-operation with members of the team. With cooperation between the team members but conflicts may require re-evaluation of teams.

Assurance

Assurance comes to win believing you have the self-confidence to perform the task at hand.  This can improve with the right people in the group but requires one to take action to achieve the goals.

The problem becomes intractable when distraction is present.  Types of distractions can be as follows.

1. Wrong people
2. Wrong things
3. Wrong thinking

One way is to have the right mentors in the group to encourage others to increase their confidence and eliminate their distractions.  This can be even more challenging when communications are remote.

Allegiance

Allegiance is that one can solve the problem.  This provides confidence and thus provides accountability for the actions that one does.

One must get rid of all distractions and stay for the goals and half faith that doing can achieve the goals, even though the situation differs from one is used to.  In actual life this can be especially stressful and with current events it makes it difficult. One key is one thing is to make sure we keep one health up.   A good example of this is dehydration, and this makes the mind less able to concentrate and a person can easier to be frustrated.