{"id":1496,"date":"2015-05-04T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T02:21:07","slug":"the-evil-twins-of-songwriting-distractions-and-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/the-evil-twins-of-songwriting-distractions-and-procrastination\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil Twins of \u202a#\u200eSongwriting\u202c: Distractions and Procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And Helpful Hints to Avoid Them:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Figure out when you&#8217;re most productive (start an activity diary to find that out), then schedule your sessions during those times without phone, computer, or other distracters.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Set realistic, immediate goals during each writing session.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Though seemingly obvious, plan ahead to avoid people, places, or things that you KNOW take you off-point (and vice versa, put yourself around environments proven to inspire you).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1497\" src=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10391386_861669963855605_6655841077618665534_n.jpg\" alt=\"10391386_861669963855605_6655841077618665534_n\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10391386_861669963855605_6655841077618665534_n.jpg 400w, https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10391386_861669963855605_6655841077618665534_n-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>(4) Recognize that staying focused is not easy; but important accomplishments rarely are. Stick with it, the sacrifice is worth it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/songregistration.com\">Register your songs here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Helpful Hints to Avoid Them: (1) Figure out when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-o8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}