E-mail. Text. Calls. TV. Facebook. Twitter. Farmville. All of these things and more are competing for your attention everyday. This has always been one of my personal challenges. I get distracted quickly I really have low attention span (lol). It’s a good thing though that I came across a very helpful article from Zen Habits. It’s about taking the time everyday to just be still. It’s a pretty simple concept but it has worked wonders for me and I wanted to share it with everyone through this article.
Here’s an excerpt from the blog entry:
It’s pretty simple, really, and you don’t need me to tell you to do this: to find stillness, you just need to take the time to sit still, every day that you can.
Find a time in the morning, when the world is still fairly quiet, to sit still. Don’t do anything, don’t plan your day, don’t check email, don’t eat. Just sit, and learn to be comfortable being still.
In practice, we’ll gradually find that comfort, and we’ll become good at it. If mornings are no good, find time during your lunch break, or after work, or just before you go to bed.Find a place to be still. It can be a chair in your house, or a front porch, or the roof. It can be a park bench, or the beach, or a path in the woods. Let this be a ritual that you come to look forward to.
From this small place of stillness, calm will carry to the rest of your day, radiating like a soothing force. You’ll be calmer throughout the day, and learn to find little pockets of stillness everywhere: when you first start your workday, when you are ready to sit down and create, when you’re about to eat, when you are ready to exercise, during a meeting, even.
Usually I try this exercise before my daily kick-off prayer time. Just amazing. Try it out guys. 
I agree. The momment we wake up, we are “harassed” by all the things that we need to do for today that we forgot to find a moment of solitude and to calm ourselves.
I guess, these moments are needed for our sanity and our health.
Yep! The silence and stillness also helps with focusing for the important tasks that need to be done for the day.
I call this my quiet time.
Sometimes, I have to plan my whole day first because it keeps getting in the way. But after planning, I get this super relaxed feeling that everything will be alright.