One of the most difficult challenges a blogger faces is losing your focus. This is especially true for an Internet Loser like me. It’s hard to maintain your enthusiasm for a project when you don’t see any rewards for your efforts.

Once you start down the slippery path of losing your focus, it usually leads to distraction. Distractions are a bloggers worst enemy. I think that I have many more distractions than most and I need to come up with creative ways to combat them.

Living in Thailand creates its own set of distractions, there is so much going on around me. I will constantly get interrupted by every day occurrences. For example, while setting up some advertising campaigns yesterday, my wife called me to come and look at the baby elephant outside our apartment.

Most bloggers face distractions, how many times a day do you check your email, Facebook or visit your favourite bloggers site? How you deal with these distractions inversely affects how successful you will be online.

Most distractions are avoidable using sheer willpower but others need a change of environment. I would love to say that I live in a Penthouse apartment in the heart of Bangkok, with rooms to spare for my work, but the truth is that I live in a shitty Studio apartment on the outskirts. Not having a dedicated area for working is a serious problem.

Now here is the catch 22 situation, to be able to afford the space to work in peace, I would need to be successful. To be successful I would need the space. Maybe this is the wrong mindset to take, but I feel like I’m trapped in a never ending cycle. So if you have any tips on being more productive with my limited resources, I would love to hear them.