Environmental psychology shows that physical spaces influence the way that you think, the way that you feel, and the way you behave. And so here's how you want to do it: you want to create a deep work environment. Find a quiet place, a comfortable place, a place that you can be undisturbed.
---Rob Dial
This quote is from Rob Dial's personal development podcast The Mindset Mentor...today's episode dealt with enhancing one's mental focus on tasks. He brought up this point to underscore the importance of one's surroundings in effectively focusing on work. You don't sit down to work in a place that is in the middle of a traffic lane that invites distractions from others, nor do you allow distractions like the TV or your phone to be readily available for interruption or temptation. Besides finding a relatively isolated location to do your focused work, it's important to respectfully notify others there that for the stated period of time you're going to be concentrating on your task and to please hold their thoughts...unless of course there's an emergency. Sounds good to me, now onward to finding such a place...
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