Over at That Young Philosopher, Damon Young posts (in response to a question during a talk he gave) on how he battles distraction. It’s wonderfully inspiring (at least to this existentialist). He writes about a goal of:
freedom: not simply rights or liberties, but the capacity to craft myself; to become what I am. . . . Like the Stoics, I think it’s helpful to ask myself questions; to ask, every day, what I’ve done for my goals.