How can you avoid getting distracted frequently when working?

If you are having trouble focusing and getting distracted, then here is a bit of an antidote which might help to put things into perspective. 

This is the script from the scene when Tyler and the protagonist are outside of a grocery store about to shoot the store clerk from the movie Fight Club. Basically life is too short, decide what you want, go out and do it, regret weighs heavy and you are going to die.

Voice-over: On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everybody drops to zero.

Narrator: Stop! What are we doing? Come on! God!

Tyler Durden: Hands behind your back. Give me your wallet.

 [The clerk, now kneeling, hands him his wallet.]

Tyler Durden: Raymond K. Hessel. 1320 South East spanning apartment A. Small cramped basement apartment, Raymond?

Raymond K. Hessel: How did you know?

Tyler Durden: 'Cause they give shitty basement apartments letters instead of numbers. Raymond, you are going to die.

[Raymond begins to cry. Tyler examines content of the wallet.]

Tyler Durden: Is that your mom and dad? Mom and Dad are going to have to call up kindly Doctor So-and-so. Pick up your dental records. Wanna know why? Because there's gonna be nothing left of your face.

Narrator: Oh come on, come on.

Tyler Durden: An expired community college student ID. What did you study, Raymond?

Raymond K. Hessel: S-stuff.

Tyler Durden: Stuff? Were the mid-terms hard? I asked you what you studied!

Raymond K. Hessel: Biology mostly.

Tyler Durden: Why?

Raymond K. Hessel: I don't know.

Tyler Durden: What did you wanna be, Raymond K. Hessel? The question, Raymond! Was "What did you want to be"?!

Narrator: Answer him, Raymond! Jesus!

Raymond K. Hessel: Veterinarian, veterinarian.

Tyler Durden: Animals.

Raymond K. Hessel: Yeah animals and stuff.

Tyler Durden: And stuff, yeah I got that. That means you have to get more schooling.

Raymond K. Hessel: Too much school.

Tyler Durden: Would you rather be dead? Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?

Raymond K. Hessel: No, please no!

[Tyler takes his gun down, takes out Raymond's driver's license throwing the wallet in front of Raymond.]

Tyler Durden: I'm keeping your license. I'm gonna check in on you. I know where you live. If you're not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead. Now run on home.

[Raymond gets up and runs into the night.]

Tyler Durden: Run Forrest, run!

Narrator: I feel ill.

Tyler Durden: Imagine how he feels.

Narrator: Come on, this isn't funny! That wasn't funny. What the fuck was the point of that?!

Tyler Durden: Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel's life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.

Voice-over: You had to give it to him. He had a plan. And it started to make sense in a Tyler sort of way. No fear, no distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.”

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