Dealing with distractions is really about making judgments....some are helpful some are hurtful, but YOU are allowing yourself to make that decision, no one else.....I suggest you "just observe your thoughts"...don't judge or even acknowledge them, treat them like a river that you are standing by and all your thoughts are like the water passing by....clean water, dirty water, rough, smooth, tin cans, garbage, back to clean, blue ON AND ON....we have an average of between 30 Thousand and 50 Thousand thoughts per day.....and only about 2% are useful at all and only 2% of those do we even act on....most just loop through our minds causing worry, sad, unhappy, restless, irritable, bored, discontent etc ON AND ON....when you start to understand this you can become pro active.....does this mean you can "think them away".....not at all, you have to observe them away...treat them like a science experiment that you want to watch, but not become personally involved with.....and there's ways to do this called meditation, all the animals do it and it's essential in this fast paced world to stop, and just do nothing for awhile.