DISTRACTION IS A CHOICE

One ordinary breakfast gave Dr. Abhishek Gilara an extraordinary thought.
Sitting in a busy hotel restaurant, he deliberately chose a chair facing the
quieter side. Behind him were people, waiters, conversations and constant
movement. In front of him was calm. The restaurant was the same. The
noise was the same. Only one thing had changed: the direction of his chair.
That simple observation led to a much bigger question: What if many of the
distractions we spend our lives fighting could have been reduced before they
ever reached us? In DISTRACTION IS A CHOICE, Dr. Abhishek Gilara
explores attention not merely as a productivity technique, but as one of life’s
most precious resources.
Through his experiences in business leadership, jewellery designing, disciplined early mornings, intense physical
training, family life, learning and spirituality, he examines how seemingly insignificant choices determine
what enters our minds—and eventually what our lives become. Where do you place your phone? Which notifications
do you allow? Where do you sit? What do you face? Who surrounds you? Which conversations receive
your time? What receives your best morning hours? And how much of your life is being spent observing things
that have absolutely nothing to do with your own karma? This book offers a deceptively simple principle: Don’t
spend your entire life fighting distraction. Design unnecessary distraction out. Turn the chair. Move the phone.
Reduce the noise. Protect the morning. Create space to think. Give family your presence. Give work your
concentration. Give spirituality your silence. And give your immediate karma the attention it deserves. Because
distraction rarely asks for your whole life at once. It asks for a glance. A notification. Another scroll. Another
comparison. Another conversation. Another interruption. And slowly, pieces of life disappear. You cannot control
everything happening around you. But you can control far more of what you choose to face. Sometimes the
distance between chaos and peace is not another city, another career or another life. Sometimes it is only one turn
of the chair.