Scheduling and distractions of my choice act as white noise helping me focus.
The way I attempt to control my distractions is by scheduling my concentration work in times of the day when I’m least needed by others. Working from home allows me a lot of flexibility with time. It means being “on-call” for anybody in the house who is awake at the time that might need me for something. It can become less flexible in a way than an office-space, which is dedicated to work tasks where personal life is discouraged from being integrated into it.
Also, I’ve situated my office space on a back lanai so that I am partially outdoors. The sounds of birds chirping, frogs croaking, rain falling or wind blowing through the trees helps me relax and helps me focus. By contrast, in the past, I would have a very cluttered office space to achieve a similar self-chosen “noisiness” that acted as a kind of visual white noise to help me focus. As an illustration of visual white noise, I’m providing an image of my home office space in the mid 1990s.