Optimizing Focus: Choose the task to suit how you are feeling
How you are feeling physically and emotionally will affect your focus. Instead of trying to push through (and possibly making things worse), you can choose which writing tasks you do with that in mind...
8 Okt 20216min
The impact of time available on your focus
Have you ever noticed that if you have a full day for writing you find it harder to focus? Time constraints can help with focus. In this track I talk a bit about how that works and different ways you ...
8 Okt 20215min
Focus and the desire for distraction
A lot of advice about distraction focuses on the things you do when distracted. While sometimes those other possible activities act as a trigger, sometimes the trigger comes from somewhere else. In th...
8 Okt 20214min
Distraction: not the usual suspects
So much of the discussion of distraction focuses on things like social media. What if you are being distracted by your own project? This track discusses 3 examples that came up in A Meeting With Your ...
8 Okt 20214min
One thing at a time?
Originally written in 2015, this track looks at the common advice to focus on one thing at a time, and how that can sometimes backfire. Using an extended knitting analogy, I discuss how giving yoursel...
8 Okt 20216min
Intro to Spotlight On: Optimizing Focus
Over the years I've written a lot about focus and distraction. This track introduces the collection of archive posts with some new thoughts on the value of identifying the problem before you try to im...
8 Okt 202111min
Planning as a practice
The purpose of planning is to enable you to take action, and to ensure that the things you take action on are the important things. The plan itself is a record of your decisions. Revisiting your plans...
21 Sep 202114min
Email Sign-offs
Do you get caught up in worrying about whether the way you (or whoever just emailed you) signed their email is rude or a passive-aggressive statement that colours the whole email? This is not a great ...
31 Aug 20218min
