Less Distraction, More Focus

In case you think the environment full of distraction and context switching introduces such negative effects as reduction of ability to stay focused on a single task for long enough, you’re not alone. No time for long reads, shorter interactions, anxiety and fear of missing out. Yeah, it’s real.

I’d like to share results of my current ongoing experiment highly inspired by this video, which I definitely recommend for watching

What was challenging

• No social media, real people interactions instead <- worked the best
• Controlled phone pickup. It’s a habit, and habits are really hard to fight.
• Same time going to sleep and wake up, no matter what. Yes, not enough sleep last night ain’t excuse.
• No screens before sleep. Here I don’t know if reading a book on Kindle Paperwhite counts 🤷‍♂️
• Finish unfinished work, reduce work-in-progress. It kills productivity, and silently drains brain energy in background.
• Journaling about the events during the day. Brings some extra dopamine for free, when you think about something good that happened recently. Improves writing skills and clarity of thinking.
• Efforts on sequential tasks execution, not parallel. Don’t start a new one, finish the current.

Discoveries

• Damn, it works!
• Less anxiety and better feeling of self
• Nice feeling of gaining back a control of the habits
• Subjectively, ability to stay focused for much longer significantly improved <- really pays off!

Happy if this helps you to improve your own quality of life too 🤗 Stay healthy, this feels good!