Why Managing Attention Is Just as Important as Managing Your Time

Why Managing Attention Is Just as Important as Managing Your Time

You can have two completely free hours on your calendar and still accomplish almost nothing. Maybe you sit down with good intentions, but your phone vibrates. Then you check one message, open another browser tab, remember an unrelated task, and respond to an email. By the time you return to the original project, you have … Read more

Practical Ways to Improve Concentration on Difficult Daily Tasks

Practical Ways to Improve Concentration on Difficult Daily Tasks

You sit down to work on something important. Five minutes later, you check your phone. Then you open another browser tab, remember an email you need to answer, get a drink, and suddenly realize that 30 minutes have passed. The strange part is that you may genuinely want to finish the task. Concentration becomes especially … Read more

How to Protect Your Focus During a Busy and Distracting Workday

How to Protect Your Focus During a Busy and Distracting Workday

You start the morning with one important task in mind. Then an email arrives, a coworker asks a quick question, your phone buzzes, a meeting begins, and another “urgent” request appears before you have finished the first thing. By afternoon, you have been busy for hours but somehow made very little progress on the work … Read more