Block messages, websites, and apps of your choosing.

Most focus apps worth considering should: Think of it as the proverbial garlic that repels all your time vampires. They allow you to accomplish more within designated time slots, so that you're not thinking about work while playing, or about play while working. Enter: focus apps… What is a focus app?įocus apps are tools that minimize distractions to help you concentrate on whatever your most important tasks are. You can try to resist all these urges yourself. Sometimes, we can't buckle down because the endless stimuli of the attention economy work overtime to pluck us out of deep work, into quick dopamine hits of frivolous distraction.

Why? Because the enemy of productivity isn't always malaise. What was I supposed to be talking about again?ĭoes this resemble your brain, on internet, when you should be, I don't know… working? If so, there's no shame in putting guardrails in place. Where online does one buy those tiny little slippers? It's lunch time already? I'm hungry. Friend in a group text thinks it's a decent trade, though.

Checking Reddit to see the discourse and, unsurprisingly, everyone's making fun of the Sacramento Kings. Whoa! First thing that comes up on the timeline is a blockbuster NBA trade. What's Twitter saying about the rest of the Oscar noms? Wasn't that the name of a Will Smith movie? The one where he and Margot Robbie were pickpockets? Google confirms and, hey, also says he's up for best actor this year? That's cool.

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