All The Best Productivity Tools in an Easy-to-Compare Matrix

A mathematical lesson about consistency and persistence… 5 minutes doesn’t seem like a lot does it? Let’s say you have a goal like reading, learning something, working on a side project, etc. If you were to focus on this goal for just 5 minutes per workday for an entire year it would add up to at least… 5 (minutes)…

Everything from sleep to micro-dosing, according to the latest scientific studies on attention — Who doesn’t want to take their focus to the next level? The core 5 ingredients for focus in our Focuspedia are core because they directly improve our ability to focus. …

Accountability — the ingredient that guarantees focus — The strategies we have put forward while discussing ingredients #1–4 are all well and good but the truth is they’re not bulletproof. A distraction can still come along and ruin it all. That’s ok. That’s life. That’s why it’s useful to have a stop loss on the amount of time…

Self-awareness — the key that brings it all together… — Our minds are in chaos. Only 10% of the times you check your phone are due to stimuli like notifications. According to Nir Eyal, the other 90% are internal impulses from within your own brain. …

Self-motivation — the key to focusing on the hard things — It is almost always the case that the hardest things in life are also the most important. Being well organised (Ingredient #1) and doing what you can to eliminate distractions (Ingredient #2) doesn’t simply result in focused work. Why? Our brains are always looking to get a quick hit of…

Eliminating distractions — beyond just turning off notifications… — Distractions are simply things that take us away from what we want to be doing. Despite such a simple definition, distractions are not so simple to avoid in the modern world. On any normal day, you can be interrupted by a coworker, a buzz from an email, an unwanted phone…

Good organisation — sounds simple but it’s not… — Focus is a complex thing. In our crazy information-packed world a bunch of ingredients (skills and strategies) are needed to master it. You need a good plan for want to do and how you’re going to do it. The first ingredient of our Focuspedia needs no explanation for why it’s…