∞ How to Reclaim Your Attention

Leo Babauta: If you choose to give your atten­tion to your friends, fam­ily and other loved ones — really give your atten­tion to them instead of only half-heartedly while also check­ing text mes­sages and emails and other updates — your life will be rich in many ways. via Zen Habits.  Read More

∞ the Focus Manifesto Version 0.2

Leo Babauta: This is the beta, online ver­sion of my sec­ond book, ten­ta­tively titled: focus – a sim­plic­ity man­i­festo in the age of dis­trac­tion. I have posted this before, but he just updated to a new ver­sion so I thought it was worth post­ing again. Link: focus.  Read More

∞ How Software Engineers and Designers Can Increase Their Focus

Lukas Mathis: A gadget’s main func­tion I use to get focused is its “off” button. So true. via How Soft­ware Engi­neers and Design­ers Can Increase Their Focus.  Read More

∞ What Daily Meditation Can Do for Your Creativity

Mark McGuin­ness: Every morn­ing, before I start work, I spend 20 min­utes sit­ting on a mat, focus­ing on the sen­sa­tion of breath­ing, doing my best to be present and aware, and try­ing not to get tan­gled up in my thoughts. It makes all the dif­fer­ence for the rest of the day. And I’m con­vinced it makes me a bet­ter writer. via The 99 Per­cent.  Read More

∞ the Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow

Everett Bogue for Zen Habits: Like any use­ful skill, flow takes time to mas­ter. Don’t stress if you can’t do it right away. If you’re inter­ested in achiev­ing a state of flow, you need to prac­tice regularly. Great post about flow. via Zen Habits.  Read More

∞ the Magical Power of Focus

Leo Babauta: Your focus deter­mines your reality. This is an older post on Zen Habits (from the afore­men­tioned 12 clas­sic Zen Habits posts, post) but I think it is a must read as I am find­ing just how impor­tant focus is to productivity. via Zen Habits.  Read More

∞ First, Care.

Mer­lin Mann: You focus on the one thing you care about, as you unfo­cus on every­thing else. If not for every minute of your life, at least for the time you set aside to pur­sue the thing that matters. Per­haps more excit­ing news than the iPad announce­ment is that Mer­lin Mann is back to blog­ging again at 43Folders.com. If you have yet to check out his site do it now as you can see in the above quote his advice is always sound. Wel­come back Merlin. via 43 Fold­ers.  Read More

Singletasking

James Frost on sin­gle­task­ing and focus: This could not be more true. This post is great, he really hits the nail on the head. I encour­age every­one to read this post, there are sim­ply to many good pas­sages to quote them all here. via James Frost.  Read More

6 Tips for Keeping Your Focus on the Web

There is a del­i­cate bal­ance that work­ers must learn to toe when so much of our work revolves around the Inter­net, and yet so many dis­trac­tions and time sucks lay there as well. Here are some tips that I use through­out the day to make sure that I am not falling into time traps, and am using the Inter­net to get things done, and not to have a quick laugh. Vir­tual Desk­tops:here. Site-specific Browsers: This is a nor­mal web browser that you can tell to... Read More

Driving With the Radio Off

I few months back I had no work­ing radio in my car for over a month. I came to a sim­i­lar real­iza­tion, and now I find it nice to drive with no radio every once and a while. via Sim­ple. Orga­nized. Life..  Read More