7 Tips for Optimising Your Focus from Wendy Cole

Here is another wonderful guest blog from my esteemed colleague Wendy Cole.

It follows on from last week’s post where she wrote about Time Confetti. This is when are hours and focus are sliced into lots of small fragmented minutes in which it is so difficult to accomplish any meaningful work.

Wendy writes in some depth about 7 practical hacks to help minimise distraction and optimise your focus. I hope you will find at least one you can put into action in the next few days.

7 Tips for Optimising Your Focus

Data reveals that the average adult is only able to focus for 6 minutes before doing a ‘just check’ of email, IM, social media and news. In today’s chaos, I predict that most of us are ‘just checking’ even more frequently.

This level of distraction promotes feelings of stress and overwhelm, making it impossible to work productively. How can we accomplish meaningful work in intervals less than 6 minutes?