How To Get Focused

The Four Pillars of Long-term Focus

Jill’s preschool years can be summarized in three words: sex, drugs and fear. You see, Jill’s father began molesting Jill and her sister ever since she can remember. Her mother, meanwhile, was pacing in an institution down the street as she recovered from nervous breakdowns. At the age of 7, Jill’s father held a family [...]

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8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating

“Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. On his desk next to his computer sat crunched Red Bulls, empty Gatorade bottles, some extra pocket change and scattered pieces of paper. In the pocket of his sweat [...]

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The Secret To Achieving Your Dreams: Don’t Try. Seriously.

Why Goals Are Critical For Focus In this book, my thesis centers on the belief that “Focus” is becoming a lost concept. It’s being drowned out by iPads, apps, noise and buzz. I believe that those who make an effort to master the concept of focus have a greater propensity to take action, succeed and [...]

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Get Things Done Like a Zen Master

The Link Between Dreams and Reality There’s one item that represents a link between your dreams and reality. One thing that you must do every single day to fulfill your purpose. That one thing is to take action. And the ultimate tool for taking action is a to-do list. To-do lists aren’t just for people [...]

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57 Questions You Should Ask Yourself

Walking through walls A focused person is one who walks through walls because they know where they’re going and why. Nothing can prevent them from reaching their destination. They secretly tell themselves, “This is what I’m doing; this is where I’m going. If anyone wants to join me, fine.” Of course, their attitude isn’t one [...]

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An Interview With Scott Young on Life and Focus

About Scott H Young In brief, Scott Young is a speed-reading, vegetarian, holistic learning, productivity hacking university student. For the last three years, Scott’s been experimenting to find out how to get more from life. You can find his books and articles at his personal website here. Here’s a link to his fascinating book on [...]

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Setting Focused Goals

Why you should read this chapter: We’ve all been in a state where we’re content with life, but want more. At the end of the day we ask ourselves what else could there be? In this book, we outline how you can get focused, finish projects and establish focused habits; but what about goal setting? [...]

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Here’s How to Finish Anything You Start

Why you should read this chapter We all know the feeling–the feeling that we’re incapable of finishing projects. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to finish the projects that you start. You’ll find that it’s not necessarily about finishing what you start. It’s about starting what you’ll finish. We’ll first take a look at the [...]

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Email and Focus

Why you should read this chapter There’s thousands of applications out there for email productivity. You’ll find long sales letter pages preaching the next “magic bullet” or “ultimate email productivity success system.” Yet, most productivity applications do a better job in confusing chaos than solving chaos. It’s clear that email is taking over a significant [...]

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Flashcards for Focus

Why should you read this chapter? We’ve already covered a variety of exercises that help one focus in our age of distraction: Handwriting Ideas Writing Reading Exercising Now, we’ll cover a profoundly underrated and often-overlooked exercise that helps the mind focus and get the day started on the right foot: the concept of using flashcards [...]

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