How to focus.
Optimize your 5 senses:
Optimize your 5 senses:
1. Sound for Focus
β’ Selecting songs mid-work kills your flow. Instead, use a pre-made playlist (loop it).
β’ Try classical music, lo-fi beats, or score composer Hans Zimmer (Inception, Interstellar).
β’ Turn off mobile/desktop pings.
β’ Use noise-canceling headphones.
β’ Selecting songs mid-work kills your flow. Instead, use a pre-made playlist (loop it).
β’ Try classical music, lo-fi beats, or score composer Hans Zimmer (Inception, Interstellar).
β’ Turn off mobile/desktop pings.
β’ Use noise-canceling headphones.
2. Vision for Focus
β’ Hide your phone; avoid unwanted visual triggers.
β’ Design your 'laptop periphery' with artwork that motivates you.
β’ Advanced: Use smart light bulbs to increase blue light for alertness, then decrease it to wind down.
β’ Hide your phone; avoid unwanted visual triggers.
β’ Design your 'laptop periphery' with artwork that motivates you.
β’ Advanced: Use smart light bulbs to increase blue light for alertness, then decrease it to wind down.
3. Touch for Focus
β’ Set a cool room temperature for optimal productivity (70-73 F / 21-23 C).
β’ Seek fewer things of higher quality to enjoy product use.
β’ Add semblances of nature indoors, e.g., plants & wood-grain desks.
π As creatures of evolution, we thrive in nature
β’ Set a cool room temperature for optimal productivity (70-73 F / 21-23 C).
β’ Seek fewer things of higher quality to enjoy product use.
β’ Add semblances of nature indoors, e.g., plants & wood-grain desks.
π As creatures of evolution, we thrive in nature
4. Smell for Focus
β’ Advanced: Use an aromatherapy diffuserβwith essential oilsβto stimulate attention.
Peppermint and lemon oils are focus-boosting.
β’ Advanced: Use an aromatherapy diffuserβwith essential oilsβto stimulate attention.
Peppermint and lemon oils are focus-boosting.
5. Taste for Focus
β’ Stock your workspace with healthy snacks to stay energized.
β’ Hydrate: Your brain is 73% water. Dehydration impairs decision-making and causes low energy. Get your brain the water it deserves.
β’ Chew gum for enhanced alertness & sustained performance.
β’ Stock your workspace with healthy snacks to stay energized.
β’ Hydrate: Your brain is 73% water. Dehydration impairs decision-making and causes low energy. Get your brain the water it deserves.
β’ Chew gum for enhanced alertness & sustained performance.
~Bonus Sense~
Proprioception
"An awareness of where our limbs are and how our bodies are positioned in space."
β’ Try a standing desk (like Fully)
β’ Stuck on a problem? Alternate standing v. sitting. Notice how ideas flow as you (literally) approach problems from a new angle
Proprioception
"An awareness of where our limbs are and how our bodies are positioned in space."
β’ Try a standing desk (like Fully)
β’ Stuck on a problem? Alternate standing v. sitting. Notice how ideas flow as you (literally) approach problems from a new angle
Where to start:
These tips are advanced.
The simplest advice for the greatest impact?
Hide your phone and turn off all device notifications & pings.
You will go deep.
These tips are advanced.
The simplest advice for the greatest impact?
Hide your phone and turn off all device notifications & pings.
You will go deep.
TL;DR Optimize 5 Senses for Focus
π: Use noise-cancelling headphones; Loop a playlist
ποΈ: Hide bad triggers (phone)
π: Try an aromatherapy diffuser (peppermint & lemon promote focus)
π: Set a cool room temp for alertness (69-72Β° F)
π : Chew gum; Hydrate
π: Use noise-cancelling headphones; Loop a playlist
ποΈ: Hide bad triggers (phone)
π: Try an aromatherapy diffuser (peppermint & lemon promote focus)
π: Set a cool room temp for alertness (69-72Β° F)
π : Chew gum; Hydrate
Thanks for reading!
P.S. If you like productivity, you'll love my weekly newsletter (it's free).
Every Sunday I feature the best systems for health, wealth, and free time.
Take 10 seconds to sign up:
benmeer.com
P.S. If you like productivity, you'll love my weekly newsletter (it's free).
Every Sunday I feature the best systems for health, wealth, and free time.
Take 10 seconds to sign up:
benmeer.com
Loading suggestions...