Tag: Attention

Never before have more distractions vied for your limited time and attention. Your computer and your poorly-named “smartphone” provide a plethora of clickbait, curiosities, novelties, provocations, agitations, information, entertainment, and…

Around this time of year, people start making resolutions, which is not the same thing as actually committing to something and building the discipline to sustain it long enough for it to transform you. Mostly, people commit to stop doing something…

Despite the somewhat hyperbolic title, it is possible to have a slow week. But for that to be true, it would indicate that you are reactive and that you've found a way to avoid doing your work. Because there is never an end of things that you need…

The proliferation of tools, apps, and modern business practices has increased the number of distractions with the power to interrupt your work to a number just shy of infinite. When email was new and novel, a chime to notify you of a new message…

I don’t watch the Academy Awards anymore. I love the movies. I love storytelling. And I love to watch what a group of creative people can put together. But the Academy doesn’t understand their medium or their audience.

The Hollywood insiders care…

I read somewhere once that the maximum amount of pleasure you can derive from eating dessert comes in the first two bites. Any bite beyond the second bite doesn’t increase the pleasure. In fact, it reduces it.

The same is true for the…

No profit margin wouldn't be an error; it would be a disaster. This is a different margin.

It never fails that type-A personalities try to fill every block on the calendar. They try to cram as much as they possibly can onto the calendar because,…

You know how you are sometimes driving down the road and you run a little bit off course? Rumble strips are those lines carved into the side of the road that create a loud noise and vibration. They are they to provide you with the feedback that…

While you were sleeping, your fiercest competitor stayed up late into the evening reading a book that is going to help them bring their A-game up a level.  In fact, two levels.

While you were sleeping, your fiercest competitor was already out of…

At no time in history has there ever been more distractions, chief among them is the Internet.

The Internet, while being one of the greatest and most useful tools ever created, is also the greatest enabler of distractions. The Internet is the…