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When You Cannot Focus

For the hours you sit down to work and nothing goes in.

Purpose: For the hours you sit down to work and nothing goes in.

When to use: Use this on a day you have read the same page four times.

Worksheet prompts

  1. What is it like right now?
  2. What is your head actually on instead?
  3. What is the smallest amount of work you would accept from yourself today?
    Ten minutes. One paragraph. One email.
  4. Name three things that make it easier to start.
    A timer, headphones, a different room, one other person.

A bad focus day is a day, not a pattern. Take the ten minutes.