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Improve Your Work Environment for Maximum Focus and Creativity
Attention to environmental design can give you a big boost in productivity — even if you’re a digital nomad.
I was well prepared to write another article. I had my laptop with me. I had my phone switched off. I had the right mindset.
Everything seemed right, but I just couldn’t fish the words out of my brain.
I thought through everything I usually do to feel prepared to write. And I realized that part of my problem was that I was writing in my bedroom, sitting on my bed.
To a lot of people, that seems insignificant. But if you’ve read some of my previous pieces, you know how much stress I lay on restricting my bed to sleeping. I’d stopped working from bed because I had a lot of trouble falling asleep. Now I’d slipped up and was seeing the problem from the other side: I had trouble working from bed because that’s where I was now used to sleeping.
Your work environment matters much more than you might think. I was surprised to learn how much seemingly minor changes in my environment could have a big…
