Eliminate distractions and create an environment that supports your focus and productivity, while working from anywhere.
Over the last decade, I’ve spent many hours, days and weeks thinking and doing around the project of being more productive. I’ve read most major books on productivity (over 50), experimented with every major ‘productivity app’. I’ve read studies, took extensive courses and tried on whole new systems every 3–4 months. I even created my own productivity tools and systems.
At the end of last year, something shifted. I’ve found that the answer doesn’t lie in any new app, course or book. The perfect combination of focus, performance and a high level of wellbeing are not going to come to us from tools that promise them. No app or new system will address the underlying problems. At best, they’ll give us a jolt of energy that will push us a little bit further to discovering the real answer. At worst, they’ll lead us down a wrong path.
Of all the things I’ve learned and read, I’ve distilled three principles that guide me to be focused, effective and healthy. Even while juggling 5 or more big projects at a time, working in different environments, with changing conditions. These are general principles, and for each I will give specific examples that apply to me or people I know. For you adopting them they may look quite different (and that’s ok).
