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The Five Pillars of a Focus Practice
Why focus is in and productivity is out
If you’re reading this, chances are you fit the following profile:
- You’re motivated.
- You believe in self-betterment as a constant process.
- And you probably have an intuitive sense that work shouldn’t be this chaotic.
If that’s an accurate description of yourself, then it may well be time to start a focus practice. By utilizing a focus practice, it’s possible to totally change the way you work, how impactful that work is, and how good you feel while doing it.
1. Focus > Productivity
Productivity is out, and focus is in. Why?
Simply put, because productivity is outdated. Productivity as a concept became popular in the early 20th century, as a useful way of optimizing work in agriculture and manufacturing.
But think about it. If you are a knowledge worker in the 21st century, what does your work have in common with agricultural or manufacturing work?
Very little. That’s because productivity makes sense as a measurement metric when you have known inputs and outputs, and the goal is to optimize the relationship between the two. But knowledge work is all about the unknowns. It’s…
