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Why Focus is a Mental Health Must
Fitness, nutrition, meditation. I’ve tried it all.
Alternating HIIT with lifting? Check.
Headspace subscription? Check.
Low-carb lifestyle? Mostly a check.
Today I want to share a secret with you all. I’m a proactive person, and I love self-optimization. That’s why the increasing sense of doom and gloom at the start of my workdays throughout 2020 at first just felt like a challenge. All I needed to do to feel better at work was tweak a few things, and then I’d be a well-oiled, happy machine.
But the truth is, it wasn’t that simple. Despite trying all the things articles were recommending, I still felt drained and buzzed at the end of every day. It was hard to unwind, hard to connect to the present, hard to feel like I’d really accomplished anything at all.
Near the end of 2020, I came across something called the ‘Focus Work Movement.’ I’d tried everything else, so I figured, why not?
This is the story of my focus journey, and how much my mental health has improved by exploring the best-kept secret of our age: focus.
