Health-Powered Productivity with RaderCo

114 - Attention Anchor Part 1: The Environment Set-Up for Better Focus

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Your output follows your environment. In Part 1 of a three-part series on Attention Anchors, Marcey Rader shows you how to engineer a space that cuts distraction, reduces errors, and speeds up the work you care about.
 
Why it matters:
  • Context cues your brain. Change the room, change the results.
  • Open offices and constant notifications sabotage focus.
  • Simple guardrails beat willpower.
    • What you’ll learn:
    • How to match the room to the task using the cathedral effect.
    • Why your phone should be out of sight during sprints.
    • Practical systems: DND with end times, Work Offline, Inbox Pause.
    • When open offices help and when they hurt.
    • Focus totems that your team will actually respect.
      • References:
      • Meyers-Levy & Zhu (2007) on ceiling height and thinking style. Csom Assets
      • Ward et al. (2017) “Brain Drain” smartphone presence research. Chicago Journals
      • Bernstein & Turban (2018) open workspace study. Royal Society Publishing
      • Microsoft Support: Work Offline in Outlook. Microsoft Support
      • Boomerang: Inbox Pause for Gmail/Outlook. https://www.boomeranggmail.com/referral_download.html?ref=2aj8s
        • Hashtags
        #AttentionAnchors #DeepWork #FocusAtWork #Productivity #RaderCo

         

        Sustainable performance beats burnout every time. On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, host Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and author of Reclaim Your Workday, helps you simplify to amplify. Each episode gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, email and chat optimization, and task and workflow management. Healthy guardrails. Zero fluff. From RaderCo, a high-performance consulting company.
         
        Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot! Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
         
        Connect with Marcey:
        • Consulting, Training, and Coaching: www.helloraderco.com
        • Keynote Speaking: www.marceyrader.com
        • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marceyrader
        • Book: Reclaim Your Workday www.reclaimyourworkday.com
        • Weekender Snapshot Tipsletter: https://radergoodies.com/profile

          • #ReclaimYourWorkday #MarceyRader #HealthPoweredProductivity  #ProductivityHacks #BurnoutPrevention #KeynoteSpeaker #TEDxSpeaker #ScreenTimeManagement

           

           

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