How to Focus While Fear, News and Social Media Is Dominating Your Life (TPS296)

Recently, we did a survey of the Asian Efficiency audience and did a check-in: we asked what kind of impact the global pandemic we're going through is having.

As we suspected, a *lot* of us are struggling. Even if you and your family are healthy, and even if you're used to working from home, there's a lot of change going on right now, and change can be extremely disruptive.

The good news is that it is possible to focus on your important priorities *and* be informed. In fact, we think that ability is going to be a competitive advantage in the future.

In this episode, we're going to give you 5 strategies to give you that advantage.

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Cheat Sheet:

The top 3 productivity resources for this week [2:50]

What inspired this episode and who will benefit most from it [5:35]

Why you should only be focusing on what you can control [11:43]

How to be proactive and firewall your attention [16:49]

What music can do to help ensure you have a focused time for work [25:20]

Use focus blocks to carve out time to focus [31:57]

Why setting aside time to stay up to date on what is happening in the world helps [36:23]

Action steps you can take to integrate today's topic into your life [43:04]

Links:

Fiverr

Literati

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StayFocusd

Momentum Dash

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Freedom

Cold Turkey

Focal Filter

Pomodoro

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