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The Holy Grail of Focus
You want to focus. Perhaps you made it your one word of the year. Focus, focus, focus. This is the year to focus and get things done. Except… the world seems to be conspiring to keep your mind...
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What Distractions Allow Us to Do: Part 1
Aren’t distractions terrible? Sometimes I think distractions are the bane of modern existence. All those distractions and invitations to: Talk to people in other parts of the world and Read thought...
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What Distractions Allow Us to Do: Part 2
We love to complain about distractions. We love to beat ourselves up about not being able to ignore them and focus beyond them. I can’t help wondering why we keep them in the forefront of our minds....
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What’s the Opposite of Distracted?
There’s a lot to be learned from opposites. (They can also be good conversation starters: the correspondence on what’s the opposite of inspire is still running two years on.) We tend to think of...
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Distracted? Tell Me About It!
Got too much on your mind? Can’t focus enough to get started? Too distracted to write? Tell me about it! No I mean literally. Tell me about it. Well not literally literally, I don’t want emails full of...
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How You Reduce External Distractions to Sit Down and Write
How do you cut distractions to make time, space and the focus to write? That was the question I was first thinking about when I sat down to draft something on focus and distractions (before it grew and...
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Stop Feeling Distracted, and Start Writing
It’s so easy to get distracted, especially when you’re spending a lot of time in the online world. What kind of things can you do to stop yourself from getting distracted, and start making time for...
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Is It Time to Burst Your Writing Bubble?
So, you know you’re a good writer. You’ve been told as much. Had great feedback from teachers, from people who read your work, from your own inner editor who nods and says ‘yep, that’s good’. Maybe...
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9 Steps to Developing a Writing Practice
If you’re a writer, write! Or so a writing instructor of mine used to declare. I have to confess: it did nothing for me. My brain would start exploring the “if you’re a writer” question, with all those...
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Begin Again
What if you could find the soul dimension, the zen dimension, the imperfect way, the humble way, the soul way? What if you said that writing too was an art, and not think it has to be visual or musical...
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