Focus@Will

"Unresolved and unexplored sensations in the body cause anxiety in the brain. And physical manifestations arise out of unprocessed thoughts." Read more about your brain on anxiety in this week's blog! blog.focusatwill.com/2019/10/21/dis…

"Letting go of our desire for attention can have benefits that can transcend the rewards of receiving attention." Read more about discovering your ability to focus your attention in today's blog! blog.focusatwill.com/2019/10/14/get…

"Our favorite music can dramatically harm our productivity. Those artists are the literal definition of distraction. They activate the mind in more ways than one." Read more about the effects of your favorite music in today's blog! blog.focusatwill.com/2019/10/08/fri…

"It doesn’t matter whether the job is small or big. Procrastination -- the powerful impulse to lie there, or tackle a whole range less important tasks -- rears its inevitable, hairy head." Read more about taming your procrastination in today's blog! blog.focusatwill.com/2019/09/23/pro…

We thought we’d outline some strategies you can adopt/adapt for combatting the Top 3 particular focus challenges you’ve been commenting about and reporting on since we started the blog. Check them out here! blog.focusatwill.com/2019/09/18/pro…

Pings. Coworkers. The rabbit hole of the web. All the ambient “noise” of the workplace and beyond. Every sensory detail can quickly and unconsciously turn into a distraction, right?

The last thing you want in a distracted state is to be entertained, just another word for distraction. Your music amuses you, holds you. Diverts you. So music, good. Your music, not.

We designed focus@will with an ultimately simple focus fix. Whatever you need to get done, and whenever you need to do it, you just tune in and the music tweaks your nonconscious brain. Learn more about leverage focus@will in our blog. blog.focusatwill.com/2019/09/09/whe…

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Pearl S. Buck.

Even those über-humans we’ve put up on pedestals for so long have struggled with focus. Take a break from your work and come get motivated toward focus in today's blog post. blog.focusatwill.com/2019/09/03/fiv…

Distraction steals cash out of your pocket. Maybe it’s worth a small investment, guaranteed, to change things up and get focused.

We’ve cataloged the few productivity apps our people here stand by, and we thought we’d pass the details of each along to you. Check them out in today's blog post, and let us know if you swear by any others. blog.focusatwill.com/2019/08/26/liv…

Anxiously anticipating the next office interruption turns you into fight-or-flight prey of the predator, distraction. The stress of this will literally take years off your life. Newsflash: That email is not a saber-toothed tiger.

The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham says, “Brass bands are all very well in their place—outdoors and several miles away!” Everyday music elicits strong emotional reactions, positive or negative, that affect concentration on everything else.

"Let’s consider boredom not only a lost art, but a necessary and vital life hack. Developing a way to encourage and utilize boredom can actually increase our creativity, effectiveness, and overall joie de vivre." Read more about boredom in today's blog! blog.focusatwill.com/2019/08/19/don…

Pop music is catchy. Catchy—like a virus.

“My brain is continually going ‘raaaaaah’ or ‘zzzzzzzz.’ I would love to calm it down." — female subscriber, marketer, 40. Yep. Let’s get it humming and buzzing with focused music.

“If having The Office on in the background, the Chihuahua in your lap, and your cell phone chiming like Vegas has hampered your work output, maybe it’s time to employ a new approach to achieving a state of freelance flow.” Check it out in today’s blog! blog.focusatwill.com/2019/08/13/whe…

Check and respond to your email during one dedicated hour in the middle of the day, and let everyone know in an auto-responder message that’s what you’re doing. Won’t work for your job? Fine. How about 20 minute email blocks three times a day?

Nabokov famously quipped that “music is an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds.” Yes, music can be the ultimate distraction—if the brain perceives it as arbitrary and irritating.