Two-Week Digital Disconnection Challenge for Better Focus

We like to think of distraction as the enemy of focus.

It is not. It is a symptom of why we find it

difficult to focus, which is the fact that our mind is

over-stimulated.

I have a challenge for you.

It's a two-week challenge, but it's a challenge to make your mind a

bit less

stimulated and simply notice what happens to your

attention. How many ideas do you get? How does your focus change?

How many plans do you make?

So for two weeks, make your mind less stimulated.

There are so many great features on phones, on devices that let us eliminate,

uh, uh, eliminate a lot of the time we waste on

our devices.

Use those features not only to become aware of how you spend your time, but

how you can spend less so you have more ideas.

Have a disconnection ritual every evening.

One of my favorite daily rituals, I disconnect from the internet completely

from

eight PM to eight

AM. My fiancée and I, we have a weekly disconnection ritual,

a technology Sabbath every Sunday, so we can

disconnect from the digital world and reconnect with the

physical world, the real actual world.

Rediscover bore-- You don't have to do it for an hour.

Please don't call Air Canada. It's just a world of hell.

But rediscover boredom just for a few minutes.

Lay on the couch and where does your mind go?

And scatter your attention.

You'll find some remarkably

fruitful things in that attentional zone.