The document provides 10 tips for better focus. The tips include keeping a clean and uncluttered workspace, limiting the number of open programs and browser tabs, focusing on one priority at a time, limiting open projects, saving ideas for later, limiting influencing mentors, reducing subscribed email lists, and emptying your inbox regularly. Following these tips can help improve focus by reducing visual and mental distractions.

1. 10 Tips For Better Focus

2. 10 Tips For Better Focus
Keep A Clean Desktop
Don’t have a desktop? Many people don’t – but the
point is just the same. Whether you work at a kitchen
counter or your bedroom, work in an uncluttered
space.

3. 10 Tips For Better Focus
Keep An Uncluttered Eye Line
It’s not just the
immediate
surroundings of your
desk that affects your
focus.
You can’t work
effectively when you
have clutter in sight. It
only distracts you.

4. 10 Tips For Better Focus
Limit Open Programs
Having a lot of open programs on your laptop will distract you
from concentrating on the one, or few, tasks you really should
be focused on completing.
Keep open only what you need to attend to the task at hand.

5. 10 Tips For Better Focus
Limit Open Tabs In Your Browser
Like the amount
of programs you
have open – too
many tabs will pull
your attention to
too many different
To Do’s. And they
will hog your
system resources.
Both will slow you
down – a lot.

6. 10 Tips For Better Focus
Have One Clear Priority At A Time
Live in the moment
– be about the one
thing you are doing
and don’t even
think about
anything else until
it’s done.

7. 10 Tips For Better Focus
Limit Number Of Open Projects
It is possible to juggle a
certain amount of open
projects that need
brainstorming and action
and implementation.
How many can you
handle at a time?
Be sensitive to how many
you can handle without
missing deadlines.

8. 10 Tips For better Focus
Save Some Ideas For Later
Keep a file of ideas that you get.
Don’t take any action on them,
just store them away for when
you are finished your current
project. Getting it off your mind
and onto disk or paper helps you
focus better on what you are
doing. I recommend Evernote.

9. 10 Tips For Better Focus
Limit The Number Of People You
Allow Influence You
Choose one person to mentor you or a few who are
in agreement with each other. Conflicting ideas slow
you down. Stay a season with one mentor before
You start following
someone else.

10. 10 Tips For Better Focus
Limit Number Of Lists You Are
Subscribed To
Every list you are on means
people emailing you
- some a lot more than others.
Multiple offers from multiple
people sucks your focus.
Unsubscribe from as many as you
can.
Monitor your email but don’t feel
it’s necessary to read it all. Keep
your favourites to read later.

11. 10 Tips For Better focus
Empty Your Inbox
Not necessarily Inbox Zero,
but archive everything
except the most important
and deal with those by
taking action on them and
then deleting them – or
move them to calendar
appointments if necessary.
If you have to scroll down
past the page you are on,
you have too many emails.

12. Recap 10 Tips For Better focus