5 Habits of Highly Focused People
<p>The biggest reason people struggle to focus is that they don’t understand what focus really is.</p>
<p>Most of us think about focus like willpower — the effort you apply to keep your mind on one thing when it wants to go somewhere else. But this is only a tiny part of focus — and by far the least important.</p>
<p><strong>The ability to focus deeply and for long stretches of time is the result of many habits cultivated over time.</strong></p>
<p>If you want to produce great work, you need to master the art of focus. And to do that, you need to cultivate the right habits.</p>
<p>Here are 5 habits of highly focused people that will lead to deeper focus and outstanding results no matter what kind of work you’re doing.</p>
<h1>1. Procrastinate productively</h1>
<p>Truly productive people embrace procrastination rather than fight against it.</p>
<p>At first glance, the terms <em>productive</em> and <em>procrastination</em> would appear to be opposites. After all, one of the biggest reasons people cite for their difficulty focusing is the tendency to procrastinate.</p>
<p><em>But what if procrastination itself isn’t really the problem? What if the real problem is that people don’t know how to procrastinate the right way?</em></p>
<p><strong>Productive procrastination means cultivating a set of activities you can procrastinate on that will still lead you to be productive in the long run.</strong></p>
<p>For example: While my main work is writing, occasionally I procrastinate on it. I say “screw it” to whatever writing goal or task I set myself for that morning and lose myself in another activity that seems more enjoyable — often reading or web design.</p>
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