How to Host Your Own Personal Retreat
A quarterly Personal Retreat is a great way to make sure that you continue to live your life in alignment with your vision and your values. In this post, we’re going to dive deeper into the Personal Retreat process so you can make your next Personal Retreat more effective. What is a Personal Retreat? A
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Focus As An Action
Focus as an action results in clarity. If you actually want to make progress, start small. You’ll be surprised how quickly those small successes start to build into a snowball of momentum. Something that I keep coming back to is that focus is an action. But we often think that focus is only something that
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Overcoming Distractions and Interruptions
Distractions can come from two places, from within and without. A few tools for dealing with and overcoming distractions and interruptions.
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How Mo Bunnell finally cut back on travel, wrote his book, and grew his company
Roughly 18 months after completing the Focus Course, I got a voicemail from Mo. Mo was one of the first people to sign up for The Focus Course. He is the founder and CEO of Bunnell Idea Group, and works and lives in Atlanta as a business development coach. Mo had called me to say
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Academy Alumni: How Alexandra stopped being “A Walking To-Do List”
When I asked Alexandra what was different for her, she started with this: “I was a walking to-do list.” So… what changed? What did she do to change things during Focus Course Academy?
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How to Avoid Backwards Habits
Amateurs keep their options open. They say yes to everything. They have no boundaries. They are overwhelmed by the urgent and buried under a million random acts of focus. Professionals and top-performers are focused; they design their habits in order to accomplish their goals.
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David Sparks: Focus is the superpower of the next 20 years
David is the well-known podcast co-host of both Mac Power Users and Focused. David has been a long-time friend and alumni member of The Focus Course, and was also recently one of our pilot members for the new Focus Academy. Here were some of his takeaways and insights from the pilot cohort.
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Tomorrow’s Outfit (My #1 Productivity Advice)
In our previous article, I shared what most focus advice gets wrong and the importance of both the WHY and the HOW behind living a focused life. The WHY are things like your purpose, your priorities, your goals and desired outcomes. The HOW are things like your habits, routines, strategy, and other actions. And you
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Focus Hoax: What Most Advice Gets Wrong
Falling out of the sky at 120 miles-per-hour is something that I always assumed would actually feel like falling. Turns out… it doesn’t actually feel like falling. Last month a few friends and I did wend skydiving — doing tandem jumps from 14,000 feet. Sitting there at the airplane hangar door, as it was my
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Where have you created false urgency?
When we have an overwhelming urgency mindset, it blurs the lines between that which is actually important and that which is not. Everything begins to feel important all the time… and that, in turn, creates a lot of anxiety, stress, and worry that otherwise need not exist.
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