Do less. Do it well.
Focus doesn't just happen to you. Nobody arrives at the end of the day and says, well, that was an unexpectedly focused eight hours, I wonder where it came from. Focus is something you defend, actively, against a world that is organised almost entirely around taking it from you.
The phone wants it. The inbox wants it. The new idea that arrived this morning and feels much more exciting than the half-finished one from last week wants it. Everything wants a slice of your attention, and most things will get one if you let them.
I've stopped treating my own time as something that simply exists and started treating it as something I have to ringfence. The thing I'm working on gets the hours. The other forty things get a note in a list and a polite nothing until the first thing is done.
It feels like you're doing less. You are doing less. That's the point. Less, done properly, beats more, done in fragments, every single time.
Protect your time and energy. They are the only things you can't make more of.
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