073: How to increase productivity and rid distraction

In this episode of the Canny Crystals podcast, host Mart Tweedy opens with a promotional plug for a live manifestation event at the Barbican Hall, then shares a personal story about a car accident that damaged his brand‑new Range Rover. He describes the insurance process, the relief of full liability being accepted, and reflects that the incident feels like a signal to slow down and practice self‑care. Mart announces the launch of his Manifesting Money Masterclass, invites listeners to a free Facebook live for a 50% discount, and promotes his Canny Crystals community and related products. The core of the episode is a discussion of Johann Hari’s book Stolen Focus, which examines why modern attention spans are shrinking. He outlines the book’s key findings – statistical drops in Twitter topic longevity, the historical acceleration of information flow, and how social‑media design (reward buttons, infinite scroll, algorithmic feeds, negativity bias) hijacks attention. Mart critiques multitasking, citing studies that show a 35‑minute recovery time after interruption and a temporary 10‑point IQ drop when distracted. He then presents flow‑state and monotasking as antidotes, detailing the conditions for flow (rewarding, challenging tasks, single‑task focus) and his own productivity system of time‑blocking, task lists, and limited social‑media windows. Practical tips include scheduling, using walks to answer messages, and allowing “doing nothing” for creative insight. The episode ends with a teaser for an upcoming guest who will discuss breathwork, a call for reviews, and further promotion of the Manifest With Mart membership, which offers daily challenges, live lunar‑cycle sessions, and a supportive community.
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What are you doing on Tuesday the 26th of September, 2023? Because myself and Francesca Amber are coming to the Barbican Hall in London. Our event is called One Night Stand, and this one-night event is all going to be about manifestation, crystal healing, and ridding your limiting beliefs to help you achieve your goals. We've curated an immersive experience that will leave you feeling inspired and empowered throughout the evening as well. We'll also have interactive exercises, we'll have empowering discussions, and the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals on a similar journey towards personal growth and manifestation. There'll even be an opportunity for you to ask questions as well. This event is your chance to break free from the shackles of self-doubt and unleash your inner greatness. It's time to release those limiting beliefs that might be holding you back and step into your true potential. And if you want to come on your own, by all means do that. Single tickets are available and seating is totally unreserved, so You can even meet up with your spiritual friends and sit with them as well. Head to @kanyacrystals on Instagram and click the link in my bio. Tickets are limited, so secure your spot and be part of this transformative experience. Don't miss out on the chance to manifest your dreams and achieve your goals. We can't wait to see you there. Hello everyone, I hope that you're all well. Thank you so much for joining me on another episode of Canny Crystals, the podcast. As you know by now, my name is Mart Tweedyedy, I'm your host, and this week someone crashed into my brand new Range Rover. Yes, we are starting the show with a little story. Oh my God, I'm over it. But basically, I was on the way to go and see my nana It was her birthday on Tuesday, and I was just like, you know, the perfect grandson. I went out, I got her a nice gift, got her a lovely card, got her some, you know, gorgeous flowers, like all the typical nan gifts. And then I put me dog in the car, first time he has ever been in the brand new car, should I add. Um, I put his bed in the boot, I pulled the— there's like an elasticated like shelf, boot shelf rack thing, whatever it's called. And he was in there, he was absolutely like fine. And I got on the A1, I drove down, I came off at Chesley Street, if you know the area. And as I came off the motorway, I went down to the roundabout and I went round as I was supposed to do. And then when I was in the left-hand lane, I just saw this car come out of nowhere from the third lane in, from the inside, and it literally just went straight bang into the side of me, into the driver's door. Into the door at the back, and the car kind of like spun out. I didn't know what had happened at first, and then I looked and I just saw these two lads in the car behind. I was like, oh my God, someone has just hit my brand new car. That's all I was bothered about. And then I heard JJ whimpering, and I was like, oh my God, JJ is not well. So I got out the car, I ran around to the boot, I lifted up the boot, and JJ was absolutely fine. I think he was just shocked, so he started whimpering. Um, But as I was like trying to keep him in the boot, the other guy had got out and he was like, "Oh my God, I'm so sorry." He wasn't from around here, he was Scottish, he had a thick Scottish accent. He said he was down for the day with work and he basically said that his sat nav had changed right at the last minute and he needed to come off at that junction. And just unfortunately I'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time because he'd cut across 3 lanes of traffic and smashed straight into the side of my brand new car. So Tuesday was a bit of a write-off, um, because obviously after that I was quite shook up. And by the time I got to my Nana's, I had a good cry. And obviously the car was an absolute state. If you've seen photos on Instagram, you'll know it's really drenched in, um— So anyway, I went to see my Nana. I couldn't really concentrate, you know, when your head's all over. My mom was like offering us drinks and food, and I just, I just couldn't keep it together. I was just like, oh my God, I need to sort this. So I was like doing the online claim because you can't speak to anyone these days when you're putting in a claim. I don't know why, but anyway, I was doing the online claim, I submitted the photos. The guy, um, luckily rang us afterwards, told us his full name, his address, and stuff like that. And then he rang us a bit later to make sure that I was all right, and I was asking if he was all right. And I said, look, let's just be grateful that neither of us are injured and everything here can be replaced, okay? So yes, you've got a smashed headlight. Yes, I've got bashed-in doors. It's absolutely fine. It can all be fixed. We are both absolutely fine. My dog's alright, his passenger was alright. Anyway, so I woke up this morning, today's Wednesday, and I woke up this morning and I had a phone call off my insurance company and he has admitted full liability for you, honestly. So it means that my no claims won't be affected, it means that my insurance won't go up, it means that everything basically is going to be fixed and I don't have to worry about it. And the good thing is, they said because the car is brand new, with it only being like 6 days old when he hit it, that it's going to an approved Jaguar Land Rover kind of body workshop. So it's all being fixed. It's gonna basically leave that body workshop exactly how it left the showroom on the day that I bought it. So I'm a little relieved. So I'm just waiting at the garage to call now, but very, very relieved. It could have been a lot worse, and I'm just grateful. I think it's probably just the universe telling me to slow down. I've got so much on. As you can imagine. And I go from one thing to another at 100 miles an hour— not literally, I don't mean like I'm flying around or anything, um, but I go from one thing to another and I've just got so much on my plate and so much going on in my head that I think it was just the universe's way— or at least I'm taking it as the universe's way of telling me to just slow down and telling me to do like, you know, a little bit of self-care like I would normally, like have a bath and meditate and stuff like that. Because it has fell by the wayside the last couple of weeks especially. I've just been so, so busy and wrapped up with everything else and work that it hasn't really crossed my mind, but I do feel the need to because I sat in terrible anxiety last night. And you know when you're just breathing and your chest is so tight, and I could feel my heart racing. I was looking at my Apple Watch and it was like saying that something like my heart rate was 125, and I was like, it shouldn't be that high when I'm just sat here. But yeah, anyway, let's get on with it. So today is the day. If you're listening to this on the day of release, Friday the 10th of March, please make sure that you're in the Manifesting Money Masterclass free Facebook group tonight at 6 PM because I will be going live to celebrate the launch of the course and give out a 50% discount code for everyone listening too. You will only get the 50% discount code if you attend the Facebook live. I'm so, so excited. It's taken me since September last year when I first started designing what the course would look like, and today it's finally here. Doo doo doo doo doo doo. So I'm just really, really excited, if I'm honest. So if you're listening to this after Friday 10th March, do not worry, you can always join the Facebook group and watch the live back whenever you like. It's not going anywhere. You can also access the course at any time that you want on cannycrystalsacademy.co.uk, but Friday 10th March is just the date that it all launches. You can access whenever and wherever, to be totally honest. So this week I read an amazing book. Well, I say read, I listened to it on Audible. Johnny read it last month, and he's not really one for spirituality or self-development, So when he was telling me the ins and outs of it, I was like, hmm, this could be a really good idea for a podcast episode. So here we are. So I had it on while I worked on Monday this week, and I just really connected with it straight away. And I just knew that it's something that you lot love talking about as well. And it's all about how we increase our productivity and rid our procrastination. People talk to me in messages about this so, so much that I even created a like increase your productivity and rid your procrastination subliminal audio. And it's one of the best sellers, if I'm totally honest, because it's something that you lot ask for time and time again. So the book is called Stolen Focus. It's by Johann, if I pronounce that right, Johann Hari. And it's all about ways that we can find the time that we always tell ourselves that we lack through fighting back at distractions from our everyday life. And it's totally one of those where I clicked with it straight away because I'm guilty of this myself. And you know, I say this all the time on the podcast, like, I don't have time to fart, I don't have time to do X, Y, or Z. But we can have that time, okay? We all get the same amount of time each day. It's all about how we utilize that time to be the most productive that we can be, because we can achieve so much and we can achieve our goals and our dreams, not just through manifestation, through hard work as well. So how can we utilize that time to be the most productive person that we can be? And again, like I say, I'm guilty of distractions. For example, today as I record this, I knew on me list that I had to pack all your orders. I had to record this podcast. I had to call me nana because yesterday I just was out of it. Then I've got to finish me presentation for Friday night's masterclass launch. I've gotta reorder loads of boxes and packaging that I'm running low on. Then I've got 2 FaceTimes with Mines, one in India, one in Africa, to reorder like crystals. I've then got a meeting with me accountant, a meeting with the marketing agency, podcast questions to create and send over for next week's guest who I'm recording with tomorrow. Then I've gotta respond to as many DMs and emails as I can. All that, and I've got no food in the house. So I also need to do a food shop. I need to walk JJ. And that's without eating or, you know, any self-care or exercise or any form of well-being thrown in. Phew. But even though I have all that on my plate and I know I'm going to be stressed, I still caught myself this morning responding to DMs and then scrolling Instagram endlessly, which is part of the reason that I don't use me own Instagram or Facebook or TikTok anymore. Because I'm just so easily distracted. And I know this, so I've put a limit on it. I stop it. I have half an hour a day, the limiter comes on, and I don't do any more than that. And that's why I try to section off times of the day to do certain things, because it sets me a deadline for what I have to achieve in that allocated time. But it also means that I won't be then distracted, flitting from, you know, one task to another all day long. So for example, I tend to respond to DMs and emails as I take the dog for a walk between 3 and 4, because it's something that I can do that requires no extra time. I'm already out on a walk. JJ is quite happily, like, running around the fields chasing for his ball constantly, and he's really, really well behaved. He spends the time by my side, and he'll always come back when I shout. So that gives me plenty of time to respond to messages. But believe it or not, I still get people messaging an hour later after they've sent their first message with question marks. And as I've posted a story or something like that on my Instagram, that means to them that I'm online, but I've not responded to them yet. So some people are just impatient, but I've just got a section of my day to make sure that I get all my tasks done. That's not me being ignorant, it's just the way I work. And I believe it works really well for others as well. But like I said, some people see that as me being ignorant. I'm not, I'm not ignoring you. I will get back to your messages. It's just the fact that I've got so much on my plate, I'm trying to section off my work to make it manageable for me. And it's even got to the point that I've stopped looking at me WhatsApp when I'm down the office. So if anyone needs us and it's an emergency, they'll call us, right? Because I get added into so many WhatsApp group chats with friends for, you know, this event or this day out, or we're going here or there, or, you know, we're going out for someone's birthday. And if I start responding to them, I get sucked into a conversation, and before I know it, I've been on me phone for an hour and It's just wasted time, do you know what I mean? Like, it's part of the reason I've not properly employed a colleague yet, because I don't trust myself. I know me mum comes to help out like every week, but when she's here, we end up doing little tasks that she feels comfortable with, because I can't really get on with the bigger tasks when she's here from being distracted from just talking to her. But basically, I've just got no self-control. I can't trust myself. Lol. Um, painting a great picture of myself here, aren't I? It's a good job I'm spoken for, because that would have been a great bio on Tinder. So in this book, Stolen Focus, it talks about how we get our attention span back. Because like I say, we've all been there. You know, you sit down, you're ready for work, and you get a text. And as you text them back, a Facebook notification pops up, so you shift over to read what's happening on Facebook. But as you're halfway through reading that, you get another ping. Someone's liked the photo that you posted last night on Instagram. And after checking who it was, you realise they've also got new photos on their profile. Is that a new partner that they've got? Oh, look at the dog! Who's that in the photo? Let's check out their profile. And as you start swiping through the images, another WhatsApp notification chimes. Wait, what were you doing again? Oh yeah, you're supposed to be at work. Do you get me? If you're wondering what's happened to your capacity for concentration, you are not alone. And that's the beauty of it, okay? Collectively, our attention spans seem to be, you know, dwindling at an alarming rate. And every single year that passes, there are more and more distractions and disruptions added to that pile. So how did we get there? And is there any way to escape that attention downward spiral? So unless you're living off the grid, and I know a few of you actually are living off the grid, living in campers and things like that, you're very, very good. You've probably noticed that it's getting increasingly difficult to focus in general because you're busy all the time, yet you struggle to actually get anything done. So there was a study done in the book and it talks about it. I think it was in 2013 off the top of my head, and it concluded basically that conversation topics trended on Twitter for an average of 17.5 hours, and that was before people lost interest and moved on to another topic. But by 2016, just 3 years later, that number had dwindled to just 11 hours. So in 3 years, our attention span had dwindled 6.5 hours in general. So basically, what this shows is that the more time we've spent in online spaces, the shorter our attention spans have become. So, is it really just the internet that's breaking down our focus? Because essentially, the way that we receive information is speeding up. I mean, let's look at it this way. In the 19th century, for example, news could take days to travel from place to place. I mean, days. They used to use bloody, what was it called, carrier pigeons with messages, didn't they, like in the olden days? And back then, technologies like, you know, telegraph, radio, TV, that all sped up the spread of information. So then if we jump to the 1990s, obviously the internet has, you know, undeniably supercharged that acceleration. And now information is not only available to us all the time, it actually intrudes on our lives through endless pings and notifications coming from our laptops, our phones, and whatever devices that we're using. And basically our brains just haven't caught up. We haven't evolved to that level of acceleration. And I think there's something there's some research that suggests that they never will, which is really sad when you think about it because we'll never ever keep up with the acceleration rate of technology with our brains. And Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, the fact that these apps and other online platforms suck so much of your time, that isn't a design flaw. They're supposed to be addictive. That's what they're designed for. And I think personally, that's probably why they, you know, call us lot users. We're users, we're social media users. We're not customers. We are users. We've literally been fed a bloody social media drug, if that's how you prefer to call it, and we're now addicted. We're hooked. So there was a lab study back in the early '90s, to put this into perspective, and it was conducted on rats. Okay, don't worry, no harm against animals on this podcast. But basically, they would present a rat with a meaningless task, something like pushing a button, but the rat would show no interest in doing that. I mean, why would it? So every time the rat pressed the button, it would be rewarded with a pellet of food. And rewards would, you know, motivate animals to carry out tasks that had no intrinsic meaning to them. And I did this myself with JJ, me dog. I bought him these buttons off Amazon, and I placed them across the house, and I recorded me voice on different buttons. So every time you press the button, it would come out with my voice. So they would say different things. So one by the front door, for example, says "walkies," and one by the back door says "wee-wee," and the one by his treat cupboard says "Treat," and then he's got another one upstairs by his toy box, and that one says "Play with the ball." And at first, he wouldn't even go near them. He wouldn't entertain them at all. But once he learned that every time he pressed the treat button, then he would get a little doggy chocolate drop, oh my God, he eventually broke the bloody button. He was jumping around on it so hard. He used to carry it round. He would take it to bed with him all the time. So anyway, putting that into context, and thinking of social media, what do we have as humans? We've got like buttons, we've got share buttons, we've got comment buttons. You know, we've got those little hearts and emojis and retweet buttons. They aren't design quirks. They're programming and conditioning us to use social media in addictive ways by rewarding us for the time that we spend on those platforms. Them buttons are what keep us engaging longer, but they're only one of the many design elements geared at keeping us online. Because when you think about it, What's another one? The infinite scroll. Back in the early days of like Facebook, and if you're like old like me, you'll remember like MySpace and FaceParty, things like that. Back in the early days of those, web pages were just that, they were pages. Sites often were made up of multiple pages, but when you got to the bottom of one, you had to click through to the next. They weren't endless like they are now. So if you wanted to keep browsing, you had to physically decide to click ahead. Now, there's an endless refreshing feed of content on Facebook and Instagram now, and even Twitter and TikTok, and that, that features on the interface of nearly every single social media platform out there. That gives the impression that there is a never-ending supply of content. So if likes and shares encourage users to stay online longer, the infinite scroll encourages users to stay online forever. And that's changed the way that we use social media and our phones. And what's more, the content that you see on that infinitely refreshing page, it isn't ordered chronologically unless you choose it to be that way. It's arranged by an algorithm, and that algorithm is programmed to feed us content that keeps us scrolling for longer because it's easier to disengage from calm, positive content. But if something is striking us as outrageous or controversial, we tend to keep on looking. It's part of a psychological phenomenon called negativity bias. And that's because negative experiences impact us more than positive ones. So it's in social media's interest to literally provoke its users. It's like when I used to work in customer service for, I think it was Topman and Topshop, like the Arcadia Group years ago, if you live in the UK. And when I used to work in their customer services, they used to say, if someone has a good experience in store, they will tell one person. If someone has a negative experience in store, they would tell the world and its sister about that negative experience, because it's just something that we do. We love to bitch. We love to moan. We love to talk about negativity, and that is negativity bias. Some of you may know all of this already, by the way, and I believe that while I was listening to the audiobook, I felt like, you know, "Yes, I know this already," but it wasn't until the author spoke it out loud that I was like, Holy fuck, this is literally all of us turning into brain-dead zombies from these huge corporations like Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram. Social media can be a powerful force for good, we all know that, but rather than harness this force, the platforms like Facebook are intent on exploiting our attention, and as a consequence they're sowing division and controversy across the world. So what I find now is, and I'm guilty of this myself, that when I go on TikTok, if a video doesn't catch my attention in the first, you know, 5 to 6 seconds, I've already scrolled on. I've gone past it. And that's statistically all it takes nowadays— 5.5 seconds. That is crazy to me. And you'll probably know this because you do it yourself, but to me that's worrying. And that's part of the reason that I restrict my own usage, because I can be on TikTok especially for hours just scrolling, and I'll have not gained anything other than maybe a few laughs at some funny stuff, But it's just that quick hit of dopamine we get, and then it's gone. We're never going to get that hour back again. We haven't been productive for that hour. We've got nothing to show for it. So how do we combat all of this? How many things are you doing right this second as you listen to this? You might be, you know, listening to this podcast and nothing else. I doubt it. You could be just sat there in your chair with a big happy smile on your face listening to yours truly, but I very, very much doubt that. Okay, more than likely you're doing a range of things. You're listening to this podcast while you're working, or you're cooking dinner, or you're scrolling through the news or social media, or you're chatting with your colleagues or your partner, or you're out for a walk. It's easy to blame our shrinking attention spans on our devices and the easy access that they offer to an attention-sucking online world. But that's not the whole picture. We live in a world that values speed and output, and by using focus, that allows us to produce and to earn, to tick off items off our to-do list. And that's where multitasking comes in. The more we can achieve simultaneously at the same time, the better our focus is spent. So why not distribute our attention across several tasks at once? Well, because as it turns out, we are bad at multitasking. I know I am. Like I mentioned earlier, me mam will come into me work on a Wednesday. She'll start talking to me because I just can't, I've got no self-control. She'll start talking to us about something that she did earlier in the week and I literally have to stop what I'm doing because I can't take in what she's saying. The word multitask itself was first used by computer scientists in the '60s to describe the functions of computers with multiple processors. It was never meant to be applied to humans. We only have one processor, our brain. Computers have thousands. So when we multitask, We're not simultaneously performing several tasks at once, although you'll probably like to think that you are. We're switching between them at hyperspeed. So when you switch between tasks, or when you're interrupted mid-task, your brain then needs to recalibrate, which decreases your mental performance in total. When we get distracted from one task, do you know how long it takes to physically get back into the zone? It's 35 minutes. 35 minutes it takes us to get back in the zone of what we were doing. And what if that task only took half an hour? That's going to take us twice as long. There was a study talked about in this book as well that compared a group who worked on a single task interrupted with a group that was distracted during the course of their task all the way through. And the study found that the members of the distracted group temporarily dropped an average of 10 IQ points while they were completing their task. 10 IQ points. How mad is that? I know most of you that, you know, go to work in an office, for example, you'll be constantly answering emails, you'll be taking part in multiple conversations about multiple projects, you're working across, you know, sometimes 3 or 4 different computer screens. I know when I was in the NHS in my last role before I quit, there was over 60 of us in one giant office. I had a laptop open, I had 2 computer screens, I had a tablet to do my work on, I couldn't concentrate so often that I went to quiet areas, and sometimes I even put me headphones on to listen to subliminals to calm me anxiety and to just stop me from being overwhelmed and distracted. But even then, people started, you know, saying that I wasn't partaking in the office atmosphere, I was ignoring people by doing that. But that office atmosphere just wasn't me at all. In fact, it's probably the worst job that I've ever had in the NHS because I just hated it so much. Luckily, there is an antidote to multitasking anyway. There's a way of approaching tasks that cultivates deep focus. So for example, if you've ever concentrated so hard on something, whether that's, you know, creating a website or a painting or drawing or simply just doing a jigsaw, you'll lose track of time. Yeah. And that means that you've been in what's called a flow state. So when you're in flow, your focus becomes deeper and better, and it's solely focused on that task at hand. And time will fly, and you're far less susceptible to distractions. And the good news is that everyone can access that flow state as long as they meet a few key conditions. So first, the task that you're tackling, it needs to be rewarding. Okay, so if the task that you're doing isn't rewarding or you find it boring, you're not going to be able to get in that flow state because when you're in flow, it's the process rather than the product that engages you. So unless you're passionate about, you know, data entry or spreadsheets, you're unlikely to find flow filling out Excel spreadsheets all day, every day. It has to be, and it's got to be rewarding to you. And then secondly, the task should be challenging enough to, you know, demand our full attention, but not so difficult that you're tempted to give up on it. And it's just finding that right balance, isn't it? Because we all know what it's like when something is so difficult, because they're the types of tasks that we put off day after day, and before you know it, the deadline's here and we still haven't done it. But then finally, monotasking is essential. You need to direct all your mental energy towards one single task. People like athletes or musicians or scientists, they often attribute their achievements to their ability to access flow states, and they are monotasking. They're concentrating on one task at any one given time. But in a world that's decided that multitasking is essential, and one that values speed and output over deep focus, the average person is finding it harder and harder to achieve that flow state. But don't worry, we can get our attention back. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Woohoo! In a world obsessed with multitasking, making room for other forms of focus like flow is really hard to do, but it is possible. Okay, it's not as simple as, you know, slowing down and switching off. But what I like to do, as I mentioned earlier, is I box off some time. I section off that time in my diary, sometimes on the morning of, or sometimes even the night before. I will open the Notes app on my phone and I'll write down everything that I need to do for that day with like a little checklist. And I then itemize out how long I'm going to give myself for each task. And sometimes I even go as far as, you know, popping those tasks with the allocated times into my phone diary. Because it really does keep me on track with what I'm trying to do, and I find that I'm then able to focus during that 60 minutes of doing podcasting, for example, or 90 minutes ordering new stock and updating the website. Because if I flip from one thing to another, I could be midway through ordering stock, I could get distracted, I could end up messaging customers, I could then look at social media, and then by the time I get back to ordering, I've forgot what I'm actually needing to order. And I've done that before. I've done it time and time and time again. I've ordered from one supplier thinking, I really need to order this, I really need to order that. I've been distracted, and before I knew it, I've placed the order. And then I think, shit, I totally forgot to order that. And it's because I've distracted myself. So block off your time. If you go over by a few minutes, don't be so hard on yourself. It just allows you to show focus and determination to get that task complete, free of distraction, the outside world. I don't know how long it took me, for example, to create that bloody well-being journal. Months, almost a year I'd say, in fact. And it's one of my bestsellers now. Last week alone I sold more than 50 copies, for example. But I procrastinated about it for so long, and I kept putting it off because I told myself daily that, you know, I don't have the time for that. It's not a need to do, it's a would like to do. And instead I would spend an hour here or there, or just even scrolling social media. And that was instead of designing the content of the Wellbeing Journal. So just think about what you can do in your life if you took those hours here and there and you put them to good use on your goals or your dreams. Like I say, what could you achieve in life? Because like I say, when we talk about manifestation, we always say manifestation is 50/50, isn't it? It's 50% the universe and putting it out there and living your life exactly how you would if you had that in your life already. But it's also 50% hard work. So what would you achieve if you had a couple of hours spare every single day? There's a lovely little bit near the end of the book as well that says, and I quote, "Don't focus harder on your task. Instead, let your mind wander. Doing nothing is actually a valuable form of focus because it facilitates creativity, and that arises when you make unexpected mental connections and associations." The longer you can let your thoughts drift, the more unexpected associations your mind can then create. That just might help you reclaim some of your stolen focus. And I love that because it is so true. I often say to people, sometimes the most productive thing that you can do as a human being is to sit back and switch off, have some you time, and prioritise your wellbeing. It's ironic because I haven't done it for the last 2 weeks, but just make sure that that time is worthwhile to you by making it distraction-free. Free. So when you do have some distraction-free time, that you're taking it not just even to work on your goals, but to work on you. Okay. Right. That's enough. Let's leave it there for this week's episode. I hope that you all enjoyed that little rant about productivity. But seriously, go and read the book. It's a great book. It's called Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. And oh my God, next week on the podcast, I've got my first ever male guest on the show. His name is Jamie, and his company is called The Breath Space. And I'm so, so excited to share his wisdom and knowledge all about, you know, using the breath to transform our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Ice baths, everything. And trust me, he's amazing. I can't wait to have our chat. 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