Focus

Focus

Sometimes I have trouble focusing. Now is a good example. I want to blog more, but when I sit down at the computer my attention is so quickly drawn to other things (I’m talking to you, Google Reader and your 150+ subscriptions). So, I’m trying something new. Minimalist typing.

I had a copy of Write Room from years back. It’s a minimalist text editor. With the appearance of an old DOS prompt it strips out the clutter, the pretty, the distractions, and leaves you able to focus on just one task… writing. Here… a screenshot for you of me composing this post.

It seems to be working. I’ll open up Write Room, type my post, then copy/paste it into WordPress for publishing. Blog done.

I wonder how many other life challenges I could apply this to? What other tasks could benefit from stripping away all competing elements to allow for some really deep focus.

Probably most of them.