Focus

Academic life often involves competing demands. But amid its ambiguities, a 4-step process will help you put more focus where you need it.

A 4-step process can help you focus on what really matters. This process can even help you curb something as overloading as email.

However you time block, you can use 6 simple steps can make that process pretty seamless in a digital workspace.

These 5 ways to block your time can help you focus on what really matters, rather than what’s just latest and loudest.

David DeSilva provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. David stresses the importance of “no” and working on one project at a time.

James Clear and Cal Newport discuss the symbiotic relationship their prior work has in terms of fostering focus.

Corey Pemberton discusses eight specific types of challenges with focus and provides some suggestions for overcoming each type.

Daily Gleanings about avoiding digital distractions, prioritizing writing, using social pressure, and sleeping.

Daily Gleanings about Freedom for Chrome OS and Linux.

Daily Gleanings about Freedom’s release of white-listing for Windows users.

Freedom is a powerful tool. It allows us to set priorities for our time ahead of time when we’re thinking clearly about what’s most important.

Anthony Le Donne provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Anthony stresses self-awareness and prioritizing your dissertation.

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about how to focus your attention better when studying.

Jason Maston provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Jason stresses working on projects that matter to you in your specific context.

Daily Gleanings about Nir Eyal’s discussion about how to improve focus and become “indistractable.”

Daily Gleanings about how best to minimize the footprint doing email has in your days.

Daily Gleanings about the return of app blocking to Freedom for iOS.

Daily Gleanings about the importance of focus for productivity and a case study in thinking about productivity in the context of full-time church work.

Matthew Bates provides several pro tips for busy writers in biblical studies. Matthew stresses the need to stay focused and work on one project at a time.

Daily Gleanings from Michael Hyatt about the importance of consistent effort over time and this effort’s relationship to (mega)batching.

Daily Gleanings about how to free yourself to focus better on what matters.

Daily Gleanings to help get you started with difficult focused work.

Daily Gleanings about the challenges inherent in knowledge work and ways of balancing productive work with healthy engagement in the rest of life.

Daily Gleanings about focus and Focusmate.

Freedom interviews Ros Barber on how to nurture the focus necessary for academic and creative writing.

Daily Gleanings from Mark Goodacre about “sourceomania” and from Nir Eyal about distraction and focus.

Daily Gleanings from Joshua Becker about the unimportance of the “right” tool or “best” gadget and from Michael Hyatt about the significance of stillness.

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about avoiding procrastination and Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s thoughts on how to foster focused work as a busy academic.

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about distractions (digital and otherwise) and how to overcome them to improve your focus on what matters.

Daily Gleanings from RBL about Heath Thomas’s commentary on Habakkuk and Rocketbook about maximizing productivity.