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5 Focus Rules That Help Me Get More Done in Less Time
Simple rules that beat every productivity app.
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Research from the University of California, Irvine found that it takes about 23 minutes to fully return to a task after an interruption.
Get interrupted 10 times a day and you’ve lost close to four hours. That’s half a workday, gone, and you didn’t even notice it leaving.
I did the math on my own day once. It wasn’t pretty.
Email pings. Slack messages. A quick look at my phone that somehow turned into 15 minutes. None of it felt like a big deal at the time. Added up, it was eating most of my day.
That’s when I stopped looking for more time and started protecting the time I already had.
I tested a lot of productivity advice after that. Most of it didn’t stick. Fancy apps, color-coded calendars, morning routines with 14 steps. All of it fell apart within a week.
What stuck were five simple rules. They’re boring. They work.
Here they are.
