Coaching practices for Site Blocker Focus

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I sit down to focus and within minutes I’ve drifted to my phone, an open tab, the snack on the desk
• I tell myself I’ll do a solid focus block and then twenty minutes in, the second it gets hard, I bail to email or a quick "break" that swallows an hour
• I sit down to do the one hard thing and even with nothing actually pinging, part of my mind is half-listening for email and itching to flip to another tab
• Right when I’m finally locked in, my brain throws up "remember to email so-and-so," and if I act on it the focus is shattered, but if I try to ignore it the thought just gets louder and keeps tugging until I deal with it.
• I’ve got forty tabs open and apps stacked everywhere, and even when I’m not clicking them I can feel them all tugging at the edges of my attention

Practices that may help

1. Reduce cues for competing behaviors during focused periods
   Your focus is partly controlled by what stimuli are in your environment — reducing competing cues protects target behaviors.
   Stimulus Control, Made Practical
2. Use a pre-commitment device to lock in hyperfocus sessions
   Commit to a specific focus block in advance and introduce a friction cost to abandoning it.
   Hyperfocus: Directing Intense Attention to What Matters Most
3. Use single-purpose device sessions for deep work
   Block or exit everything except the one tool required for the current task during focused work periods.
   Defending Your Attention in the Attention Economy
4. Keep an attention capture list during hyperfocus
   Write down every impulse, distraction, and off-topic idea that arises during a session rather than acting on or suppressing it.
   Hyperfocus: Directing Intense Attention to What Matters Most
5. Minimize open tabs and windows during focus sessions
   Close all browser tabs and applications not needed for the current task before starting deep work.
   Context Switching Cost: Why Task Switching Wrecks Focus
6. Name one most-important task each morning
   Each day, identify the single item from your Focus List that most needs to move forward today.
   Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
7. Restrict social media to scheduled daily access windows
   Limit social media to one or two daily slots rather than allowing it to run as a background tab.
   Notification Batching: Taking Back Control of Your Attention
8. Laser: defend focused attention
   Engineer your environment so the Highlight gets uninterrupted, distraction-free attention.
   Make Time, Made Practical
9. Calibrate your personal hyperfocus window length
   Find the session length at which your focus quality begins to decline and use that as your block ceiling.
   Hyperfocus: Directing Intense Attention to What Matters Most
10. Capture distracting impulses to stay in focus without suppressing them
    When an off-topic thought or impulse arises during focus, write it on a capture pad and return — don’t suppress or follow.
    Attention Management, Made Practical

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