Focus session · planning · 90 min
90-minute focus session for planning with a fan or air conditioner, if you are new to this
90 minutes on planning — on paper, so you can see it. One full ultradian cycle, for work that needs a long runway.
Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.
Let the first out-breath be longer than the in-breath. Nothing dramatic, just longer. Nothing here assumes you have done this before. No preamble. We start with the body.
1 Before you start
- Have a piece of paper beside you for the thoughts that will try to interrupt.
- Decide in advance that a bad sentence is still progress.
- Dim the screen slightly. Bright screens make long sessions harder than they need to be.
- Choose one question to answer in this block, rather than a whole subject to cover.
- Write down the one thing you are going to do, in a single sentence, before you start.
2 While the timer runs
- It is fine to stare at the wall for a minute. That is often where the answer is.
- Notice the moment your hand moves toward your phone. That moment is the whole skill.
- When you catch yourself re-reading the same sentence, stop and write down what you were looking for.
- The first urge to stop usually arrives early. Sit through it once and the second one is quieter.
3 When it ends
- Say the session is finished, out loud if you can. It marks the boundary.
- Look out of a window for thirty seconds. Your eyes have been at one distance for a while.
- Note what you actually got done, not what you meant to get done.
4What to put on
a fan or air conditioner — A constant mechanical hum with no variation. The lack of change is the point — nothing in it asks for your attention.
This page is a tool, not a course. Nothing is tracked, nothing is saved, and nobody is told whether you finished.
If this block does not fit, try 25-minute focus block for drawing — distant traffic, when the house is busy, 50-minute focus block for design work — a train carriage, when you have been putting it off or 45-minute editing session with birds at dawn and a timer, if you are doing this instead of scrolling.