Focus session · applications and forms · 45 min

A 45-minute block for applications and forms, with forest at dusk, if you are doing this in the middle of the day

A single 45-minute block for applications and forms — dull but finite.

45:00

Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.

Start by hearing the furthest sound you can find. Midday is an underrated time for this. Keep it simple: breath in, breath out, notice.

1 Before you start

Take one slow breath before you press start, so the session has a beginning.
Choose one question to answer in this block, rather than a whole subject to cover.
Set the timer where you can see it, or where you can deliberately not see it.
Expect to want to stop at about the eight-minute mark. That is normal and it passes.
Turn off notifications for the next block, not just to silent.

If you feel the urge to check something, write it on the paper beside you and keep going. Deal with the list afterwards.
When you have drifted for the fifth time, that is still four returns. Keep going.
When you get an idea for something else, park it. Do not follow it.
If you start tidying your desk, that is avoidance. Sit back down.

Do not immediately open the thing you were avoiding. Give the block a proper end.
Roll your shoulders and your neck before the next block.
Stand up and move for at least two minutes. The break is part of the method, not a reward.

forest at dusk — Birds settling, leaves moving, nothing sudden. It works because it sounds like a place you can safely ignore.

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