Build your life and your workflow around what I call tight bubbles of total focus. And that might mean blocking out three times a week from 9:00 to 12:00 on your written schedule, because what gets scheduled gets done. And during that 9:00 to 12:00 tight bubble of total focus, you can turn off all your technology. I mean, when you hear those bells ring and the notifications fly, it has actually been compared neurobiologically to the sound of a scream.
And I want to make that with great precision that point, which is the sound of a phone ringing has been compared in terms of your internal response, neurobiological, to the sound of a scream. But if it happens constantly every day, it becomes your new normal. Pretty interesting point, no?
So, during that tight bubble of total focus, you want to build a period of solitude, and isolation, and quiet where your brain shifts from beta to alpha, where you actually start to go deep and release all that neurochemistry of mastery. So, like dopamine and serotonin and all those good brain chemicals, so you do genius-level work. Maybe once a week. Maybe it’s going to be a Sunday. You also build a tight bubble of a total focus. Where again, zero interruption, zero distraction, you get to focus mono-maniacally on the work that will move the needle for you in your career, and within the world.