Detox Physical Spaces for Genuine Productivity

Genuine productivity requires a monomaniacal focus on the few things that count. Clean out the distractions from your work and life and devote to a monomaniacal focus on the few things that matter. 

The best of the best—especially in the creative and athletic fields—generally only work 5 hours a day. Yet, the hours they are work are filled with peak work versus distracted toil. 

I’ve explained “The 5 Great Hours Rule” in my book The Everyday Hero Manifesto along with the 9 other practices iconic performers run daily. 

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Messiness creates distraction and consumes your bandwidth. And so when I'm in creative mode every day, you might know my five great hours concept. All you need is five world-class hours in monomaniacal focus and performance to call it a world-class day as an epic performer. But when I'm in those five great hours, I work in tight bubbles of total focus that have nothing around. Often they're white spaces, oak floors, lots of light, no posters, no distractions, definitely no phones going off and music in the background because we know from the science it's called attention residue. Every little distraction, whether it's a sandwich on a counter, whether it's a phone going off, whether it's a poster on the wall, you're gonna leave some of your attention, your focus on that distraction, which means you have less available to bring the full bandwidth of your attention on the project that will allow you to do genius-level work.