#33: Manage Distractions and Cultivate Deep Focus for Your Business and Your Life

Feel like you're always distracted and unfocused in your business? You're not alone! We all struggle to stay present and productive with so much vying for our attention. The good news is you can strengthen your executive function skills—the key cognitive abilities that enable strategic planning, focus, organization, and managing multiple responsibilities. 

In this episode, we focus on managing distractions, using techniques to:

- Declutter your workspace and minimize digital distractions for better concentration 
- Block off sacred time on your calendar to deeply focus on high-priority tasks
- Avoid messy multitasking in favor of single-tasking for greater efficiency
- Implement re-energizing breaks to boost mental stamina and avoid burnout
- Set boundaries around meetings and delegate tasks strategically to others

Being mindful about how you spend your time will help you resist distractions, focus intensely, and sustain progress on your most critical goals. Ditch the noise and bring your vision into clear, successful strategic focus with these practical techniques. 

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Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey there, my name is Corinne Oflin and you're listening to the Calm Entrepreneur podcast. I am a USA Today bestselling author, non-profit executive and organizing nerd with over 20 years experience running my own small businesses. I teach entrepreneurs, solarpreneurs and small business owners like you how to organize your business, find more time and deepen your alignment practice to experience more calm and confidence every single day. If you're looking for that intersection between practical business advice and spiritual goodness, then you're in the right place. So sit back, relax and let's dive into this week's episode of the Calm Entrepreneur podcast. Welcome, welcome to the Calm Entrepreneur podcast. I'm your host, corinne Oflin, and this is episode 33.

Speaker 1: 0:51

Being an entrepreneur demands that we develop excellence across a spectrum of executive functioning skills. These skills are the core capabilities required to succeed in business and, quite frankly, in life. They include things like self-restraint, working memory, emotion control, focus, task initiation, planning, prioritization, organizing, time management, defining and achieving goals, flexibility and stress tolerance. Understanding how you operate within these frames goes a long way, because mastering these skills allows entrepreneurs to juggle all the diverse responsibilities that we face every single day. It helps us remain resilient under pressure and they help us to achieve our goals. But the nature of running a business makes it easy to become distracted and overwhelmed and completely unfocused. We've all been there right. Emails pile up, notifications ding endlessly and the new ideas glisten in the distance like shiny objects. All of these things threaten to derail our progress, but without strong executive functioning abilities, we flounder, and so it's important to assess your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to these core capabilities. The first step towards strengthening your executive functioning skills is self-awareness. I think most of us have a general idea of where we excel and where we struggle, but it's actually a really good exercise to reflect on these core skills and see which of those truly do come naturally to us versus the ones that we actually do struggle with, because there is some overlap with some of them.

Speaker 1: 2:41

I think that we can inflate the two things, three things, together. For example, you might excel at time management, but have difficulty with organization, or planning may be easy for you, while focusing deeply enough to be efficient in executing those plans may give you loads of trouble. And if you struggle with one or more of these core capabilities, I want to make something super, super, duper clear. You are not alone. There is nothing wrong with you Not at all, in fact.

Speaker 1: 3:16

Everybody has strengths and weaknesses when it comes to these things. They're called executive functioning skills and core capabilities because these are foundational, right, but just because they're foundational doesn't mean it's something that everybody has access to right, and it's important to play to your natural strengths, but also identify the places that you need to be developing right. Don't avoid your weaknesses. And this is important because if you've ever heard me talk about this stuff on this podcast or on any of my events, or even in my classes and on my blog, I will say over and over again that these abilities are not personality traits, they are skills, and that is really exciting, because that means that they can be taught and they can be developed. So, once you identify areas where you need support, seek training, find a mentor, find a coach, find some way to level up.

Speaker 1: 4:21

Striving to become competent across all of these executive functions will help you eliminate distractions, will help you remain resilient and achieve your full potential in your life and in your business. But, yes, self-assessment and self-improvement are key with this. One of the big areas of struggle that I wanted to focus on today that I hear about from so many people and I fall into this category as well it's dealing effectively with distractions. With so many demands competing for our attention, focus and productivity can definitely suffer, and that is why honing your ability to eliminate distractions is really a pivotal skill for entrepreneurs. It's just really for humans.

Speaker 1: 5:10

I came to understand the value of and actually you know what even the existence of executive functioning as a group of skills when one of my kids was struggling in several areas and I've mentioned before that I have one of my kids who's ADHD, and Learning how to help him learn had a huge impact on the way that we moved forward with his education, and the focus of all the things that we learned for him was executive functioning skills. There was nothing wrong with his aptitude he's a brilliant guy but even then, everyone saw the intelligence and the potential, but what he didn't have was that these administration skills and we were able to teach all of those things to him in various degrees of success, and not because we're all developing and he's still developing, but that's where I learned about the existence of executive functioning skills, but also the core value of them for all of us, and so I think that we lose track of the simplicity with which we can really develop specific vertical skills so that we can do well in our life and in our business, and so one of those really big ones is distraction. Right, I mean, I don't know anybody. Today, especially with social media, we are being trained to have a shorter and shorter attention span, and we are being trained to have the expectation to be available at all times. Like the notifications are on, things are vibrating. We have now we have the watches and the smartphones, and everything is keeping track of us, right, except for us. So, when it comes to me prioritizing all of the different executive functioning skills, distraction is at the top of that list, because there really just isn't anything more important to get a big handle on.

Speaker 1: 7:26

We all know that it's super easy to push ourselves to exhaustion, right? As entrepreneurs, we often pride ourselves on hustling night and day to make our ventures succeed, and, you know, ignoring our body signals can lead to energy crash and burnout, and that is why mindfulness and self-awareness are two key ingredients in this skill set, because, make no mistake, burnout diminishes your executive function abilities big time. And ask me how I know like I'm here sharing this with you as someone who has just now right In 2023, I am just now fully coming through the other side of a gnarly years long burnout and recovery cycle, and it's really, it's no joke, right? But when I was finally able and ready to get back to work, I didn't just restart and continue where I left off. Not at all. I had to rebuild right, and I relied on my foundational executive functioning skills to help me build my way back.

Speaker 1: 8:33

So don't let yourself get swept away by the excitement of relentless doing, because the cost of that is just it's way too high. And if you're lucky, it only shows up as burnout, right. And I say that you're lucky if that's the case, because that's something that we can recover from. But if we're not, if we go even further and it's too drawn out and the burnout becomes too deep and we continue to push through the burnout that can make half of it with our health. So by tuning into your energy and your energy levels and responding appropriately on a regular basis, you can stay better aware of when you need to renew your reserves, and that is one of those skills as well in and of itself Be aware of your mind, body signals, listen to what your body needs and do everything that you can to stay replenished and don't deplete because you do not want to fall into burnout or worse. So how can we work smarter when it comes to managing our distractions?

Speaker 1: 9:37

There's a study out there that says that it takes as much as 23 minutes for a person to get back into a flow state after being distracted 23 minutes and I thought that was pretty wild when I first heard that, but I'll tell you that from where I stand, that's been true. I know for me that it takes 15 to 20 minutes to drop back into flow. And I'm not talking about being able to get back to work again, like you can do that in a couple of minutes. I'm talking about deep focus, like being in the zone. And that always makes me think about crockpots, right, because we are just like crockpots in that way, because if you're cooking in a crockpot and you've got everything in there percolating all day, and you go into the kitchen and you take the lid off that crockpot, you've just let out all of that steam and you've added 20 minutes to the cook time, it's true.

Speaker 1: 10:31

So now that we're all on the same page about the importance of avoiding distractions, let's talk about some practical advice on how to do just that, right? So here's some tips to clear away the noise and boost your ability to focus, to create a distraction-free or as close to a distraction-free workspace as possible. Because you know, let's face it, like for me, I've got kids there at school and they're not always at home and so when school is in session I have to be available to them. So that's a distraction potentially, right. So we have to do the best things that we can to mitigate these things by getting ahead of them and planning ahead for them. And part of that is actually informing the people who are going to be impacted by the fact that you're going to be off the grid for X amount of time or unavailable for this window and or maybe just not available via text message. Instead, you have to call or things of that nature.

Speaker 1: 11:30

But the first thing is distraction-free workspace. Right, your environment plays a huge role in your ability to focus, so make your workspace as distraction-free as possible by taking some pretty simple basic steps. But these go a long way and I've talked about these at different times for different reasons, because these again this goes back to core foundations. This is building blocks, stuff. If we have these things operating in a flow state for us, they become habit, they become mindless. We don't have to expend any energy managing them, and so that's why they come up all the time, because they truly are foundational. Everything builds upon these things, and so when we have these things nailed down, then everything else becomes easier.

Speaker 1: 12:28

So the first thing is decluttering, right, declutter your physical workspace, remove paper, remove. You know the chachkies and the knickknacks, and I am so terrible about this, and in fact, when I, a couple of years ago, we put in hardwood floors and I had to clear out everything out of my office I am fortunate enough to actually have an office in my house with a door and we had to clear everything out of the office to put in hardwood floors and we painted in everything else, so it took everything out. When we put everything back in, we ended up putting these little shelves on the walls and I loaded up these shelves with all my little chachkies and knickknacks, because I have so much stuff, you guys, and all of it. It's like it's memorabilia from Comic-Con and events that I've done. You know panels on, or you know all of my tarot card collection, because I have a rather large one. There's just stuff, and I like having my stuff around me, and so I had to find a new way to get it off of my desk, and so that was putting it on the walls and I love it. And when anybody comes into my office they sit down and they're like oh, I like being in here because it's like the room of me, it's like me in a room state as opposed to, you know, being in a person.

Speaker 1: 13:46

But that required that I decluttered my physical space because I had so much stuff on my desk, you guys, and when I got organized there was just so much stuff on my desk. So remove the physical stuff that you can right, find new homes for these things and make sure you put them back in their place. You know, a clean desk supports mental clarity, and I get a lot of pushback when I talk about that, because there are a lot of people who prefer, and maybe would say that they thrive, in a cluttered workspace, and that might be your way. But I'm going to say that if you don't know every single thing that's on your desk, then that's taxing you mentally and you might not be aware that it is, but it is. So I would urge you to experiment with it. Maybe try go paperless scan a whole bunch of stuff. That's a project that I'm coming in on the heels of. I've actually spent the last part of this year doing going paperless in our household, and it's been quite interesting.

Speaker 1: 14:53

So do the best that you can to declutter your physical space. Shut off your phone, your email and your app notifications. Turn off the buzzes, turn off the pings, turn off the pop-ups and this is one that is so hard to do, and I speak from experience. But several years ago I hit an absolute wall, and this was actually before I kind of dropped totally into my burnout. Before I knew I was in burnout, I was irritated all the time and I didn't understand why I couldn't focus, and so one of the first things that I did was I turned off all of the notifications, everything, and it was the hardest thing to do because I was like wait, what if someone needs me? Oh my gosh, what if I'm not available? And this is before the pandemic happened, and so we weren't all in the house all the time. But I'll tell you when I turned off all of the access to me, when I told my family hey, if you need something urgently, call me on the phone, using your phone to dial my phone number. Don't text me and I will answer if you call. It made the world of difference. But it also was kind of humbling because I was like, wow, nobody tried to get me. I turned off all notifications and then when I came back out of my focus window and I turned back on my stuff and I was like, oh no, no one even needed me and look, the world is still turning. So it's one of those things.

Speaker 1: 16:23

I think that we think that we do have to be accessible at all times and we do need to be connected at all times, and it's really just not true. So for most people I'm not going to I don't presume to know everyone's in and out People are dealing with all different kinds of things at all different kinds of times. So do what you have to do. But if you have the luxury of being able to turn off all notifications, try it and try it with everything everything from pop-ups on your desktop to stuff on your smartphone, to stuff on your smartwatch, everything and see how that feels. Try it for a couple of days and just see Close extra tabs and windows on your computer. Keep only the things that you're working on open and that will help you avoid clicking around and use a website blocker if you need to. That's something that I turn on. I have a blocker that keeps me from being able to access social media when I'm working on my focus.

Speaker 1: 17:26

Blocks of work time, because I guys, I'm like the post-it child. I'm the reason that they designed social media the way that they did. I can't control myself. If I see an Instagram scroll, I'm like, oh look, oh look, scroll, scroll, and then all of a sudden, hours have gone by, right, so it's terrible, I'm the worst at it, so I don't trust myself and that's the way it's got to be.

Speaker 1: 17:52

So my next one is wear noise-canceling headphones right, or listen to nature sounds to block out audible distractions, especially if you work in a quiet environment. The way that I do, I don't like having things going on music or TV or anything going on around me that's making noise. So for a long time I had white noise playing in my office. That added that little buffer. But now I have noise-canceling headphones with nothing on, and it's interesting because it's almost like this Pavlovian thing where, when I sit down at my desk, I can sit down at my desk and I can do other things, but the minute I put my headphones on, my brain clicks into oh, it's work mode. So that's something that happens for me. But find the thing that works for you. One of my kids loves having heavy metal music playing. One of my kids likes nature sounds. I like absolute silence. It's different for everybody, but experiment with that, because sometimes adding a sound can actually separate the rest of the noise around, because it changes the way that you're focusing.

Speaker 1: 19:05

See if you can face your desk away from visual high traffic areas, and I ended up doing that for myself because my desk used to face my door and it kept me in the line of sight when somebody walked by or when someone across the way is my kitchen. If somebody walked through there and had nothing to do with me, didn't need my attention, didn't even know that I was in the room, it broke my attention because I caught the visual, so I moved myself, so I couldn't see out the door of my office, and that actually is one of those things that helps. Another one for me is keep your phone out of sight when working and resist the urge to check it. For a long time when I was training myself on this one, I used to put my phone in my car in the garage and like forget that I had a phone because I just it's like, oh, I'll just check really quick. Or you know, if I get up from my desk to take a bio break, or if I go to the kitchen to put on a kettle and I'm standing at the kettle waiting for it to boil and taking like getting on my feet and moving my body, the first thing I do is grab my phone and then all of a sudden, I've managed to sit through the boil, pour a cup of tea, made the cup of tea with one hand while doing something and while on my phone with the other hand. It's insidious.

Speaker 1: 20:29

You guys, there's lots of different ways that you can manage your workspace to be distraction free, and it includes everything from getting organizing cubbies for your desktop or maybe in your desk drawers, if you have drawers, changing the lighting to reduce the strain. I actually got a pair of non-englare computer glasses that you know. The new ones that I have have regular clear lenses, but the old ones that I have are like the blue blockers with the yellow lenses and I looked like a freak whenever I was on, like the web calls. But you know it actually. It actually helps you focus because it keeps you from getting tired. But treat your workspace like a sacred space, right. This is the space that's devoted to you and your business. It should be devoted to deep focus. It should be a place that we come to with.

Speaker 1: 21:28

I don't want to use the word reverence, but I want to use what's the word respect. We want to respect ourselves enough to respect our workspace enough to make it a haven, to make it a place where we can channel creativity, where we can connect into our work, and we do that by tuning out as much of the sensory distractions that we possibly can, which all of that is a self-control piece, which is an executive functioning skill, right? Because when we're able to tune out all of those distractions, we'll be able to direct our focus. You know, we'll be able to control our focus, and that is, I think, something that we have taken for granted. For, you know, as the world becomes more and more and more digital and things are starting to move more and more and more quickly and expectations are that things are gonna happen more quickly and our attention span and our patients level has dropped. Our ability to really focus has been sacrificed in there.

Speaker 1: 22:39

So one of the things that I use on a regular basis for managing my distractions is time blocking. And you don't want to like. Well, I don't want to say you don't want to. I have found that the people that I work with, the people that I coach and people that I talk to about this, when we are blocking our time, the urge to do that with our day is to block every single moment, like to squeeze every minute out of the day and schedule everything. And I've tried that and I've been successful at it sometimes, but for me it has not been sustainable and I share that, because the advice out there is kind of black and white on this. It's like, if you're gonna do time blocking, this is what time blocking looks like. You start at your morning and you time block every half hour, every hour, whatever you're doing, until you're done with your work day, and that includes blocking your day and that includes blocking out breaks.

Speaker 1: 23:39

But if that doesn't work for you, there is another way, like for me. I have three big blocks at a time and I have three big priorities every day, and so I have an hour, two, an hour and a half, maybe sometimes two. It just depends on what the task is for the day. But I have three dedicated focus blocks. And focus block one I sit down, I look at the clock, I declutter my desktop, my digital desktop, by closing all the tabs, opening only what I need, and I get working on that thing and I set a timer and I don't stop until I'm done with the time block and I might not finish the task, but I will make serious progress because I have focused the time block and at the end of the time block I get to decide if I usually build in buffers between my time blocks, but if I'm right at the edge of finishing something or if I'm not at a good stopping point yet, I'll go over time and I'll wrap it up. But blocking time is a super way of really training yourself to get some work done. And when I use time blocking which I would say, I usually work four, four and a half days a week three to three and a half of those days are time blocked days. I'm not working eight hours a day in time blocks, I'm working like maybe four and a half hours, maybe five hours a day and then I'm done because I got all my stuff done right.

Speaker 1: 25:20

So Start each week or each month by picking your priorities for that time period right and lock yourself in to those being your priorities and then block out chunks of at least an hour or an hour and a half each day that you can dedicate to work right. Let's say you work five days a week. Sometimes you're going to work seven days a week. Some weeks you're going to work three days a week. Go ahead, look at your time and block out three chunks a day to see if you can work dedicated time on those priorities and if you're able to manage to get that block in your day, protect that time. Nothing else can encroach. Nothing else can encroach in that time.

Speaker 1: 26:13

Schedule your priority work times during the times when you have the most energy and focus. And if you listened to last week's episode 32 of this podcast, I talk about this and I talk about prioritizing your schedule by tracking your energy and this is the reason for that. If you know when you are the most energetic, the most focused, the most awake, then that's when you should have a time block. So think about that and look within and try to really work on optimizing yourself. This is like hacking of you and it's kind of interesting when you find success because I think it comes in unexpected ways when you're booking appointments keep your reserved focus blocks open with buffers around them, rather than scheduling over them.

Speaker 1: 27:07

And for me, the way that I do this and of course nothing is 100%, but I try I pick one day a week where I will have errands and appointments. If I have to leave my house to do stuff, I try to make sure everything that I have to leave the house for is happening on that day and that'll be the day that I do phone calls, that'll be the day where I have appointments, because then I have then all of those things batched and it's not like I'm breaking up every single day to get stuff done. And of course nothing is 100%, but it's one of those things that if you do, you keep your focus blocks locked out, nothing else can encroach. You'll be, you'll honor yourself and you'll respect that time and then you'll work more effectively to keep those things focused on your work. And, like I said, I schedule buffer times, so allow for buffer space between your focus blocks.

Speaker 1: 28:05

And again, this is one of those things that some people disagree with. Some people prefer to have back to back to back to back to back blocks and if that's you and that works for you, go with it. But if it doesn't work for you, I share this because I don't want you to say it doesn't work for me because I can't block my entire day. You don't have to block your entire day to use time blocks. So allow for buffer time between focus blocks. Allow buffer time between appointments. You might have a call in the morning followed by a focus block. Put a buffer of time in between that, remember, you get to choose. You're in charge. You're an entrepreneur. We've done this for the freedom. Batch your meetings and calls together. I already talked about that.

Speaker 1: 28:50

Mark your focus blocks as non-negotiable in any kind of calendar that you share with other people. I have a shared family calendar and I have a shared calendar with one of my assistants and there are times where there will not be anything available to be scheduled and that's non-negotiable. And this is kind of like when I talked about with my kids. I am not available to be reached during these hours and it doesn't mean I'm not available. It means I'm not available during these times and most of the time, unless it's a serious, dire emergency.

Speaker 1: 29:22

Most things can wait. If your focus blocks get interrupted, let's say something does happen, that's okay. Like we're human, life is going to happen. But make sure that you reschedule that lost focus block somewhere else in your schedule as soon as you possibly can. You don't want to get into the habit of releasing them and not taking them back, because we're trying to create a habit here. We're trying to build a practice of really getting into deep focus right. When we treat uninterrupted focus time as sacred, you will ensure your most important projects and tasks get the dedicated attention that they require. Amidst the chaos of running a business and living a life, right Priority output can be achieved, and that's needle-moving action. This is stuff that's going to make a difference, and I think that if you were to practice this, you will find that you will actually get your work done so much sooner and have much more time available to do the rest of the things that you want to do with your life.

Speaker 1: 30:33

And when you're working in those focus blocks of time, don't try to multitask. You need to work on single focusing, and this is something that I am an absolute evangelist about. There's a book called the Practicing Mind by a guy named Thomas M Stirner. It's a tiny little book. You can read it in one sitting, but it tells the story about this experience that he had and the value of deep focus through single tasking, and I have experienced it. Many of my friends who have read the book have also experienced it, because it's true, there's actually no such thing as multitasking. We're not actually doing more than one thing, we're just switching contexts really really fast and that makes us ineffective. That is something that is not up for debate. You can say that you're really good at doing a lot of things at once, and that might be true, but I challenge you to really dive into single task and see just how much more effective, how much more creative, how much more rich your output is when you do dedicate true single tasking to that.

Speaker 1: 31:53

You can use focus tools like freedom there's one called Cold Turkey and these block distracting websites I mentioned. News Feed Eradicator is one that I use. All of these things help us stay focused right, and we wanna make the most of the time that we dedicate to our focus. Blocks right, take breaks right. Go on walks, exercise, take short breaks to help recharge your mental focus right, and one of the best ways to do this, especially if you have difficulty working for long periods of time, like an hour or 90 minutes at a time, is the Pomodoro Method right 25 minutes of focus followed by five minute breaks. You can set a timer on your phone or you can download an actual Pomodoro timer that'll do that for you.

Speaker 1: 32:43

But even in those little five minute breaks, step outside, get some fresh air, let the sunshine hit your eyes, do some jump and jacks. I like to have little dance parties. I will hang out with my dogs, I'll do some deep breathing, do anything to break up the moment, right, but don't go online. If you're like me, you can't be trusted. Five minutes is not possible. So grab a drink of water, listen to some healthy music uplifting music and then, when the five minutes is up, go back to work. And I think it's funny my kids I always tell them do jump and jacks because they feel like they are like oh, I'm so droopy and I'm like just jump and jacks and I'm like come on, do them with me. And they do them with me for like two minutes of jump and jacks and they're like oh, okay, yeah, I feel better, so take it from me. It's like the old PE trick.

Speaker 1: 33:36

I can't speak more strongly about the importance of batching your calendar. And that is not just batching your focus blocks right and making your focus blocks single focus, but it's also like themed days. Like I said earlier, I have errand, and outside the office days I have business admin days where I do like all of my website updates and like I do all that stuff myself, and so I have to schedule time to do all the like, the minutia, and I have a hard time making a day of big focus on project A. That requires a lot of creativity and then a different focus block. That's all about like admin, like I can't, I find it difficult to do, like high intensity work followed by brain numbing work. So I have like themed days where the brain numbing work is all happening on the same day and the high intensity, focus demanding work is also happening on the same day. So think about, think about batching in that way too. So it's theming them and batching them.

Speaker 1: 34:45

And the last thing is one of those things that not everybody has access to and that is delegating. Sometimes it's just us, right, and for a very, very long time it was just me and my business, and I understand, like I understand, the value of creating systems. I understand the value of making sure that you get all of your work done, because you are wearing all the hats, but when the time comes that you do have a handle on all of the things in your business and you're at the place where you start to scale, delegating things is the very first and it's gonna happen. And whether that be through somebody that you hire who works for you as a dedicated person, or a VA, who is somebody that works for lots of different people and you're just using their time and you pay them by the hour, no matter how that happens, having systems in place and having organized your business in such a way that it has a structure makes it that much easier for you to be able to delegate stuff down the road.

Speaker 1: 35:47

So entrepreneur life will never be free of distractions, right. But developing your executive functioning skills creates the capacity to resist distractions and sustain focus when it matters most right. And we talked about taking steps like decluttering in your workspace and blocking off your priority time, single-tasking, making smart breaks, limiting meetings and theming your days, separating out high power work versus low power work. You know, implementing even a few of these strategies will dramatically increase your ability to focus in the everyday chaos of running a business and living a busy life. Sharpening your focus and eliminating noise allows you to consistently execute on the highest level and it allows you to drive real progress. So don't underestimate the power of really being focused and developing your focus ability and its role in your success.

Speaker 1: 36:48

The future of your business depends upon your ability to ignore the blur of distractions that bring you know the day out of whack. Right. We need to keep things focused and vivid and clear, and our priorities need to be at the top of the list. So treat your attention as your most precious resource, because that's exactly what it is. With purposeful effort to boost your ability to focus, the rewards will show up fast. You're gonna find that it's easier to focus, it's easier to break out of distraction and you'll have more energy and it'll be easier to get sorted each day and eventually you'll train that like a habit and it'll be part of your routine to get into deep focus blocks to get your work done faster, with better clarity and more detail.

Speaker 1: 37:35

All right, that's all I have for you this week, you guys. Thank you so much for listening and if you got something out of this episode I would love to hear from you. Okay, signing off and remember, part of being a calm entrepreneur is developing the systems, habits and know-how that lets you know that you are the one in the driver's seat for your business. You get to choose how you think and you get to choose how you work. So you got this, my friends. Thank you for listening 년.