This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 516.

Monk Mind, how to increase your focus by Leo Baboud of Zenhabits.net, and I'm Justin

Mollick.

This D-podcast where I act as a personal narrator for you all for free, usually from blogs

covering personal development and minimalism, from popular authors like Mark and Angel, the

minimalist, James Clear, Derek Sivers, and today's author, Leo Baboud of Zenhabits.

Combine these authors have tens of millions of readers, and I'm really happy that I have

permission to narrate their articles for you.

Now let's hear from Leo Baboud about increasing focus as we optimize your life.

Monk Mind, how to increase your focus by Leo Baboud of Zenhabits.net.

I confess to being as prone to the distractions of the internet as anyone else.

I will start reading about something that interests me and disappear down the rabbit hole

for hours, even days at a time.

My ability to focus on a single task has dramatically improved, and that one habit has changed

my life.

While a few years ago I couldn't sit down to work on something without quickly switching

email or one of my favorite internet forums or sites, today I can sit down and write.

I can clear away distractions when I set my mind to it and do one thing, and that changes

everything.

You lose yourself in that task, become so immersed that you pour everything you have

into the work, and it becomes a meditative transformative experience.

Your happiness increases, stress goes down, and work improves.

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