Stealing Focus: How to Become the Robin Hood of Productivity

The world is full of distractions that steal your focus. No more! Here’s a list of seven steps you take right now to reclaim your productivity.

A wise and generous king leaves to fight in a foreign land, and is replaced by a treacherous sheriff who seizes property and levies back-breaking taxes on the local citizens.

That’s the setup of the classic story Robin Hood, but it’s also a solid metaphor for how quickly modern-day distractions can hijack your ability to focus. While distractions won’t literally starve you to death, they can bring your creative process to a grinding halt and leave you stranded in burnout hell.

So, if you’re sick of being distracted you need to fight back — and what better to do that than modeling the feather-capped crusader himself?

Let’s go steal some focus.

Step 1: What’s Being Stolen?

Distraction doesn’t happen over night. It’s insidious. It gradually accumulates drip by drip until you wake up one day and find yourself unable to get out of bed without spending half an hour on your phone. Houston, we…