This course is for you if your working day asks for focus while messages, meetings and your own restlessness keep pulling at it. It suits a professional with deep work to protect, a manager whose calendar fills itself, or anyone who wants to be more deliberate with time and energy.
IntendWell4Life treats attention as a skill you can practise. You learn to tell traction, anything that moves you towards what you value, from distraction, and to notice that the pull often starts inside you, with boredom, unease or uncertainty, before any device is involved. From there you plan your time from your values and shape your surroundings so that focus becomes the easy choice.
The module Master Internal Triggers has you keep a Distraction Tracker and build a personal toolkit of responses to the feelings that pull you away. Values Inventory: What Matters Most? and Timebox Your Week turn what you value into a weekly schedule, and Schedule Sync: Work Domain helps you agree focused time with the people you work with. Hack Back Email & Messaging and Hack Back Group Chats & Meetings take on the interruptions of the working day, while Effort Pacts add friction between you and the habits you want to leave behind.
On WorkSmart4Life this course sits under Sharpen, the move about attention and focus. Its closing module looks at the focus culture of your team, which links to the Work Environment block in Work Well Together. I suggest you begin with the first module, Know Your Hooks, where My Trigger Map shows you what pulls at you; a free 24-hour trial of the whole course lets you look around first.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life