Focus: This involves narrowing your attentional spotlight to focus on the task at hand, which helps you work more efficiently. - Chris Bailey

ingredients of productivity — time, attention, and energy

Notepads Everywhere: I love capturing ideas as they come to me, but because I shut my phone off between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., it’s not always possible to capture them on my phone. For that reason I keep physical notepads everywhere.

the most productive people are the ones who strike a balance between the two extremes, who understand the power of capturing and organizing what they have to get done, but who also don’t sacrifice real work in favor of being productive about productivity.