How to focus. Optimize your 5 senses:

1. Sound for Focus:

• Selecting songs mid-work kills your flow. Instead, use a pre-made playlist (loop it).

• Try classical music, lo-fi beats, or score composer Hans Zimmer (Inception, Interstellar).

• Turn off mobile/desktop pings.

• Use noise-cancelling headphones.

2. Vision for Focus:

• Hide your phone; avoid unwanted visual triggers.

• Design your ‘laptop periphery’ with artwork that motivates you.

• Advanced: Use smart light bulbs to increase blue light for alertness, then decrease it to wind down.

3. Touch for Focus

• Set a cool room temperature for optimal productivity (70–73 F / 21–23 C).

• Seek fewer things of higher quality to enjoy product use.

• Add semblances of nature indoors, e.g., plants & wood-grain desks.

As creatures of evolution, we thrive in nature

4. Smell for Focus

• Advanced: Use an aromatherapy diffuser — with essential oils — to stimulate attention.

Peppermint and lemon oils are focus-boosting.

5. Taste for Focus

• Stock your workspace with healthy snacks to stay energized.

• Hydrate: Your brain is 73% water. Dehydration impairs decision-making and causes low energy. Get your brain the water it deserves.

• Chew gum for enhanced alertness & sustained performance.