{"id":10504,"date":"2022-04-03T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10504"},"modified":"2022-03-31T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T03:10:00","slug":"were-more-distracted-than-ever-heres-how-to-improve-your-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/were-more-distracted-than-ever-heres-how-to-improve-your-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re More Distracted Than Ever. Here\u2019s How to Improve Your Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no shortage of distractions in today\u2019s world &#8211; our phones, the 24-hour news cycle, social media, and email are just a few examples.\u00a0 This<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> short read <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">outlines several expert-backed tips to help you improve your focus and manage the things that are distracting you.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shondaland.com\/live\/body\/a38423254\/how-to-improve-your-focus\/#\">We&#8217;re More Distracted Than Ever. Here&#8217;s How to Improve Your Focus<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Between a 24-hour news cycle, social media, and a smartphone always in your hand, it&#8217;s easy to get distracted. This wasn&#8217;t always the case. &#8220;If we look many years back in time, focus was something that was natural,&#8221; says Christina Bengtsson , the author of .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no shortage of distractions in today\u2019s world &#8211; our phones, the 24-hour news cycle, social media, and email are just a few examples.\u00a0 This short read outlines several expert-backed tips to help you improve your focus and manage the things that are distracting you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/howtoimprovefocus-longformlede-1639701670.jpeg?crop=1.00xw:1.00xh;0,0&resize=980:*","fifu_image_alt":"We\u2019re More Distracted Than Ever. Here\u2019s How to Improve Your Focus","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[455,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-10504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-emotional_wellness","9":"tag-productivity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10505,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions\/10505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}