{"id":9032,"date":"2020-05-14T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2020-05-02T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:58:41","slug":"is-it-even-possible-to-focus-on-anything-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/is-it-even-possible-to-focus-on-anything-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Even Possible to Focus on Anything Right Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may be asking yourself if it is possible to focus on anything right now, or your focus may simply be gone.\u00a0 Insight from the Harvard Business Review tells us that, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYour ability to get important work done depends less on\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0you work and more on\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you work. Attention-management techniques are as useful at home as in the office. Recognizing how and when your attention is being stolen is the first step to regaining control. Then you can be intentional about managing those distractions, using them to balance your responsibilities and facilitate positive action.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/04\/is-it-even-possible-to-focus-on-anything-right-now?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=newsletter_daily&#038;utm_campaign=dailyalert_activesubs&#038;utm_content=signinnudge&#038;referral=00563&#038;deliveryName=DM76628\">Is It Even Possible to Focus on Anything Right Now?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Executive Summary What&#8217;s taking your attention right now? Do you have kids at home? Is it the dishes piling up in the sink? Or that news notification that just popped up on your phone? Once you can pinpoint where your attention is going, you can take steps to redirect it.<\/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>You may be asking yourself if it is possible to focus on anything right now, or your focus may simply be gone.\u00a0 Insight from the Harvard Business Review tells us that, \u201cYour ability to get important work done depends less on\u00a0where\u00a0you work and more on\u00a0how\u00a0you work. Attention-management techniques are as useful at home as in the office. Recognizing how and when your attention is being stolen is the first step to regaining control. Then you can be intentional about managing those distractions, using them to balance your responsibilities and facilitate positive action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2020\/04\/Apr20_14_803650262..jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Is It Even Possible to Focus on Anything Right Now?","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,52],"tags":[406,43,145,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-hr","9":"tag-covid19","10":"tag-engagement","11":"tag-productivity","12":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","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=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}