You've made it halfway through the sprint.

Hooray!

And this is skill number 11 and its focus, one of my favourite topics, so I'm very much looking forward to today.

Because I think this is one of the ways that we can cut through complexity, the noise, all of the distraction downfalls to do more of the work that matters to us.

And I think when we don't get this right, our work takes longer and our work is worse.

So there's a very strong reason to believe about why focus matters.

But I also think there are some really strong forces that get

in the way of focus. So Helen, how do we overcome these forces? Well, just before we talk about

our ideas to help you overcome it, I think we should give our listeners a little bit of credit,

because 10 days of sprinting, that takes a bit of focus. It does. That takes a bit of focus.

We're already, I think, already demonstrating this skill. But for some extra ideas to help us develop it more.

We have quite different ideas.

Yeah, we have made different ideas here.

So my, I'm not sure if this is for everyone, but I'm just being honest about what works for me.

I create fake deadlines to find focus.

So I find deadlines a bit like daunting, like the actual deadline.

Like if Sarah said to me, like, let's take a book,

because actually that is a very real deadline for us, it's kind of writing.

The real deadline for our book, I find daunting.

Because it makes me worry about being late.

But a fake deadline.

So if I've got a deadline a month ahead of that, I find motivating.

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