Name: How To Fix Your Attention Span (Before It's Too Late)
Uploaded: 2025-12-08T00:44:43.000Z
Duration: 4 min 35 s
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Attention fragmentation is the worst it's ever been.

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We're distracted, scattered, pulled in a thousand directions.

Watch this video on full screen 1x speed with no distractions because I'm going to share five science backed steps to rebuild your attention span before it's too late.

They're pretty simple, but if you follow these steps, your attention span will improve.

I would not have been able to write seven books if I was scrolling on my phone every 15 minutes and but these steps help me take back my time.

How long can you read without getting up or checking your phone?

Really try to push yourself, but don't judge yourself.

If it's only a few minutes, write down your time.

You need to train your attention like a muscle.

Build it by starting small and gradually start stretching it.

Billion dollar companies are trying to hijack your attention.

Here are some simple but very practical tips.

When you have important work to do, put your phone in another room.

Close those 27 tabs you've got open and check them only in scheduled blocks.

Your attention problem isn't only your fault, it's an environmental problem.

Take a page from Cal Newport, the Georgetown professor and author of the book Deep Work.

Focus is easier when you build cues that tell your brain now it's time to work.

Some writers light a candle at the start of a writing session.

Some entrepreneurs sit in the same chair with the same cup of tea.

It's like hitting play on a soundtrack your brain already knows.

So right now, today, create your own starting ritual that tells your brain it's work time.

Your brain isn't designed to focus for 12 straight hours.

90 minutes is about the max before performance beep falls off a cliff.

So instead of pushing through until you're fried, build in recovery.

It melts down if you don't give it snacks and naps and Ignoring that fact won't make you heroic.

It'll just make you cranky and unproductive.

High performers know what other folks don't get.

Breaks aren't deviations from your performance, they're part of your performance.

So right now, Today, schedule a 15 minute walk break outside, no phone, every day for the next week.

Meaning sounds like a soft hearted notion, but it can be a hard headed strategy.

Before you start anything, ask, why does this matter?

When you connect attention to meaning, it stops being a chore.

I was on my phone and watching sports highlights rather than doing my work.

And I realized the problem was that I didn't know why I was writing this book.

And once I thought that through and it took a couple of weeks, I actually wrote down my purpose, typed out my purpose, figured out what it was, and

then posted it on the wall and used that as a way to maintain my attention, maximize my focus and.

You know, it's really easy to make things complicated.

And the way that we can get our attention back is relatively simple and straightforward.

How to fix your attention span before it's too late.

Then train it like a muscle to eliminate those attention leeches.

Four, take breaks before your brain crashes.

And five, connect your focus to a larger purpose.

Life is not meant to be lived in 15 second increments.

So try these steps today because the sooner you reclaim your attention, the sooner you can reclaim your life.

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