This isn\u2019t sponsored by them and I am in no way affiliated with brain.fm but I have to say it is a huge reason I\u2019ve managed to catch up on my tertiary goal of blogging my way through this project.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For months I was focused on completing all the goals but whenever it came to writing something on the site I would always procrastinate or lose focus. Sometimes during a hyper-focus day I\u2019d crank out a few posts as part of an overall super productive mindset, but I was falling way behind \u2013 months in fact. Since I knew blogging about all the goals was a goal itself, I started to get a bit nervous \u2013 what if it fails because I never got around to writing all those posts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was listening to a podcast where one of the guests was extolling the virtues of brain.fm on helping him focus on tasks and I got curious. Can something so simple in theory work on my admittedly scattered ADHD brain? Since they were offering a free trial and discount, I figured it\u2019s worth a try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I signed up, downloaded the app and tried it out at work with the \u2018deep focus\u2019 setting and at first, I really noticed the sounds but after a little while they fell into background noise. I was working and getting things done and I thought to myself I\u2019m not sure this is really helping. That\u2019s when I looked up and saw three hours had passed and I had gotten a lot of deep work done and I didn\u2019t code switch once <\/strong>during it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s the most important thing \u2013 my brain is not good at staying on task and that\u2019s why I end up not finishing things or procrastinating because my mind is flitting between 20 different ideas at once making it hard to buckle down and focus. The fact I stayed on task for a few hours was eye opening to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Still \u2013 it could have been a fluke so the next day I sat in my office in the evening and put on the deep-work station again and started writing blog posts. Four hours later I had written 25 posts making a huge dent in the backlog and again I stayed on task and worked diligently without code switching. For me that was something that I haven\u2019t been able to accomplish in the past \u2013 staying on task and writing quality posts not just pushing them out but editing them, refining the ideas and I started adding images and other embellishments that I hadn\u2019t done up to that point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n