HPR Blog Post

Quick story on the risks of distraction…

Why don’t we do the things we know we should do?

For many of us there’s a tendency to think of lack of focus and distraction as the new normal. Just another casualty of the Information Age.

How does improving focus help people?

There is plenty of evidence that focus helps performance.

Sitting in my hotel room, staring out at Niagara Falls.

A few years ago I read this Sunday Times article about how in golf, one lapse of concentration can be the difference between winning and losing.

More than any of the 4 stages of a High Performance Routine, improving the Focus stage has transformed my life the most.

One of the reasons people feel so exhausted is they’re paying a huge cognitive cost from constant context switching.

Here are 5 ways you can reduce this cost to regain your energy.

What’s the most valuable skill in the workplace?

It turns out it’s actually *not* the art of pretending to look busy on Zoom calls.

When I created the High Performance Routines framework I really wanted to explore how well supported it was by empirical research.