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STAYING FOCUSED!

Matt Wilson Photography
4 min readOct 9, 2019

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It’s been hard to focus my brain on just one thing especially this article! Even now I am sat here being distracted from writing by messages about a job tomorrow and emails from clients wanting to book in pre-production calls. So ironically this article is about some simple things that I do to try and stay focused! Hang on there’s the phone….

Sorry about that! Interestingly though it does segway nicely into my first tip on staying focused…

Aeroplane mode!

This is really about getting rid of distractions! Let’s face it, it’s so easy to get distracted by the buzz of our phones nowadays. It’s everything in one place! Messages, emails, social media and so much more. These clever, little technological rectangles, that we all carry around with us, have become integral to our very existence it seems. Try switching your phone to Aeroplane mode! It’s a simple trick but by giving myself some time in aeroplane mode or even better putting the phone away completely ‘out of sight and out of mind’, it allows me to focus on whatever the specific task is that I need to do.

The next tip that helps me stay focused is…

Planning and making lists!

I make a lot of lists! I have lists and notebooks everywhere and, to most, it would look like chaos but it all makes sense to me, well… most of the time. It may not…

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