Focus Labs Workshops

Live workshops to help you experiment with what helps you focus and do your best work.

OmniFocus is a powerful tool for capturing, organizing, and prioritizing your work. But being able to focus when it matters, whether you’re planning a project, thinking through a complex problem, or doing the work itself, is often the hardest part.

Focus Is Personal

There is no shortage of advice on how to be more productive and focused. The challenge is that what works for one person can be the very thing that derails another. Focus is deeply personal, and following someone else’s approach, however well-intentioned, will only take you so far.

As Cal Newport writes in Deep Work, “the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time.”

Focus Labs is a collection of live, one-hour workshops designed to help you experiment with what helps you focus and do your best work. Each session explores a different approach, allowing you to try it in practice and discover what works for you.

Workshops

Audio Soundscape

60 minutes | Limited to 20 participants

Does silence help you focus, or does the right audio soundscape draw you into your work? In this session, you’ll work through three focused blocks with different audio environments and discover what brings out your best work.

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What to Expect

Focus Labs sessions are designed to surface genuinely personal insights. Walk away from each session with practical insights into what helps you focus and do your best work. Some approaches will surprise you. Others will confirm what you already suspected, or remind you of something that works for you that you may have forgotten.

The goal is not to converge on a single answer. It is to build a clearer picture of what conditions help you do your best work, so that the time you invest in OmniFocus translates into work that actually gets done.

Are These Workshops For You?

Focus Labs is designed for anyone who is ready to move beyond generic productivity advice and discover what actually works for them.

• Your productivity system isn’t delivering the results you’d like. If you have a solid OmniFocus setup but still find yourself struggling to make meaningful progress, Focus Labs explores why that might be and what to do about it.
• You want to focus more deeply in an increasingly distracted world. Focus Labs helps you discover the conditions that bring out your best work.
• You’ve tried productivity advice that didn’t stick. If generic tips haven’t worked for you, it may be because they weren’t designed for how you work. Focus Labs is designed to help you find what works for you.
• You learn by doing. These sessions are not lectures. You bring real work, try something new, and reflect on what you notice.