How I Decide What Deserves My Attention
Sometimes I don’t feel distracted.
I feel active.
Replying to a message.
Checking a file.
Adjusting a slide.
Opening another tab.
I’m doing things constantly.
But at the end of the hour,
nothing substantial has moved.
The problem wasn’t laziness.
It was constant task-switching.
When attention keeps jumping,
depth never gets a chance to form.
That’s not productivity.
That’s fragmented effort.
The AIYING move I use
I don’t ask, “What should I do next?”
I ask this instead:
“What deserves my uninterrupted attention for the next 20 minutes?”
Sometimes I add:
“What can wait safely until then?”
That’s all.
Why this works
This question creates a boundary.
I stop reacting to small tasks.
I start protecting a block of focus.
AI helps me list tasks —
but I choose which one gets undivided time.
What actually changed for me
I stopped feeling busy and unfinished.
I started completing meaningful chunks of work.
Attention felt steady — not scattered.
Try this today
Before jumping between tasks, pause.
Ask:
What deserves my full attention for the next 20 minutes?
Then commit.
Clarity is a practice. AI is a participant.
This post is part of AIYING — The Discipline of Accomplishing with AI.
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