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Chris Bailey is aware that we live in a distracted age, with shrinking attention spans and minds prone to wander.
At the outset of “Intentional: How to Finish What You Start,” the productivity expert invites his readers to notice when they lose focus and to consider why.
Did you think of something more pressing to do?
Were you overcome by an urge to check your phone?
One expedient way to get more done is, he suggests, to turn deliberate intentions into defaults: “Activities you once had to muster the motivation to do will, given enough repetition, become habits.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
