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Focus 10 min DREAM
Here’s everything in my head. What do I do first?
Your whole tangle sorted into five piles, with one clear thing to do first.
Scene 24 prompts
Focus.
Decide what gets your hours and what doesn’t.
Prompts for the gap between your list and your week: emptying your head, picking three things, cutting what doesn’t fit. Paste the real list in your own messy words and say how many hours you have. A good answer here is usually shorter than what you gave it.
The rest of the scene.
23 more prompts. Open one to make it yours.
Focus 10 min What should I stop doing?
Three recurring things to stop, each with the evidence, the hours it returns and a graceful way out.
2 versions
Focus 5 min What are the first two minutes of the thing I keep avoiding?
A two-minute way into the task you’ve been circling, then the next two, and nothing more.
Focus 5 min Where did yesterday go?
Yesterday added up by category, set against your own guess, with the hour you’d want back.
Focus 2 min If I only finish three things today, which three?
Three things in order: one for progress, one for a person, one for peace of mind. The rest can wait.
Focus 5 min Everything is urgent. What’s actually on fire?
Every urgent item tested against what happens if it waits, plus a note for whoever has to wait.
Focus 5 min Break this down for me until the first step feels almost silly.
The first ten pieces of a big task, each ten minutes or less and starting with something physical.
Focus 5 min I’ve got 90 quiet minutes. How do I not waste them?
A setup for one protected block: a finish line, a first move, and a plan for the moment you stall.
Focus 2 min What do I need to write down so I can stop thinking about work?
A three-line note for tomorrow, anything that must go out tonight, and a list of what can wait.
Focus 10 min My week doesn’t fit in my week. What has to go?
The arithmetic of your week, how far over you are, and a verdict on what gets cut, shrunk or moved.
Focus 10 min What is next week for?
One sentence that says what the week is for, the few things that serve it, and what’s allowed to slide.
Focus 10 min I planned one week and lived another. What happened?
A short review of last week: what moved, what slid, and the pattern behind what slid.
Focus 10 min Which of my meetings could I skip without anyone noticing?
A verdict on every meeting: keep, shorten, handle in writing or decline, and the hours you get back.
Focus 5 min Who’s doing what by when? Here are my messy notes.
Decisions, actions with owners and dates, open questions, and a follow-up message ready to send.
Focus 10 min My inbox is out of hand. What needs an answer today?
Every message sorted into four piles, with a two-line reply drafted for the ones that can’t wait.
Focus 10 min What am I doing that someone else could do?
Your regular tasks sorted into keep, hand over now and teach once, with a handoff note ready to send.
Focus 10 min Am I doing my hardest work at my worst hour?
A template day that puts your hardest work where your attention is, and admin where it isn’t.
Focus 5 min How long will this really take?
A range instead of a hope, built from the parts and from how long it took you last time.
Focus 10 min Before I start this project, what should I have decided?
A one-page brief: what done means, what’s out of scope, the first three moves and the likeliest stall.
Focus 5 min I’m going to miss this deadline. What can still be saved?
The smallest version that still does the job, a plan for the hours left, and a message if it won’t fit.
Focus 10 min If I really meant this goal, what would I do every week?
One weekly action with a time and place, what it replaces, and a check on whether it adds up.
Focus 10 min How do I keep the thing I love from falling off my calendar?
Two real slots for your hobby, what each one pushes out, and a small version for crowded weeks.
Focus 10 min What kept happening this month?
Three patterns from your month with the evidence for each, and one experiment for the next.
2 versions
Focus 20 min If the next three months go well, what will be different?
Up to three outcomes for the quarter, a 30-day marker for each, and a list of what you’re not doing.
The scenes next door.
Focus is one of 12. These two sit on either side of it.