Tag: focus

Your Phone Isn’t Weakness; It’s a Distraction Machine. Here’s How to Get Your Focus Back.

Posted by Natasha Tracy | Jan 22, 2026

If you sit down to work and somehow end up 40 minutes deep in scrolling, you’re not broken—you’re human in a world engineered for interruption. This post breaks down the science of distraction (notifications, task-switching, and even your phone’s mere presence) and shows how a simple “friction” approach can help you get your focus back. You’ll learn how the Brick device (get 10% off!) works, why willpower isn’t the point, and a step-by-step plan you can copy today—even if you don’t buy anything.

Bipolar and Why I Can’t Focus

Posted by Natasha Tracy | Apr 30, 2014

My bipolar brain and mind are interesting places to live. Pleasurable, no, but interesting, yes. At the beginning of the day my mind seems to start out like a blank chalkboard and then my bipolar brain screams at it as soon as I wake. And little by little the chalkboard fills up. Each scream takes up a line. Until eventually there is no room for working thought or working memory or anything all and all I can hear is my brain screaming, “I can’t do this.” It’s a feeling of stress and anxiety and it’s inescapable.

I’m not sure why my brain chooses to yell this particular phrase at me, but I can tell you, it’s impossible to focus through all the yelling.