Stop using external factors as an excuse ("I'd love to focus more, but no one gave me good advice" / "I'll wait until I'm doing it right, according to strangers

Stop using external factors as an excuse ("I'd love to focus more, but no one gave me good advice" / "I'll wait until I'm doing it right, according to strangers on the internet") and start working on it. Recently came across http://timewellspent.io http://timewellspent.io, which you might want to check out. Right now their advice focuses on smartphone use, but I think it's pretty good. There is a longer essay about it here: https://medium.com/swlh/distracted-in-2016-reboot-your-phone-with-mindfulness-9f4c8ad46538#.w5firsha6 https://medium.com/swlh/distracted-in-2016-reboot-your-phone... The single best piece of advice in there is to turn off notifications from apps that aren't essential to your life. I only have notifications from messaging apps where I talk to my friends and haven't missed anything. My two cents: set goals, work to accomplish them. "Focused attention" doesn't live in a vacuum, it only exists if there is something on which to be focused. Find that thing, pursue it. Keep track of what's distracting you, do your best to remove those distractions. More pragmatically: get rid of social media if you haven't already. You don't have to go dead, just stop logging in every day. My own path was: delete the apps off my phone, stop logging in as often, stop caring about logging in as often, stop caring about the service as much. OK you got me here's a bunch of advice :)