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The distraction-proof morning block
A repeatable ninety-minute structure at the start of the day, sequenced before Slack and email are opened, with clear rules for what is allowed in and what waits.
Live workshop · three sessions · thirty-day challenge
Your attention is scattered across a dozen tabs. Let’s put it back in one place.
A workshop built for people whose calendars are full of meetings and whose inboxes never hit zero. We work through the mechanics of a distraction-proof morning, the conversation that gets you real focus time, and a way of auditing where your week actually went.
The situation
Slack pings, email refreshes, a calendar with no gaps.
Most knowledge workers did not choose to spend their day reacting. It happened gradually: a channel here, a recurring meeting there, a habit of checking the inbox between tasks because waiting felt unproductive. The result is a workday that feels busy and, at the same time, strangely unfinished.
This workshop does not ask you to quit any tool or adopt a rigid system. It looks at where attention is actually spent, then rebuilds a handful of specific routines around protecting the hours where real thinking happens.
What you build
Five working habits, not one abstract theory
Each session translates into something concrete you can apply the same week. Here is what the thirty days are built around.
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Negotiating focus time with your manager
Language for the conversation where you ask for protected hours, how to frame it around deliverables rather than preference, and how to keep it once you have it.
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Batching communication instead of context-switching
Fixed windows for email and chat, a method for triaging what is urgent versus what merely feels urgent, and a way to signal availability without going dark.
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Recovering from interruptions in under two minutes
A short, specific sequence for re-entering a task after a phone call, a tap on the shoulder, or an urgent message, so the rest of the block is not lost.
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Auditing where your attention actually goes
A short weekly log you can complete in a few minutes, giving you an honest picture of the week rather than a guess, so adjustments are based on what happened.
Format
Three live sessions. One thirty-day challenge.
The workshop runs as three live sessions, spaced across a few weeks, each followed by a short stretch of the challenge where the material gets tested against a real calendar.
Morning blocks and the attention audit
We design your personal version of a distraction-proof morning block and set up the weekly audit log you will keep for the following thirty days.
Negotiating focus time and batching communication
We work through the manager conversation and build your communication batching schedule around the meetings you cannot move.
Interruption recovery and sustaining the challenge
We practice the two-minute recovery sequence and review three weeks of audit data to decide what stays in your routine after the workshop ends.
The thirty-day challenge
Between and after the three sessions, participants follow a thirty-day structure: a daily morning block, a weekly audit entry, and one short written check-in on what changed. It is designed to fit around an existing job rather than replace it.
Who this is for
Built around the realities of a modern knowledge job
The material assumes you cannot simply disappear from Slack for a week or ignore your inbox until Friday. It is written for people navigating real constraints, not an idealized calendar.
- You spend more hours in meetings and chat than in focused, single-task work.
- You have tried blocking time before, and it kept getting overridden.
- You are not sure where your attention actually goes each week, only that it feels thin.
- You want a manager conversation that sounds reasonable, not confrontational.
- You want something you can sustain past week one.
Our approach
Read our point of view on attention before you sign up
We explain why this workshop focuses on routines and negotiation rather than willpower or blocking apps, and what we mean by a distraction-proof block.
Read our point of viewSee it first
Preview a full lesson before you decide
A walkthrough of the Session 1 material, including the morning block worksheet and the audit log format, so you know exactly what the sessions look like.
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Common questions before enrolling
Do the sessions require me to leave my job's tools behind?
No. The workshop works with Slack, email, and calendar tools as they are. It focuses on scheduling and habits around those tools rather than replacing them.
What happens if I miss a live session?
Each session includes the worksheets and structure used that day, so the material can be reviewed and applied independently if a live session is missed.
How much time does the thirty-day challenge take daily?
The morning block itself is designed to fit within an existing workday, and the weekly audit entry typically takes a few minutes to complete.
Is this workshop specific to a particular industry?
The concepts apply broadly to roles involving meetings, email, and messaging platforms. Examples are drawn from common knowledge-work settings.
Will my manager need to be involved?
No participation from your manager is required to take the workshop. Session 2 does prepare you for an optional conversation with your manager about focus time.
Three sessions. One clearer calendar.
Sessions run live with a small group format and are followed by a thirty-day challenge to test the routines against a real week.
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