I think the best you can do to your productivity is to develop the routine of working, not trying to force yourself not doing something like visiting Facebook.
When my brothers got bad grades on school, my parents took away the games console, but my brothers started playing on friend's houses, so my parents forbade them to go out, so they used the computer(the one supposed to be for working) to communicate and spent most of the time there.
You can block anything and you will stare at the wall dreaming away. If your body does not want to work(for example if you try to work so much that you exhaust your body without time off) your body wont work at all no matter how hard you try(burn out).
The unconscious does not know about negatives. Do not focus on what you want not to do, but on what you want to do.
Also, take it very seriously taking breaks and resting. Most people in IT overextend and get burned.
Agreed, being present is _the_ thing. You don't get there in a day though. In my experience, working on a screen blurs my awareness at some point and I can fall in limbo even when I least expect it. Even after days of flow.
If you want to improve your kick-boxing and find it hard to actually commit to get there, it helps to prepare your bag in advance, with clean and ready gear in it so you don't have to hesitate when you want to go.
So I see those focus cheats as the online equivalent. It helps my flow because if I slip on some link, I'll have a nice reminder to her back to awareness.
I use Delay (Safari extension) which doesn't alllow to set a timer - it's either on or off. This looks better- feels like preparing my Mac for sparring.
Hello, creator of Focus here and I 100% agree. Focus isn't meant to force you to work.
Focus is meant to provide an environment that's not distracting on your computer. That's it.
The same way you might clean your desk before you start work. Or go to a coffee shop. Or go sit in a chair with a pad and a pen.
When you really want to get work done, you want to be able to minimize distractions.
You can't really do that on your computer since distractions are 1-click away (not to mention interruptions).
Focus is an experiment in improving your productivity by building good habits, and blocking distracting stuff is the very first step. Lots more is planned!
When my brothers got bad grades on school, my parents took away the games console, but my brothers started playing on friend's houses, so my parents forbade them to go out, so they used the computer(the one supposed to be for working) to communicate and spent most of the time there.
You can block anything and you will stare at the wall dreaming away. If your body does not want to work(for example if you try to work so much that you exhaust your body without time off) your body wont work at all no matter how hard you try(burn out).
The unconscious does not know about negatives. Do not focus on what you want not to do, but on what you want to do.
Also, take it very seriously taking breaks and resting. Most people in IT overextend and get burned.