Focus to Be Happy

"It's a paradox that although we are never so happy or productive as when we are intensely focused on a given activity, we also avoid and resist entering into such focused states," observes Edward Hallowell in his Harvard Business Review article (November 18, 2010; hbr.com), "Will Focus Make You Happy?".  He argues that we often resist focusing, because it requires energy — it's hard work.  He offers these solutions to "fractured focus":

Recreate boundaries that technology has broken down...  Turn it off.  Close the door...  Don't allow intrusions into the precious process of creative thought.

Spend as much time as you can at the intersection of three spheres:  What you're good at, what you like to do, and what adds value to the world....  At that intersection lies a land of joy and productivity that can successfully compete with the forces of entropy, of disorder, that tilt us all toward lassitude.

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