Securing focus and quiet time

Always being online can be a serious distraction for many people. But if you’re self-employed, time spent not being efficient is potentially money being lost. And that’s bad.

There is a lot of advice, you could choose to follow. And we do. But quite often we cheat. So in order to make it harder for ourselves to do things, we shouldn’t be wasting our time on, we need something more hardcore.

Enter Freedom. It’s a great little free app for the Mac that lets you effectively kill your online connection for a period of time that you choose. You cannot surf, you cannot mail, you cannot be on IM or Facebook. You’re offline and thus you might as well get some real work done.

It’s absolutely brillant. Advice is great. But tools that really help are just so much better.