How to Be More Productive With a Focus Coach

In a world of digital distractions, it can feel increasingly difficult to cultivate focus. However, it feels like more jobs are demanding high levels of productivity that require long periods of focus. That’s why the demand for a focus coach is rising. 

They help clients transform their level of productivity by teaching them to optimize their time and resources through various strategies and tools. Here’s how a focus coach’s techniques can transform your work life to lower your stress, achieve your goals, and lead you down the career path you desire. 

[See related post: What is a Focus Coach?]

The Role of a Focus Coach

What makes a focus coach different from a life coach? While a life coach assists clients in overall personal development and life balance, a focus coach works strictly in the realm of work and organization. They work with their clients to help them redefine how they tackle daily tasks and long-term goals. 

Most of the time, the barriers to increased productivity are more mental than anything else. Focus coaches know how to hack neuroscience and psychology to optimize their client’s goals. They use techniques that can help shift to positive, calm mindsets and strengthen the prefrontal cortex, which governs complex decision-making. 

Many clients struggle with similar work-related areas, and a focus coach can adapt to their client’s personal needs to lower anxiety, set priorities, beat procrastination, and overcome distractions. 

Focus coaching is more than just checking off the boxes to complete a few tasks and routines. They help clients create sustainable habits that lead to improved work-life balance. But what example does a focus coach do? 

Coaching Techniques to Boost Productivity

One-on-One Assessments: A focus coach doesn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach. They’ll begin with personalized assessments to best understand the work habits, needs, challenges, and goals of a client. Certain overburdened clients are overwhelmed because they can’t say “no” to every task, while others struggle to put away their digital distractions. An assessment will allow a focus coach to tailor the best game plan possible.

Setting Goals & Accountability: Many people struggle with prioritizing their tasks or setting clear priorities in their day-to-day life, leading to burnout and stress. A focus coach will help clients determine how to split up large assignments into doable chunks, divide the essential tasks from the non-essential, and channel their energy where it’s most needed.

Time-Blocking & Management: Approximately 20% of adults are chronic procrastinators. Time management is one of the greatest obstacles to optimized productivity, and a focus coach will introduce multiple techniques that can suit a client’s workflow. Whether a focus coach embraces the Pomodoro technique, Chronotype workflow, or time blocking, they can help clients save time and money. 

Forming New Mindsets & Habits: It’s common for people to feel like they lack time or resources in their work realm. Breaking out of a scarcity mindset can be difficult to do alone, but focus coaches can help cultivate growth mindsets that battle burnout. Oftentimes, new mindsets are built with the integration of healthy habits. A focus coach may encourage habit-stacking, which encourages you to build new behaviors atop old ones that can help with work productivity.

Long-Term Benefits of Working with a Focus Coach 

Working with a focus coach can be life-changing for many. These long-term benefits can lead to landing a coveted promotion, launching an innovative company, or winning a dream job. 

• Improved Clarity: As the name implies, a focus coach increases focus on both big-picture missions and daily tasks. A focus coach can help clients define their personal philosophy and motives for a daily job, build clear priorities, and outline a direct game plan for them to achieve long-term goals. 
• Reduced Overwhelm & Burnout: Buckling under burnout is becoming more common under high pressure and multitasking, but many people don’t necessarily want to abandon their career path. A focus coach will offer work-life balance techniques that may include productivity and focus tools like Freedom, workplace navigation, and other tips that can keep clients’ energy focused on their own goals. 
• Sustained Productivity: Focus coaches understand that building up productivity takes time, and there’s no “quick fix.” Instead, they focus on work in a slow sustainable manner that builds atop client progress and incorporates aspects like the 80:20 rule to weed out time-wasting tasks. 
• Adaptability: New challenges can easily disrupt a routine you’ve worked so hard to build. However, a focus coach encourages clients to embrace flexibility by adapting to new challenges, managing stress, and creating time to continue doing what they love. 

Focus Coaching in Action 

What kind of person could benefit from a focus coach? Here are a few good fits for focus coaching in action:

• Remote workers: Many remote workers struggle to create healthy boundaries between their work and personal lives. This may lead to spending too much time in front of work tasks, or not nearly enough. Both of these damage productivity and affect burnout. A focus coach can really help remote workers create strict boundaries and stay on tasks. 
• Entrepreneurs: Most entrepreneurs wear more than one hat to keep their business or startup afloat. A focus coach can be an essential part of helping entrepreneurs define goals, exercise flexibility, manage stress, delegate tasks, and feel accomplished. 
• Students and academics: Students and academics are constantly working with high expectations to deliver quality research on tight deadlines. A focus coach can help these folks manage stress, manage their deadlines, and time block for studying, research, writing, and editing. 
• Freelancers: Freelancers love their fluid and unstructured days, but sometimes they can fall into an aimless or easily distracted rut. A focus coach can help these writers, editors, coders, and creatives find their groove again by offering strategies to create a structure that can land more contracts. 
• Artists and Creatives: Lisa Marie Platske from Upside Thinking, Inc witnessed a client fulfill her dreams of being a successful artist. “One of my clients was an artist who struggled to sell her work. Within six months, she landed a seven-figure contract, moved closer to her parents and was able to do the work she loved. The solution was to change her perception of her customers while preserving what mattered most to her. You don’t have to sacrifice pieces of yourself to create a meaningful impact.”

Transform Your Productivity With Focus Coaches

If you’re tired of feeling stressed, unmotivated, and always behind on your work tasks, it may be time to find yourself a focus coach. Their personalized guidance can help you build long-term skills and habits in order to improve your productivity to accomplish all your goals. 

Whether your focus coach will encourage you to use time blocking to finish large assignments or remove distracting sites with digital wellness tools like Freedom, they’ll work with you to find solutions that fit with your workflow. 

Written by Lorena Bally