#focusmate

I honestly don't care how it works at this point, I only know it works.

Six weeks in, the best investment I've made in a long time, and since the monthly cost is the price of a Starbucks, I can't recommend it enough.

This combined with binaural beats and deep focus sound bath music (all free on youtube) and I'm good to go.

I'll sit there and work two hours and it feels like twenty minutes.

This migraine relief video above also has the green light that seems to soothe the pain.

I realized this got worse after the new year when Ken went back to his office and I began working from home solo, and was telling my therapist yesterday, "I just want to have a zoom session where my friends and I work quietly but just have each other there in the zoom meeting for accountability." And she was like, "I think there's an app for that?"

So I googled it and found Focusmate yesterday! It pairs you with a random person and you do a 50-minute focus session. I have done two sessions today and it feels wild to say this but two hours of focused work on my job is more than I've done in a WHILE and I would not have done it if someone else hadn't been silently working alongside me.

You can do 3 sessions per week for free, and unlimited sessions for $5 a month. I am absolutely going to pay for unlimited sessions.

I started using Focusmate, and it profoundly changed my ability to focus and commit by providing mutual accountability partner sessions up to 75 minutes each. A free account gets you 3 sessions a week, a paid account ($6.95 per month for a year if you pay in advance,) gets you unlimited sessions.

I schedule several per day so I can clock in to go to work and have someone there to be my partner while I do.

This isn't just for businesspeople, and home workers like me: you can schedule a session to commit to whatever task you absolutely must do: cleaning out the closet, or washing the dog. Whatever you want.

If you've been putting off writing that novel, or getting that art started, well then get an accountability partner who will be right there when you are.

You don't have to show anyone what you are doing, you simply state an intention, mute your mic, and get to work.

Since last year meant I could not work most of the year, my work habits, energy, and focus atrophied badly. Focusmate really, really helps me stick to my goals.

This is not a paid endorsement.

It's a website where you can go if you need to Get Something Done™ and you prefer doing it with someone else just Being there, doing their own thing.

Basically, you can work together with someone else somewhere in the world who also needs to get something done. You do have to be on camera, so that's important to keep in mind. Having audio on is optional.

You're encouraged to talk at the beginning and the end of the session. In the beginning, you say hello and tell each other what tasks you're trying to get done. At the end, you ask each other how the session went for you.

It's free for three sessions per week and no payment information is needed in order to get started. If you want to use it more, there is a subscription option.

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