Ben Brooks
Ben Brooks lives in Lakewood, WA with his wife and two daughters. He wakes up with the kids.
Ben is a project manager at MartianCraft, which makes mobile software for a plethora of businesses. He has also published over 1.2 million words on his website The Brooks Review.
Here’s what Ben wrote in to say about The Focus Course:
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started the Focus Course — I never considered myself unfocused, or unorganized in any way. And I have a job the demands my focus and organization. What became apparent to me after just a few days into the course was that I wasn’t leading the type of life I wanted to — I wasn’t working the way I wanted to.
The part that really hit home for me was when Shawn asked me to plan out my ideal week on a day by day basis. To say what I would ideally like to be doing at each time, each day, each week, based on my life goals. I put that on my calendar and watched myself not do what I really wanted to be doing day after day.
That was the alarm bell that I was doing things that weren’t making me happy. I wasn’t taking a lunch break, I wasn’t stopping work on time, and I never carved out time for writing. I was falling short on goals because I wasn’t making time to achieve them.
There’s always a point that makes everything click, and that was the point for me. I began to see that focus is about more than just fancy software — it’s a mindset.
Before this course I knew nothing about that mindset, but having gone through it I feel like I have the tools to continue working toward achieving the focus I want in every part of my life.
