OneGoal

Guide topic

Attention and Action

Make honest contact when avoidance, interruption, or comparison crowds out what matters.

Start here when the difficulty is acting, recovering context, or protecting attention.

What belongs here: Avoidance, distraction, attention recovery, comparison, and the intention–action gap. What belongs elsewhere: Tool maintenance, workplace signaling, and progress scores as the primary problem.

Start with the foundation

Avoidance and contact

Understand why action becomes hard and make contact again.

  1. Protecting Attention

    Keep one meaningful goal visible amid competing demands.

    Start here

  2. Why We Avoid What Matters

    Understand avoidance as protection and make contact again.

    Supporting

  3. The Intention–Action Gap

    Understand why sincere intentions do not automatically become action.

    Supporting

Interruption and comparison

Recover context without letting another path rewrite yours.

  1. Recovering Attention After an Interruption

    Rebuild context without forcing an instant return to full focus.

    Supporting

  2. When Comparison Changes the Goal

    Notice when another person's path begins rewriting yours.

    In practice

  3. When Strava Comparison Changes the Run

    When Strava Comparison Changes the Run. Strava can make activity visible and social. The anticipated record can also begin shaping the activity before it.

    In practice