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How long the average person stays on one screen before switching to another. In 2004 it was two and a half minutes.
Every default setting, notification, and unwritten rule chips away at the focus required to do great work. Focuswise helps organizations build systems that protect attention.
Free. Your focus score in about 5 minutes.
“Tell me what you pay attention to, and I will tell you who you are.”José Ortega y Gasset
Attention is your scarcest and most valuable resource. How you spend it decides what gets built and what gets buried.
A company can tell you what it spends on payroll, software, and real estate to the dollar. Ask what it loses to scattered attention and you get a shrug. The numbers exist. Most teams have just never looked.
How long the average person stays on one screen before switching to another. In 2004 it was two and a half minutes.
How often the average worker toggles between apps and sites in a day. The reorienting alone eats close to four hours a week.
What the average person now spends on social platforms every day. Those apps are engineered to win that time. Your Tuesday staff meeting is not.
Run it on your own team. Twenty-five people, thirty minutes a day each lost to avoidable interruption, at $75 an hour, lands near $234,000 a year. That is one illustration, not your number. The point is that the bill comes due whether or not anyone reads it.
Sources: Gloria Mark, UC Irvine (screen-switching); Harvard Business Review, 2022 (app-toggling); DataReportal, 2025 (daily social use).
We teach how attention actually works, so people know what to protect, what to ignore, and how to come back after the day breaks their focus.
Explore →A culture of interruption builds quietly: the standing meeting, the instant-reply reflex, the priority no one made clear. We help a team see what it's costing and rebuild the habits worth keeping.
Explore →No one owes you their attention. We help anyone who presents, teaches, sells, or leads make a message clear and sharp enough that it lands in a distracted room.
Explore →Keynotes · Workshops · Facilitation · Tools & guides · The FocusFit Challenge
We use these four factors to diagnose where attention is breaking down and what a team needs to change next. The framework guides the work; the practical tools live inside the keynote, workshops, and team programs.
The presentation was the highest rated session of the conference, scoring 4.9 out of 5 in the follow-up survey.
FocusFit turns the Focuswise framework into a shared practice for teams ready to build better attention habits together. It is best introduced as part of a keynote, workshop, or focused team engagement.
Ask about the FocusFit Challenge →A 5-minute test gives you a focus score and a personalized plan for paying attention to what you can control.
Take the Focus TestFocuswise was founded by Curt Steinhorst, author of Can I Have Your Attention? and one of the people who first put workplace attention on the map. To learn more about Curt's keynote speaking, visit curtsteinhorst.com.
