268 - Why We Can’t Focus

Barb Knows Best by Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

Aug 4, 202600:56:07Education

There it is again – that phantom itch. Check email, then texts, then Instagram, then email again. The endless loop that pulls us from the moments we want to be present for to the things that are engineered to distract us...

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