Focus Reset
Your phone has become a reflex. The tabs have multiplied. You keep starting things and forgetting what you sat down to do. Over 14 days, you'll understand why a hyperconnected world makes focus so hard, rebuild your relationship with your phone, and recover the steadier attention that lets you actually be present with what matters.
What you'll actually take away
Clearer language for what's been hard to name. A record, in your own words, of how your thinking shifts across the 14 days. And a practice you can keep returning to — the journey gets you started, your own journal keeps the work alive after.
Ideas you can actually use
You'll work through the research on why a hyperconnected world breaks attention. The dopamine loop of the feed, the myth of multitasking, the cost of task-switching. Drawing on Cal Newport's 'Deep Work,' Johann Hari's 'Stolen Focus,' and Anna Lembke on dopamine. Not a phone detox. A reset of the relationship so attention becomes available again.
Where real change happens
Every day pairs short lessons with two to four journal prompts designed to pull the ideas into your own life. Writing is where research becomes change. Your entries are protected by zero-knowledge encryption, readable only by you, never by us. Be honest without a filter.
A space that keeps growing with you
The journey gets you started. After that, KindMind becomes a place you can keep returning to: an encrypted journal for working things out, guided reflections when you're stuck, daily check-ins to notice what's shifting, and lists for the messy middle of life. Stay as long as it helps.
Many of these photos co-star my wife, Lindsay.
12 years in, just getting started
I'm Garrett. Meditator, surfer, and software engineer based out of Oregon. I've been making KindMind since 2014, on a mission to help people understand their own minds and treat them a little kinder. Twelve years in, still indie, still personal, still all in. Read the story.
Focus Reset, day by day
14 short daily sessions. Self-paced. Pause and pick back up anytime.
Part 1: Understanding the Problem
- Day 1The Scattered Mind
- Day 2The Dopamine Loop
- Day 3The Cost of Switching
- Day 4Your Notification Landscape
- Day 5What You're Really Reaching For
- Day 6Screen Fatigue in Your Body
- Day 7Check-in: What You've Noticed
Part 2: Rebuilding Your Attention
- Day 8Creating Focus Blocks
- Day 9Designing Better Defaults
- Day 10Screen-Free Rituals
- Day 11The Gift of Boredom
- Day 12The Practice of Deep Attention
- Day 13Your Personal Focus Plan
- Day 14A Life of Presence
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