We are a coaching service helping people access deep states of focus, flow, and joy on their most important work (run by @nopranablem)
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We’re live coaching for important work that gets stuck.
In a session, we help you get clear on what matters, then notice when you drift, freeze, or overthink as you work through the next concrete steps.
Over time, you build the skill of reliable deep work despite resistance.
When I launched Attention Copilot, I mostly thought of it as a way to help people get unstuck in one session:
Bring a task that feels ugh, reconnect with why it matters, and do it while a coach tracks your attention and inner state. When resistance shows up, we work with it in the moment instead of just talking about it or white-knuckling through it.
That still feels core! But after watching people work with us over weeks and months, one pattern stands out: important work is where this stuff shows up.
The work that matters asks for more clarity, courage, patience, or focus than your default habits make easy. So when you practice working with resistance while actually doing it, your relationship to work starts to change.
For some people, especially at high-growth startups, this looks very practical. Everything wants your attention, and sessions protect time to get clear on what matters, do deep work, and move it forward.
For others, AC feels like finally bringing meditation and inner work into the work itself, right when the reactive patterns show up.
Either way, the training rep is the same: stay with what matters, work with what comes up, move the thing forward, and get better at doing that outside the session too.
A few of the people we’ve worked with for a while put it better than I can!
"You can practice VIEW but it's another thing to practice VIEW during work. Your work identity sets on and you assume VIEW isn't possible. but it is."
You know, I actually recently have been wondering how much I'm overcomplicating it.
You know that "letting go" feeling that sends grief and fear through your system when you "properly" do impartiality? I think that can be done in work. I just had a @attncopilot session, they said their thesis is basically, in my own words, You can practice VIEW but it's another thing to practice VIEW DURING work. Your work identity sets on and you assume VIEW isn't possible. but it is.
so that's my answer for a specificly hard context for me.
generally,
1) first thing i try: the move of unclenching that feels like impartiality.
2) love (either lovign presence or john makransky meditation)
3) bring it to coachign to see what i'm identifying with.
4) (less frequent) walks barefoot.
also youtube.com/@attncopilot (you'll be In so early)
I'd love if you subscribed to my channels on other platforms!
Youtube: youtube.com/@nopranablem (most helpful so I can hit 500 to pause monetization for guided meditations)
Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/3gAz6L…
Attention Copilot retweeted
One shotted procrastination again today:
I was going work on research for a big PhD milestone. Very scary. scared as soon as I look at to do list. Dread. Want to pull away and sitting there looking at it feels unbearable.
-> 2 hours pass of me looking at to do list, not feeling possible, signing up for coaching with @attncopilot, come back, can't, try to feel fear/worst case scenario, feel worse, go open youtube, "woah wtf I just unconcsiously opened youtube how did i get here", close youtube, go back, scroll.
-> ok let me try <<<love meditation>>> sustainablecompassion.org/au…
-> cry/shake a bit as I feel loved and way less "alone".
-> I suddenly feel "sane" again.
-> I go back to do list
-> almost no reactivity. not scared, not pulling away. start working
-> work 1 hour. I'm slightly tired so took a break
-> work 1 more hour.
Here's some related "annotated" screenshots and source tweets.
@nopranablem also saying going into feelings without love can make things way worse: teapawt.net/nopranablem/status/211…
I'm doing one small step from Pranab's work system. (soothing). source of screenshot here. teapawt.net/nopranablem/status/209…
If you want to get work done effectively, there are a few skills to develop:
- connecting to what todos/decisions matter
- naming what result you actually want
- clarifying your approach
- giving sufficient time to doing those things
- staying "in attention" on them as distraction and drift arise
Here's an exercise you can try the next time you have a work block to build those skills:
1. Take 3-5 minutes to write down every open loop running through your head: tasks, decisions, and your feelings about them. This clears your "mental RAM", so to speak
1b. If sticky emotions or reactivity arise, freewrite for a few min and do some meditation. Heart practice here is especially helpful! Anything that gives you sense of soothing, connection, and ground.
2. Bold the items that feel both important and stressful, especially the ones you may be avoiding.
3. Notice what you feel as you look at each item. As a sub bullet, write down what makes it feel stressful.
4. For each item, in a sub bullet, answer: "how clear does success feel?". If it's unclear, note down what constitutes "success criteria" for it to be done well.
5. For each of those items, answer: "how clear are the next actions?". Write down a few of the next actions.
6. Spend the next 30min to 3 hours on those actions. When you want to distract or soothe yourself, notice what you feel, capture that in this "working memory doc", and return to the next action
(There's a lot more I can say here)
The screenshot below is an example of how to do 1 through 5.
Note: this can be challenging! When you are truly doing work at your edge, you will face bigger levels of resistance. There are a number of inner work techniques you can learn to work with that more effectively
Attention Copilot retweeted
Urge surfing is one of the highest leverage practices for working with AI agents
Working with multiple agents is awesome. But if you're doing it "from an urge" (eg. ugh I don't want to wait) repeatedly, you may notice you get even more restless, frenetic, and tired after hours of that. Restlessness begets more restlessness, and that leads to burnout
Instead, you could notice the underlying restlessness that comes up when waiting on an agent, and then "surf the feeling of the urge" for 10-20 seconds. Then, decide do whatever you want to do, whether that's spinning up another agent, thinking about the context of the existing agent, or even hanging out with yourself for a bit
You could try this for an hour and notice how you feel and what differences it made on doing meaningful work
Attention Copilot retweeted
A note from a startup COO working with Attention Copilot!
Since July, we've done ~40 hours between COO & CEO to work through existential decisions and get more done with more joy, less strain
"If I were starting a company tomorrow, I'd have a line item for Attention Copilot"
ALT Posted with permission
Attention Copilot retweeted
When it’s bust through time u can just hire @attncopilot for one session and end up enjoying it ;)
Attention Copilot retweeted
After months of writing, 'How to Unclench' is finally live!
It's an interactive essay packed with stories, science & guided practices to help you unclench.
→ howtounclench.com
Attention Copilot retweeted
Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from
“I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.”
“Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.”
“Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.”
“‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’”
“And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.”
“It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”
Working with multiple AI agents? We help you train the attention to context switch with them in a way that's more effective and much more pleasant (interface agnostic)
I found that @attncopilot helped me increase this number by reducing the fiction of context switching.
Attention Copilot retweeted
If this method is exciting to you and you want support in applying it more deeply, book a 90m session through my company @attncopilot! (attncopilot.com)
We've done over 800 hours of sessions for people to help them get more progress and enjoyment on challenging work!
Attention Copilot retweeted
"Take 3-5 minutes to write down every open loop running through your head: tasks, decisions, and your feelings about them. This clears your "mental RAM", so to speak"
~open loop management is a massively underrated skill
either working through or parking open loops quickly & not letting them linger, frees up a massive amount of cognitive & attentional bandwidth that would otherwise be wasted dealing with open loops in the background
If you want to get work done effectively, there are a few skills to develop:
- connecting to what todos/decisions matter
- naming what result you actually want
- clarifying your approach
- giving sufficient time to doing those things
- staying "in attention" on them as distraction and drift arise
Here's an exercise you can try the next time you have a work block to build those skills:
1. Take 3-5 minutes to write down every open loop running through your head: tasks, decisions, and your feelings about them. This clears your "mental RAM", so to speak
1b. If sticky emotions or reactivity arise, freewrite for a few min and do some meditation. Heart practice here is especially helpful! Anything that gives you sense of soothing, connection, and ground.
2. Bold the items that feel both important and stressful, especially the ones you may be avoiding.
3. Notice what you feel as you look at each item. As a sub bullet, write down what makes it feel stressful.
4. For each item, in a sub bullet, answer: "how clear does success feel?". If it's unclear, note down what constitutes "success criteria" for it to be done well.
5. For each of those items, answer: "how clear are the next actions?". Write down a few of the next actions.
6. Spend the next 30min to 3 hours on those actions. When you want to distract or soothe yourself, notice what you feel, capture that in this "working memory doc", and return to the next action
(There's a lot more I can say here)
The screenshot below is an example of how to do 1 through 5.
Note: this can be challenging! When you are truly doing work at your edge, you will face bigger levels of resistance. There are a number of inner work techniques you can learn to work with that more effectively
Attention Copilot retweeted
highest ROI coaching I have received 👇
If you want to get work done effectively, there are a few skills to develop:
- connecting to what todos/decisions matter
- naming what result you actually want
- clarifying your approach
- giving sufficient time to doing those things
- staying "in attention" on them as distraction and drift arise
Here's an exercise you can try the next time you have a work block to build those skills:
1. Take 3-5 minutes to write down every open loop running through your head: tasks, decisions, and your feelings about them. This clears your "mental RAM", so to speak
1b. If sticky emotions or reactivity arise, freewrite for a few min and do some meditation. Heart practice here is especially helpful! Anything that gives you sense of soothing, connection, and ground.
2. Bold the items that feel both important and stressful, especially the ones you may be avoiding.
3. Notice what you feel as you look at each item. As a sub bullet, write down what makes it feel stressful.
4. For each item, in a sub bullet, answer: "how clear does success feel?". If it's unclear, note down what constitutes "success criteria" for it to be done well.
5. For each of those items, answer: "how clear are the next actions?". Write down a few of the next actions.
6. Spend the next 30min to 3 hours on those actions. When you want to distract or soothe yourself, notice what you feel, capture that in this "working memory doc", and return to the next action
(There's a lot more I can say here)
The screenshot below is an example of how to do 1 through 5.
Note: this can be challenging! When you are truly doing work at your edge, you will face bigger levels of resistance. There are a number of inner work techniques you can learn to work with that more effectively