Focus habits collapse when the bar is too high. You plan a full deep-work day, get interrupted once, and declare the day lost.
One block — twenty-five to fifty minutes with phone away — is a complete win. Repeat it daily and the habit forms before you scale up.
Solo focus tools measure time. They do not create social cost for the day you opened Twitter at minute three.
An accountability group asks one question: did you show up? That binary answer is harder to negotiate than a vague intention.
Protect one distraction-free block today. Check in yes or no.