A fresh BetterU tip sheet offers 8 science-backed strategies to help you reclaim your focus and spend your attention more wisely in a world full of distractions.
In the health and mental health space, we love a good tip sheet.
Whether you call them fact sheets, quick guides, or resource handouts, they’re designed to offer bite-sized, practical advice on important topics. You’ll find them everywhere from national organisations like Beyond Blue to local services like ours.
Mine tend to sit at the informal end of the spectrum (informal = poorly designed). When I first stepped into this role, I created a handful of them, which later became the foundation for our Self-Help Library. We used to print quite a few. I went through a lot of paper!!
These days, I focus more on keeping our larger guides up to date: self-care mega guide, evidence-based study strategies, getting off to a good start, preparing for placement, and promoting services. But the landscape is changing. Thanks to AI, we now have new ways to quickly distil quality information from books, articles, and courses into digestible formats.
So when I came across Attention Span by Gloria Mark, a book that explores the science behind why our attention feels increasingly fragmented, I thought it was time to return to the humble tip sheet.
The result is Mastering Your Attention: 8 evidence-informed tips to help you build stronger focus and make the most of your psychological energy. It’s BetterU-branded, minimalist in design, and hopefully a helpful companion to your daily grind. Maybe it’ll even inspire you to pick up the book.
And who knows, this might just be the first of a new wave of tips sheets from the BetterU press.
