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Who owns your attention?

The problem is not your focus. It is that you never created the conditions for focus to happen.

What you get

Your focus score out of 100
Which of the four levels you operate at
Scores across Physical, Digital, Mental and Recovery
Which wall to build first

12 statements. No credit card, no calls, results on screen.

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If you can see it, you will check it.

The Focus Fortress is one of the five personal protocols behind The 5 Minute Leader system: three walls, the open loop capture, and the one question that settles whether something is genuinely urgent.

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What this assessment measures

Twelve statements, three in each of four areas: Physical, Digital, Mental and Recovery. You rate how true each one is right now. The score is not a personality type and it does not change with your mood. It is a read on how the work moves.

Physical

There is a place and a time where people know not to interrupt me.
Interrupting me takes more effort than working the answer out alone.
When I am in deep work, people who need me have somewhere else to put it.

Digital

During focused work my email is closed, not minimised.
My notifications are off permanently, not just during focus time.
My phone is out of reach when I am doing my most important work.

Mental

When a stray thought arrives mid-task, I write it down and go back rather than chasing it.
I can start hard work without needing to check something first.
I finish the thing I sat down to do.

Recovery

I ask whether an interruption is genuinely urgent rather than treating all of them as urgent.
After a focus block I process what I captured rather than losing it.
When someone breaks the boundary over something that could have waited, I say so.

How the score is read

Your answers produce a score out of 100 and place you at one of four levels. Each level comes with a plain reading of what it means and where it usually breaks.

Level 1, Fully Open. Scores 0 to 40.
Level 2, One Wall. Scores 41 to 60.
Level 3, Defended. Scores 61 to 80.
Level 4, Fortress. Scores 81 to 100.

You also get a score for each of the four areas, so you can see which one is actually holding things back rather than guessing.

What to do with the result

The point is not the number. It is which of the four areas comes back lowest, because that is the one to work on first. Pick that one, change one thing this week, and take the assessment again in a month to see whether the change held.

Quiz, test or assessment: which is this?

All three words describe the same thing. A focus quiz, a distraction test and a focus and distraction assessment all point at what is on this page: twelve statements, four areas, a score out of 100 and the level that goes with it. Nothing is graded and there are no trick questions. It is a read on how you work right now, not a personality label.

How long does it take?

It takes about three minutes. You answer one screen at a time and you can go back and change an answer before you finish.

Is it free?

Yes. There is no payment and no trial. You answer the questions, then give your name and email to unlock your level, your area scores and the single move to make next.