Time Management Tips & Flow State Secrets: Focus, Productivity & Overcoming Procrastination
Struggling to focus or overcome procrastination? Steven Puri (founder of The Sukha app) and I reveal time management hacks, flow state strategies, and tools to help you get more done in less time.
You can watch our interview by clicking on the graphic below or read the highlights beneath it:
- Steven shares his own experience with ADHD, time blindness, and inattentive symptoms — and how alarms and structured reminders help him stay on track.
- Steven shares exciting personal news — he and his wife are expecting their first child, prompting discussions about shifting time management needs.
- Many in The Sukha community face challenges with focus, procrastination, overwhelm, and distraction — and Steven discusses the patterns he’s observed.
- Deep work cannot happen in 9-minute gaps; meaningful work requires protected, uninterrupted time blocks.
- Leaders and teams benefit from identifying their chronotypes and carving out sacred “no-meeting, no-Slack” focus hours.
- Explanation of flow states — why they boost focus, reduce intrusive thoughts, and make work feel more energizing.
- Music plays a huge role in focus: ideal tracks are ambient, non-vocal, and 60–90 BPM.
- The Sukha platform includes science-backed music, nature soundscapes, and attention-support tools to help users drop into flow.
- Procrastination often stems from overwhelm or tasks that are too big. Breaking projects into small, realistic pieces reduces avoidance.
- Blacking out distracting websites, using smart assistants, and adding friction to phone access helps limit dopamine-driven task-switching.
- We discuss the myth of multitasking and how context-switching drains mental energy.
- Community conversations show that ADHD is becoming less stigmatized; more people are open about how they work best.
- Importance of recognizing the difference between tasks and goals — big goals need to be broken down into actionable steps.
- Flow sessions help people feel in control of their lives and reduce the daily battle with overwhelm.
- Steven invites listeners to try The Sukha’s 7-day free experience to understand how music and structure support deep focus.
Connect with Steven Puri:
Website – https://www.TheSukha.co/
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-puri-b0714436/
About Steven Puri:
Steven is the Founder and CEO of The Sukha Company with the mission to help millions of people find their focus, achieve more and have a healthy work life.
Steven’s career started as a newscaster/interviewer for the #1 youth news show in the DC/Baltimore market (on WTTG-TV) and then as a junior software engineer & Thomas J. Watson Scholar at IBM. After attending USC in Los Angeles, he began working in film production and produced computer-generated visual effects for 14 movies including Independence Day which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.
Steven’s first tech company was Centropolis Effects that produced those CGI effects, and he eventually sold it to the German media conglomerate Das Werk when he was 28.
Steven then produced some indie films and eventually went studio-side to develop and produce live-action features as a VP of Development & Production at 20th Century Fox (running the Die Hard and Wolverine franchises) and an EVP at DreamWorks Pictures for Kurtzman-Orci Productions where he worked on Star Trek, Transformers and more.
After Fox, Steven returned to building tech companies and founded The Sukha Company – ‘sukha’ means ‘happiness from self-fulfillment’ in Sanskrit. The Sukha is a focus app that bundles all the tools necessary to have a focused experience and a healthy, productive workday.
Steven lives in Austin, TX now.
For more recommendations on time management strategies for improving your focus, check out The Inefficiency Assassin: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter, Not Longer.
