How to become more focused

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

If Marshakov's "Here's What Scattered From Basseinaya Street" is about you, then you probably know the feeling that everything falls out of hand, gets lost, breaks, is forgotten and generally goes through a stump-deck.

Agree, you don't want to be the one who was written off because of her absent-mindedness. Therefore, the surest solution to the problem is to become more focused, learning to control your life.

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If we talk about the causes of forgetfulness and absent-mindedness, then stress, routine work, mental and physical fatigue are usually called paramount. A person whose life is similar to Groundhog Day, or, conversely, someone who is experiencing a severe nervous shock, begins to notice how thoughts one after another fly out of the head, how the narrative thread is lost and it becomes more and more difficult to concentrate on important things.

Needless to say, these unpleasant moments significantly complicate relations with the people around them, prevent them from achieving their goals, including moving up the career ladder.

To live in constant tension, expecting that tomorrow something will happen to you again that will cause only a condescending smile with a tinge of pity in your family, friends and colleagues - is at least silly. If you are tired of feeling like an unreliable person and want to finally take control of your own thoughts and actions, then our advice will certainly come in handy.

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Get distracted

Knowledge workers should remember that the head, like other parts of the body, needs to rest.

Of course, you can work day and night without feeling sorry for yourself, but this will not lead to anything good. The moment will come when you will not only lose the thread of the narrative, but you will not be able to remember your name in the morning either.

Therefore, do not neglect your own health: after working for an hour, take a five-minute break, but devote it not to visiting your page on the social network, but to a kind of "mini-meditation" - look out the window or just sit with your eyes closed.

Make plans

If important thoughts fly out of your head, then start writing them down on paper. A diary is a very useful thing, you will be convinced of this as soon as you "taste" it and understand all the delights of the existence of such an assistant. You will not have to try to memorize more than you can, you just need to open the notebook on the desired page. By the way, such an innovation in your life will be appreciated by colleagues with close people: from now on, you will stop forgetting your promises and start arriving on time for appointments.

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Concentrate

To successfully complete the assigned tasks, you need to concentrate on each of them. Of course, many of us are haunted by the abilities of the dictator Guy Julius Caesar, who knew how to do several things at the same time, but in our case it is better to forget about risky experiments for a while and focus on each task, and in turn.

Let yourself calm down

If you feel that the nervous tension is off scale, that you cannot control yourself and you are very worried about any reason, then it is better to postpone everything until you calm down. Nothing good will come of your “sacrifice”. On the contrary, you will again inadvertently make a mistake, which will cause a fairly predictable reaction from others.

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Train your memory

Poems and crosswords are great help. Do you think that there is no time for reading poetry, and even less time for solving various puzzles? It’s in vain. These simple ways will help you improve your memory significantly, as well as make you more well-read and erudite.