10 friendly tips to stay focused

Focus is a simple word with tough acquirement. When you determine to volume your focus there comes many ways to achieve it.

When you need to line up focus, you also require to equalize work and mind. Focus functions as balanced intensity to organize your task with clarity.

While focus functions as intense clarity it could be defined as the unity of thoughts, hard work, and creativity to get done a task.

When your attentiveness comes in a single track to let you do your work effortlessly, you can say, you have complete focus. We require focus all the time. Be it study, work, business, etc.

Acquiring focus is hard in this rapidly changing time. Sometimes it causes too many racing thoughts. Majority of people don’t have concentration issue, it’s the diversion of the thoughts which eventually leads to a scattered decision of the tasks. Every task may differ from one to another but focus plays a key role.

 There are many ways to get focused if it’s applied with the right endeavor.

 These 10 tips can be useful while understanding focus:

What you want

Your mind

Sleep

Go with process

No distractions

Food

Your hobby

No to multitasking

Get attached with a moment

short breaks

1 Know what you want:

According to huff posts per minute per person thinks 35 to 48 thoughts. 50000-70000 thoughts per day. It shows the continuous activity of your mind.

 It doesn’t mean that you should let run thoughts all the time. But while you are having tons of thoughts every day, you can’t easily access the best idea you come up with. To evaluate the idea, you need to access your mind to figure out what is your real call.

Before you decide what you look for, prioritize your core essentials in life. Suppose you want to start a new business but aren’t sure about whether to leave your current job or continue it. Until you don’t finalize your goal, various options will behave like mental obstacles that will not let you decide your goal and your mind will keep fumbling. Scrutinize every possible option before confirming the one to go with.

Decision-taking time may vary from person to person as some may take more time some less to understand the clarity of a goal.

 Your mind should know what exactly you want and what steps should be taken for an execution.

2   Know your mind :

Have you ever heard someone saying that it’s super easy to achieve any goals? I never. Everybody has some skills. Each person is special. And according to that only you decide your goals though you can’t carry off goals easily.

Life delivers transition every day with new surprises. Some of them you want some you don’t. Life episodes are so unpredictable, you never know what drastic change may come to you after your breakup or what consequences you have to face after quitting a job.

Those are the serious time when you get to know your unfamiliar side of you other than our identical version. For the betterment of yourself each time you should let run the flaws without affecting your roots of self-awareness.

Don’t leave yourself uncertain about knowing your mind. The habits, the mood swings, the high of you without liquor, the shift of racing thoughts everything you must know.

More deeply you know yourself more strength of focus you can get.

3 Grab your sleep  :

Just like proper food enough sleep plays the same role in keeping you focused. If you are in search of focus you need to understand your sleep also. Insufficient sleep can give you no less frustration than an incomplete task. If you try to complete your task with poor sleep it would turn into havoc. Some people have this ability to pull off work nicely even in less sleep. But it is applicable for a limited time only. Maybe you can do it twice or thrice. In long run to let function your mind fully sleep is important.

Doctors do advise for 7 to 8 hours of sleep every day. There are simple ways to sleep early:

Avoid looking at any screen 1 hour before going to bed.

Eat before 2 to 3 hours of sleep. So you don’t feel heavy or uncomfortable.

Avoid caffeine at night.

Try to meditate or listen to frequency music.

Create comfortable and clean surroundings.

4 Embrace the ongoing actions, not only the occurrence  :

When you plan your goal you already have watched that successful occurrence. Don’t watch it as a one-time. Try to make it as lifelong episodes. For example, you started a new business from home. Afterward, you plan to buy a large office with a beautiful interior someday. Considering only the incident won’t let you access your potential work strategy to the fullest.

Once you embrace the procedure as an incident it will double your efforts towards your goal. The procedure of expanding your business every day is closer and real to you to focus on. These stepping stones may help you to build a foundation of your focus towards your goal.

 Each finished step of the procedure is a boost to your focus. Just don’t make it pause. This is one of the major key factors to stay focused – A continuity with wanting more.

5  Stop distractions    :

We rather see visual distractions as amusements. Hence it’s difficult to turn off. Every time your phone beeps for a message you are tempted to see. Messages then mail. Checking a phone every 10 minutes is almost a habit of everybody even when it’s not required. For example, if you are a gadget freak and someone talks about it you immediately surf your laptop to know the stuff.

 In-office lots of talks are meant to happen. Your colleague may interrupt you more often if you don’t tell them not to be disturbed until some particular time. Eventually, distractions plunge you into habitual action.

 All these external distractions can be taken care of instantly. While internal distractions or disturbances stick with you to not let you work at full potential. There are thousands of stuff have been written on how to stay positive or work effectively. But only reading isn’t enough. You may have read lots of books or stuff but it’s no use if it’s not applied.

 It needs an action to bring you in full motion. What is it that drives you incessantly? What is that your existence craves for? Your child, your family, happiness, success, money. Do pick that element to keep you going. Every time your internal distraction strikes you, think practically and manipulate, yes manipulate your drive element till you are back in focus.

6 Eat on time :

An empty stomach, empty mind. Have your food on time. Eat at regular intervals.  The important thing is to eat on time. Breakfast is one of the main meals of the day it should be full of protein.  Select foods which are high in vitamins and don’t give you bloated feelings.

There are lots of brain foods that can boost your focus. Blueberries, pumpkin seeds, dark chocolates, supplements, etc.

7 Follow your interests:

The focus will be easy for you if you love your work or study. And you love it indeed with discipline. Discipline is a mediator between work and focus. You have to sit straight for hours to finish your task. For how long you can do any task?

 At some point, you may get agitated. The mind needs to freshen up. You need to be relaxed. Relaxation comes in lots of ways. One of the ways is to follow your hobby.

Workload makes you forget your interests which you used to do. Because we often think that fun time is over when life gets busier with work. We are asked this question many times that what you do in your spare time? And it’s stuck there only. It’s not fair that a hobby should be done in your spare time.

Hobbies hone your skills. Hobbies are more like stress reliever and a creation of self-contentment than fun to keep focus in line. A hobby or any new learning thing promotes your confidence in functionality.

8 Say no to multitasking:

It happens often with many people that if the work is easy, it tempts you to involve the other easy tasks. On a belief that easy task can be done in no time.

And when the work is tough you may allure to do other uncomplicated tasks simultaneously.  In both situations, people procrastinate on a real task.

Multi-tasking is a temptation to start at a time but it may end in the chaos of completing nothing. Multitasking distributes focus very quickly. Both the elements, distribution, and quickness, are not meant to be with focus. Focus is meant to be for one task at a time So it can give a value to a task.

9  Stay aware and alive to every moment :

Everybody is aware of the importance of time and the perception “life is too short to complete everything in time.”

 You have to complete one task and start another. You have to reach somewhere in time. Your busy schedule makes you run. If you don’t then your work pressure will push you. For example, you are at your desk, need to complete a task by the evening and your target is neither a task nor a focus, it’s a time. Time makes you worried and ultimately you cant focus. And focus does not relate to time anyhow. Dwelling into future time won’t let you concentrate.

 If you need to focus pause your past and future for some time. If Your mind is preoccupied with lots of stuff your focus will be scattered and will not notice any live moment or even the matter you want to focus on.

 Being attentive at the very moment gives you a keen understanding of the matter you want to accomplish. To concentrate on the present, overt and covert, both attentions are necessary.

Practicing on both, overt and covert awareness may consume mental hard work but it’s worth having a present time by your side.

To practice a present time meditation and exercise are booster to your cognitive functions.

Minimalism is also a part of the present moment. For example, you are working in a room full of high interior and lights. And then imagine you are working in a plain white room with almost no décor and sufficient lights only. Your focus will narrow to almost one thing at its fullest.

Fun part –   

   “ Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is gift… that’s why they call it the present.” -Master Oogway

10 Take a short break :

Just like following your hobby which can enhance your focus, taking a short break is a way to quickly unwind yourself.

Every day is almost the same with the same work, same study. There’s no option. When you work for long hours it starts to feel torpidity after few hours.  No matter how much hard you try to complete the task will only take you to inanition. And you start to think that you are lacking in focus or somehow unable to complete it. At this point, It’s necessary to take a short break.

Constantly working on the same project or studying the same subject will hold your mind in a loop of the restricted flow. Of course, doing the same work for so long has a reverence for being an expert, at the same time, it needs fresh air to keep it going.

A tiny 10 or 15 minutes break can sometimes do a miracle to your work. It can be anything, take a walk, pat a pet, eat ice cream in winter, talk to a stranger, help someone, play a prank on your colleague do anything which brings you a smile.  Just keep it going.

The movie x-men explained it in one line-

“Focus is somewhere between rage and serenity”