How to improve your focus and concentration
How to improve focus and concentration?
Improving your focus and concentration skills is very crucial in life, especially if you are hungry for success. Without being able to focus on your goals and desires, it is unlikely that you will achieve them.
The mind is like a car, if you don’t learn to direct its attention towards what you want, then you will be wasting your mind’s energy on activities that don’t serve you well. If you are serious about achieving success in life, then you must develop and improve your focus and concentration skills on a regular basis.
As I mentioned in my book “the ultimate guide to achieve your goals” that when you develop focus, your mind becomes your servant; allowing you to direct it in any direction you desire.
Benefits of developing and improving focus and concentration
- Improved memory
- Improved job performance
- Improved studying
- Living in the present
- Developing your psychic abilities
- The ability to focus on any task you desire
- Increased self esteem
- Inner peace
Improving your focus and concentration skills
To learn how to improve your focus and concentration, follow the steps below:
1. Pick a point of concentration
Pick an object or a point of concentration and start to focus on it. Make sure the object doesn’t have many features so your eyes won’t wander off. This point of concentration can be anything you want, an object or a person.
My usual point of concentration is usually a person where I focus on it. Not only does this help develop and improve my focus and concentration skills, but it also helps me with visualization.
2. Focus on breathing
Focusing on breathing is a great way to improve your focus. Take five minutes a day and start doing breathing exercises. During these five minutes, focus on how you inhale, exhale, and think of nothing except your breathing.
When you find that you are able to concentrate more than the time you specified, you can increase the time from 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Count backwards
Count from 100 to 0 backwards. Then as your focus in getting better, you can count from 200 to 0 and so on.
The key to improving focus and concentration is regular and constant practice. As your practice these methods, you will begin to notice that your level of focusing your attention on a specific object, person, or task is much, much better.
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Hi!
Very useful tips! I have seen people who are doing multi-tasking. I think this will divide the concentration and we cannot give our 100 percent to the job we are doing. This is also one thing we need to keep in mind if we need to improve our focus. Just do one task at a time.
Thanks,
Rosalia
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Hi Rosalia,
Yep, multi-tasking makes us lose our focus. The mind can’t concentrate fully on more than one thing at a time. If we really want to give all of our attention to one task, then we have to focus on one thing at a time. Thanks for the addition
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Hey Dia,
I love this article especially as it’s so relevant to me now. I used to think sorting out your life was working on areas, like relationships, health, career etc. but most of this cannot happen until you learn to focus first. Sounds strange but it’s true.
In addition I never thought about doing mental exercises to improve my focus. I’ll definitely give those a go!
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Hi Kian,
Yep, if we want to improve the quality of our life, then we have to focus on what we want. The mind tends to lose its focus, this is why training to improve our focusing skills is crucial if we want to achieve our goals and desires in life. Thanks Kian
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Dia,
I found that diet and exercise are also good for focus and concentrations. Eating the right foods, along with having a strong body leads to a cleaner mind.
With that said, I do like you suggestion of counting backwards – a great mental exercise.
Alex
Hi Alex,
Yep eating the right foods is for sure helps our focusing skills. Many people lose focus and end up eating food that is not good for their health, but if we learn to focus on eating healthy food, then we are on our way to mastering concentration. Thanks Alex
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Dia,
I agree with Alex that diet can play a big part. For instance, I have Adult A-D-D, so it’s important I eat high-protein meals that are balanced properly. Hence, one thing that helps me is that I eat eggs (or egg substitutes for you vegans out there) every day for breakfast. The protein helps me to stay focused throughout the day. The breathing techniques are great exercises as well. I am sadly not too great at counting backward. I get distracted. SQUIRREL!
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Hi Bryan,
Yep eating the right food does help us stay focused on our tasks. Once we discpline our minds, we can start to focus on what we want. Thanks Bryan
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
We do something in our office called the power of three.
The U.S. Army discovered that if you gave more than three orders at a time, the platoon would not be effective in carrying them out. If you gave two orders at a time, the platoon was under utilized.
But if you gave them three things to do, they were working at their optimum level.
So we carry out tasks in threes, get those three things done and then start the next three.
Bryce
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Hi Bryce,
This sounds like a great exercise, thanks for sharing it with us.
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Hi Dia,
I love to take on board further tips on topics like this…..I tend to be a ‘wanderer’. I keep the Big Picture in mind to keep my long term focus in check. Tips like yours can assist my shorter term focus. Eating healthy & plenty of exercise as Alex says, is also good. Well done.
be good to yourself
David
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Hi David,
I’m glad you liked the tips. Yea our minds tend to wander, this is why developing concentration skills is crucial so we can focus on what we want. Thanks David
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Great points here Dia about improving focus and concentration. What I do when I need to focus are some breathing exercises to calm my mind and then I name 10 things or items that I see. This helps with grounding myself.
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Hi Justin,
Focusing on our breathing is crucial as it helps us to clear our minds and focus just on breathing. Everyone who is serious about success has to have a focused mind. Thanks Justin
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Isn’t it amazing how we can easily take breathing for granted. Deep breathing is so essential to getting back to the place of feeling centered and grounded. Nothing like a good ‘ol dose of increased oxygen for the noggin! There have been many times where deep breathing has prevented a feeling of being overwhelmed with stress. In addition to this, I have found deep breathing to be refreshing and restorative in the most mundane periods of the day.
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Hi Ajen,
Yep many people take breathing for granted. This is why learning to breathe correctly, not only improves our focusing skills, but it also helps our health as well. Thanks Ajen
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Hi Dia, very well said about development of concentration and focus. This is perfect for me because I am too stressed with work and reading your blog makes me realize I have to concentrate on the 1st one first. Thank you.
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Hi Corinnec,
I’m glad you found the tips helpful. Thanks you
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Hi Dia,
This is an awesome post, huge help for those who really need to improved their focus and concentration not only with work but with life. And that includes myself. Thanks for sharing! =)
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Thanks Barbara, glad you liked it
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Great tips as usual Dia!
I think my main problem would be my breathing. Even when I meditate, I’m not able to breath the way I should. I don’t know why I find that so difficult. That’s something I definitely could use some practice with. Maybe that will also help with me being able to concentrate more on the task at hand. My mind will wander from time to time but luckily, not much.
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Hi Adrienne,
Yep, it only takes practice. As you practice, you will begin to start to improve your breathing skills as well as your concentration. Practice makes perfect.
Thanks Adrienne
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Hi Dia,
these sound like great tips to help us focus. When you refer to a person, would this be a person that we highly respect, kind of like a mentoring person?
i have done the breathing and that really does work for me.
Thanks again and blessing to you,
Debbie
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Hi Debbie,
The person has be any person we like, but of course if it is someone that we love, respect, and honor would be better than someone we don’t like.
The important thing to focus on our attention at “one thing,” so we improve our concentration skills. Thanks Debbie
Dia recently posted..How to improve your focus and concentration
Hi Dia,
It has been awhile, wow you have new books out! Congratulations!
I like the second point best, as sometimes when we are too busy we forget to “breath” calmly. I took “art of living” seminar, where they teach you how to breath properly and focus on it. Until then I never thought of breathing in such a way!
Preeti
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Hi Preeti,
Thank you for your kind words my friend. In regards to breathing, yep many take it for granted, but once we learn the art of breathing correctly, our whole mentality changes. Thanks Preeti, good to hear from you
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