How to Increase Concentration – The 5 Key Steps

Posted: January 22, 2013

[caption id="attachment_11136" align="alignright" width="400"]image DumbLittleMan[/caption]This time of the year, especially, you may find yourself havnig a hard time concentrating on your work. Your mind may wander to get away from the weather, to what you need to do after work, to where you'd rather be, to what you'd rather be doing....see, wandering off is easy. If you find yourself guilty of this, find out how to stay on task and make it easier to concentrate on work.

Do you usually find it difficult to concentrate on the task at hand?

Do you find your mind invariably straying to some happy moment in the past, a pleasant song you've recently heard, or a movie you've seen, or a book you've read etc.?

Most of us do, so don't worry.

For most people, concentration doesn't come naturally. (That includes me.)

That's why today I've decided to share a few tips and tricks with you to make this age old art of concentration easy for you.

1. Remove the clutter

Put away all those papers that are now lying in a jumble on your desk.

When you look at your desk and find it in a complete mess, this sends a negative signal to your mind-obviously a cluttered desk is not a welcoming view.

But as soon as you've managed to get it uncluttered and tidy again, you'll find the view itself provides you with some amount of positive boost-it's like your desks telling you, "It's time to work.", and is calling you by giving you that clean look!

2. Keep disturbances out

This includes locking the door of your room if possible, switching off the cell phone, and taking measures to prevent any other disturbance that you might foresee.

Now many people have told me, they're just too busy to keep their cell phones off while trying to concentrate.

If this is the case with you, keep your phone on silent mode. This will make sure you later know who called, so that you can call them back.

3. Keep distractions out

You've already made sure that others won't disturb you. But what about yourself? Keep out distractions as much as possible to prevent your own mind from straying.

This could include turning off the computer (gasp? Read on.), so that you're not able to surf the web, turning off the television, the radio, the music system etc.

Now what if you're working at the computer? Then you'll have to exert some control over yourself. Don't worry; I've made that easy. See the next point.

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