The Ultimate Guide on How to Improve Focus and Concentration

One of the most challenging things you and I are confronted with is the flood of decisions we need to make in a day.

There’s a very real concept called decision fatigue, which states that there are only so many decisions the mind can make in a day until it eventually just gets fatigued.

After it’s fatigued, the quality of our decisions quickly goes downhill.

Constraining your thinking about the common circumstances and situations you’re constantly faced with can free you from indecision and wasting time on things that just don’t matter

“The ultimate bottleneck of human beings is our attention.”

The easiest place to start is to look at the most repetitive routine things you do every single day.

Things like what you wear, what you eat, how you manage your finances, and who we give our time to.

When we’re wasting our decisions worrying about what we’re going to wear or what we’re going to have for lunch today, it just adds a level of stress that really we shouldn’t even have to begin with.

We can take care of those things, mitigate them and take them off of our plate, our mind and cognitive space can instead think about the things that are more important to us.

The Solution

The way to solve this problem is by applying Selective Attention which is an idea in psychology that says that whatever you focus on expands. You can only focus on one thing at a time. But your brain is always looking for the things that excite it. Your brain looks for things that matter to it.

For example, if you're driving on the road you probably notice other people who drive the same car as you or cars you like. Your brain is focused on what's relevant. But you can train your brain to focus on what you want by having clear goals. Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.

You can grow 10 times faster by writing about your goals, by being public about them and then by actively focusing on people who are where you want to be. That's one of the key principles of high performance - knowing where you want to be and regularly looking at that and then making that a part of your identity. Your identity is who you are and how you see yourself which has a lot to do with your view of your future.

Research shows that you can train your brain to focus on whatever it is you want to see. One way to know what you're focusing on is to notice what you see. What are the things that pop up in your news feed? What are the things you pay attention to? What you see the most has a lot to do with how you've trained your brain.

“If you don’t like something, just take away its only power: Your Attention!”

Your mind is like a garden and you plant seeds in it all the time. Those seeds either grow fruit or weeds but you want to cultivate that garden which is something you do through meditation, journaling and prayer. You also expand your focus by planting the specific types of seeds you want.

Selective attention proves that whatever you focus on expands and you can train that focus through journaling, repetition and speaking your wants out loud. That's the first key of focus.

- What is it you actually want to focus on? - What is it you want to drive your brain towards? - What are the outcomes you want to accomplish? - - Who is your future self?

“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

So no matter what area of your life you want to improve, whether it's to read more books, spend more quality time with your family, be more productive at work, have the kind of body, the kind of health you know you deserve, all of these things require your ability to focus your attention in order to live the kind of life you want.

Learn to master your attention, and you will be in command of where you and your focus in life goes.

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An action step you can take today…

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