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Tips to improve your concentration power and productivity
Distractions might cause you to lose focus
One approach to improving work productivity is the ability to focus on the topic at hand. Distractions can hinder job growth and decrease the quality of the work.
You can work to improve your capacity to concentrate if you are aware of how focusing might impact your job. This article shares some tips to improve concentration power.
Do one task at a time and develop strong willpower
By exercising strong willpower, you can avoid temptations that would otherwise divert your attention. Making definite, detailed goals, committing to them, and focusing on one thing at a time will help you strengthen your willpower.
Having a schedule, setting time aside for work completion, and reminding yourself daily of why your goals are important will also help you develop willpower.
Meditate
Meditate for at least 15 minutes in the morning to stop your racing thoughts, reduce depression and anxiety, and get an insight into yourself before you start the day. Sitting upright, closing your eyes, inhaling deeply, and concentrating on breathing can help.
Additionally, you can employ quick meditation sessions throughout the day when you feel your concentration slipping. In addition to helping you focus again on your work, meditation can enhance your memory, increase your alertness and awareness, and lower your stress levels.
Workout
Your energy will increase, your memory will improve, and your brain’s ability to ignore distractions will improve. You are maintaining a healthy weight and improving mental and physical activity.
Possible benefits of maintaining potential benefits of physical activity. Brisk walks, running up and down stairs, yoga, working in your garden, or any other type of exercise that works for you are all acceptable options.
Sleep properly
Lack of sleep can quickly impair memory, attention, and other cognitive processes, including focus. Occasionally, not getting enough sleep might not be too bad for you. However, consistently not getting enough sleep might impact your attitude and productivity at work.
Over exertion can even impair reflexes and impair your ability to drive or perform other daily duties. It might be challenging to obtain enough sleep occasionally due to a busy schedule, health concerns, and other circumstances. However, adults should strive for seven to eight hours of sleep per night, according to many experts.
The following advice will help you get a better night’s sleep:
An hour before going to bed, switch off the television and put away screens.
- Maintain a pleasant, cozy temperature in your space.
- Relax before bed with calming music, a hot bath, or a good book.
- Even on weekends, try to sleep and wake up at around the same hour every day.
- Regular exercise is essential, but avoid a strenuous activity right before night.
Pay attention
A smart technique to increase your focus is to pay deliberate attention to your environment, the people you contact, and your work activities. Making it a point to notice specifics in your daily life will help you develop your attention span.
You might take note of the names of the stores you pass on your way to work, the names of the bus stops and parks, the design of your office complex, the arrangement of the office furniture, and what your coworkers are wearing to work, for example.
Use verbal and nonverbal indicators to show others that you are paying attention when interacting with them, whether at work or elsewhere. These cues include speaking, smiling, and making eye contact. When someone is speaking to you, refrain from looking at your phone or around.
Eliminate distractions
Distractions might cause you to lose focus on your work and squander time. Distractions might not be completely avoidable, but you can try to minimise them. Find out what distracts you frequently by watching yourself, then deliberately avoid those things.
For instance, you might have a routine of frequently checking your email, texts, Instagram, or news. The five or 10 minutes you spend looking these up can pile up and waste a lot of time that could be used to do meaningful work.
Consider disabling your phone’s notifications, putting it away while you work, and refraining from unnecessary computer and phone internet browsing to reduce distractions.
Set a timer
You can focus more on important things by keeping track of your time, which will help you understand how you spend your working hours. Set a timer for 30 or 60 minutes, and throughout that period, focus solely on your work.
Practice with shorter time blocks of 10 or twenty minutes if you find it challenging to stay focused. This method of making the most use of your time can increase productivity and be helpful for job advancement.
Conclusion
Your weight, food habits, and degree of physical exercise affect how well you operate and concentrate. For instance, if you skip breakfast, it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to work effectively at noon because of hunger.
Taking care of your health, staying active, and consuming foods promoting concentration can improve concentration. You might wish to include avocados, and chocolate in your diet to improve your capacity for concentration. — pickthebrain.com
One of the issues we have been grappling with as a nation is corruption, and it has had such a devastating effect on our national development. I have been convinced that until morality becomes the foundation upon which our governance system is built, we can never go forward as a nation.
Our traditional practices, which have shaped our cultural beliefs, have always espoused values that have kept us along the straight and the narrow and have preserved our societies since ancient times.
These are values that frown on negative habits like stealing, cheating, greediness, selfishness, etc. Our grandparents have told us stories of societies where stealing was regarded as so shameful that offenders, when caught, have on a number of instances committed suicide.
In fact, my mother told me of a story where a man who was living in the same village as her mother (my grandmother), after having been caught stealing a neighbour’s cockerel, out of shame committed suicide on a mango tree. Those were the days that shameful acts were an abomination.
Tegare worship, a traditional spiritual worship during which the spirit possesses the Tegare Priest and begins to reveal secrets, was one of the means by which the society upheld African values in the days of my grandmother and the early childhood days of my mother.
Those were the days when the fear of being killed by Tegare prevented people from engaging in anti-social vices. These days, people sleeping with other people’s wives are not uncommon.
These wrongful behaviour was not countenanced at all by Tegare. One was likely going to lose his life on days that Tegare operates, and so unhealthy habits like coveting your neighbour’s wife was a taboo.
Stealing of other people’s farm produce, for instance, could mean certain death or incapacitation of the whole or part of the body in the full glare of everybody. People realised that there were consequences for wrongdoing, and this went a long way to motivate the society to adhere to right values.
Imagine a President being sworn into office and whoever administers the oath says, “Please say this after me: I, Mr. …., do solemnly swear by God, the spirits of my ancestors and the spirits ruling in Ghana, that should I engage in corrupt acts, may I and my family become crippled, may madness become entrenched in my family, may incurable sicknesses and diseases be my portion and that of my family, both immediate and extended.”
Can you imagine a situation where a few weeks afterwards the President goes to engage in corrupt acts and we hear of his sudden demise or incapacitation and confessing that he engaged in corrupt acts before passing or before the incapacitation—and the effect it will have on his successor? I believe we have to critically examine this option to curb corruption.
My grandmother gave me an eyewitness account of one such encounter where a woman died instantly after the Tegare Priest had revealed a wrong attitude she had displayed during the performance on one of the days scheduled for Tegare spirit manifestation.
According to her story, the Priest, after he had been possessed by the spirit, declared that for what the woman had done, he would not forgive her and that he would kill. Instantly, according to my grandmother, the lady fell down suddenly and she died—just like what happened to Ananias and his wife Sapphira in Acts Chapter 5.
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Emotional distortions can indeed have a profound impact on an individual’s mental health and well-being. These distortions can lead to a range of negative consequences, including anxiety, depression, and impaired relationships.
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Identify and challenge negative thought patterns: By becoming aware of emotional distortions, individuals can learn to challenge and reframe negative thoughts.
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Improve relationships: By addressing emotional wounds and promoting emotional well-being, individuals can develop more positive and healthy relationships with others.
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The benefits of emotional surgery can include:
Improved mental health outcomes: Emotional surgery can help individuals reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Enhanced relationships: Emotional surgery can help individuals develop more positive and healthy relationships with others.
Increased self-awareness: Emotional surgery can help individuals develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their emotions.
A path towards healing
Emotional surgery offers a promising approach to addressing emotional distortions and promoting emotional well-being. By acknowledging the impact of emotional pain and seeking to provide a comprehensive and compassionate approach to healing, individuals can take the first step towards recovery and improved mental health.
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