Focus is the ability to keep your mind on a single task and ignore all distractions in order to complete the task after you have lost the flow of momentum.
Some mental and environmental issues can affect your performance during the day, so let’s see how you can fix them and strengthen this invisible muscle.
Physical Health:
Nutrition: Eating balanced is essential to have a strong concentration, good proteins (chicken, red meat, eggs), carbohydrates (pasta, vegetables, rice), fibre (nuts, almonds, lentils), and good fats (olive oil, nuts, eggs, raw milk); on the other hand refined foods cause swelling in your brain and body losing all motivation and well-being.
Hydration: Dehydration can reduce your speed to thought and solve problem, its smart to have a bottle of water nearby.
Exercise: Regular exercise will speed up your blood flow and create tunnel vision, even short walks will leave you feeling fresh and more confident to start solving the issue.
Mental Techniques:
Break Tasks into Smaller Steps: Large task can look like an endless task. Cutting it into parts is a smart way to reduce its weight and make it more slowable.
Set Clear Goals: Have a clear and unique purpose, mark the boundaries in your mind, let the brain calculate the length and mental struggle that needs to be passed through.
Limit Multitasking: Avoid multitasking, which reduces your concentration and decreases your performance, thus increasing working hours.
Sleep and Rest:
Prioritize Sleep: Deep sleep refreshes your memory and restores your energy, avoid blue light (screens) 1 hour after sleep, imitates the light of the sun, reinitiating your cycadin system induced a poor performance. Aim for 7-9 hours of quality sleep each night.
Meditation: Meditation lowers blood pressure, keeps you in the present and helps you manage stress. It is a powerful weapon when you are facing a turbulent environment.
Allow for Downtime: Allow moments to break if necessary to recover energy and lower your cortisol levels (stress hormone), not all need to be finished right away.
Environmental Factors:
Minimize Distractions: A noisy workplace distracts you from your work and makes it harder to concentrate. Playing relaxing music, such as ocean music, and avoiding phone are smarter ways to get your energy flowing.
Organized Workspace: A tidy workplace strengthens your sense of order, which applies both physically and mentally. Reducing mental noise.
