Want to get rid of distractions? To achieve this, use some fairly simple ways to concentrate. Here are just some of them.
Do not skimp on sleep time. If you have enough sleep – a night of sleep duration should be at least 6-8 hours a day, your brain more efficiently handles and stores the information.
If you’re tired, you find it hard to concentrate, and memory suffers.
Train your memory. Try to memorize by heart, to do lists, names, and other important information – this will help in old age also to keep a good memory, and not to be distracted. Notes made for memory, of course, are useful, but at the same time they are freed from the need to concentrate and remember. So, making up, something like a shopping list, do not make it at least three or four subjects, and try to keep them in memory.
Keep track of the order. Chaos in the house – the enemy of memory disorder that makes you constantly distracted, you become more careless, forgetful, absent-minded than you would be in other circumstances. You brought the mail from the box and threw the newspaper to one side and keys to another and the letter you thrown somewhere else. And then you have to do something, look for something else or engage in clearing the chaos. This creates fertile ground for dispersal. Isn’t it easier to establish once and for all constant sites for newspapers, keys, glasses, wrist watch?
Do not hoard old newspapers. In examining the mail, keep on hand the waste basket. If you have all the right things allocated on permanent seats, and you’ll get rid of the unnecessary, then the distraction can be minimized.
Increase the stability of attention. Unless you live alone on a desert island, you will inevitably find yourself in a situation when something distracts your attention. You should learn to focus, no matter what.
Two or three times a week, check to see how things have changed your ability to concentrate. Read the book to the accompaniment of shouting TV. After a couple of minutes of reading, put the book aside and watch as much TV, but then again read. After 10 minutes, turn off the TV, put down the book and estimate how much information you get from each source. With regular exercise you will soon see how your ability to focus starts to increase.
Talk to yourself. This helps to focus and facilitate memorization. When you say out loud what you want to remember by this you reinforce your memory. According to Janet Fogler, one of the authors of the book How to improve your memory, it’s not just in the repetition, but in the fact that you are using your extra voice and hearing, that connect the audio perception of information.
Benefit from sounds and smells. Memory depends on the senses. So use them. Walking into an unfamiliar part of town, do not try to remember the name of the street on which you are going. Look, maybe nearby there is a flower bed? What flowers grow on it? Listen, if a number of children are laughing, if radio is on. Feel the drain pipe at the corner of the house. So, using your sight, hearing, touch, you better memorize the terrain – and quickly learned your way back.
Compose a short story. A rather short to-do list is easier to remember when to turn it into a story by linking disparate things together. This is one of the methods of concentration: repeating a composed history, you focus on the transition from one item to another list.
Take your time. We all experience anxiety moments, remembering something important – if we closed the door, if we turned off the iron. Typically, this is due to the fact that we left the house in a hurry. So, before you slam the door, focus. Wait a few seconds, take a deep breath, exhale, close your eyes and relax. Ask yourself: Where do I go? What should I do before leaving? What do I do now? I have not forgotten anything?
Look in the eyes. This happens usually during weddings, meetings, alumni and other large gatherings. You are talking to someone and suddenly you see in the far corner an old friend, from this moment, oddly enough, the ensuing conversation was almost not delayed in your memory.
Your attention shifts following your gaze. You better remember the content of the conversation with a man, if you look into his eyes, and it’s easier to remember what you said, if you imagine this man.
Tie knots on the memory. Every day you need to remember so many things that should not be surprised when some little things fall out of memory. To avoid this make yourself all sorts of knots on the memory, but in a way that they attracted attention.
For example, she once woke up at night and remembered that tomorrow she must send a letter. Getting up to write herself a reminder, she did not want, she just took a slipper and put it on a table lamp. Seeing this mess in the morning, she immediately remembered the letter.
Such a reminder may be as surprising and even strange, but must strike the eye and cause you a definite association.
