It is difficult to learn to be careful. And attention, or rather concentration, is essential for many if not all professions. . . Without the ability to concentrate, there cannot be a good artist and writer; Failing to succeed in business, politics and finance. As an inattentive person, you may forget to drive and miss the stops you need while using the subway or public transport. In a word, life will definitely not look like honey.
An inattentive person is involuntarily careless and unnecessary. Such people will never reach desired heights, achieve their goals, and be respected. This means the situation must be fixed. How is attention developed?
New habits need to be acquired. And discard some of the old ones. Habits always have an effect on the human psyche, and attention is a mental and psychological process that determines and controls the flow of thought. And directing it in the right direction is the basic condition for developing attention. And every person has opportunities for this. . .
First Habit
Learn to observe yourself first to increase your attention. This does not mean that you have to come into conflict with yourself, which is full of mental aberrations until a divided personality. This means being able to analyze situations and events as well as your thoughts and actions related to those situations and events. For example, why are you losing the conversation thread? Is it because the interlocutor doesn't want to listen to you or you are bothered by his noise? This means that the person must either remove the noise or get rid of such an interlocutor or stop talking.
Why did you react to your words? Is it wrong? Or are you wrong yourself? So why are you angry? Isn't it better to look at yourself in the future and exclude the emergence of such claims? An analysis of what's going on, something special first, when to force yourself into it, and then involuntary, is an excellent training for developing attention. . .
Make a second habit
Don't shake. You can rush without hesitation and rush. The desire to embrace the immense is understandable, but as the sages point out, this desire is not possible. Why are you trying to do everything? After all, you may end up late anywhere. . .
Third Habit
This is directly related to the second habit and is based on the fact that you should refuse to do several things at once. After all, you get tired of it quickly and your concentration becomes reasonably weak. Well, if your attention already leaves a lot to be desired, then when conducting several different situations in a row, there will definitely be mistakes and failures. Why do you need this? Additionally, the brain will not be able to qualitatively process vast amounts of completely different information at the same time, again negatively affecting attention. Our task is to increase attention, not overload. . .
The fourth habit
Highlighting priorities. This habit stems entirely from the previous one. The ability to highlight what matters most from the crowd and focus all attention on it is one way to improve the quality of attention. Believe me, it's not at all difficult. For example, which is more important: delivering the assignment on time or continuing to write the text of the letter that can be sent tomorrow on the computer? Of course the first. Well, the exercise is complete. You just need to fix it and get it into a habit.
It might be a good idea to prepare a priority plan. Possible in the head, but better - on paper. And once you've completed the most important ones, you can move on to the next in importance and so on - until the end of the list. . .
Fifth habit
It would be nice to observe yourself, determine the hours of the greatest concentration of energy and attention. And in general, find your biorhythm. For example, you work from eight in the morning to midday and from six to nine in the evening with complete dedication. This means you have to take on the most difficult and responsible tasks during these hours. And in the middle of the day, when you have a certain lack of energy and your attention is weakened, spend it on doing ordinary chores that do not require special attention. This habit will not allow you to torment yourself meaninglessly and in vain during hours when your physical and mental strength is not at its best. And in the hours of mental and physical recovery - it will make it possible to maximize attention, thereby increasing and increasing strength and power.
Six habits
A calm environment helps to concentrate and improve attention. It has already been said how to achieve peace of mind: the absence of fidget and rush that causes nervousness and anxiety. However, you should also exclude external stimuli that prevent you from concentrating on the task at hand and its implementation. Once we find the best place to do the job, we'll get the greatest attention.
Seven Habits
is associated with the ability to control the senses. They connect us with what surrounds us, with the whole outside world. The flow of information that needs to be filtered takes place through them, avoiding everything that is currently unnecessary. And this is done with the aid of attention. For example, if we concentrate on it while reading, we will no longer hear any sound. When we listen to good music, we may not notice what is happening around. It's a great exercise to draw attention to what we're dealing with right now.
The Eighth Habit
Takes part in memory training, which is extremely important for the development of attention. A good memory helps work. It takes less effort to complete, and the search for details and essential information is not distracting. Everything is in our heads, everything is in our hands. Any memory training - and there are many methods and it is not difficult to choose from them according to your taste - will help increase attention and concentration.
This is an acquired habit that enhances attention that someone else's, a third, etc. And when these acquired habits become a necessity and part of your life, your attention to words and deeds will be extremely concentrated without much effort on your part. Moreover, success in any job you undertake is guaranteed. . .