How to Improve Concentration

How do you improve your concentration? … Firstly the purpose of asking such a question is more to do with being able to focus on something for the purpose of being more productive, so a better question to ask might be; how do I focus on what I want? Or how do I keep myself on track to achieving my goals? When it comes to your attention, it is perfect. It always does exactly what you want it to do. The problem arises when we are not exactly doing what we are passionate about. It is not the result that we must fall in love with i.e. money. Money is a goal that everyone has and is something we can get passionate about once we have it, but are we passionate about the process of making it? Are we expressing our passion in the process of earning? If not, concentrating on something you are not completely aligned with is a distraction in itself. Your mind has a functional process within it called the reticular activation system. We cannot be distracted by everything that happens to occur within our field of vision, otherwise we would not be able to achieve anything. Our reticular activation system brings to our attention only the things that we really want to see and know. This involves a level of emotional involvement. You must get emotionally involved in the tasks that lead you to your goal. The tasks themselves must be rewarding to you in order for you to stay on track. This can be artificially created with small rewards at each minor milestone on your path and larger rewards with the more major milestones. This will work to an extent but is far more powerful when you truly enjoy your work. Love your work, love the people you work with and always encourage yourself and the people around you. This is the path to success. This will make some people uncomfortable because what I am suggesting is that perhaps there is a reason why you are not yet successful? Think about it….perhaps it time to move on and follow your passion and of course you should think about how to monetise this to some degree, f possible or supplement this passion with other work that earns. When you start seeing things in this way, life should begin to flow better.