Top 10 Ways to Train Your Brain to Stay Focused

The ability to focus intensely and for a longer period of time on one activity is undoubtedly essential to every person who wishes to attract abundance and results. No matter what goals, profession, or work you are currently pursuing, a disciplined mind is critical for your success. Here are 10 effective ways to train your brain to stay focused and productive.

Plan and Visualize a Few Critical Tasks Each Day

Our thoughts shape our reality. Why? Because our thoughts generate feelings, feelings lead to action, and action leads to results.

Establish one to three critical tasks that must be done throughout the day. Visualize them and simulate the feelings you’ll get after finishing each task.

Acknowledge Your Need to Avoid Pain and to Gain Pleasure

When we do something, we do it because we seek pleasure or because we want to avoid pain.

Become the observer, you’ll be able to be in charge
Every time you want to focus on a task, acknowledge your immediate response

Leverage the Power of Habits

Building productive habits is like teaching your brain how to behave at different yet specific times

Become Sovereign

Sovereignty is the practice of aligning your thoughts, emotions, and actions

Most people lack sovereignty, which means that their emotions aren’t in harmony with their thoughts, neither with their actions.
If you’re aware of this, you can easily implement it and stay focused on your responsibilities and work.

Treat Your Mind Like a Muscle

Whenever you feel like you “must stop working”, you should push it a little further.

Build your levels of focus gradually. First two weeks, try focusing for 20 minutes, take a 5-minute break, then go again.

Takeaways

Until you let yourself be carried by your thoughts, immediate pleasures, fear, and pain, you will experience exactly what you “cultivate”.

Build Willpower and Discipline

Willpower is the fuel of your actions

Discipline is your ability to go past intrusive thoughts, comfort zone, and laziness
These skills require consistent practice, building them is not easy, and giving up is not an option

Avoid Distractions

Ensure that your external environment also lacks distractions

Find Your Peak Hours

To find your most productive hours – the “peak hours,” measure your productivity during various hours of the day.

Pay attention to your energy, thought patterns, distractions, motivation, and moods while experimenting different work hours, and allow at least a week to establish these peak hours

Avoid Multitasking

Give your full attention to the task at hand to improve the quality and speed of work.

Avoid multitasking if you can avoid it
This will improve the speed and quality of work you are putting into your work and reduce your overall distraction.