By Remez Sasson
How to improve your concentration and attention? Why it is important?
Paying attention to what you are doing is one of the most important keys to success. If you are not able to hold your attention on one thing for some time, how can you accomplish anything?
Successful people are able to focus their mind on their goals day and night, until they accomplish them, be it money, fame, power, self-improvement or meditation. How can you improve your ability to focus your mind on your goals, when there are so many things that distract your attention?
Napoleon Hill said the following words about attention:
“Controlled attention is the act of coordinating all the faculties of the mind and directing their combined power to a given end. It is an act, which can be achieved only by the strictest sort of self-discipline.”
“Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose. You will have learned the secret to power and plenty! This is concentration.”
“Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t want!”
This is good advice for any person, who wishes to learn how to improve concentration and attention.
I have written several articles on this important subject. Below are two of them:
The Power of Concentration
Concentration Exercises
Tips for improving concentration and attention:
1. Don’t say you cannot concentrate. Telling yourself that you cannot concentrate only makes it more difficult. By doing so, you program your mind to lack of concentration and attention.
2. Whenever you need to focus your mind, tell yourself over and again that you can concentrate. Tell yourself that you can develop this ability.
3. Remember that in order to improve your concentration you need to train it, like any other skill. If you persevere, and are earnest, in time, you will be able to focus your mind on anything you want.
4. Make deals with your mind. If there is something that is distracting your attention, such as emotional problems or unresolved business problems, tell your mind that all these problems can wait for a little while, and that you will attend to them after you finish what you are doing. If this does not help you, then write down on a piece of paper what problems you have to think about or solve. This will, to some extent, temporarily remove the problems from your mind.
5. Do one thing at a time. Jumping from one thing to another will only teach your mind to be inattentive and lose attention quickly, besides that this kind of mental restlessness can be tiring in the long run.
6. When you focus your attention on anything, be alert, and when you find yourself thinking on something else, try to stay patient, and bring your mind to the subject again and again.
7. Often, when you remember, try to fix your attention on whatever you happen to be doing at the moment.
The American business author and former management professor at the University of New Orleans, Michael Leboeuf, said: “When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”
“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”
Diane Sawyer
“Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.”
T. Harv Eker
“Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.”
Perry Paxton
Learn to focus your mind, ignoring distracting thoughts, external disturbances, and noises.
Remez Sasson is an author and blogger. He is the founder of SuccessConsciousness.com, a website and blog about self improvement and spiritual growth.
Remez Sasson is the author of several life transforming books, containing a wealth of information, advice and guidance.
Very nice blog with a good layout! Good article on an important topic! The tips are good reminders. Concentration is a major factor in achieving what you want and not achieving it for sure.
I didnt knew these all things but i think i will be follow these all tips .oopsi i forgot to introduce my self. I am a girl (that every one knows by seing my name.Ha Ha Ha)i study in class 6 & i am good at studies too.but u know that i am going 2 give my first exam & i want to do best in it .If u all have more tips then please please please please………………ifinite times (because i cant write so much .ha ha ha again)give me.
Thanks for all these tips, I will surely try them.
Training your mind regularly has the most benefit over time, but the hardest to keep going consistently.
Great Post.
Toshi O.
thankx fo these tips .i promise mself that i will work on it.& i think this will work.thanks a lot for these tips.
ya , this is good and i will try and i m sure it will work in a very effective way .
thanks.
Earlier Eshita said that she is good in her studies, but I am not like her. I am a student with average marks. I am doing my plus one now (biology science). I am sure that it will help me a lot. I am thanking you…
I would like to know how to improve my concentration and attention, mental mastery and inner peace.
You can find information about concentration, attention, mental mastery and inner peace in many of the articles in this blog and at the main website.
i am 21 yrs. old and i want to know how i improve my concenteration , attention , inner peace , mental mastery and childhood mind .
vijaycomputerssakti@gmail.com
Thank you aatish for your message.
Start with the exercises at
http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000005.htm.
If you want to go further you may read the book Peace of mind in Daily life. It teaches concentration, inner peace and mental mastery.
Remember, you need to practice and more practice. You need to invest time to get real results.
LOVE THE tips , will surely try.
I will try it………I like these tips
Thank you sir …you have changed my life.
Ill try out these tips in my daily routine and also gonna use it in my project
Wonderfully nice. A lot of thanks.
How to increase my concentration and attention more effectively?
Hi there,
i’m a new comer to your great blog. Yet, I must confess that i have found your thougts most provocative. Just want to add…
That concentration is hugely dictated by our preference as well. What we like we attend to in greater detail, for longer, and with increased dedication. So, just get to like what you need to work on, concentration folows. Simple, but not so easy for most ordinary people. But why be ordinary ??So…..Concentrate!!!
Buddha bless
Mona
dilli babu,
You can find exrcises at:
http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000005.htm
The tips are good, but please give more tips. By the way, I am an engineering student going to write my exams in few more weeks. Suerly I will follow the tips and give my best.
Star, try to focus on what you are doing. If your mind wanders, always bring it back. It would have been great, if there was a short and quick way to control the mind, but there isn’t.
Please visit http://www.successconsciousness.com/power-of-concentration-articles.html, for more information and exercises.
Its great.
I think this will help during my exam.
Your tips are very clear and makes sense. I will use this for everyday life. I keep telling myself I can’t concentrate that’s why I am bringing the negative thoughts. I will concentrate and can concentrate. Thank you!!!
It is a matter of thinking they always say. I agree that “self-discipline” plays an important role to achieve concentration. It may be easier said than done but practice and time will improve everything.