Top Ten Tips for Increasing Concentration

  Top Ten Tips for Increasing Concentration

1. Begin assignments with some curiosity concerning the fabric and a positive angle toward learning.

2. Designate an area wherever you go solely to review. Use correct lighting.

3. Determine your distractions. Notice ways that to decrease them or to set back them till study breaks (e.g., taking the phone off the hook, turning off instant messenger).

4. Decrease noises around you whereas learning. If you would like some background music it ought to be soft. Keep the TV off.

5. Use "active study" techniques: sit straight during a chair at a table, begin out with questions about the fabric, define chapters, underline key phrases when reading an area, write notes in margins, raise yourself what you've got learned.

6. Divide your work into smaller manageable tasks which will be completed during a short amount of your time. Push yourself to complete one tiny task, then go to subsequent task. Specialize in one tiny task at a time.

7. Use times of peak alertness for learning troublesome or less attention-grabbing topics. After you are tired or hungry concentration are going to be lowered.

8. Once your mind starts to wander come back up with some cue words to mention to yourself (e.g., "focus." "get back on task.") to focus your concentration once more.

9. Take breaks after you have completed tasks or after you feel concentration has attenuated. Breaks ought to be or so 10-15 minutes.

10. If you've got alternative assignments or problems on your mind write them down on a "to do" list or take a little step to manage them. Then revisit to that specialize in the task at hand.