{"id":2916,"date":"2023-06-14T21:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T01:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-to-master-the-art-of-concentration-for-more-success\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T21:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T01:39:57","slug":"how-to-master-the-art-of-concentration-for-more-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-to-master-the-art-of-concentration-for-more-success\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Master the Art of Concentration for More Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/addicted2success.com\/life\/7-ways-you-can-increase-your-concentration-right-away\/\">Most people lack concentration<\/a>. The problem is acute among college students due to the lack of focus. Focus helps you achieve your goals quickly.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"more-56080\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the mind wavers, the thoughts are scattered, resulting in decreased performance and productivity. It is essential to improve concentration to achieve success in personal, professional, and social life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People find it challenging to concentrate due to various reasons including information overload. While in the past people craved information, presently they are flooded with all kinds of information. It has become a problem of plenty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A survey by the University of California estimates that we are bombarded with 34 GB of information a day, twice as much as 30 years ago. Office workers, meanwhile, are interrupted on average every three minutes. No doubt, therefore, our concentration spans are shriveling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When your mind is scattered, you cannot concentrate whereas when your mind is focused, you can concentrate effectively. It is like the rays of the Sun, when focused upon an object with the help of a magnifying glass, produces heat many times greater than the scattered rays of the same source of light and heat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, when you invest your efforts with a focus, you achieve quicker outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Find some techniques to improve your concentration here.\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Figure out which is the best time for you to work on things that demand your concentration more. When are you comfortable and in what situation? Early mornings and late nights are the times when no one needs you or no one will distract you. Keep the phone switched off and get on to the job.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Take rest for some time every day to enhance your concentration. Think of what you have done till then and what you intend to do. Reflect upon your thoughts at this time so that they do not disturb you when you intend to focus on your core activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> When you read a newspaper article or a chapter in a book, rewrite it concisely without compromising the essence. It helps you enhance your concentration while reading.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Find your stimulant. Some people can concentrate better with soft music playing in the background while some can concentrate only when there is no noise at all. Find out what suits you and adopt it. Ideally, it is better to work in a quiet place to boost your concentration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Take a break and walk around the room for a couple of minutes. This helps you get more oxygen to the brain. When you sit for a longer duration, blood tends to pool in your lower body and legs due to gravity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Figure out how much time a task in hand will take to complete. Form your deadlines. If you feel that you have adequate time to complete it, start working. It helps you concentrate effectively since you have already decided to devote your time to the activity. Avoid distractions during this time. This way, you can avoid switching costs involved in time by shifting from one activity to another.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Once you have allocated a deadline, try to finish the job before time so that you save yourself some extra time to relax or do something of your choice. That is an excellent reward or motivation that you can offer yourself. Because as they say, time is money.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Divide your tasks into high-attention and low-attention tasks. The high-attention tasks need heavy concentration. When you are confident that you have enough time and can concentrate, you can undertake them. Otherwise, opt for low-attention tasks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There are little exercises that help us hone our power of concentration. Here is a simple one. Count from 1 to 100 and backward. Counting backward is awkward and requires a great degree of concentration.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addicted2success.com\/quotes\/31-exceptional-jim-rohn-quotes-to-remember\/\">\u201cThe best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.\u201d \u2013 Jim Rohn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><b>Practice Trataka\/Candle Gaze Exercise<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phil Nuernberger in his book, The Quest For Personal Power recommended the \u201cCandle Gaze Exercise\u201d to improve concentration. This exercise is ideally done in a dark and quiet room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Watch the flame which must be placed approximately at an arm\u2019s length in front of you, and should be at the level of your eyes to enable you to hold your head steady and gaze straight ahead.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ensure that the flame remains steady during the concentration.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Avoid blinking as far as possible. Do it without wearing any lenses or glasses. Do it preferably for 20 minutes every day. Do not push too hard. Avoid straining your eyes. If you get a headache, it means you are pushing too hard.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The candle gaze exercise is also known as the \u2018Trataka\u2019 technique.\u00a0 With this exercise, apart from enhancing your concentration, you can also improve your eyesight and vision. It helps augment intelligence, memory, willpower, decision-making ability, and inner peace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It assists in overcoming mental, behavioral, and emotional ailments and sleep-related disorders such as headaches, insomnia, and nightmares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the beginning, you may feel that the eyes begin to water after only a few minutes. However, with practice, your eyes will be able to continue the gaze for longer periods and you would be able to practice Trataka for up to twenty minutes or so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Painting for example enhances concentration immensely. When you are creating designs on canvas, you are completely engrossed in the patterns and the colors. While painting, many people are known to think.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their thoughts reflect in their choice of patterns and designs and colors. Many confusions ease when you are thinking while doing a creative exercise. Decision-making is faster and not stressful.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Writing Can Help\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At times, when I engage in writing a book, too many ideas strike my mind simultaneously and I find it challenging to concentrate. I cultivated the practice of jotting down the ideas that simultaneously pop up in my mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After jotting down those ideas, I concentrate on authoring again. In this way, I will have the cake and eat it too. It is quite natural to lose focus from your core ideas and thoughts but you must be in a position to capture other ideas that strike your mind and recapture the flow of doing your activity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To summarize, avoid interruptions; focus on one activity; avoid multitasking if that stresses you so much that all your activities suffer. In today\u2019s life, multitasking is a must. But that is a skill that needs to be cultivated over time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give yourself that time. Take regular breaks to recharge and rearrange yourself. Identify the time a task would take and initiate to complete it effectively.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow the above steps and tips to improve your concentration which would help you achieve all-round success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people lack concentration. 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