It is as if attention goes to the other side because the mind does not want to sit in anything. Perhaps you are reading, and then suddenly, someone messaged you, or a notification from Facebook came, or you entered YouTube because you needed to read and after that, you don't understand how you passed a few hours in the blink of an eye.
You want to do things and move forward with activities, but they don't want to move forward. If you look with a little discerning and analytical eye, you can find out the root problems. Let's see if we can figure it out?
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1. You are really, really tired which is killing your brain cells
Hi coming again and again?
Looking blurry?
Eyelids are falling asleep?
You must be very tired. This always happens when you have been working continuously at one spot. Tired bodywork more slowly?
When the brain gets tired from working, it needs rest. Rest flushes toxins out of the body and restarts the body.
But what will the brain do if you don't give it that chance? Then the tired cells of the brain can not bear the pressure and die. A little sunlight is also important, natural light is good for rejuvenating body cells.
Adult people need 8-10 hours of sleep, if it is less or more, the body cannot adjust to the routine properly.
I have a friend who will have a headache for the rest of the day if he does not take a nap in the afternoon. He must have an afternoon nap, regardless of whether he slept all night or not. Maybe his most effective time of rest is his afternoon nap.
Interesting fact: in Japan, it is forbidden to wake a person who fell asleep while working in the office. They say his brain has been fully used as a result of working well with attention, so now he needs to rest. Rather, they encourage it. The Japanese know it very well. What do you say, apply for a Japanese visa or not?
2. Any news can be bad news for your business
What happens when we hear bad news? Are you sad? It has a bad effect on our minds. Some even get sick from thinking too much (like my mother?) I don't remember exactly who, but the news of the death of someone in my family was not told to the little one, why? Because his public examination was going on. The test may get spoiled if he gets to hear about the death of any nearby person.
Critical: Now, brother, I am not running into someone's danger?
Granted, I am saying that there is no need to run immediately for small urgent needs. If there is no problem if you show up after 10 minutes, finish what you are doing and go after 10 minutes.
What I do is keep the phone on Do Not Disturb mode except for 3 numbers—the 3 being my exclusives.
Now, if there's anybody in the world that you need the most, or if there's any person that would make the most sense to go to first, then it is these 3 people, right?
Moreover, going out with a friend, or replying to the sir's mail after 20 minutes won't kill anyone, and in case of their 'do or die' situation, they won't call me first; they will seek help from their close ones first, isn't it?
Good news and bad news
So what's the good news?
Brother, you are thinking you have hit that 10 lakh rupee jackpot and your luck has opened, that you are a big man, you have a beautiful husband/wife now, and you can return those 90 rupees you borrowed a long time ago to your friend-very good.
But if you come to know the news after 10 minutes, will it be too much of a loss? Or if you can't take the 10 lakhs within 10 minutes, the money will fly? Even if they really win the lottery, they give a few days to get the prize.
Now, when we hear something good, the level of brain adrenaline is high, meaning the body feels good, but it can't be stabilized soon. Then the mind doesn't want to sit down at work; it just remembers the good things.
Now, if you really do win the lottery, you wouldn't do a 20,000 enterprise job for 20 seconds, but news like the lottery doesn't come every day. Small news is enough to lose attention.
For example, it will be some kind of sports news. I need to see how Tamim just hit a six. Maybe the GF gives the message; if she doesn't reply, it's a breakup.
The simple solution to both cases, you already finished the work and watched the game during the game. What is the need to have such a gf? Good understanding between the partners is a must otherwise, the relationship will go like this. Reply is a resource. You will find many such relationships; there is a huge age difference, but the family is living happily because of that understanding. If you do not understand the benefit of others, why will others understand yours?
3. Trying to do too many things at once
Your phone may be the multitasking king but not your brain. Humans are not good at multitasking – I heard this a long time ago. Try it yourself, you can't make two stories together in your head even if you want to. You can but if you focus on one thing then the plot of the story would have been better.
"We simply shift quickly from one task to another, not doing two tasks simultaneously"
Writing an email? Finish the email, don't write a poem just to write the email. Writing poetry? Do that, don't go the other way. Set lists according to priority, and put important tasks first, Google, and Microsoft – both have ToDo apps to do this.
If it's long-term work, divide parts and finish one by one; then, the trouble will be less, and it would be convenient to keep the work on track. In this case, the Pomodoro technique can be very effective.
4. Not enjoying what you are doing?
Whatever we do in life, we are doing it for a little happiness and peace, isn't it? But what one has to do to bring peace—be it going to the office, studying, sweeping the house, cooking, or for that matter, anything fun like losing a game—is not very pleasant at all.
Mark Twain has quoted, Eat the frog. Here he is not actually asking to eat frogs? By frog, he means the biggest and hardest work.
We all have some target in life for which we need to work hard. Of course, many things are needed, and hard work is something that needs to be given every day, without a little bit of progress can't be made.
You can't give one year's labor in one day. Here the concept of eating the frog is doing something at the beginning of the day without delay for that target. If you start your day like this –
Take another step on the road to your future
Peace of mind too, no burden in the mind that it has to be done, not done yet, will sit after evening, etc
Last word,
Whatever you do, do it slowly, with focus and joy. Think about what you will get as a result, and how much it will make your life meaningful.
As I said in point three, break down the big tasks, make a to-do list, and keep an account of how much has been done.
Then it will not be random and it will be convenient to understand how much progress has been made.