The ability to control your attention is even better than time-management creativity. You can collect several points in order to be more attentive and start catching lots of things to do. Let’s see what kind of items you need to accomplish for being more attentive person.
1. Think about your attention like about money
Imagine that your attention looks like money and you have it lot. You are able to spend it on different “expensive” and “not expensive” tasks. Serious work, reading, leisure time etc. Important tasks require lots of attention, but cost cheap. Less important tasks like social networks scrolling are cheap, but cost a lot.
2. Do not start your day with gadgets
Do not start your day with reading social networks pages, nobody has changed the world just scrolling the news feed in Facebook. It’s better to start your day with reading the book or writing in your diary.
3. Concentrate on the most important tasks
On the way to any goal, there are several tasks, which are the most important for your success. If you neglect them and do other things, you will have a sense of employment, but productivity will suffer.
Productivity is not how much time you spent on something, but how you spent it. It just depends on the ability to manage your attention.
4. Avoid the multitasking
It hurts both productivity and ability to work with concentration. Do not rely only on willpower. If you have ten tabs in your browser, there are always some alerts and notifications, and next to you there is a phone, you doom yourself to failure.
Try at least to concentrate on one thing for an hour. During this time, you can do more than for a full working day, when you constantly switch from one to another.
5. Do not ignore having a rest
Relax and having a rest is necessary. In addition, while you relax, the brain continues to work. Therefore, the solution of problems and brilliant ideas often come when you take a shower or walk in the park.
6. Build plans for the next day from the evening
In such way, you can avoid overfatigue from making decisions and do not waste willpower on trifles. Since morning it's usually easier to concentrate, so it's better to spend this time on something important. Plan everything from the evening, prepare everything you need to start your business right away.
7. Know exactly what important for your at first
Say “No” to all things, which are not in your priorities. Start your day with necessary things and omit all useless actions and tasks that can slow you down.
