Table of contents:
- Determine When You Work Best
- Get rid of emotional blocks
- Understand that focus is a conscious choice
- Dedicate your free time to learning and self-development
2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
To get into a state of flow, determine your most effective time and learn how to get rid of unnecessary thoughts.
Determine When You Work Best
Although our body and mind can easily adapt to any conditions, during the day there are certain periods of time when you will be better at doing certain things. Experiment and determine when it is easiest for you to wake up, work, and solve creative problems.
When you regularly work at the most effective times for you, your results will gradually improve by 10 or even 100 times. The more you practice, the easier it will be for you to concentrate. The brain will remember how to work with concentration, and itself will switch to this mode.
Get rid of emotional blocks
Every day we are surrounded by thousands of distractions, advertisements, small things. Every person wakes up with thoughts of routine, insignificant things. Before you try to focus and enter the flow state, you need to get rid of such thoughts. It's best to splash them out onto paper.
Writer Julia Cameron called the morning recording process "mental windshield wiping." Having got rid of accumulated thoughts in the morning, you will clear your mind of debris that obscures your view. It is useless to try to enter the flow state until you have wiped your "windshield".
Understand that focus is a conscious choice
Most people don't try to develop self-discipline or control their thoughts. Cal Newport, in his book, Working With Your Head, noted that communication (social media, mail, internet) distracts us from work that requires continuous concentration while impairing our ability to focus.
More often than not, we wake up and immediately pick up the phone. Notifications, email, news feeds, and social media drive our thoughts throughout the day. This teaches us to live in distraction and vanity.
If you set yourself up to always respond to incoming tasks, no matter how small and trivial they may be, you will never be able to focus and work in a state of flux. Make informed choices and ignore distractions.
Dedicate your free time to learning and self-development
Many people prefer to be distracted or entertained after work. Few people spend time on self-development. But that's exactly what successful people do. They know that the ability to focus and work is the factor that determines performance and future success.
Oddly enough, for many, free time becomes even more stressful than work.
Mihai Csikszentmihalyi psychologist, author of flow theory
At work, people feel skillful, so they are happier, stronger, more creative, and more content. And in their free time, they have nothing to do, their skills are not used, so they are more likely to experience sadness, boredom and discontent. But everyone wants to work less and rest more.
If you want to be someone who can concentrate and don't pay attention to distractions, first change your approach to free time. Learn more and improve yourself, spend less time on empty entertainment.
And remember, choosing to ignore distractions is not trying to completely remove them from your life. The problem is not with them, but with you. There will always be distractions. You just need to learn how to work without paying attention to them.
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