Scientifically Proved Habits Of People Who Achieve Great Mental Focus.

Success or loss of any task not only depends on the hard work you did but also depends upon the involvement with mental focus. According to study on life has proven that we miss our 50 % of life goals due to a lack of mental focus.

So many times in normal life you read the full page of newspaper or a book without getting the main theme and when you finished the last line, you feel empty about it. you visit the friend’s place and forget the purpose of that visit. Or after spending hours in front of a TV screen you notice that you are watching a program in which you have not any interest. 

What is going on in this conditions, we just lose our control on our mind and lapsed our attentions. Sometimes when we spend more time on a single task our mind stops responding and goes into rest mode which is called dark mode. In these plights, our body is still in working conditions but the neuro messaging connection between body and mind stops. According to a study, we are missing 50 percent of our lives. When such lapses occur during our workday, they not only may annoy us, but they also may be consequential for our success.

What is the way out of these laps and how we can gain our full attention while working from home or in the office? Thanks to advance neuroscience and technology who can give hope in the form to reveal the methods to get attention on our tasks. A leading neuroscientist Amishi Jha recently publish her new book about the topic of mental attention and help to foil the laps of attention during our work.  Jha wort in her book that “Our brains are not broken. In fact, having our focus pulled away by email alerts or even alarming thoughts generated within our own mind is exactly what the brain’s attention system was designed to do.”

Additionally, she explained in the book how things disturb us and break our attention during work. For example, we are in the office and doing the very important tasks and all of in sudden our mobile rings, we just cut off our attention towards mobile and busy in talk,  we have to expend mental energy to guide our focus back to where we need it.

Suppose we are working on a report which we will have to present in a meeting, happen after 1 hour and urgent mobile call just break out attention. Jha project it in this way “Guiding attention back to where we need our focus over and over again is exhausting. And even before we can bring our focus back to the task-at-hand, we need to realize we’ve misplaced it in the first place.”

But again thanks to neuroscience which suggests us some method, which we should adopt to get success in our tasks.  

Do Not Adopt Multitasking

Doing more than one task at the same time is not the smart way, we should take one task at a time and try to put our full efforts on it. Every task has its own point and issues which need to be focused on fully. When we put our minds in multiple problems and try to resolve them all at the same time, we actually create a mess in our minds, and resultantly we lose control and attention. According to Jha “Think of your focus like a flashlight. You direct it toward one task, and then you disengage and move it to the other task, back and forth. You aren’t shining two flashlights on two tasks simultaneously! When all of your focus is needed, turn off notifications, and engage in serial ‘monotasking’ for better results.”

Ignore the unnecessaries

You notice that when you start scrolling social media you just lost for hours and create fatigue in your mind and repeated thoughts about social stories start to district your attentions. Jha suggests doing this short practice multiple times a day as a way to check in with your attention: S = stop what you are doing; T = take a breath; O = observe what is happening within you and around you, and P = proceed. “This brain break allows you to return to the present with the flashlight of your focus right here with you, so you can direct it where you need it,” she writes.

Do Mind Exercise

There are lots of exercises which can train our mind to stay focused and pay attention to time taking tasks. That sort of exercise not only boosts your mind power but also puts pleasure effects on your mood and life. You start feeling happy, energetic. You should involve yourself in mind exercise for at least 12 minutes on daily basis.  Jha reveals, “Our minds were designed for distractibility. You are training instead to notice where your focus is and get it back on track when you need it.”

Begin by sitting comfortably with your posture upright yet easeful. Think “upright,” not “uptight.” Feel free to lower or close your eyes. Jha provides these four steps:

1:  just sit in a relaxed position close your eyes feel yourself in a place which you like most and start taking a deep breath. Now try to still focus on things in that places. feel the fresh air on your face which enters your body through the nose.

2:  You will notice when your mind goes away from your breath, your fouces may have moved to old memories.

3:  When it happens, push your mind’s attention back to breathe.

4: Begin again. Focus, Notice, Redirect.

This exercise will boost your mind very fastly. Try to pick different targets to focus on your mind for 12 minutes with closed eyes. If you are driving or walking just try to think about your surroundings like the building which you are seeing, other people’s nature, and stop the conventional ways of thinking like we do every day.

In addition to that train your mind to reject the unnecessary thoughts which come to your notice in daily routine life. Mindfulness is often framed as an optional wellness activity or an exclusively spiritual pursuit. As Jha’s research into the science of attention reveals, implementing mindfulness into our work lives has the power to benefit our performance, leadership, and well-being.