Hi Kira Leskew here. You have something really important to do and you just
can't concentrate. I'm going to give you an overview of the reasons that can
cause this and point you in the next steps in learning how to improve your
concentration in five minutes or less so tuned.
Improving concentration is a huge and very topic, and I am so glad you're here to learn more.
As humans we have two tools that we're all born with: Our minds and our emotions.
And most of us need training on how to use both of these effectively which
unfortunately a lot of us don't get. But before I go into specifics on how to
improve your concentration, I want to give you a background on all the
different factors that actually can have an impact on your concentration, and
there's a lot of them and they're complex.
Such this is a big topic, I'm gonna do a whole series of videos so that I can
break it down into more specifics. So once you think you've got a general idea
from this video, look for some of my future videos that I'll do to break down
some of the specific topics. The first one is physical,
and your physical is broken up into your body and your environment. With your body
your ability to focus and concentrate can be affected by a number of things;
your health, your diet, too much of the wrong thing, too much of the right thing
or not enough. Now everybody's different and I don't think that there's a one
size fits all diet that's gonna work for everyone, and also, just cause you got it
figured out in an earlier point your life doesn't mean that it's going to
keep working for you now. And I can see from my own personal experience
that changing my diet or changing my physical environment has a huge impact
on my ability to concentrate. I'm gonna give you a general example: For most
people, eating stuff that's carb heavy is going to make it more hard to
concentrate because you're going to feel tired. You'll know this if you
have something that's carb heavy for lunch, and you feel listless, difficult to
concentrate and you just don't feel as good in the afternoon. But the opposite
can also be true if you don't have enough to eat and you don't have enough
carbohydrates, that can also make it really difficult to concentrate. I am going
to cover diet and physical environment and other things in future videos so check
out the cards in the links I'll put them there as I post them. The next thing that
can really affect you in terms of your ability to concentrate is your emotions.
For example, if you're depressed then you're just gonna have lower interest in
things and it's going to be harder to concentrate. If you're angry, you're gonna
find that your minds wandering, and it's
thinking about those things over and over and over again instead of being
present of where you ar. So learning to deal with those can really help you
in dealing with your concentration. I want to say also that there are
some times when you will need professional help to deal with that,
so if you need it, go get it. There is no need to suffer, but in future videos
I'm going to help you with handling the normal range of emotions so that you
may get angry for a period of time, but it's not like a theme in your life.
I'll show you how to deal with that and how to get out of that so that you can
get back to concentrating on what you have at hand. Now the next thing which is
really important is desire and motivation.
And desire is actually wanting to do the thing that you're doing and you know what,
sometimes we have different levels of wanting to do something, so maybe I don't
want to do it right this minute, but in the big picture I want it a lot, then you
can usually bring your concentration back, remember why you're doing it and get on
with it. But there's other times in life where you can't focus and concentrate
cause you really don't want to be doing what you're doing at all, cause you should actually be
doing something else. And I experienced this in my life when I was near the end
of me being in my first business. I was having a real hard time concentrating
and quite frankly in the past it had been pretty easy to focus. And the truth is
that that particular business wasn;t interesting to me anymore, and the real
truth for me was that I needed to sell that business and move on to do
something a lot more satisfying. So in future videos I'm going to cover the desire
aspect of concentration, so make sure you check out the links for the video if you
think that this applies to you. Now the last one is skill and practice.
Like any other skill in life, learning to concentrate takes practice and this is
where mindfulness in action, mindfulness meditation and other forms of meditation
can really help you out. It's great if you got all the other factors in place,
and you have the motivation, but if you don't actually have the skill to do it
then you're still going to be stuck. In school we're taught how to learn, how to
memorize, how to problem solve and mostly in specific situations. However most of us
weren't trained how to use our brains. We weren't trained how to concentrate or
employe the incredible potential that is our minds. Since this is such a big topic
I'm actually gonna be launching a course on developing concentration so stay tuned for that, and
in it, I will be talking about these topics and more, but in the meantime I'm gonna
be doing a series of videos to help you out on each of these topics, so you can
figure out what you need to do to take the next step in improving your concentration.