5 Tips For Reducing Distractions

Today's world is complex and intricate, socially intertwined and packed with information overloaded. The mind is working overtime and it can be incredibly difficult to block it all out and focus. Unfortunately, jobs are becoming more and more specialized, requiring that very focus we don't have. So how can we survive in the world and get things done? How do we train our brains to absorb everything around us but still remain focused on the task at hand? Here are 5 tips for reducing distractions and help improve focus and concentration in your daily life:

1. Follow your mind: While you can't always give into your mind, sometimes you have to realize that you need to rest and take some time to do what you enjoy. It's crucial that you can differentiate between when you truly need to take a break and when your brain is just being a painful distractor!

2. Periodical revision: This is the other important principle of superb focus and concentration in hypnosis. Hypnosis considers the technique of periodic review as the best thing that a man can enjoy to increase his focus and concentration. When you learn something, the periodical update of that thing is necessary to retain that information in your mind.

3. List out your goals or ambitions in a plain white paper. Write down what you want to become and the ways through which you can achieve that goals. List out what you cherish to become in big, bold and clear handwriting. This way, you can look at it and force yourself back to your task.

4. Remove your distractors: It's no surprise that you find yourself texting and calling your friends when your phone is right infront of you, buzzing away. If you really want to accomplish your goals then sometimes you have to completely remove the distractors from your life. Put your phone into another room. Block Facebook. Delete your Twitter account. Put your goals first!

5. Hypnosis enables you to reduce distraction. It provides us with the right tools to reinforce our focus and concentration. People often complain about the things in their life that they find difficult to concentrate and focus upon. This happens when you focus more on what you don't want rather than what you want. The factors that affect your ability to focus and concentration are stress, poor diet, anxiety, lack of sleep, etc. the problem of lack of focus and concentration is very embarrassing and frustrating. It can cause you lose your confidence and self-belief. The factors that can help you develop a sharp and sound memory for the perfect focus and concentration are your attention, intention and your interest in that subject.

How To Improve Your Focus

Whether you are a sportsperson, actor, student or a working professional, your performance is determined by your ability to focus properly. However, there are times times when our mind wanders away and it becomes impossible for us to concentrate on anything.. Hence, by following some simple tips, we can ensure that we always manage to stay sharp and focused.


1. MEDITATION: It will be great for your body and mind if you can manage to allocate at least half an hour everyday for meditation . But, that is not possible for everyone. Fortunately, that doesn't matter, because even when we are breathing we can practice meditation. Breath is the main source of our energy and by simply becoming aware of your breath, you can slip into meditation. That best part about this is that, you can do this anywhere and anytime.

2. KEEP YOUR GOALS SMALL AND ACHIEVABLE: It is good to dream big, but sometimes you can get distracted and lose focus. Since the dream is too big, you will fail to realize any immediate results which brings you closer it. It is best to break it into smaller portions and then slowly achieve them one by one.

3. START FASTING A BIT: Everyone knows that eating heavy slows us down and makes us feel lazy and sleepy. Fasting has lots of good benefits. It boots our metabolism process and helps to keep us sharp and focused. However, small amount of fasting is recommended only. Don't starve yourself. 

4. TAKE PART IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES: Always try to keep yourself engaged in physical activities. It helps to keep our body in a good shape and also helps us to stay focused. As per a study, 20 minutes of yoga everyday enhances the brain functions and improves our ability to focus.

5. SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH MOTHER NATURE: Sometimes it is better to just sit down and enjoy the small, beautiful things about Nature. The chirping of birds, twigs crackling, the wind blowing through the branches of the trees- just sit down and try to listen to these sounds. You will feel at peace. As a result, your focus will also improve.

6. EXERCISE YOUR MIND: Apart from taking part in physical activities, try to keep your mind engaged in different activities. Solve some puzzles or the crossword, take part in debates and discussions or involve yourself in any creative activities. In short, don't let your mind stay idle. 

7. LISTEN TO MUSIC: Music is a big stress buster and helps us to maintain our focus. However, most people listen to music while reading or exercising. Instead try to listen to the music carefully. Try to listen to the different instruments playing in the background and focus on any one of them. It adds a new dimension to your music listening experience and is also very good for your mind.

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While it isn’t always good to compare yourself to others, it can be a boost to your self esteem and give you a true picture of marketers in a way that lessens your own anxiety. Some of what you see will be good and encouraging and some might be eye-opening to your own struggles.

At the very least, you should learn that no one is perfect or always experiences success. As a marketer, it’s likely that you follow many other marketers. Dig a little deeper into some of those you subscribe to and try to pick out a few things they might be doing wrong.

Maybe they have some gaps in their products or their video marketing could use some polishing. It could be that even those you admire constantly have some ideas and strategies that you don’t agree with. No one is perfect and gets it right every time – even the most successful of online entrepreneurs.

All suffer from failures and setbacks, but you’ll soon learn as you peer into the online lives of your fellow marketers, that the failures don’t define who the successful ones are. The successful marketers view failures as a chance to learn, pick up the pieces and try again.

The successes will likely far outweigh the failures. And some marketing strategies may appeal and work for others, but not for you. When you see your fellow marketers as humans who have different tastes, ambitions and talents than you, perhaps you won’t compare yourself unfavorably to them.

Online marketing is no different from any other part of life – different strokes for different folks. Striving for perfection can undermine everything you want to accomplish and set you up for failure because absolute perfection doesn’t exist.

Chasing it can only add to your sense of failure and inadequacies and cause unhappiness and great disappointment in your life. It’s best to think of your efforts as striving to be the best you can be. 

If you can view your self worth by knowing that you’re living up to your own standards rather than someone else’s, you can live the life that was meant for you rather than seeking perfection, which is only an illusion.

You may be waiting for the perfect time, place or scenario in your life to begin seeking success. You’re poised and ready, but the world isn’t – so you’re stopped in your tracks. Realize that there’s never a perfect time or place and move forward where you are right now in life.

The most successful entrepreneurs among us have begun on a small scale – refusing to wait until they had time, money and energy to begin their venture on a larger scale. Each success gave them more confidence to try something bigger and better until true success – not perfection – was within their grasp.

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Negative thoughts are the nemesis of creating a successful business – and life – for yourself. It’s difficult to drown out the thoughts that corrupt your thinking and prevent the flow of energy to make yourself better, but there are some ways to calm a racing mind and stop the flow of negativity that threatens to bring you down.

Perhaps you just need some quiet time – time for yourself to ruminate on the positive things you’ve accomplished. Meditation is one way to achieve the quiet time you need to get your thoughts under control.

Whether you meditate in the forest, next to a babbling brook or in a quiet place in your home with the television and other devices turned off, the quiet you’ve created can be a catalyst for more creative and positive thought patterns.

When you’re meditating, you may want to try positive affirmations as a way to quiet your brain and push out negative thoughts and feelings. An affirmation can be as simple as repeating to yourself that you’re stronger than all of the negative thoughts that come your way and that you can and will overcome them.

Journaling is also a good way to get your negative thoughts out of your mind, onto pen and paper and see them for what they are. Journaling lets you get and keep in touch with your deeper inner self and create an awareness that you haven’t experienced before.

It’s a fact that writing is an exercise that seems to reinforce and help you understand things better than typing or even speaking. Journaling helps you work out problems that may have cluttered your thinking in the past.

Reinforcing the positive messages you receive from yourself or others is an important and viable way to drown out negative thoughts. The above methods of affirmations, meditation and journaling are valuable tools to ensure that negative thoughts and feelings don’t remain in your life and that you can continue progressing to a more positive inner state of mind.

When weeding negative thoughts out of your life, make sure you surround yourself with positive people whenever you can. It’s easy to be influenced by people who always spout negativity and seem to want everyone around them to feel the same way.

Of course, it’s impossible to feel upbeat all the time. Life is sure to get you down once in awhile. But find a way that works for you to silence the negativity and stop being so hard on yourself.

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How many times do you think Thomas Edison failed in his attempt to bring light into our lives by inventing the lightbulb? Likely, he failed more times than we can count. Imagine how he felt when he worked so hard (during daylight hours or by candlelight) to find something that worked, came so close each time – and then failed with each attempt.

Then, finally it happened. One path Edison took led to the invention of the lightbulb and all other attempts were forgotten. We’ve been bathed in iridescence ever since. Edison and other successful entrepreneurs have all suffered from self doubt, but trudged on through the lack of confidence to make their dream a reality.

Think about the times in the past (even as a child) that you’ve persevered through disabling doubts that you could do something, only to find out that it wasn’t within your grasp even though you gave it your all.

Either you shrugged and went on to something else or withered away in self-pity that prevented you from possible future successes. Virtually every successful person in the world has failed many times before.

It’s doubtful those failures are even remembered because the success is so bright that they aren’t visible. Online entrepreneurs are highly susceptible to self doubt. There’s so much to learn and so many ways to go about each venture that it may seem overwhelming – especially to newbies.

Rather than wasting time stewing over each failure and making yourself miserable, make a firm decision to move on – and then do it. Begin on the new project immediately by setting short and long-term goals and really dig deep into how you’re going to ensure it’s a big success.

Each success will spur you on to the next project – and the next, until you have some firm accomplishments under your belt. Next time a failure happens, you can focus on the successes you’ve had to break the cycle of self doubt and begin again.

Before you begin a project or new venture, think about all of the possible scenarios that can happen. Make sure you include the worst-case scenarios along with the rewards that will happen when you succeed.

After you face your fears of “what if,” you can use those fears as challenges. Looking at fears as challenges rather than obstacles can only help boost your self confidence and help you begin to see success in your future rather than failure.

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Comparing yourself to other marketers can only be detrimental to your present and future successes. You may not be at the same experience level of those you’re comparing yourself to and another person’s success may not be the magical transformation you perceive it to be.

Self doubt can arise from the comparisons you make between you and fellow marketers. Some may seem to have the Midas touch to whatever project they choose to pursue – but you aren’t privy to what goes on before the huge successes.

Those entrepreneurs who are successful have likely spent an enormous amount of time, money and effort on their ventures. It may look easy, but chances are they had many self doubts about their own potential for success before it happened.

Comparison to others and the self doubt that follows goes on in every business - but it’s more prevalent in Internet marketing because you’re always putting yourself out there, presenting yourself and your ideas to others.

If the many failures that are sure to happen were figured into the mix, another person’s success may look entirely different to you. Huge and consistent successes of others can make you feel like such a loser – because someone is always making more money than you or seems to be successful with every launch of a product.

Comparisons like that are dangerous to your own self confidence and can defeat what you’re trying to accomplish. You may not be aware of their many failures in the past or of how many hours and dollars they’ve spent getting to this point.

One way to look at comparisons differently is to view them as challenges. “If she can do it, I know I can!” may be exactly the boost of adrenalin you need to take action and make your own success come true.

Many people who have reached a certain level of success use comparisons to others as a tool to strategize their future business moves. It provides quick insight to trends and what’s working for others so you can incorporate many of the same ideas for yourself.

Competition is fierce among many types of businesses – especially Internet marketing. Looking into strategies of other marketers can be a good thing if you use them as models rather than comparing yourself to them in a negative way.

Self doubt can become the nemesis of your future. Guard against comparing yourself to others in a negative light and focus on your present and future goals to lead you to the success you desire.