{"id":632,"date":"2015-02-19T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ydblog.yourdost.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/19\/i-am-not-able-to-concentrate-1\/"},"modified":"2015-11-30T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T03:40:56","slug":"i-am-not-able-to-concentrate-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/i-am-not-able-to-concentrate-1.html","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not Able To Concentrate! (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I am not able to concentrate..&#8221; I know how you feel. Please read on.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;\">&#8220;Successful people are not supermen, they are ordinary people but have focus and persistence towards pursuing their dreams. They surround themselves with positivity and other\u00a0successful people.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zt2DpXrURvQ\/VOYeMsIQg-I\/AAAAAAAAH8A\/2dXdX91kzKU\/s1600\/focus.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zt2DpXrURvQ\/VOYeMsIQg-I\/AAAAAAAAH8A\/2dXdX91kzKU\/s1600\/focus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-a7HdNcv8QJ4\/VOYYyJK2C6I\/AAAAAAAAH7o\/aAnQAxLCA_o\/s1600\/PERSISTENCE.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">I know what it feels like opening a book or sitting in the class and not being able to concentrate and focus. I use to hate it, felt that I was not as smart as others, however later I discovered few things which helped me tremendously to improve my concentration.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Here are some simple tips which can help you if you are student, either studying in any college or preparing for entrance exams:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>Sit in first row<\/b><br \/>\nStart sitting in very first row in classes. I know its uncomfortable if you are not used to. But that will help you in learning Concepts and retaining them. You are anyways wasting that 1 hour in that class!<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>Take notes<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><br \/>\nTake notes while you are in class. Pay full attention to the lectures and master the art of taking notes. Learn different techniques of note taking. There is something called mind map note. Research says when we listen and write, we learn and retain twice as much. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>Revise<\/b><br \/>\nForce yourself to just revise once when you come back to your room. It might just take half or a third of time to revise, but it does helps a lot\u2028!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>Group Study<\/b><br \/>\nFind few more people who want to study and do a group study with them. Commit to others and you will be more focused. Remember when you were a kid, you had committed to other friends to play soccer or cricket, they would come and drag you to play with them even if you were not in a mood someday. Isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Apply same thing to studies.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>Focus<\/b><br \/>\nDevelop good focus and concentration. Listen to some meditation music, practice some deep breathing and concentration techniques. You can watch some <a href=\"http:\/\/quotesdost.blogspot.in\/search\/label\/de-stressing%20technique\/?utm_source=site&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=blogYourDost\" target=\"_blank\">techniques here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u2028\u2028<b>Take Breaks<\/b><br \/>\nThere are several researches done which says that the average attention time for human being is shortening. So take breaks and take a walk, so that your mind rejuvenates and is again ready to absorb and concentrate again<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>Condition your mind for the exam<\/b><br \/>\nThis is specially important for the entrance exam preparation. Take the practice exams in the same time of the day and week when the actual exam will be. Mentally, rehearse the exam environment so many times that when the actual exam day comes it will be very comfortable\u2028 and you will not panic.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>Get feedback and improve<\/b><br \/>\nAfter the practice exams, get self-feedback and feedback from others and work on your week points<b><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b>Self talk to program your mind<\/b><br \/>\nWrite in big letters in your room and near bathroom mirror something like &#8220;I like studying. I perform good in exams. I use my time effectively. I am very focused. I am a winner!&#8221;. Say it aloud many times (of course in private&#8230; ) and it will condition your mind to work in right direction.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">I have followed this from my IIT preparation to, MS preparation and even I follow it now. It works! Hope it works for you too.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am not able to concentrate..&#8221; I know how you feel. Please read on. &#8220;Successful people are not supermen, they are ordinary people but have focus and persistence towards pursuing their dreams. 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