One thing that made me quite happy was understanding that focusing is a skill. And so it can be practice, just like any other skill. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it focusing is a skill that will help you to acquire any other skill. Well, your ability to focus can be improved every single day. For me, this was quite important to understand, I get distracted very easily. And I've always thought there was not much I could do about it.
A few years ago, I couldn't focus on anything for more than 10 minutes. And I was also not trying to focus because I was constantly checking my phone. Since I was really young that my teachers kept saying that my mistakes during the tests were because my lack of focus, which was true, so since my last year of high school, I think that I started to really focus intensively and to practice that skill. Every single day because the better your ability to focus is, the less time you have to dedicate to achieve some tasks, which will literally give you more free time and will help you to achieve better results. And I'm the proof that everyone can increase that ability to focus. But it's necessary to make the effort to focus and to eliminate all the possible distractions.
I'm not perfect, but I'm way better than I was before. And for me, the biggest step I took towards increasing my ability to focus was to stop checking my phone and to stop getting up when I felt like I should be doing something else. You might start by focusing for 25 minutes instead of timer with that time and at the end of it, give yourself a little break. But if you really are in the zone and you are doing the work very intensively, you know, kind of skip the break and give yourself a longer break. afterwords slowly by using this little time crunches the focusing time during the day, you will be able to increase your ability to focus exponentially, create a competition or a challenge with yourself, where you commit to focus for four or five blocks of time, every single day. As you get better increase the number of blocks during the day or increase the time.
This is a great way to master the ability of focusing in the beginning. I set a timer for 25 minutes, but I'm now able to focus for 45 minutes and then I give myself a break.