Help with concentration!?
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Turn off the TV, or go to another room without the TV there. Make sure someone else is on a computer in your house so it won't be available for you to use. Ask your parents to take you to a Doctor to get tested for ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), and if you have it, get some medicine prescribed to you to treat your ADD. It will probably be so much easier for you to do your homework now.
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If you believe the studies - your brain cannot remain focused for longer than 40 minutes at a time, needing a serious change in pace already after 20 minutes. So- take a break every 40 minutes and change your approach. Switch between reading for 20 minutes to memorizing, to creating little rhymes that help you memorize, to writing, etc. Change your approach every 20 minutes. Change your subject every 40 minutes
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Try meditation and visualisation techniques. Yoga and Tai Chi are also great for increasing focus and concentration. If those aren't active enough for you, some of the other martial arts also work such as Akido (fantastic for concentration if you can find one in your area). If that doesn't do it, then I would recommend Tai Kwon Do. Any one of these arts will be able to increase concentration, attention and focus.
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Good Way to Concentrate is Put your self in a Study Enviroment Such as a libary i hear penut butter helps too or i heard of some kid wanting to cram for an exam so he got some adderall and he said it helped
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What is making it so hard to concentrate? Is everything OK?\nKnow this for yourself. If there's nothing majorly wrong, try an organizer from Walmart or the drugstore, or index cards with tasks and reminders that you print on them. Dollar stores carry these-and organizers sometimes.\nBe patient with yourself when you make mistakes and find healthy ways of dealing with stress.\nTake care, Buttercup
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Turn off your stereo.  Turn off you I Pod.  Or if you can't live without music, try listening to classical music or smoothe instrumental jazz music.  Vocal music was always a big distraction for me when I was studying in college.  Instrumental music helped me concentrate.  \n\nThe book "The Mozart Effect" has very interesting insights regarding music and brain function.
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turn off tv and radio. stay away from noisy environment. keep temperature at a comfortable cool. give in to distracting thoughts for fifteen minutes (as in write down everything that comes to your mind--as in anything!). then mentally tell yourself, i will go back on all these as soon as i finish my homework. it works! try it!
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It's hard to study in this situation but if you can't pay attention in class. Do the studying at home, it'll probably be much more effective. If you want, you can go to the library as well.
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Practice, practice, practice.  Do exercises involving this activity. For example, memorizing Bible verses, encyclopedia, newspaper articles, etc.  Also, stay off drugs, alcohol and eat healthy.  You would be surprised at how much food choices affect the brain.  Sugar-make it history. Exercise the brain as much as you can. Read everything, when you're in a boring meeting or class, try to memorize what people are wearing and check to see how close you were. Now, as you age, this will get harder each year, trust me. So, if you're young, get to it!
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My best trick when I was in college was to study one thing for 15 minutes at a time, take a 2 minute break and then start a new subject, cycling though everything till I was done.. that way my attention span didn't wear out in time for me to not grasp what I was studying and the small breaks helped get me refreshed for the next subject.\nGood luck!
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Stay focuse!\n\nSlowly and easy does it!
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Each time your mind wanders, make a tally in the appropriate section. Keep a card for each day. As your skills build, you will see the number of tallies decrease.\n\nMaximize your energy level\n\nWhen is your energy level at its highest? When are your low energy times? Study your most\ndifficult courses at your high-energy times. Sharpest early in the evening? Study your most difficult course then. Later in the evening? Work on your easier courses or the ones you enjoy the most. Most students put off the tough studies until later in the evening when they become tired, and it is more difficult to concentrate. Reverse that. Study hard subjects at peak energy times; easier ones later. This alone can help to improve your concentration.\n\nVisualize\n\nAs an exercise before you begin studying; think of those times when concentration is not a problem for you--no matter what situation. Now try to feel or imagine yourself in that situation. Recapture that experience immediately before your studies by placing yourself in those moments. Repeat before each study session.\n\nHow to Improve Your Concentration\n\nLearning to concentrate on reading and studying requires some practice. Concentration doesn't just happen as soon as you sit down to do some serious studying. You already know the requirements for your individual study environment. Now all you need is concentration!\n\nRead "How To Improve Your Concentration" to find some techniques to develop your concentration level for peak performance during your study time. After reading the article, you should be able to:\n\nIdentify four common concentration problems;\n\nExplain five techniques for action to reach the goal of peak concentration;\n\nApply three strategies to combat annoyance during study periods.\n\nHow To Improve Your Concentration\n\nStudents can improve study concentration and study ability by paying attention to the conditions of their study environment. On the other hand, concentration will be limited if study habits are not effective.\n\nYour ability to concentrate on a particular lesson depends on (1) how interested you are and (2) how effective your study methods are. Your interest in one assignment will be different from your interest in others; your interest level may even change during that lesson. Because of the difficulties of your motivation while you do your homework, here is the key to effective study: Depending on your interest level at a particular time of study, adapt your study techniques to strengthen your concentration when it is weak.\n\nWhat are the common reasons students lack interest or lose interest during study time?\n\nCommon Concentration Problems\n\nDuring a period of study, there are four times you may have problems with concentration. These are common times which challenge most of the students and you will often have to strengthen your concentration when they happen.\n\nWhen you are "warming up" to study, distractions will interrupt your attention.\n\nWhen you have been concentrating hard on your studying, you may suddenly become annoyed with the assignment.\n\nAfter a long stretch of continuous studying, you gradually become tired and your study results decrease.\n\nWhen you have come to the point of "diminishing returns" and you are losing mental effectiveness, exhaustion takes over.\n\nWhat do you think the student can do to improve concentration in these four examples? Here is an illustration that represents a student's ups and downs of concentration during a study period of over 2 1/2 hours.\n\nWarm-Up: Student should spend time in conditioning one’s own mind for studying.\n\nAnnoyance: After 35 minutes of intense concentration, the student's attention starts to weaken. Break time! Two 5-10 minutes breaks helps to get the concentration level back up.\n\nDiminishing Returns: The third time the student was annoyed by studying, but it was not possible to reach the same peak level of concentration.
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Stop procrastinating and then study :)
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breakdown what your working on into smaller time frames.  Go at stuff in 20-30 minute spurts. Then break, clear your mind, and do it again.  That's what has helped me out
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Set aside a certain amount of time each day to review the material from class.  Re-read and highlight your own notes for main ideas and major details.  If you don't have notes, but you have a textbook, you can skim each chapter and take brief notes now.  Some people work well in study groups where others can explain concepts that you may not understand, but some people can't focus that way.  Learn what is best for you by trying a variety of strategies--with or without music/people/etc.  It also depends what you're studying, but having someone quiz you out loud can help if you need to learn vocabulary.  Good luck!
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Are you interested?\n\nIf you can answer this question honestly, then you will get the answer to your question.  Concentration is directly related to interest, if you are interested in doing something you concentrate else you are distracted.\n\nEven then try doing these things if possible:\nWhenever you feel your concentration wavering, get up from your studies move away for approx. 5 mins and come back.  In between don't go and watch TV.\nFeel your eyes are drooping, splash cold water on them a few times but don't wipe immediately.\nDon't study at a stretch, never good, you will not be able to retain anything.\nAlways have a settled time and place if possible, coz "Practice Makes Perfect".  Your mind and body need to get used to routine, and then it will be almost automatic.  You won't need to get up to study, it will happen automatically.\n\nLast but not the least, don't try doing everything now at the last moment, prioritise your workload and then do it.\n\nFor your future do pranayam and dhyana, they will really help you. Trust me.
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oh yeah, been there and done that! The best thing you can do is to eliminate those distractions:\n\n1. Turn your computer OFF (unless your typing on it, then that work, in that case, don't turn the internet on)\n\n2. Music is fine but maybe you could switch to some calm and relaxing tunes (because if you play music you really like you will just end up bopping to that instead, I know I do so it's best lay of the music that makes you want to dance!). \n\nTry to make your approach to work more interesting, I don't know how you approach coursework but I know from my experience I found it easier to make a 'plan' of what I am going to include in my assignment (use colour pens to make it more vibrant and interesting to look at). Bullet point the things you want to include under different sub-headings, make a list of your sources you have used for your coursework, make a list of the sequence you in which you will raise the different points. \n\nDo this 'plan' on plain white paper with the different colour pens, it will keep you AWAY from your PC and it's a good starting point before you drive straight in and attempt to write your work from cold. \n\nWhen you have done this, you can then sit down and write your coursework up in its proper format, so you will then feel like you have been more constructive as you are pulling all the different elements of your plan together to conclude your work. This will then make it less monotonous.\n\nNow I hope this makes sense! I also have a limited concentration capacity and I really found the above approach helped!\n\nGood luck!