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10 Tips to Manage Your Scattered Brain

Let’s start right away
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Do you feel like you want to do a million and one
things this instant?
 Do you lack the ability or desire to stay with your task
till you complete it, including the simplest of tasks?
 Do you feel unmotivated to start on something that
you really want to accomplish?
 Are you easily distracted and everything in the entire
world seems more interesting than what you’re
doing?
 Are there things you need to do that remain undone
because there is no outside pressure/deadline to
force completion?
If you answered yes to any or all of the above
questions then you are a scattered brainer
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There is nothing wrong with being
distracted every now and then, or not even getting
anything done
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I have been implementing the tips below to deal with
my scattered brain
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Hope you find these tips useful
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This is the most obvious and probably one that is listed
in every productivity book and article out there
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If you don’t know what you want and stuff is just floating
in your head, you’ll never get the satisfaction of doing
anything
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Then Prioritize—with a capital P
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2
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Once you have your list and you determine your top
two or three tasks, choose one to start with and break it
down to the simplest form of action
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If it
takes longer, break it down further
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This is a good way
to tell your brain to just stay with it for 15 minutes
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Start and do it slowly—one task at a
time
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This triggers your brain to drift to what you want to do
next instead of what you’re doing right now
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Do things slowly and
deliberately
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4
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Don’t be tempted to work nonstop for hours on end
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After completing a 15-30 minute task, take a break and
do something fun
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Just don’t take
too long
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Once you complete 4 tasks, take a longer break—an
hour or so
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5
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If you want to have laser sharp focus, you need to learn
how to meditate and do it
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You don’t need to spend an hour
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Do a search and pick a breathing or mantra
meditation
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6
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Work in
intervals
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It
doesn’t matter when you start working on something
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Start the timer and go for it
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Take a break and repeat
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This way you are
guaranteed to work instead of finding excuses to
postpone things till tomorrow, when you can work on
them bright and early
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Don’t do anything else until your
interval is done
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If it is something that requires inspiration
(like writing) and you can’t seem to find any, just sit still
and think about the task until your time is up
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Sooner

or later inspiration will come—you’ll be surprised by
how effective five minutes of silence can be in sparking
your genius
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Keep going
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There is no reason for you to give up
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Remember: practice makes improvement
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Power down and reboot
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Keep it free and don’t commit to
anything new
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Use your off days to unwind and empty your mental
cache
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After a
break, you’ll feel energized and motivated to get back
to your tasks
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Make it fun
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Even
the most mundane thing can be fun and entertaining
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Or that you are trying to set a
world record, or break your own
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Your results depend on where you choose to put your
focus and energy
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Once
you get going and you keep going, there is no turning
back—things get easier and you start harnessing more
of your mental power

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