From the course: Improving Your Focus

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Timing your activity

Timing your activity

- When it comes to growing your focus, what's the most powerful app or device that we can use? It is simply the timer. The lowliest of devices can help us improve our focus significantly. If focus is the act of keeping our attention on something that's most valuable for a long period of time, then we can use the timer, to both measure how long we can stay focused and stretch our ability to focus. and stretch our ability to focus. Pick one thing that you're going to focus on and set a limit, set a limit that you know you can hit and then try to stretch a little bit beyond that limit. For example, have you ever noticed that when you're reading, your attention might start to drift off into thinking about other things. You could use a timer like this to establish an amount of time that you're going to stay focused on reading. Perhaps five minutes. You set the timer for five minutes and you read, reminding yourself that…

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