How to Improve Your Focus During Studying!

Studying is an important part of student life, in simple words, we can say it is a weapon to achieve success in his life.
But in today's era a productive, and focused study seems to be rare because of the busy, and distractive lifestyle of students.
But don't worry about this, in this post, I am about to give some study tips that I personally used and that helps me a lot. I have divided this post into three parts.

• Gaining Motivation & Preparing your Mind
• Starting up & Studying ways
• How to Study Productively

So, guys, let us start!

1) Gaining Motivation & Preparing your Mind

• Find out your true ambition As you know running on a road without any destiny is meaningless, similarly studying without a goal is nothing but a burden on your mind so there is no point in doing this type of study. Before starting please ask your self the reason for this effort, it may be the dream of cracking a competitive exam, getting your desired occupation, or for filling the dreams of your parents who gave up there dreams for fulfilling yours. it truly depends on you, by doing this you are giving yourself a reason for doing hard work.

• Stay healthy, not only from the body also from the mind An effective study is a result of a proper mind and body coordination due to that not only a healthy mind but also a healthy body is necessary. So please take care of your body by:-
• taking a proper and nutritious diet.
• stay hydrated (at least 11 glass of water)
• get enough sleep (for getting an active mind on average a 7-8 hours sleep is important)
• exercise daily (for getting an active body )

these points not only make your body healthy but make your mind active also due to that the power of your subconscious mind will also increase that helps you to understand things in a more effective way.

 

2) Starting up & Studying ways

 

• Prepare your study strategy by analyzing your studying techniques 

    Before starting study it is important to prepare a proper strategy by analyzing the following points 

• Try to find out the particular time of the day or night when you study more productively, for finding this you can try studying at different times to see which is best for you.
• Create a suitable time table or to-do that help you to stay more organized and productive.  Note:- Try to write only those tasks which are important and try to avoid those which can distract you.

• Try to plan a full month strategy so you don't need to mess with planning again and again.
• For effective planning, you can buy a bulleted journal that helps you to organize your life more productively. You can use any notebook or you can buy one by clicking on this link.Click Here to Buy Bulleted Journal

• Remove all of your distractions 

Studying in a distracting environment is greatly responsible for decreasing our productivity, that's why it is very important to remove all distractions for doing this you can follow the following points -

• Tell your friends about your study times and set up your electronic devices to DND (do not disturb) mode to avoid distraction between study sessions.
• Try to stay offline, internet net is not only a huge source of knowledge but also a huge source of distraction so it is very important for disconnecting it if you study from online notes consider downloading offline ones, and if the internet is very important during your study sessions to consider using a separate device like your PC on which non of your social media account was linked so you can't get any visual interruptions.
• Consider using white noises during the study sessions, white noises are a special kind of sounds that helps you to eliminate external distractions and helps you to focus more efficiently.
• Make sure not to study hungry or thirsty, hunger or thirst act as a huge source of distraction so make sure you packed up your water bottles and low-calorie snacks(almonds, peanuts, etc) to eliminate these distractions.
• Gather all your study materials like notes, books, flashcards, etc in one place so you don't have to stand again and again and interrupt your work to picking study materials again and again.

 

3) How to Study Productively

• Stay organized with the Pomodoro Method

The Pomodoro Method is one of the greatest technique ever to stay focused and more productive developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, it was a time interval based method in which the task that you want to commit in a focused manner is done in the interval of 25 minutes without any break due to that full focus is set on the committing work and it cause an increase in our productivity and efficiency and after the competition of these 25 minutes there will be a break of 5 minutes is taken for giving time to the subconscious mind to process the previously consumed information. This method leads to a great boost in productivity but, there are some important points that are important to understand before using this method like -

• All necessary material should be gathered before starting this method. 
• During the Focusing period, all the focused should be on the committed task.
•  Never try to skip break it can cause stress on the mind. 
•  You can always take intervals according to your preferences i.e, 45-15  

•  Take notes while studying 

Self-written notes act as the backbone of your understanding and revision factor so try to take time to time notes with your study sessions and it also works more effectively than downloaded or friend notes. Not only taking notes are important but, also the way you take them matters. for example:- I preferred the famous Cornell notes taking method that was an awesome note-taking method this method works from all the point of views like -

• Note Taking
• Questions and Key terms gathering
• Brief Notes Taking
• Quick Recalling

This is an amazing way of notes making that will help you a most if you want to know about taking Cornell notes you can consider the post How to take Cornell Notes. 

 

• Using Flashcards and Sticky Notes 

Flashcards and Sticky notes act us a great buddy while remembering or recalling to let us discuss the use of both during revising something.

• Flashcards act as a great method of recalling something, they are a bunch of plane blank cards on which we write the terms on one side and there meaning on the second side so at the time of revision we will just pick one card from the card see that side on which terms are written and try to guess the other side by doing this several times with each card we became easily able to recall them any time. If you wanted to buy flashcards you can simply click here. and if you want to know about the method of making flashcards click here

• Sticky Notes are just a bunch of colorful sticker papers that you can stick anywhere mainly they are just used as a to-do list but, the way of using them for remembering that I am about to tell you was practically amazing, in this method you have to write your important formulas, definitions and, terms on sticky notes and stick them on your walls, now after doing this you have to just read them when you are walking to that part of the room or at night before going to the bed or in the morning by doing this you can easily memorize various difficult terms easily.If you wanted to buy flashcards you can simply click here

Like them, there are many other ways that we will discuss in upcoming posts.

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Puneet Sharma