5 ways to increase mental stamina and more productive
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
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Mental endurance - the ability for a long time to concentrate on complex mental tasks. It is essential for a productive learning new skills, a long intellectual work or research activities.
Low endurance leads to the fact that people are constantly distracted and prokrastiniruet, puts the case for later or even surrender when faced with an obstacle on the way to the goal. To work effectively, you need to improve mental stamina. Here are five ways to do this.
1. Tune in to work in advance
It happens that the upcoming mental activity frightens us. When you do not want to teach to the complex issues of the exam, write research papers, solve intricate labor problem and so on. With accumulated over time stress the need to eventually get down to business. When we finally start working, the tension is released - and we panic.
This outcome can be avoided. Imagine in advance how you will sit down and take the set objectives. Make a rough plan of action.
Perhaps it will cause you stress - this is normal. If you experience stress during the "rehearsal", during the activity itself will be much calmer. And productivity - because you will not have to hold down the fear.
2. Rest instead of being distracted
When we encounter a problem during mental work, we often want to escape, to check social networks, watch TV - just prokrastinirovat. That's the way our nervous system: it refers to each obstacle as a threat and immediately includes flight instinct.
But procrastination is not helping to solve the problem. It's a waste of time, which only adds to the stress. Therefore, in such cases it is better just relax instead of having to bury your phone.
Sit and mentally disconnect from the problem. Do not do anything for a few minutes. When you feel ready, again take for the deal - you will have new powers and, quite possibly, will come, and a solution for the problem.
3. Rejoice Solved problems
Our motivation depends on the actions and rewards cycles. When we make efforts and get something nice, a desire to do something is growing. But the converse is also true: if we do not get the reward, the motivation disappears.
For mental activity is also true. Many people, when faced with an obstacle during work, a sense of panic. And after overcoming it - fatigue. It strongly discourages - you have to fight with them not to give up the case.
To the problem of not killing motivation, You need to choose the right goals and to focus less on the success. Try to build your work, so that in front of you always been insurmountable obstacles, such as similar to the ones that you previously encountered.
And do not think about how many tasks still to be done before the deal is completed. Concentrate on what people are doing at the moment. This will help to feel happy and proud of what you all turns out.
4. Do much of the work first
The classical scheme of the project, which once closely followed each: first, to act calmly and prokrastinirovat, because a lot of time, and towards the end of rush and panic to finish everything, sacrificing sleep and free time.
So do many people, although this method is very harmful to the emotional and physical condition of the person. Much more logical to act contrary to perform most of the work in the beginning to the end, when the forces become smaller, task was not so much.
5. Reduce the time allotted for work
It would seem that for the whole working day, you can catch more than a few hours. But in reality this is not so for many people - all because procrastination. Constant desire to distract interferes with productivity and contributes to the emergence of stress. After the minutes and hours go by, and there is no progress.
And this problem can not be solved increased time allotted to work. This will only lead to more procrastination. You need to do the opposite: to limit yourself to a few hours and try to be as efficient as possible at this time.
This option is much better than working with varying degrees of success all day. If procrastination is still making its way - Reduce the time. Do not be afraid not to have time, if you can not perform all of the 4-5 hours of focused work, then most likely, will not work and the day.
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