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How can you loosen up your mind? How can you focus your attention on one thing? Try this before you set out to do something.

– Sit down at your work desk.

– Relax your muscles.

– Release the tension in your shoulders.

– Breathe deeply and evenly.

– Unclench your facial muscles around your eyes and mouth.

– Loosen up any tense muscles in your body.

When you relax, your body becomes healthy and your mind clearer. You focus on the task at hand. You do not get an unhealthy urge to rush through things. You take one thing at a time.

Once you are in this calm state, the next activity is set to loosen your mind.

– Grab a piece of paper and a pen.

– In your state of physical relaxation, allow your thoughts to flow freely. Allowing your thoughts to flow freely is dispensing the sudden urge to act on everything.

– On the paper, write down everything that is going through your mind. These are long-term goals, short-term goals, innate desires, things you should have said or done at a particular time, things you want to do or have to do such as shopping lists and appointments. Write down everything, no matter how trivial it seems. Write them down until you can write no more.

When you write down everything, you remove the mental clog. You see at one glance all that you have on your mind to deal with and what you have been subconsciously thinking about.

With that done, you free up your mind to work on your current task without having distracting thoughts. You tell your brain not to worry about it and you will be going back to it later.

Make it a habit to take some time out every day to relax and let go of everything. Set aside some time to do nothing each day. That way, you can improve the ability to focus on things and ultimately to remember.