Easy Way to Increase Your Focus

Looking for an easy way to increase your ability to focus?  

Try a fidget!

Fidgets are anything you use that keeps your body in motion while doing a task.  We may tap our fingers, bounce our legs, click pens, squeeze stress putty, or fiddle with our nails or our keys.  

Research proves that fidgeting improves the ability to concentrate, especially in individuals with ADHD.  This article gives you more information on how fidgets improve your focus. 

Fidgets also help reduce the experience of anxiety and stress, and can help to calm a person who is mildly agitated.

Here's a great glow in the dark fidget that mimics popping bubble wrap, and you can use it over and over.  I got this one at amazon.com.  

You will probably want to mute your microphone if you're using a pop bubble fidget like this during a conference call or while attending a webinar.  It makes a very faint but noticeable sound.  

But not all fidgets make noise; most of them don't.  Fidgets come in many sizes; some are small enough to carry in your pocket or on your keychain.  And almost anything can become a fidget if it keeps your hands busy while you talk, read, listen, watch a training, attend a conference call, study, or contemplate your bank statements as you prepare for tax season.

Have fun while you focus!

Teresa

Teresa Heald LCSW

A Simple Way to Feel Less Anxious

Want a quick tip to help you feel less anxious?

Organize something.

Organizing is you exerting control over some group of objects, like your kitchen spices, a shelf full of books, or your sock drawer.

When you put something small or minor in order, you experience a greater sense of control, and that feeling of control lowers your anxiety. 

Try it for yourself and see if organizing something makes you feel a little less anxious.

Be well!

Teresa

Teresa Heald LCSW