Mental exercises that target your 'endurance' - how long you can sustain Attention - are a great way to start boosting your power of focus. As simple and easy as they seem, they are the most effective devised by humanity to improve Attention span because you can do them without needing a computer, coach, mentor, or guru. They're just natural things humans do that require a lot of Attention and a lot of effort brushing aside distraction.
The more you do them, the better you get, and not just good at the exercises. You get to enjoy all manner of 'CROSS-TRANSFER EFFECTS' that occur as your mental discipline improves. These benefits will affect every area of your life in a positive way.
The following exercises, drills, and practical practices will allow your Awareness to concentrate into an attentive state in such a way that you must employ it deftly, skillfully, and with increasing endurance as weeks pass. In beginning, you are about to confront hundreds, if not many thousands of attempts by your own brain to throw you off target. And with every attempt you fend off, the better you become at controlling your Attention.
The names of the exercises are irrelevant and merely ideas that I came up with. You can make them your own, adjust them creatively to make them more challenging, and call them whatever you like. You can use them to build your own personal system of mental training drills. Keep in mind that your obstacles will generally be one or more of 'The Four Horsemen of Distraction':
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