Whereas Mental Focus is about the bigger goal, Mental Concentration is about the TASK right before you, right now, that helps get the goal achieved. Mental Concentration is immediate and task oriented, while focus bears more of a big-picture and planning way of applying Concentration. You focus on the objective, and concentrate on its actions and tasks when the time comes to do them.
Drills that require you to intensely target Attention teach the mental fundamentals of concentrating your Awareness onto a task for getting it quickly started and followed until done. They are wonderful for increasing your Attention span because they train you to laugh off distractions while skyrocketing your natural, normal level of productivity without exhaustion.
Concentration drills can be difficult to maintain for extended periods, but that's why we do them, so that we gain fearless, deep staying power. So that when we decide, we keep our promises to ourselves and others.
The following concentration methods, techniques, and valuable practices will help you improve your ability to rapidly step into and maintain an attentive state on any type of task without the need to "feel like it." These techniques help you concentrate whenever you need, for as long as you need, whether you feel like doing it or not. Better, they help eliminate the lazy habit of "not feeling like it."
At the beginning, you may face hundreds or even thousands of distractions from your own mind. However, as you practice and learn to fend off these distractions, you will gain better control over your Attention as your brain's wiring 're-knits' itself to deal with the new workloads you are placing upon it.
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