As with many other things, the first step to changing this, is to set the intention of becoming aware every time my focus starts to drift and consciously bringing it back to what's in front of me every time that it does. I believe that if I persist, I will become aware more and more often. This has worked when it comes to my job. And it works with many other things.
What I've realized, is that at my job I’m pretty focused on what’s in front of me and do things very efficiently. But when I sit down with projects at home, I tend to lose focus easily and become distracted. And I’ve realized that this is actually a habit. I’ve allowed my work that I do in my spare time to become sloppy and unfocused.
This also goes beyond mere lack of efficiency. When I do things in this manner, I also much more seldom get into a flow state. This means that I more often do things from a place of ego and of trying to force things, which means that I get access to much fewer novel ideas than I could.
The hardest thing in life, is to focus on the spot between our physical eyes. The third eye, tisra til, shiv netra or what we can call this spot. Jesus said: make thine single eye sane, and thy whole body shall be full of light. Here, in the forhead, is the focus of consciusness and aslo the door to the marvelous inner worlds. The mind is a great obstacle for our efforts to focus. Habits are easily laid tracks, but hard to brake up.
SvaraRaderaHi and thank you for your message. This sort of became a confirmation that I am on the right track, as well as an encouragement because I didn't know that this was considered so hard. It is something that I've been attempting for a while, with incredible results even though I just manage to keep focus for maybe thirty seconds at most. Most of the time far less than that.
SvaraRadera