Checking Face book

Time used up surfing the Web or checking Face book is gone forever. “People don’t understand that attention is a finite resource, like money,” Ms. Gallagher told the Times. “Do you want to invest your cognitive cash on endless Twittering or Net surfing or couch potation?”Ms. Gallagher also recommends earplugs

Or noise cancelling head-phones to avoid paying attention to distracting sounds, such as other people’s voices in neighboring cubicles. More attention-focusing advice can be found here. Readers, do you have a time of day when your productivity or concentration peak? What other techniques do you use to stay focused and efficient?

Until that break, however, be disciplined about not being distracted by anything else for those first 90 minutes; it can take the brain some 20 minutes to “reboot” after an interruption. Every day, we face choices that pit our own, valid, needs against the needs of others. We may want very much to volunteer our time, donate money and lend a helping hand, but we still have to hold onto our jobs .

It is important to get eight hours of sleep but this sleep should also be uninterrupted. If you're having trouble sleeping try exercising during the day. Be sure not to exercise right before you go to bed. Low blood sugar - Be sure to eat a proper breakfast in the morning because when you wake up your body has a burst of energy which requires fueling.