Well, I have to force myself to focus because my mind wanders all around and then I don't know if I did something or not.
Like that?

Hey Mark :) Yeah, I know the 'busy mind' thing we have, and I talk to myself all the Time, so I can't talk (about it like it's not my problem too), haha....urgh.


I want to suggest an 'alternative" here, since Mark has brought it up: First, I do these physical exercises in the morning now. ...which isn't the problem, lol, but I Do them to strengthen myself, and some of them are arm exercises. A while after I starting doing them I was hanging up drapes in the living room and I noticed my arms didn't Hurt the way the used to, when I held them over my head for awhile...

It's because I had been doing exercises. ...which still isn't the point...my point, is meditation.

Some people imagine meditation as this thing where people sit in yoga positions and mumble funny words over and over...it doesn't have to Be that, but meditation is a time you spend, every day, exercising your Focus. And it's Helping me with this stuff :)


You pick something, like your breathing, or a point on the wall, or maybe an image (depends on you) and you Focus on it, until all the 'busy-ness' in your mind, all the distractions, stop and your mind gets Still and Quiet, and you think only about your breathing. Or the point on the wall. Or the image of something.


See, after awhile, when you are working or somewhere and your mind gets all Busy again, you have this benchmark of practice from meditating and you know how to find your Focus again, by imagining ONLY the thing you are working on....the mind is like a muscle that can be exercised and made stronger in this way. No weird-ness, lol - just a way to Deal with the "busy mind" thing we all have.


It's a possibility :)

Like ruminations? What is your mind thinking? I have add and I disassociate often when at task...and need to tell myself to focus... Like that?

Yes, I do it everyday. I call it "monkey mind." I literally use the word "focus" a ton of times a day when I catch myself. Catching myself in the act of this thinking is hard sometimes though.

I've got a "monkey mind" (Thank you, Nester) - I jump from one thought to the next and it feels like I'm juggling all sorts of thoughts and feelings at once. I couldn't do my PHP homework last night b/c I was too frazzled - Couldn't keep my brain on any one thing. It can be terribly annoying unless you're SUPER at multi-tasking!

I do this alot when I am trying to go to sleep. I dont know if this is the same but I have to tell myself to focus on sleeping but instead my mind constantly wonders from an array of different thoughts. I like that "Monkey mind" Nester.

Monkey mind here to....I get lost in my own head so often... I'll be reading or watching a show and I have no idea what either is about and an hour has passed...lol....xo

I have a short memory span, attributed to my Asperger's and Anxiety!

I can't take credit for the "monkey mind." It actually comes from Buddhism. I read a book about it and it had a cute story about monkeys clinging on from vine to vine with no destination in mind. Much like my thinking!

I definitely have monkey mind as well lol. I have so much trouble focusing sometimes. When I study for school I often have to reread things two or three times before I comprehend them and when doing tasks my mind wanders off about a billion other things.

My mind wanders constantly and, because my job is very low-maintenance and I don't have anybody actually "managing" me, I spend too many days doing hardly any work at all because I can't focus.

Yes, I do that all the time.

That happens to me so often. Sometimes I'm so far away I don't realize I've completed a particular task or later I wonder if I had done it. And then there are times when I'm doing homework- it usually happens with homework, and my mind just goes off in some far away place and I just cannot focus on my work. It's kinda frustrating and i do have to tell myself to focus every few minutes or so.