Get into the Zone !

Your ability to concentrate can be trained, just as your body can. It is a slow, incremental process, and just like with physical training, the real gains are made through consistency rather than occasional bursts.

The Nine Components of Flow

• Clear goals.
• A high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention.
• A loss of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.
• Distorted sense of time. (he talks of power-of-48-minutes here)
• Direct and immediate feedback; behaviour can be adjusted as needed.
• Balance between ability level and challenge.
• A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
• Intrinsically rewarding action, so there is an effortlessness of action.
• Focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself.