It’s hard to pin point one reason why you are unable to do fruitful tasks at times. Even when the task is something close to heart, sometimes you feel your heart is not completely in it. It is not your fault, and you are certainly not alone. Plenty of factors can take your mind off from things you should be focusing. Sometimes it is the environment and sometimes it is stress building up inside you.
In this article, we will introduce 5 apps that can help you regain focus.
Headspace
‘Treat your head right’!
Headspace is the personal trainer for the mind, helping you with various activities and sessions to achieve mindfulness. They have packages for personal use as well as for teams. HR folks, if you’re reading this, here’s your chance to bring ‘mindfulness’ to your team. They also have an amazing blog that can make a good commute read for anyone.
Brain.fm
‘An AI music composer with the brain of a neuroscientist and heart of a music composer’
This is the FM station you should tune into if you are really stressed out and are giving your brain a hard time. They claim their music, developed by artificial intelligence, can help you increase your productivity, get you relaxed, and bring sound sleep. At work spaces, when you expect your productivity to be at the peak, tune into brian.fm for assured results.
Forest
‘Stay focused. Be present’
A true reflection of the dire situation that we live in, forest app make you plant trees on your app, one tree for each session of focusing. If you leave the app in between, your tree will be killed. As you grow tress everyday, soon you will be building a forest- a metaphorical mark of your focus and commitment.
Freedom
‘Do your best work with Freedom’
Freedom blocks your distractions a.k.a the internet and everything else that comes along. Their research shows that every time we take a ‘moment’ to check the e-mail in between a task, it takes 23 minutes for our mind to come back to focus on our task. With Freedom, you can block websites and apps that are taking away your time and focus on your work. Because, sometimes all you need is a little internet detox.
Lumosity
‘We bring better brain training to the world’
Lumosity uses neuroscience to visual arts to create a tool that enables anyone to train their core cognitive elements. With 50+ cognitive games, your brain will be trained to process things faster, helping in sleep and mindfulness.
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