You sit down to study with great mood; feeling very enthusiastic and you decide to complete a chapter

of maths but hardly 20 minutes passes when you remember th at your favorite program would be coming on the T.V. or some scene from your sch ool time floats in your mind or you imagine yourself partying with your friends and all such weird ideas start coming from nowhere. And eventually after some ti me you realize that you have been thinking something other than studies for last ten minutes. So you are having a poor concentration. Now, how to troubleshoot t his problem? Let s see. There are lots of yoga techniques and (even some herbal medicines) which claim t o make you Dhyan Chand. Though I practiced some of the yoga techniques and found that they work to some extent but I don t know about the herbal medicines since I never tried them. But I was not able to keep up the yoga practice continuously and so I followed another powerful method which I am going to share with you. The technique is simply inspired from the idea that when you are running behind your bus/ train, you ignore even the most beautiful thing which may come in the path while you are running. When you start your study, at that time you are very calm, composed and focused. So at this time only you should do something to rem ain in the same state of mind even after an hour. Just before you start reading, bring out a small diary and pen and make a short plan for next one / two hours (don t make this short plan for very long duration). Mention short goals in the di ary. For example say you sat to study at 10 am. Take next 5 minutes for the plan ning. Suppose you are going to revise definite integral and the book you are fol lowing has 5 pages of theory. So take five minutes per page to revise the formul as and theory. So by 10.30 am you complete the theory revision. Next there are s ay 25 objective questions to be done. So take 1.5/2 min per question or whatever you feel appropriate (depending upon the level of questions). Accordingly find out the time for that. So let s say it comes out to be 50 min. This means that by 11.20 am your objective questions should be done. Next suppose there are 5 asser tions and reasons type question and a paragraph type question, count 10 min for paragraph and 2 min for each assertion reason question. So by 11.30 assertion re asons should be done and by 11.40 paragraph type questions should have been done . Once planning is done you have to achieve the deadlines. You know exactly what y ou have to do in every 5 minute. If you miss some deadline, don t worry; take your time and try to adjust the balance. For example suppose the fifth objective que stion took 4 minutes, so you need to adjust the extra 2 minutes taken in next 20 questions. In this way you will be always occupied in accomplishing short tasks and so you will be continuously in short concentration modes. Just be judicious in estimating time for each question/page/paragraph and neither under estimate nor over estimate them.