Remove distractions around you.
This is the number one reason you can’t focus. There are so many distractions around you.
‣ your phone
‣ notifications
‣ TV
‣ your tablet
‣ video games
‣ useless apps
Anywhere you look around you, there are distractions.
The first step is to remove or reduce these distractions.
When you are listening to a lesson, attending a lecture, watching a video lesson on YouTube, reading a book, you MUST reduce these distractions.

Put your phone on do not disturb (DND) and be in a quiet place.
Reduce the noise that you have around you.
Create an atmosphere (a vibe) that encourages learning and focus.

If you don't do this, it doesn't matter how much you study, it doesn't matter how much you read and listen, you will not be able to keep that information.

fewer distractions ➟ better focus.

Take notes.
How can you increase your focus now that you're not distracted?

How can you focus on this one thing that you are trying to learn?
By taking notes.

You have to take notes while you are listening to something important
If you're reading a book, make notes on the book, highlight certain sentences and paragraphs that make you go, whoa, this is powerful. Paragraphs that you want to go back to and review. You have to do this.

You have to highlight information, you have to try to write down important points or ideas from your studies and lessons so that you can review them later. If not, you will forget almost all of the new information after a few minutes.
And that's going to take us to the next step, and without taking notes, you're not going to be able to go to the next step and you are not going to remember that information.

Review the information.
Anything that we learn without reviewing, without going back and going over what we learned, it will go in from one year and out from the other.
Just like reviewing for an exam, why do you review the chapters and your notes before an exam? Because you forgot it all. LOL

Without revision, you forget what you learned.

And of course reviewing information will increase your focus and strengthens your connection with that information.

This will help you remember the information longer and you will be able to use that information to your benefit.

You'll be able to try to take action using the information that you learned, with that with the knowledge that you gained, and this will, in turn, help you improve your skills.

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Teach it to someone else.

This is where the importance of having a powerful circle, a powerful social and professional circle comes in.

If you have a powerful group of people, or if you have a friend who is on the same path of learning, growing, and you push each other, you support each other, then when you learn something new, you know that your friend, or family member is going to want to hear what you just read, listened to and learned.
So you share that with them.

If you don’t have that circle yet, then share it on social media.

If there is something that you learned that can benefit someone else,
share it with them.

This is something I learned in a book Limitless by Jim Kwik.
He says if you want to remember something longer, if you want to learn something deeply, teach it to someone else.

I'll never forget that because it is such a powerful technique.

I have benefited from this hack a lot personally as a teacher and content creator. Like I became a teacher and content creator by becoming a learner again. I share important tips and advice that I learn from a book or lecture with my students and online on social media with my followers.

I read a book or part of a book that inspired me in a way, then I make a video or podcast lesson about it.

Of course, I share that information because I want other people to learn from it, but also, it has such a huge benefit for myself as it makes me remember that information much much longer and not forget it

I hope this was helpful and if it was, please let me know.