Sure, the target demographic of ASOS skews a bit younger, but even if you’re in your 30s and 40s, you’re bound to find stuff that works for your style, especially if you’re young at heart and open to slightly trendier options mixed in with your classics and basics.
Know that flow comes easier when you have challenging tasks and a high level of skill.
All of these things help you achieve the best conditions for entering into flow state and splashing around there for a bit. In addition to getting enough sleep, we function best when we get regular exercise and eat well.
But, finding the time to regularly breathe in a little fresh air and feel actual earth beneath your feet might be the optimal option. Even just having a plant in your office can make a difference. Being outdoors has been shown to lower stress levels - it calms people down and improves their performance. Just as sleep is restorative, so is spending time in nature. The more you practice working this way, the easier and more habitual it will become. Do what you can to limit the potential distractions and interruptions that could come your way. Concentration is important here, so focus on just one thing at a time. Multitasking and flow state don’t go well together. Try making sleep a priority in your life, and see if you doesn’t save you time and energy somewhere else (maybe everywhere else) in your life. If you’re trying to achieve flow state when you’re overtired, you’re forcing yourself to swim upstream, so to speak. Getting a good night’s rest, regularly, is so important for health and cognitive functioning.
Decide when you’ll take them and get away from your desk when the time comes. Instead of giving yourself a little mini-break from your work every 60, 30, or even five minutes to casually check your phone or have a quick chat with a co-worker, try being more intentional about your breaks. Try to stay in the zone with your work - close those social media windows, and put your phone away. Once you’ve achieved flow state, or even when you’re simply building toward it, checking social media is a surefire way to snap yourself right out of it. So, whether you’re a writer, an accountant, or something in between (as far as creativity demands go) being able to more easily navigate your way into flow state, and linger there for as long as possible, could help you professionally in a big way. Other studies have shown that folks are as much as five to seven times more creative in flow state than they are otherwise. But, when subjects in flow state were given the problem, 23 found the right answer before time ran out. In one study, 40 subjects were presented with a difficult brain teaser, and none were able to solve it in the amount of time provided. Research supports the idea that achieving flow state profoundly impacts performance. In this state of mind, performance is heightened and creativity is richly, and often dramatically, increased. Here, “action and awareness merge” and sense of self, self-consciousness, and even an awareness of time largely disappear. Flow is an optimal state of consciousness where concentration is acute, focused, and sustained. Even if you don’t know it by name, chances are you’ve experienced it at one point or another. If your work has a creative component, then you’re likely familiar with the concept of flow state.
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