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Good sleep promotes concentration
I think I know why I sometimes suffer from a lack of concentration at work: I don't sleep very well. No wonder with all the mental stress humanity is under at the moment. It's not enough that the government is once again threatening us with Corona lockdowns in the autumn and that the Corona numbers just won't go down.
Now there is also war in Ukraine and food is getting more and more expensive and some food is getting scarcer and scarcer - flour and cooking oil and energy prices are rising. And then a few days ago monkeypox came to Germany. Good news - there hasn't been anything like this since March 2020 when the Corona crisis started. For me, it's all affecting my sleep. I regularly wake up in the night and am partly wet with sweat. What I might have been dreaming, I don't know. The fact is that the next morning I feel totally tired and listless and can't really concentrate on my work - some days not at all. Sometimes I also have trouble falling asleep. I have now been advised to put my smartphone down one or two hours before bedtime and not to watch the news on TV or listen to the radio. This has actually helped me to fall asleep in the last few days. Let's see if I can keep it up. In any case, I can confirm it: A good night's sleep promotes concentration.