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 # Concentration
 
-Do you ever find yourself struggling to concentrate?
-
-Concentration is a learnable skill: with the right approach, 
-you can shut out distraction and train yourself to focus.
-
-This page outlines approaches that have helped me to develop the skill of concentration.
-Hopefully they will help you to reflect on how you can work more effectively.
+Lack of concentration is all too often a barrier to success.  
+Fortunately, concentration is a learnable skill.
+This page outlines approaches that have helped me to shut out distraction and train myself to focus.
+Hopefully they will help you to spy opportunities to work more effectively.
 
 
 ## Intentional time management
 
-To take control of your finances, it's necessary to understand where you spend your money.
-The same goes for time.
+Time is a finite resource, but I don't always think of it as such.  
+I've found it helpful to keep a detailed account of my time -- just as, to be in control of my
+finances, it's necessary to understand where I spend my money.
 
-I use [Toggl](https://www.toggl.com) to track each minute of my working day. 
-Toggl is a simple program that lets you mark with a click when you switch from
-one task to another.  
+[Toggl](https://www.toggl.com) makes it easy for me to track each minute of my working day. 
+This simple program allows me to mark with a click when I switch from one task to another.
 
 ![Toggl interface](https://github.com/ms609/concentration/raw/master/img/Toggl.png "Toggl interface")
 
-
-This lets me decide that a task merits X hours of my time, and to stop when 
-I've used the allotted hours without feeling guilty.  
+This lets me decide in advance how many hours to allocate to a task. 
+Once the hours are up. I can stop without feeling guilty.  
 And when I've worked my hours for the week, I can go home and 
 enjoy a restful weekend without feeling any need to 'keep up' with work.
 
-As a meritious and unexpected side effect of having to stop the timer
-each time I checked the news or my e-mail, I noticed that such interruptions
+As a meritious and unexpected side effect of having to stop a timer
+each time I check e-mail or the news, I noticed that such interruptions
 were more frequent than I would have estimated -- and what is more, occurred
-subconsciously.  Having to decide to stop the timer allowed me to evaluate whether
+subconsciously.  The active act of stopping the timer prompted me to evaluate whether
 I really needed to check the news.  The answer to this question usually turns out to be
 either "No: you need a proper break, go and make a cup of tea", or "No: you are
 procrastinating because the next task is difficult. You can do it!".
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