Wouldn't it be great to snap your fingers to increase your ability concentration, evaluate, and remember things. Anything is possible.
You just need to stretch out and ask more of your brain. How do you do that?
A person with strong observation skills will notice, analyze, and be able to recapture and image of their surroundings.
Here's one stretching out exercize that will strengthen your powers of observiation and stretch your awareness muscles. It requires you to alter just one thing within your routine. The exercise can be done anywhere and anytime. It's not scary or even difficult, just new, varied or different. The key is not to make it too easy for your brain.
It only takes just two minutes for the exercise. Each time you do the exercise, pick a different place and a different time of the day.
o Choose a time between any two tasks to meticulously observe one stationary thing: building, landscape, magazine cover, or single object, like stapler, bottle of perfume, or mailbox.
o Pay attention to details. Give yourself one minute to study it.
o Then close your eyes and remember.
o Next, with the object or scene out of your sight, describe those details.
o For realistic results, itemize every aspect in writing, or you can keep your eyes closed and record yourself describing the details. As you become more adept at this exercise, reduce observation time from one minute to seconds.
o Do this every day whether you are at home, at work, or at play. Take two minutes to insert the exercise into your routine at any place you happen to be: in the shower, in the supermarket parking lot, at the doctor's office. Stop the car and try it on your next excursion. Here's an idea, why not stop and do it right now before going on to the next section.
Study this illustration:
Some of you may describe this image simply:
a pen and black glasses on top of a coiled notepad.
Some may include more basic details:
Closer scrutiny might have others of you providing even more descriptive details:
Naturally, the more you engage in such such an exercize the more tuned in your brain will be to notice and remember details. This exercise enable you to develop and utilize your keen observation skills at opportune times.
Add a new dimension to any observation exercise – actually any exercise that excites the brain – by using the power of your imagination to tune into the sense a little longer to engage your brain in a new way. Use your imagination to create a story beyond the initial observation. Imagine how an item came to be in its present form? Who made it? Where has it travelled before it got close to you? Will another person have an opportunity to see or touch the object as you do? What will they see that is different then your perception?
Using the observation exercise above as an example: Could the notebook belong to a reporter, detective, student, writer, analyst? Think about what secrets or revelations might be written inside the notebook. How old is the person who uses these items? What was so significant about this particular item that it warranted a photograph? Who took the photograph? Who else might be observing this same object while you are? What kinds of things might that person be imagining? Imagine other uses for the items or how you might wish to use them.
