Your brain is like a muscle— it's your mental muscle. You can strengthen it just like you can strengthen any other muscle in your body. In fact, it may be easier to strengthen your brain than other parts of your body—you don't even need a gym!

1. Meditation

Meditation is the best way to calm your brain down and let it decompress from the long day it has just experienced. Scientists conducted a study noting that people who meditate tend to have a longer attention span. You don't have to meditate for hours, just ten minutes a day will do the trick.

2. Drink green tea

All green tea has an amino acid in it called Theanine that stops the chemicals in your brain from coming together. When those chemicals come together, you feel stressed out and anxious which then causes you to not be able to focus, that's what we're trying to avoid!

3. Text more

Okay, you probably think it is ridiculous that texting can actually improve your mental functions, but there are scientific studies that have proven it! People with smartphones were found to have more efficient activity in their cerebral cortex— the part of your brain that is associated with learning and memory—than people with flip phones. This is because the thumb dexterity that someone with a touch screen phone develops boosts the size of different areas of your brain.

4. Switch up your daily routine

Doing the same tasks over and over again makes your brain use less brain power because it has become so reliant on you doing the same tasks every day in the same order. As that part of your brain becomes more reliant on knowing how to do those tasks the rest of your brain slowly starts to become weaker because it's just sitting still not doing anything.