you dont need all of that to improve focus. start with 30 seconds, clear your mind, set a timer for 30 seconds, sit in a corner and start meditating. the challenge is that as soon as you think of something inside your mind, stop the timer. do this daily and your meditation times will slowly improve and your focus will come back

i have a morning routine and the first thing i do is to set a timer to meditate for 5 minutes. i rarely make it to 5 minutes before the thoughts flood in and i decide to go ahead and dive into the work. hadn't thought about making it a counting-up timer instead to track the improvement but i'll be trying that from now on

don't people typically say to let thoughts pass by when you're doing meditation? seems like bitter medicine to disallow yourself any fleeting thought