Here is an exercise you could try.
Objectives: Improve focus/concentration, Improve awareness
Exercise: To start, sit down in a comfortable place and start to meditate, using whatever style or method you want. If you don't have any preferred method just relax and focus on your breathing. Once your thoughts have started to calm down think of the number one. Visualize it as vividly as you can, and say the number in your head. Once you have done that move on to 2. Repeat the process for as far as you can go before you lose count. At that point just start over at 1. If you want to get really hardcore about it do this every day for a few weeks and graph your progress (Day 1: got to 125 Day 2: got to 140 etc).
Once you can count indefinitely just sitting there try doing it with your eyes open and standing up. Try moving around, but be careful not to cheat and forget the visualization aspect of it. Doing complex tasks while maintain the same level of awareness is where it gets really hard. If you can keep your focused counting up while performing everyday activities, adding in the element of being extremely tired shouldn't be nearly as detrimental to your focus. Good luck!
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