Meditation is benefitial for your brain and is one crucial element that is needed for focus. Unfortunately most people choose to avoid meditation because they find it too hard to start, and leave the scene prematurely. Like everything with life one must practice meditation to obtain perfection; just look at the monks and how easily they can meditate. I have found that meditation can be a stress reliever and I do both a guided and unguided mediation on a daily basis.
One think that I have found through my meditation is that our world revolves other idea besides work and money. When I first started meditating I started to visualize my life non-materialistically after a certain of number of years and it’s shocking that most of my thoughts were non materialistic in nature. If your not into mediation just read a couple guides, or try and focus for more than 5 minutes on just breathing and only breathing with no other thought wandering into your head. After that you can start branching out into different meditations like energy and chakra meditation. You might just make a lifestyle change, I certainly did.