I've adopted a new practice into my remote days and it has changed my life! If you haven’t heard of the Pomodoro technique, you have been missing out big time. This technique boosts my work efficiency and helps me optimize my time better. I am a procrastinator at heart, this helps me keep on task.
The Pomodoro Technique essentially The Pomodoro Technique is created by Francesco Cirillo for a more productive way to work and study. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. This teaches you to work with time, instead of struggling against it. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for 'tomato', after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student. A revolutionary time management system, it is at once deceptively simple to learn and life-changing to use.”
It involves the following six simple steps:
Choose your task.
Set a timer for 25 minutes.
Work on the task until time is up.
When time is up, make a checkmark in your journal
Take a few minute break (I like to take five minutes).
Repeat three more times, then take a longer break (20-30 minutes)
Since I have so many different jobs/activities that I need to be available for at all times this allows me to gear my attention to each one. If I'm on a task, I won't respond to the distraction of another one until my 25 minutes is up.
“Working out can increase your mental clarity for four to 10 hours post-exercise.” If you have been struggling to determine when to squeeze a workout in, you might want to consider doing it in the morning before work, when you're fresh and ready to seas the day. You’ll feel like you can conquer anything after you finish, and you’ll be glad you got it out of the way early. If you can work out later in the day, and can commit to that, do it then and be stimulated for you evening. Or look at it as one last thing you should do and then enjoy the relaxation that follows.
Try it out this week and tell me what you think: https://pomofocus.io/
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