Is it one of your New Year’s resolutions to avoid procrastination? For those who need help getting things done and may have trouble focusing, the Pomodoro technique may be a simple approach that will provide rapid results.
Developed by Francesco Cirillio in the late 1980s, it uses a time to break work into intervals that are 25 minutes in length, separated by a short 5-minute break. Each interval is known as a Pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after Cirillo’s tomato-shaped kitchen timer as a university student.
What Is the Pomodoro Technique?
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management system that encourages people to work with their time rather than against it. By having a focused sprint of 25 minutes of work, followed by a 5-minute break, you impose discipline over your day. You can adapt this concept to a 50/10 split of focused work for 50 minutes followed by 10 minutes of taking a break.
Although I don’t use this exact technique, I have been doing a variation of it for decades.
When I sit down to start work, I set a timer to get the job done and don’t get up to take a break until I complete a chunk, unit, or segment of what is needed. I use my iPhone timer, but you can use any kitchen timer or whatever works best for you.
For those of us who freelance and work from home, this imposed discipline is perfect for ensuring you don’t get lost down an online rabbit hole.
Please take 5 minutes to watch this short whiteboard animation video that will explain it to you.
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This post was inspired by a podcast called Founder’s Journal with Alex Lieberman.
