June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Five: The Pomodoro Technique
Hello and welcome to the fifth day of the June 30 days writing challenge. If you want to know all the details about this specific challenge, have a look at the introductory post. In short, I will be posting every day a short tip, or technique, or opinion, something that you can call a "life hack". Feel free to join the challenge and post your own life hacks. I will do my best to upvote each day at full strength (about $3 at the current STEEM price) 3 posts tagged #challenge30days (leaving a link to your posts in the comments will also help).
How Many Pomodoro Can You Gather?
Since productivity seems to resonate with a lot of readers, let's continue on that path.
Today, about the "pomodoro" technique. It's a productivity framework created by Francesco Cirrulo in the late 80s and it may be defined by what we would call these days "timeboxing".
In this technique, instead of having a long, monolithic list of tasks, you pick just one and work on it in equal time chunks. The consensus is to use a 25 minutes time chunk, since this is what the creator of the technique used. At the end of the time chunk you stop, and cross off "pomodoro" - regardless of finishing or not the actual task, since you are just tracking the time spend on it.
Here's a picture of such a timer, embedded from the Wikipedia entry about Pmodoro.
By The original uploader was Erato at Italian Wikinews - Transferred from it.wikinews to Commons by Fale using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Now, you can use whatever term you want instead of "pomodor", the idea is to create a specific "timebox" in which you will group all the relevant tasks. And, of course, rejoice at the end of the day by counting all the "timeboxes" you crossed off.
I found out that this works better in non-creative work, like doing your taxes, or implementing clear specifications (if you're a programmer). So, your mileage may vary.
I'm really curious to read about your life hack today. Leave a comment with a link to your post, if possible.
Previous Posts In The Challenge
- June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Four: Keep A Clear Mind By Unloading Ideas Immediately
- June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Three: Intermittent Fasting
- June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Two: The "2 Minutes" Time Management Rule
- June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day One: Avoid Fighting With A Simple Visualization Technique
- Announcing The June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks
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Pomodro I haven’t heard about but seems interesting and I’d definitely read more about. Thanks for sharing
I have heard about it but never used it.
I've been using this one since Tim Ferris introduced it in his blog a couple of years ago.
I can tell you with 100% conviction, that it works. If there is just one productivity hack you should implement right now, it's this one.
Great to recollecting this pomodoro technique and i heard that this technique is born in Kitchen and this was introduced because to kill the stress and to get the time to time refreshment of thoughts, and when i was working with an Multinational Company we used pomodoro techniques many times to reduce the stress and we were taking 5 minutes break after every 25 minutes and this way the work was not able to dominate us and that five minutes break can bring great effect in the work.
Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂
Can I still participate in this contest ??
Thank you.
Yes, and it's not a contest, it's a writing challenge.
Ok, Thank you sir.
It's also useful to spend some of the 5 mins "rest" reviewing what you did I the last 25 min. seeing what you accomplished and seeing if you remained focused to the task at hand
Hi Dragos,
Here's my challenge30days post for today:
https://steemit.com/challenge30days/@acesontop/june-30-days-writing-challenge-life-hacks-day-five-use-your-smartphone-like-a-pro
I have never used a timebox. I will try the technique.
Here is my entry:
https://steemit.com/challenge30days/@amelin/ever-experienced-a-pulled-muscle
I don't think dividing the task into different time chunks would be good.
just select the task and complete it with continuous effort.
100 % agree with you, to do focus on one this, we need little breaks.
The Pomodoro technique can help you power through distractions and get things done while taking short breaks frequently. Also, it's probably one of the easiest to implement productivity methods, since all you need is a timer.