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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