Today, we’ll discuss a productivity tip – the pomodoro technique. This is a time-boxing strategy developed by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980’s to break up one’s workflow. It’s especially helpful for someone like me, who can have trouble staying on-task, given a big project and a long amount of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For me, tasks can sometimes become gaseous<\/em> where the amount of time it’ll take me to do something fills up to the exact amount of time I have<\/em> to do something. In other words, the length fills whatever size time-container I put it in. But that’s obviously not the way it should be! Task length should be determined by difficulty- not how long we have to do them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, the pomodoro technique. This method has you first choose one a specific, actionable task to be done. Then you tackle that task for 25 minutes. Anyone can focus for 25 minutes. Once that time is up, you take a 5-10 minute break. Repeat two more times. On the fourth block of focus- take a longer break. Something like 20-30 minutes. Then repeat throughout the workday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Using this method, it’s much easier to swat away wondering thoughts or random distractions because you know<\/em> there’s a break coming up in the near future in which you can reflect. It’s a method to ‘trick’ your brain into always thinking the finish line is right around the corner. Try it out for yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, we’ll discuss a productivity tip – the pomodoro technique. This is a time-boxing strategy developed by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980’s to break up one’s workflow. It’s especially helpful for someone like me, who can have trouble staying on-task, given a big project and a long amount of time. For me, tasks can sometimes … Continue reading “Productivity Tip: The Pomodoro Technique”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/cyberdoodles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}