TL;DR If you have trouble starting on a task, alternate between 25 minutes of work and 5 minute breaks. If you’re anything like me then you get those days where it’s just a total slog getting started. I’ll find any excuse to put off my major project work, by doing things that make me FEEL productive, while still procrastinating all the same. Maybe it’s “Oh, I should probably clean my desk!” or “I just remembered that I wanted to scrub down the shower”. While being necessary in their own right, do I really need to do these things now? No way, I’m just trying to fill time and delay some task that I really don’t want to do, even though the bigger task is probably wayyy more important. Pomodoro Technique In comes the “Pomodoro Technique”! Named after the tomato-shaped timer …
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