So when you are trying to get your goals done, it's really important to schedule it in your calendar. And it's really important to track your time. One of the tools that we use a lot is a timer. a timer could be, we don't recommend using your phone because then you will have access to see all the notifications, reminders, emails, so it will be a distraction for sure. So we will recommend to it and an external timer could be like a very simple, yes START STOP timer, and then you can set a time that you want to work on a task. One of the techniques that we were using and we felt inspired was with a Pomodoro technique is called and it's a technique as you can see on the slide, basically, it tells you that you have to set a timer for around 25 minutes they recommend to work on a task and then you will take a short five minute break.
And then you repeat these four times and then at the end you take a 15 to 30 minute break. So This is a great idea. You don't have to be as specific. I would recommend to test it. See how long can you focus on a task? Is it 10 minutes?
Is it 20 minutes? Is it one hour, every person is different. So test it, see how much time you feel comfortable working in the same task for and then if that's worse to be 30 minutes, set the timer for 30 minutes every time you are doing a task. When the timer goes off, you can decide Can I keep going with this task? Am I done? Or should I do something different.
And then by doing this, you are allowing yourself to have you focus only on one thing at a time, you are going to get more things done. It's going to be quicker, and you're going to feel better. At the end of maybe one or two periods of those 30 minutes, then you can have check your phone or you can do whatever you need to do. And then you can go back to it again and then do the same thing under the 30 minutes for another 40 minutes or whatever timeframe you have in mind. So this is a great technique. We use it personally a lot, especially with when it comes to, for example, social media.
When we are trying to do some Facebook or we are trying to do Twitter, it's a time sucker so you can get lost in there because there is a lot of great information and then you sit there and when you realize the time you have spent maybe two or three hours doing something that you will not intended to do. So a timer will help you a lot to get things done. Another example that we use the timer for is for cooking. And another one is for doing laundry, doing laundry, it's very easy to just set the washing machine and then you set the timer and then you can forget about it because the timer will remind you when that washing machine or dryer cyclists are finished and then you can just get it done. So give it a try and let us know how it goes.
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