Eat that Frog with a Pomodoro
Nothing worth having comes easy..
To overcome procrastination by using the Pomodoro technique, taking the 6-p Formula of proper-prior-planning-prevents-poor-performance on board, I decided to complete all courses in a day, & prepare myself final exams then, It is hard to say that how I managed the time, how I kept my moral high in between the process.
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for ‘tomato’, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student.
The technique has been widely popularized by dozens of apps and websites providing timers and instructions. Closely related to concepts such as timeboxing and iterative and incremental development used in software design, the method has been adopted in pair programming contexts.
Unlike, Tim Urban (https://www.ted.com/speakers/tim_urban), I was not supposed to pull all-nighter… but I did that in order to get the work done, It was in fact a demanding job to sit before screen almost all the day, but actually we are now supposed to come out of our comfort zone & yes practicing like this, steadily we are coming out of our comfort zone.
It actually helped me a lot to complete all the tasks well before all my other commitments, because once you get into it, you find some type of amusement in keep moving further & further.
Regular breaks are taken, aiding assimilation. A short (3–5 minutes) rest separates consecutive pomodoros. Four pomodoros form a set. A longer (15–30 minute) rest is taken between sets.
A goal of the technique is to reduce the impact of internal and external interruptions on focus and flow. A pomodoro is indivisible; when interrupted during a pomodoro, either the other activity must be recorded and postponed (using the inform — negotiate — schedule — call back strategy) or the pomodoro must be abandoned.
After task completion in a pomodoro, any time remaining could be devoted to activities such as:
- Review and edit the work that you just completed.
- Review the activities from a learning point of view — what did I learn? What could I do better or differently?
- Review the list of upcoming tasks for the next planned Pomodoro time blocks, and start reflecting on or updating those tasks.
Having the experience of this work done in hands, I will plan on doing this again regularly & again, because when you come across all the timetable you made set for yourself to achieve the material result, Its then become a part of your daily routine & suddenly we realize that we are doing & planning all the activities with a pomdoro technique.
When a force causes a body to move, work is being done on the object by the force, I will actually call Force as Pomodoro technique. I can relate some pieces of proverbs & idioms to make it more understandably easy, which are as, Make Hay while the sun shines, means get ready enough in the sun rather than waiting for nothing in other times in which you can’t do anything, Beat the clock; do something before the time is up & Better late than never; It is better to do something late than not do it at all. These all show some kind of good work ethics & principles related to the Pomodoro technique, by which we can accomplish difficult hard jobs.