Processes should be evaluated and re-evaluated to make sure they’re sharp and honed. Like an engine, it needs a service once in a while. I was no longer using the tool to assist me the tool was using me.ĭeveloping focus and, more importantly, maintaining it isn’t easy. My pace dropped, and after a while, I was going through the motions of clicking ‘start focussing’ and ‘start short break’ on the tool I used. I’d find myself out of sync with my time, and think I was heading for a break when I was to be focussing. A meeting would slide into my diary, and I’d have to disrupt my carefully harvested focus to go work with others! My list of YouTube videos under 15-minutes found wanting I’d push my long break up to 20-minutes. Soon though, the process started to go sour. The comprehension of my work expanded, my throughput accelerated as a result, my job satisfaction went up, and my happiness elevated. It was easy for me to click start on my timer and zone the world out, diving deep into the task at hand.
I found the cadence of focussed effort and short breaks melded nicely with my natural attention span. Getting started with the Pomodoro BreakĪs soon as I started using tomato-time management, I got hooked. The name Pomodoro comes from the technique’s developer Francesco Cirillo and his tomato-shaped kitchen timer.
#ONE POMODORO CYCLE FULL#
After four tomatoes, the break extends to 15-minutes, and a full round is complete. The traditional split is 25-minutes of focus, followed by a 5-minute pause (this pairing is known as a tomato). For those that don’t know, the Pomodoro break cycle is a system for dividing time between focussed work and short breaks. About six months ago, I started to experiment with the Pomodoro break cycle.
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