25 min - Individual - Indoor - Outdoor - Repeated
Pomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique teaches you to work with time, instead of struggling against it. A revolutionary time management system, it is at once deceptively simple to learn and life-changing to use.
Focus
Using this technique, you break your workday into 25-minute chunks separated by five-minute breaks. These intervals are referred to as pomodoros. After about four pomodoros, you take a longer break of about 15 to 20 minutes. The benefits of Pomodoro Technique are:
- More focus and concentration
- Less stress
- Better management of interruptions
- Keeping high motivation levels
- Reinforcing your determination in order to achieve something
- Better awareness of the time you need to get things done
How to do it
- Choose a task you'd like to get done
- Take a piece of paper and track your Pomodoros. Set your timer for 25 minutes
- Work on the task until the timer rings
- When the timer rings, put a checkmark on the paper and take a short break
- Every 4 pomodoros, take a longer break
If you prefer the digital route: if you have an iPhone, try Focus Keeper. Meanwhile, Android users can check out Pomodoro Timer Lite.