25 minutes at a time.
Strong contender for most empowering technique ever…
Behold, the Pomodoro Method.
- set timer for 25m (or whatever)
- work on hard thing
- make tea (or whatever)
Okaay… Say More
What can I say - deceptively simple. Its like the genie of discipline… Laser focus as a single technique. I got it from the great book Deep Work.
textbook version the brain readily accepts single-minded focus on the absolute condition of the absolute time limit involved. (you need the timer)
This is how you do the thing.
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In my experience measuring, taking pride in, output in Pomodoro hours* is vastly superior to not measuring at all except maybe completed projects but not really.
Discipline Is Freedom
You’ve got a full-capacity potential of close to 3 hours daily, every-daily, in case you’re wondering. But that’s full-on, mind you. Classical musician level.
Your rookie goal should be one session to get the feel - feels pretty awesome - to get the ball rolling on a feeling.
The longest step is in the door: do a single Pomodoro session today.
Here goes nothing style.
*) I call it deep work and write it as a bold number in parentheses, e.g. (33m).