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Name: The Pomodoro Technique
Rating: 4.6 (472 reviews)
Author: Francesco Cirillo

Francesco Cirillo

The effective method of structuring your workday into small, manageable chunks

4.6 (472 Bewertungen)

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What‘s in it for me: Get things done without the mental stress.

Procrastination is a term that has become popular in recent decades. And it’s no surprise either. Many of us can relate to the problem of procrastination, and know it intimately:

It’s early evening, you’re sitting in front of your computer screen, and you know those 50 empty PowerPoint slides won’t fill themselves. And yet, instead of tackling this mammoth project, you spend hours perusing Facebook, looking at friends’ vacation pictures.

You don’t even enjoy it, and in fact feel quite guilty about it, and yet, you just can’t stop yourself. Every 5 minutes is marked by opening your email inbox, hoping that you’ll have a chance to delete some spam mail and give yourself a short reprieve from the guilt of procrastination.

Hours pass, and after 7 cappuccinos the presentation is still far from finished.

The author Francesco Cirillo faced this very problem at university. His salvation came in the shape of a tomato, more precisely: a tomato-shaped kitchen timer.

Since then, he’s been using this simple tool to chop every task into smaller, manageable and motivating units called pomodori.

His technique has helped many chronic procrastinators rid themselves of their guilt and learn to enjoy their work instead. Everyone who has checked their email more than twice today should consider giving it a try.

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“This is the one and only productivity system that always works for me. Whomever I tell about this technique immediately applies it to their life. Its simplicity makes it genius.“

– Laura, German Editorial Lead at Blinkist

Chop your work down into pomodori in order to make it manageable.

For many, when it comes to getting work done, time is our greatest enemy: it seems to stretch endlessly while you’re trying to finish the first slide of your boring presentation, and then it flies away when you waste time surfing the web.

Before you’ve even managed to finish that first slide, it’s time to go home. You look at your to-do list and see that nothing got done; once again, your day was wasted sipping coffee, talking to your colleagues, and checking your email.

Pomodori help you stay motivated so that you get stuff done and get rid of stress.

Structuring your work into little pomodori is so easy and beneficial that there’s no reason to not try it: you don’t have to learn any sophisticated techniques nor buy expensive gear, and yet it can help anyone rid themselves of the guilt and anxiety of procrastination while making work rewarding and motivating.

Using the Pomodoro Technique helps you gain back control over your day through focused work.

There is no such thing as a “half-pomodoro”: pomodori are always 25 minutes long.

As simple as the Pomodoro Technique is, it only works if you adhere to the rules. The first and most important of these rules: There are only complete pomodori – no halves, no 80-percent complete, and especially none that you finish with a minute left before the timer rings.

Once you’ve started your timer, you’re committed to 25 minutes of focused work on that presentation. Do not stop under any circumstances before those 25 minutes are over. That means no giving in to the temptation of grabbing a quick snack, nor checking your email, no matter how briefly.

You must take a break after your pomodori; breaks are not optional!

Once you’ve finished your pomodoro, saved all of your new work and crossed off the task from your to-do list, you must observe the second – yet equally important – rule: breaks are mandatory.

You should take this very seriously; if you want to maintain a focused mind, then you need to give it a break. This means that you shouldn’t waste your 5-minute break by checking your email or doing anything strenuous.

All you need to get started is a timer and two lists.

Simple tools are often the best; luckily, the tools needed for the Pomodoro Technique are so simple that you’ll find them in almost any household.

First, you need a timer. It doesn’t have to be the tomato-shaped kitchen timer of the original Pomodoro Technique – anything from a stopwatch to your smartphone will do just fine.

Your greatest enemies: internal and external interruptions.

By now, you’ve seen that time is not your adversary when you use it the right way – that is, by utilizing the Pomodoro Technique. However, there are hidden enemies lurking, waiting to disrupt your productivity if you don’t actively protect your pomodori.

These are interruptions – anything that takes your focus away from the task at hand and shifts it to something else.

You can manage any kind of interruption in order to sustain your focus.

Thankfully, you don’t have to be a slave to these interruptions. Just follow these simple steps to protect your pomodori:

Inevitably, something, some internal interruption, will pop into your mind while you are trying to focus on your task and demand your immediate, undivided attention, like a child whining for some candy.

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Worum geht es in The Pomodoro Technique?

The Pomodoro Technique (2009) presents a simple yet effective method of structuring your workday. This method helps to overcome your lack of motivation by cutting large or complex tasks into small, manageable chunks. Using these techniques, you will gain more control over your work, thus making you a more effective worker and work more rewarding.

Wer The Pomodoro Technique lesen sollte

Anyone interested in time management and productivity
Anyone struggling with procrastination
Anyone in search of simple tools to boost their productivity

Über den Autor

Francesco Cirillo developed his world-famous productivity technique in the 1980s while he was studying at university. Back then, he struggled with effectively structuring his workday, ultimately leading to the creation of the Pomodoro Technique. He now runs the website pomodorotechnique.com and offers coaching and training related to his technique.

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