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The Benefits of the Pomodoro Technique
Your Productivity may SOAR!
Like every other group of people, creatives are not all alike. Some of us can work on a project or part of a project with intense focus for hours at a time and ignore all distractions until we finished. Others, like me, are easily distracted and really have a hard time focusing on just one thing, no matter how important it is. Today, with your devices pinging and ringing constantly, it is even easier to get distracted, and we all should know by now that multi-tasking just does not work.
Being “busy” is not the same as being “productive.” Have you ever had days when you were busy doing all kinds of “stuff” at your desk, but then at the end of the day, you haven’t really accomplished anything really important? I’ve had plenty of those days.
A very popular time management program that helps people to focus is the Pomodoro Technique, invented by Italian Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The word “pomodoro” is Italian for “tomato,” and Cirillo designed a simple kitchen timer in the shape of a tomato that is used for timing the task sessions, hence the name for an interval of work time.
Did you know that in the traditional 8-hour work day, actual “work” done usually only amounts to about FOUR hours? Knowing that fact will help you to understand the Pomodoro Technique.
