Pomodoro : “Nothing” and “Everything”
I just wanted to share with you a small moment of clarity I just had.. I have a pretty long commute to work (2 hrs door-to-door), so I spend 4 hours of my day getting to and from work. By the time I am home, I can feel pretty tired, so often – mess accumulates over the week and I deal with it at the weekend. Unless I have a busy weekend. In short, I have been living in a tip for the last week, every day I have been coming home and looking at the mess and thinking “oh man, that is going to take ages to sort”. Well, I have recently been working on getting my geeky/productivity mojo back, so I got up this morning, made a list of things I wanted to do, and started getting on with it. 1 pomodoro later (25 minutes), the mess was gone - I had allocated 3, yes three . I kind of sat back while on my 5 minute break thinking “wow, I did all that in 25 minutes, that’s nothing !” – Well, 25 minutes in this case was everything it took to get that job done. The moral? I have just reminded my...