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A friend at work told me about the 25 – 5 methods where you break your day down into 25-minute stretches of focused work broken by five-minute breaks and then have a 15 t
But this may not work for you. It would be best if you found out what method is customized to you vs. doing what I or others are doing. IMO
I hope this helps.
Cheers, as you said it is best to find what works for you. I remember my school teacher telling me I have a attention span of around 15 mins, so will see how I go with doing a task for 15 and seeing what I get done and how I feel.
Well, you can run with four tasks at 15-minute intervals and see how it goes based on your comment.
But really things change all the time, what worked now or before, may not work. You need to find out what makes you tick.
From experience, the most difficult is the first five minutes. When you can sit down with a task for the first five minutes, you'd find you'd follow up till completion.
All the best to you and let us know how you get on :)
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A friend at work told me about the 25 – 5 methods where you break your day down into 25-minute stretches of focused work broken by five-minute breaks and then have a 15 t
Hey Anthony,
I actually wrote last year about how I'd go about researching a new niche website.
However, about half way through this blog post I also explained about work focus and the methods I use.
It's a variation of the Pomodoro techniques your friend has described.
However, rather than following the 3 x 25 minute work sessions with a 5 minute break in-between, I prefer to spread my 25-minute work sessions throughout the day.
The main thing is to ensure you are TOTALLY focused on the task in hand prior to starting a work session.
I have also described in the blog post below how to achieve this.
Plus, one of the worst things you can do in-between work sessions is to "browse the internet", and I even include WA in that.
Realistically, and most people don't even realise this, but browsing the internet has a way of breaking the "work focus" that you want and puts you into "entertainment" and "instant gratification" mode.
You do this and you WILL NOT be able to focus fully on the task in hand.
On the days that I work, for at least the first 3-4 hours of the day (obviously today is NOT one of those days, LOL), I do not even now what's going on in the world.
My phone is still in "aeroplane mode" from the night before, so NO emails, NO whatsapp, NO social media, NO browsing.
Before, I open my laptop, I have written out with PEN & PAPER what I am looking to achieve in each 25-minute work session, and while I'm working on my laptop the only "browsing" I do is completely related to the tasks in hand (absolutely NO going off on a tangent to look at funny memes on Facebook or TikTok).
As great as the internet is, it also happens to be one of the greatest motivation and work focus killers ever invented in the history of mankind!
If you don't control your internet usage it will DEFINITELY control YOU.
Here you go: Allow Me to Blow Your NEW WEBSITE Creation Mind Hope that all makes sense?
Partha
Brilliant, thank you, yes it does.
I was reading this with about 15 tabs open, and my mobile on my desk popping up with messages that are not really important and can wait but have a habit of still reading them therefore breaking my focus.
But this may not work for you. It would be best if you found out what method is customized to you vs. doing what I or others are doing. IMO
I hope this helps.
Cheers, as you said it is best to find what works for you. I remember my school teacher telling me I have a attention span of around 15 mins, so will see how I go with doing a task for 15 and seeing what I get done and how I feel.
Well, you can run with four tasks at 15-minute intervals and see how it goes based on your comment.
But really things change all the time, what worked now or before, may not work. You need to find out what makes you tick.
From experience, the most difficult is the first five minutes. When you can sit down with a task for the first five minutes, you'd find you'd follow up till completion.
All the best to you and let us know how you get on :)
See more comments
Hey Anthony,
I actually wrote last year about how I'd go about researching a new niche website.
However, about half way through this blog post I also explained about work focus and the methods I use.
It's a variation of the Pomodoro techniques your friend has described.
However, rather than following the 3 x 25 minute work sessions with a 5 minute break in-between, I prefer to spread my 25-minute work sessions throughout the day.
The main thing is to ensure you are TOTALLY focused on the task in hand prior to starting a work session.
I have also described in the blog post below how to achieve this.
Plus, one of the worst things you can do in-between work sessions is to "browse the internet", and I even include WA in that.
Realistically, and most people don't even realise this, but browsing the internet has a way of breaking the "work focus" that you want and puts you into "entertainment" and "instant gratification" mode.
You do this and you WILL NOT be able to focus fully on the task in hand.
On the days that I work, for at least the first 3-4 hours of the day (obviously today is NOT one of those days, LOL), I do not even now what's going on in the world.
My phone is still in "aeroplane mode" from the night before, so NO emails, NO whatsapp, NO social media, NO browsing.
Before, I open my laptop, I have written out with PEN & PAPER what I am looking to achieve in each 25-minute work session, and while I'm working on my laptop the only "browsing" I do is completely related to the tasks in hand (absolutely NO going off on a tangent to look at funny memes on Facebook or TikTok).
As great as the internet is, it also happens to be one of the greatest motivation and work focus killers ever invented in the history of mankind!
If you don't control your internet usage it will DEFINITELY control YOU.
Here you go: Allow Me to Blow Your NEW WEBSITE Creation Mind Hope that all makes sense?
Partha
Brilliant, thank you, yes it does.
I was reading this with about 15 tabs open, and my mobile on my desk popping up with messages that are not really important and can wait but have a habit of still reading them therefore breaking my focus.