if you're interested in improving your productivity and managing your time effectively
you should in my view consider the pomodoro technique that's what i'm going to look at in
this video my name is terry gauri if you're new here i am a solicitor and i make videos
about irish law and business entrepreneurship and so on the pomodoro technique was invented
apparently by an italian monk but the bottom line is if you work in an environment like i do
in an office for example and you are at risk of distractions from
your email your mobile phone to telephone facebook twitter social media sites youtube and so on
then it can be hard to be productive and it can be hard to be effective in your work
and if you see a day of 8 10 12 hours stretching before you it's very very easy to be distracted
it's very very easy to reach for the mobile phone or to check your computer check emails
check twitter check facebook check instagram linkedin you name it the pomodoro technique
is very very good in my view because it allows you to split the day up or divide the day off
into bouts of productivity the way it works essentially is i've got a timer
on my google chrome browser and regardless of what browser i'll be using i have the pomodoro
timer on it has a little app or a little extension that google chrome gives you the principle is this
you work for 25 minutes and you take a five minute break and you do that repeatedly over the course
of the day and after four pomodoros for 25 minutes sessions then you get a longer break you get 15
or 20 minutes obviously you can have your lunch and so on and the usual way but the great thing
about the pomodoro technique is when you know that you only have to focus and concentrate
on something for a period of 25 minutes and you know that at the end of the 25 minutes there's
going to be a five minute break which is going to be a nice reward and then you can check twitter or
you can check facebook or instagram or your email or whatever then you can be very very productive
so my day quite frankly even though it's a long day and i start work in the office at 6 00 am and
i finish at 5 00 pm even though it's a long day i don't find it that long because i split it up
into pomodoro sessions so as i say each session is 25 minutes and at the end of that session i get a
five minute break and at the end of four of them then i get a 15 a minute break or longer as i say
it works well simply because it divides up the day into smaller more manageable chunks and it's like
the question of how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time how do you divide up or how do you
be productive over the course of a day which may last for 12 hours anything from eight to 12 hours
you divide it up into sessions of 25 minutes those 25 minutes you can give your full focus and
attention to whatever you're doing and you know at the end of the 25 minutes that you've got a break
coming a 25-minute break as i say at the end of four pomodoros four 25-minute bouts you get a 15
or 20 minute break or whatever you can choose yourself and obviously you can be flexible as
well but it's useful very very useful check it out online as well if you want if you don't understand
what i'm uh how the way i'm describing it but it's relatively straightforward it's working in bouts
of 25 minutes in intense productivity pomodoro technique i hope you find this video useful
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