Pomodoro

I made some great progress on my chapters today, thanks to my old friend, the Pomodoro Technique!  I completed 5 Pomodoros!!  That might be a record for me.  I used this Pomodoro tool to help me.  Briefly, the Pomodoro Technique is a time/task management technique measured pomodoros, which are 30 min blocks of time.  Twenty-five minutes of the pomodoro is spent working or organizing your daily tasks, the last 5 min is used as a break.  The rules are that you can not interrupt a pomodoro once it has started and you must take your 5 min break.  Click on the link above for more information.  I find the pomodoro helps me overcome any anxieties I might have about starting a project and also help focus.  It's easy to convince myself to just do 25 min of revisions or whatever and not freakout over it or to focus for only 25 min.  But usually once I start a pomodoro it's for me to continue, it's the starting that's hard.  It really just applies the whole "a journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step" idea to your work.