Time Management With The Pomodoro Technique

Time. It is something that we cannot get back. You can earn more money, you can redo a project, you can lose weight you gained but once time has passed, it is gone. That is why time management is so important. How we use our time throughout the days, weeks, months and years of our lives is so important. We have to make them count. One area of your life that you may need to improve your time management is with work, especially if you own your own business.

The saying goes “Time Is Money” and that certainly rings true and hits close to home when you are self employed and you are only accountable to yourself. You can quickly lose focus spending time checking emails, twittering, using facebook or even sitting on the couch watching TV. When you have no boss to report to it is extremely easy to say “I can do it later”. Truth is yes, you can do it later, but will you? Most of the time, you won’t, and if you do it’s not just later, its way later and so you’ve lost time. Now you have more things to do and things can get hectic.

Using time management will really help you find the balance between work and facebook. If you organize your day you can find ways to work in the little social moments you need in your life. One effective way to do this is by using the Pomodoro Technique. The Pomodoro Technique is so simple, yet so effective. The premise is you work without interruption for a solid 25 minutes on a single task and then you take a five minute break. You do this for 2 hours and then you can take a longer break. This helps you find some balance between work and twitter. Truly, it helps your mind stay focused on one task at hand rather than being scattered all over the place. If a thought pops into your head during the 25 minutes you write it down and either schedule a separate pomodoro for that item or if its quick enough, take care of it on your break.

When you work for yourself you have to make the minutes of your day count. You don’t have to spend all of those minutes working, but the ones you do choose need to be productive otherwise you will quickly find yourself lost.

Article Source:  http://www.smellybrain.com/time-management

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