Staying focused throughout the day can be one of the biggest hurdles to completing your to-do list. Especially now that many people are juggling remote work while caring for children and managing ...

I first started using the Pomodoro Technique back in 2014 when some then-co-workers introduced it to me during a brainstorming session. The Pomodoro Method aims to improve focus and productivity while ...

Do you often feel stressed because you seem to always run out of time when working on a project or task? Do you consider yourself a great multitasker, though you realize at the end of the day that you ...

What is the Pomodoro Technique? The Pomodoro is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The core idea is simple: you break your work into intervals, traditionally 25 ...

Working from home is full of temptation in the form of innumerable distractions. Using the Pomodoro Technique, I started dividing my day into 25-minute chunks with a short break at the end of each ...

When your workday is an amorphous blob of equally important to-do items, it can be challenging to pick one task and focus on it effectively long enough to get it done. But if you commit yourself to ...

Every few months, I try some version of the Pomodoro Technique, the famous productivity system where you take a 5-minute break every half hour, and a half-hour break every two and a half hours. I ...

I used to work a lot — 60, 80, or even 100 hours a week. I let my work be a big part of how I defined myself. I wore those insane hours like a badge of honor . . . I loved telling people how “busy” I ...

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I'm working against the clock. Nine minutes remain on a little red timer on my phone, and I'm to keep writing until the alarm goes off, then take a five-minute break. No matter how in the flow I am, I ...