Pomodoro Technique Illustrated

Try It Now: Timeboxed Activity

It sounds easy, but let’s try a timeboxed activity to get you into the swing of things. Get a piece of paper and a pen. Make a list of several activities that you might have been doing right now if you weren’t busy reading this book. It could be a form to fill out for your child’s school, something you wanted to look up on the Web, an email that you must write, or some other administrative task.

Now, which one of the tasks that you wrote down is most important? Which one would you prefer to have completed? Bookmark this page, and follow these steps to work on that task:

1. Wind up your kitchen timer for 10 minutes.