Tag: “Techniques”

The Golden Rule of Habit Transformation

Habits are simple choices we make at certain moments and, over time, we stop thinking about them even though we continue to do them. The sum of all our small daily choices determines, in the long term, who we are: how we eat, how we work, whether we exercise, how we relate to others. An infinite number of small details that have a huge impact on all aspects of our lives.

The Pomodoro Technique is a simple but effective time management method created by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The method divides your work into short intervals of intense concentration, traditionally 25 minutes, separated by short breaks. Each work interval is called a “pomodoro” (Italian for tomato, a term inspired by a tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a student).

Time blocking is a time management technique that involves dividing your day into specific blocks of time dedicated to specific types of activities. Time blocking allows you to be proactive: you decide in advance when you’re going to do each thing and for how long.

Batching, or task grouping, is a task management technique that involves grouping similar activities together and performing them consecutively in time blocks dedicated specifically to that type of work. Instead of constantly switching between different types of tasks throughout the day, batching proposes concentrating all tasks of the same nature into specific periods.