Four Key Steps To Increasing Personal Productivity. If you find yourself struggling to accomplish what’s on your to-do list, or sticking to your schedule, these tactics often do the trick: 1.
Take Advantage of a Powerful Part of Your Brain. Identify tomorrow’s most important outcomes before you go to bed. You don’t necessarily need to know exactly how you will spend the day when you hit the sack. But, being sure of the results you want gives your subconscious mind a chance to figure out the best ways to get it all done while you’re sleeping. Pomodoro Technique. A Pomodoro kitchen timer, after which the method is named The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s.[1] The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks.
These intervals are named pomodoros, the plural in English of the Italian word pomodoro (tomato), after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student.[2][3] The technique has been widely popularized by dozens of apps and websites providing timers and instructions. Closely related to concepts such as timeboxing and iterative and incremental development used in software design, the method has been adopted in pair programming contexts.[4] Underlying principles[edit] How we change what others think, believe, feel and do.