Morning

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With the Pomodoro Technique, it’s not hard to know where to start. Let me show you how I do it. At the start of my Pomodoro Technique day, I select the most important activities from the Activity Inventory sheet and write them in a list on my To Do Today sheet. This is the Planning stage.

Then I choose the highest-priority activity on the To Do Today sheet, wind up the clock to 25 minutes, and start focusing on that activity—and only that one. In my head, I say that this activity is on the “now list.” This virtual list is actually binary. It holds either one or no activity.

Being able to do something because you have decided to do it is ...

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