The significance of tomato clock working method lies in keeping enthusiasm and tension, paying high attention, speeding up the progress of transaction processing and reducing the number of interruptions in a limited time, which can effectively improve efficiency, enhance decision-making judgment and cure procrastination.
According to the research of Wharton Business School, in less than one day, such as one hour or half an hour, job-hopping and one-sided pursuit of diversification will make people feel stressed and weaken their happiness. In the same tomato clock cycle, focusing on one job can effectively improve happiness and sense of accomplishment.
Each of us is lazy and instinctively tends to accomplish simpler things. Eating frogs every day (an important thing) often requires fighting inertia, getting rid of inner struggle and concentrating. The tomato clock working method is just an excellent helper to eat frogs well.
The tomato clock work method, in short, takes 30 minutes as the measurement cycle, of which 25 minutes are used to complete the task and 5 minutes are used for rest.
The measurement period of a tomato clock can be shortened or extended, but the time for adults to do tasks is generally 25 minutes, and the longest time should not exceed 40 minutes; Due to the limitation of physical strength and energy, children can generally take their actual age X2 as a task stage.
Within 25 minutes of concentrating on completing the task, we should keep the continuity of investment time and devote all our attention, and it is best to enter the flow state. After about four tomato minutes, that is, 120 minutes, you can rest 15 minutes -20 minutes.
The working mode of the tomato clock well embodies the working principle of combining relaxation and rest. As put forward in the book Energy Management, our energy, physical strength and willpower can be effectively strengthened, restored and improved through intermittent rotation of high-intensity work and study and adequate rest and relaxation.
Before you start eating tomatoes, you need to collect all the affairs of the day and input them into the inventory system. It is best to plan the scene, place and time period of each job, do a good job decomposition, and combine similar jobs to improve the efficiency of completion.
Eating tomatoes is mainly to cultivate the habit of eating frogs with high concentration. It can only be used when dealing with important things, and there is no need to use the tomato clock method for some chores. So in the list, according to the importance and urgency of the task, determine the three frogs to eat that day, and apply pomodoro technique to the three frogs.
After determining the three frogs of the day, it is necessary to estimate the specific tomato clock time and make a reasonable time allocation.
First of all, we should estimate the maximum number of tomatoes we can eat that day, leave free time for temporary events, and arrange the frogs to eat in order.
It is estimated that the time required for each frog event should be based on the whole number of tomatoes, and similar half tomatoes cannot appear. If the total task time exceeds 8 available tomato time, the task steps and plans need to be re-planned due to the long time; If several projects need a short time, they can be completed in a tomato clock.
For example, if you want to write an important report today, you can estimate the time. The framework and materials are expected to collect 1 tomato clock, write 3 tomato clocks, modify and arrange 2 tomato clocks, and one * * * is 6 tomato clocks.
If the estimation is not accurate, the writing process will be greatly hindered, and the total time will exceed 8 tomato clocks. Considering that people's energy is limited and they need to set aside time to do other tasks, they should break up the tasks. You can plan the overall structure of 1 tomato clock today, complete the first half of three tomato clocks, and arrange to finish the rest the next day if you are not in a hurry.
After you start eating tomatoes, you should maintain a high degree of concentration, try to avoid the loss of efficiency caused by task switching, and create an undisturbed environment. If the work is completed in a tomato clock, it can be better consolidated and improved by checking and reviewing the completed work.
When the task time reaches 25 minutes, stop working immediately and rest wholeheartedly for 5 minutes.
After each tomato clock is completed, tick the tomato worksheet check box. If the check box of the original plan is full, but the activity is still not completed, a second evaluation is required, which is indicated by+. If you execute the tomato clock, you will encounter an internal interrupt (*); When an external interrupt is encountered, please remember (-).
If the interrupted temporary matters need to be postponed, they will be directly included in the inventory system and the processing time will be arranged. If the current task needs to be interrupted immediately and the execution time exceeds 5 minutes, the tomatoes being eaten will be invalid.
Before you start eating tomatoes, you can simply think about what you want to achieve in this tomato clock; After a tomato clock is over, simply think about whether the stage goal has been achieved.
Zazie Hoko
The tomato clock working method is not suitable for everyone, nor for any scene.
Because the tomato clock work method will be interrupted at the end of each tomato clock, it will force people who need to be in a state of flow for a long time to stop thinking, which will cause fatal losses to a job that needs continuous thinking or urgent work.
For example, we need to complete an emergency report or design at one time, and we need to work continuously for 90 minutes to complete it. Obviously, a 30-minute tomato clock will cut off our thinking, increase the time for thinking switch, and probably lead us to fail to finish the task on time. At this point, it is best to immerse yourself in the task until the task is completed.
There are also leisure time such as being with family and friends, relaxing and so on, which cannot be measured by the tomato clock. When playing with children, we should cherish the parent-child time and accompany the children to grow up; When shopping with your girlfriend, you should nourish it with love and respect and spend more time communicating. When traveling to relax, you should devote yourself to completely relaxing, so don't think that I have to eat a tomato to deal with emails and write materials.
The tomato clock is suitable for scenes where the work content and place are relatively fixed, and there are fewer emergencies, so there is no need to run around; There is little need for persistence and in-depth thinking, or the preliminary investigation and in-depth thinking have been completed, forming a basic framework and plan. What needs to be done is operation and execution, even if the task is interrupted, it will not have much impact.
For people who are engaged in non-creative work, have a great sense of time or have procrastination, tomatoes can also be used to measure their efficiency in completing tasks and cultivate their sensitivity to time.
The biggest fear of executing the tomato clock is that it is often interrupted. This kind of interrupt is divided into internal interrupt and external interrupt.
For internal interruptions, the key is to plan ahead and avoid frequent interruptions. Internal disruption Usually when we eat tomatoes, we have an epiphany that something needs to be dealt with. At this time, you only need to add new items to the list system of the day as soon as possible.
For more urgent and important transactions, you can interrupt the current tomato clock and restart a tomato clock to handle new transactions; For those that are important but not urgent, put them on the agenda and start the next tomato clock after the current tomato clock is executed.
For external interference, this situation is often beyond our control. In particular, superiors and colleagues need to entrust you with something urgent. While you are taking notes quickly, can you put off communicating with others? If it can be postponed, put it on the agenda and deal with it later; If an important transaction cannot be completed, postponed or urgent within 30 seconds, it is necessary to interrupt the current tomato clock and start processing the tomato clock for a new transaction.
When eating tomatoes, we'd better inform our family or colleagues in advance that important tasks are being completed in a certain period of time, and strive to create a relatively quiet space for ourselves and try to avoid being disturbed.
The general principle of dealing with the interruption problem is to turn the interruption into a task, successfully delay the influence of the interruption on the current tomato clock and increase the controllability of the tomato task; According to the importance and urgency, properly handle the interruption, make records in time, and protect your tomato clock.
Life is a marathon, which requires a long endurance. The essence of tomato clock working method is to combine work and rest, improve efficiency and balance yourself.
You need to make full use of the precious rest time between eating tomatoes. During the 5-minute break, you can meditate, stay in a daze, listen to a piece of music and do some push-ups. During a long break after four tomato clocks, you can do a short KEEP task, go out of the office to communicate with colleagues, have a cup of coffee in the corner, replenish water or add meals, take a walk outdoors, climb stairs, and even make a short sprint. These are all effective ways to relax.
For people who are hard-working and sedentary, it is especially necessary to get up and move their joints to relieve stress. According to scientific research, people who sit for more than 10 hours a day on average have a higher level of troponin in their blood. However, the long-term existence of high troponin levels indicates that there are problems inside the myocardium, which will cause physical damage.
As for the tools of the tomato clock working method, the most important thing is "one watch and one clock".
A table is a tomato clock worksheet, on the left is a list of projects to be completed that day, and on the right is the projects that need pomodoro technique and related records.
Zazie Hoko
A clock is a timer, including machine timer and mobile APP software. I usually put a machine timer at home and office. There are many kinds of timers on Taobao, and the tomato clock is the most cost-effective. Tick-tock will make the time pass more clearly and improve the concentration of the opponent's work.
Mobile phone software in other occasions, such as forest, TODO tomato, focus timer, PomoNow, Tide, etc. , are convenient and easy to use timing tools. These tools are easy to use, so you can explore them slowly.
Sharp tools make good work. As one of the sharp tools of time management, the tomato clock work method will bring you more focused time and efficiency upgrade.