Defeating Procrastination!

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
-Mason Cooley
There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. Most of us are procrastinators or should I say almost all of us are. We like to choose the easy path. We like to take rest even when all the work is left there uncompleted. We follow distractions, Why? because it feels good we feel relaxed watching a nice movie, Eating our favorite ice cream, going out for a long drive, scrolling the Facebook news-feed, replying to a not-so-important text and then keeping the conversation going.Even when we know that we don’t have much time and we need to complete an important task. Our inner voice keeps saying: “Take rest, you have plenty of time, don’t be harsh on yourself”. And yes we all love hearing this and leave the work for later. But this act can cost us a lot in the long run.
My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that’s procrastination.
-Ron Cooper

So I learned about this technique called The Pomodoro Technique which is basically a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. 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.

I set an alarm of 25 minutes to do my assignment (making a nutritional assessment form) that I have to submit tomorrow. I normally turn of the wifi connection when I am working and that’s what I did. It helped a lot I did research about the assignment and started compiling up the form. The Instant Gratification Monkey showed up but I succeeded in not letting him take the wheel. I added the personal information section in the form and then about Anthropometric measures. And in doing so the first alarm rang.

I took a 5 minutes break and then came back to work in within next 25 minutes I completes next 3 portions of the form and took a 5 minutes break again. Now only final touches were left. I completed the form and now it’s ready to be submitted. I was very relaxed and now as a reward I could enjoy those distractions without any guilt!
I think I would've felt more tired if I did all the work in one sitting without taking short breaks and maybe it might have took more time. This technique helped me finish my work even without the help of The Panic Monster.
