One of the prime reasons why you are repeatedly failing to achieve your small business targets is ?distraction?. You go online with the best of intentions ? to do self assigned tasks ? but once you are in social networking platforms, reading emails or catching up on newly uploaded YouTube videos, all good intentions just fly away. Right?
Believe me; you are not alone in this predicament.
Distractions are many but if you are seriously interested in increasing small business productivity, use the ?Pomodoro Technique?.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
In the late 1980s, Francesco Cirillo develops the Pomodoro technique, which is basically a time management tool that breaks down periods of work into 25-minute slots. It is based on the idea that repeated breaks during work actually enhance productivity.
As the pomodorotechnique.com website says:
?The Pomodoro Technique TM is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valuable ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvements in the way we do it.?
How Does the Pomodoro Technique Work?
The Pomodoro technique is divided into five easy steps but before that, you need to prepare a list of tasks to be accomplished every day. Here are the steps ?
(1) Decide the Task ?
If you are in small business, accounting is one of the important tasks. So, your first Pomodoro will be to decide that the first task of the day will be to work on business accounts.
(2) Time the Task ?
Every Pomodoro is for 25 minutes exactly. You can time the task through an alarm bell, your mobile clock or an actual Pomodoro. Pomodoro is an Italian word, which means ?tomato?. There are many Pomodoro apps available online.
(3) Work on the Task ?
Once the alarm is set, work diligently on business accounts till the alarm goes off. It is not important that you finish each task in 25 minutes flat. The idea is to teach you time management and discipline.
(4) Take a Break ?
After the alarm goes off, stop whatever you are doing and take a 5 minute break. Once the break is over, come back to the same task or do a new one.
(5) Increase Break Timing ?
The technique says you can increase the break timing every four Pomodoros. That is, after you complete four tasks of 25 minutes each, you can take a longer break of 20 to 30 minutes and then return back to work.
A lot of discipline is necessary to use the Pomodoro technique successfully. The first few days will be really tough; you will be itching to go online and check emails, log in to Facebook, check news feed and others BUT don?t lose hope. Give yourself a week and you will find yourself in sync with the Pomodoro technique so much that you won?t even need the Pomodoro alarm to do your work.
Use this tool and see your small business productivity increase. You will actually find yourself completing tasks in the shortest possible time.
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