{"id":6000,"date":"2017-09-05T16:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2017-09-05T16:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:17:33","slug":"pomodoro-technique-and-why-didnt-i-know-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/09\/05\/pomodoro-technique-and-why-didnt-i-know-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomodoro Technique\u00ae \u2013 and why didn\u2019t I know about this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a life-long \u201cmulti-tasker\u201d how horrified am I by the more recent research that keeps telling us that multi-tasking doesn\u2019t work and how I will be more effective by focusing on one thing at a time. We achieve more, reach our goals and feel better by taking regular breaks.\u00a0 Discussing this with a wonderful ( and highly productive) colleague today I was introduced to the\u201d Pomodoro Technique” devised by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

https:\/\/cirillocompany.de\/pages\/pomodoro-technique#how<\/a><\/p>\n

The infographic\u00a0 link above explains further and loving anything with a toy \u2013 a tomato shaped timer is just so appealing – I am going to give it a go and will give a future update on my progress. I am hoping that adopting the \u201cPomodoro Technique\u201d will re-train me to focus, become more productive and be more aware of the time-wasting activities that creep up and stop me from doing the value adding things I really\u00a0want to do.\u00a0 And the great thing is I could set the timer and pop a pizza in the oven at the same time \u2013 oops I have slipped back into multi-tasking already.<\/p>\n

This is I will admit is a pretty low-tech tool to be posting as a CEL blog (sorry..) and am sure many will be using technology to create high impact work intervals and breaks etc. \u00a0There is even \u201can app for that\u201d as I understand you can download a Pomodoro app. However, if anyone would like to evaluate the old style tomato shaped timer with me \u2013 let me know quickly and I will send you a tomato timer as gift, as it\u2019s\u00a0 even more fun when you collaborate.<\/p>\n

So let me know if you would like to join in this endeavour to create more value adding time, become more productive and break the habit of multi-tasking.<\/p>\n

Susanne Clarke, Head of Service Excellence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a life-long \u201cmulti-tasker\u201d how horrified am I by the more recent research that keeps telling us that multi-tasking doesn\u2019t work and how I will be more effective by focusing on one thing at a time. We achieve more, reach our goals and feel better by taking regular breaks.\u00a0 Discussing this with a wonderful (… Read more » about Pomodoro Technique\u00ae \u2013 and why didn\u2019t I know about this?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6002,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions\/6002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}