[Recommended] tomato work und-exclusively treating procrastination, mental disorder, and five more minutes of Syndrome

First of all, I would like to pay tribute to my colleagues who are still working in their posts and those who have returned home without having to brush up on the blog garden.
I recently read The "The Clean Coder", but an unexpected result is that I knew there was still a "tomato working method ". I tried it for a few days and thought it was very effective. I recommend it to you.
XX work method, once you hear this name, you can guess that it is time management, and time management is often equivalent to success, so after reading the title, you habitually ignore this article, I don't blame you either. Success is ineffective because everyone's characteristics and circumstances are different, and success is often unable to be replicated. On the contrary, it is more effective to find a way to get rid of some bad habits.
I also suffered from serious procrastination, mental breakdown, and five more minutes of syndrome. After using the tomato work method, I improved a lot.
Let's talk about my illness first.
　　Procrastination-- Keep thinking about "That thing must be done", but it is too late to start. The more difficult and important it is, the easier it is.
　　Five more minutes of Syndrome-- Entertainment and work are easy to complete. After thinking about entertainment, I will work at. The result will be dragged to and I haven't started to do the proper work yet. I am determined to go to bed before, but every day I will go, no bed.
　　Spirit dispersed-- We all knowInterrupt. However, if you think about it, the number of times that someone else interrupts is far less than that of yourself. For example, when compiling a program, I felt very slow. I took the opportunity to download Weibo or Douban. Then I saw some netizens uploading beautiful pictures. Yo, Han wrote a new blog, I remember that the weekly report was not written yet ......
The results of these three kinds of problems are: all day long, sad, anxious, as if busy, tired, not good, to the time to go to bed, but found not doing much serious work, more reluctant to go to bed. Pale, empty eyes, short fatigue, vicious circle.

Tomato work method

The tomato work method is summarized in one sentence --25 minutes of work, 5 minutes of rest. The detailed terms are as follows:
　　0. Preparation: Buy a kitchen timer or use a software timer.(Pc, mac, iphone, Android ).
　　1. Set the timer to 25 minutes and start working until the bell rings. Then, draw a cross after your work item to indicate that the job has consumed a tomato time (if the software is used, it will be automatically recorded, which is more convenient ).
It cannot be interrupted during a tomato period. This means that you cannot refresh Weibo or make coffee or eat at the time of compilation. If the weekly report has not been written, write the weekly report on the book and return to work immediately. If a colleague is disturbing you or receives a call from a customer, politely ask him to wait for 20 minutes. In this book, "you need to call back Mr. Wang" and then return to work immediately. Of course, sometimes people yell, "I can't wait !", If you need to deal with it immediately, the tomato time will be in vain. When you get back to work, you have to start the Tomato time again, just when the Tomato time has never started. After the bell rings, you can take a look at your book and handle the things you just noted down. If there are a lot of small things, you can start a tomato time to process them in a centralized manner.
In a tomato time, only one job is required. If you have finished your work in 20 minutes and do not want to start a job or entertain yourself, you can review it, check/test it, sum up your experience, and optimize or beautify it. If the job is completed in five minutes, and you think it could have been completed in the previous Tomato time, it is unnecessary to review it again, you can invalidate the Tomato time.
　　2. Take a 5-minute break.
After the bell rings, you must immediately stop your work. Imagine that you are taking the test and the time is up. Even if you feel that you can finish it within a few minutes, you cannot continue to work. In addition, do not think about anything about your work in your mind. This is really hard to do. My suggestion is to leave your seat and exercise or chat with colleagues.
　　3. Rest for 15 minutes after every 4 tomatoes.
　　　　If you are tired, you can have three tomatoes for a long rest. Or extend the rest time, but it should not exceed 25 minutes.

For more details, refer to the website, the English version of the ebook, and the Chinese version (only 32 pages, worth reading ). The tomato Work Law was invented by the Italian Francesco Cirillo (Francesco chililo) in 1992. It was named after the inventor used a tomato-shaped timer.

Benefits of tomato workmethods

　　Healthy. There are too many interesting things in the world to be dazzled. There will be a wild horse vs. patriot in the NBA playoffs tonight, and we can't miss out on Barcelona's games, as well as the NBA clippers vs. Lakers. The Clean Coder cannot be dropped after reading half of it. I also want to study ios programming ...... One by one, never rest until you get tired. You can neither sleep nor sleep until you get tired. This passive rest method is extremely unhealthy. The best way to rest is to have a short rest before getting tired.
　　Maintain the vitality of the brain. Due to specific biochemical principles, each neuron in the brain can only work continuously for several minutes, and then it must rest. Continuous entertainment and work can make the brain feel numb and dull. After a lot of research, the tomato team found that in order to maintain the vitality and efficiency of the brain to maximize, the best tomato time is 25 ~ 35 minutes. Most of us work for 1 or 2 hours in a row, so we intuitively wonder if the 25-minute schedule is shorter? Will it be interrupted after the break is in the status? In fact, a 5-minute break will not interrupt your thinking. Instead, it will allow the cleaners in the brain to have time to clean the battlefield and create Trojans for brain cells. Then, you may feel like a storm.
　　Sense of accomplishment. Each tomato represents a pure 25-minute working time. The number of tomatoes per day shows how much effort you have done, and you will feel more specific about how much time each job has consumed. You can know that you have played a few tomatoes, read a few tomato books, and practiced a few tomatoes to have more control over time.
　　Security. You can entertain a tomato and then read a tomato book safely. You don't have to worry about it as soon as you get up.
　　Concentrate on. Work is the way most of us work and the root cause of inefficiency and anxiety. In the afternoon, the plan was difficult to complete. It seemed that many additional things were done, but I couldn't remember what I did. To get rid of the shadows of the Spirit, you must explicitly force yourself to "do only one thing at a time and perform 25 consecutive minutes ".
　　Relaxation. According to my experience, it is not enough for a patient with a severe "five more minutes of syndrome" to think about "taking a rest, there is a new point of interest. With the help of the timer and the "Stop immediately when the bell rings" clause, this disease can be solved cleanly.
　　No longer delay. Most procrastinating patients prefer perfection. The more you want to do well, the easier it is to deny yourself. If you feel that you have no idea, it is not good enough. If your confidence is frustrated, you are more likely to lose your mind. Use the tomato method, press the timer, ding dong, and force yourself to do nothing without thinking, even if you want to do it, it will take 25 minutes.

Entertainment and tomato

The book says that you should not use the tomato method when you are idle. However, my problem is that I think it is inappropriate to work when I have just been full. I always want to entertain myself for a while. However, once entertaining, it cannot be stopped, so I can also use the tomato Method for entertaining. For example, "watch a tomato movie" or "watch a tomato game", and then take a five-minute break. This will be beneficial to both health and the opportunity to decide whether to continue entertaining a tomato or working a tomato.

Tomato your plan

It is also easy to combine the tomato method with your work plan, that is, using the number of tomatoes as the unit of time for the work item. First, you can know through experience that you can do a few tomato jobs on average every day. Then, estimate the number of tomatoes required for each work item so that you can know which work items can be completed tomorrow. At the end of each day, review the actual number of tomatoes used in each work item. Simple and practical, right?
Maybe you have no habit of planning. The tomato method can give you a good start point. Before you press the timer switch, you must first think "only one thing can be done. What should I do with this tomato ?" In this way, I gradually upgraded to "what do I need to do for the Three tomatoes in the morning ?" As your skills become more and more skillful, you will be able and willing to make a full-day plan. A one-week plan will not be written, handled, or written by any leader, instead, it is a realistic plan that is easy to track and measure and can be improved through continuous feedback.
TipsA work item can contain up to five to seven tomatoes. If it is more than this number, the task is considered too complicated. It is best to break it down into several small tasks. If a work item is valued less than a tomato, it is combined with other small tasks into a large task.
TipsYou can use the hollow box "[]" to indicate a tomato time during the planning process. The three tomato times are "[] [] []". mark it behind the work item. In actual work, each time it takes a tomato time, a cross fork is made in the hollow box, and the time it takes for two tomatoes is "[x] [x] []". it takes four hours for the tomato to be "[x] [x] [x] x ").