Utilizing a timer for your pomodoros, as you might expect, is key to staying on track with this technique. After completing four pomodoros, you take a longer 20- to 30-minute break. Once your break is over, you go back to working on the brief for another 25 minutes, and so on, until you complete four 25-minute segments-four pomodoros. When the time is up, you get up and stretch, check your email or whatever else you like to do on a break for five minutes. So what does this look like in practice for lawyers? Rather than working on a brief until it is “done,” with all the interruptions and distractions we often face throughout our day, you work on the brief with 100% focus until your 25-minute pomodoro is up. This technique is designed to encourage you to devote your complete focus and attention to one task, while taking short breaks to avoid mental fatigue. When the timer rings, you reward yourself with a short break. The idea behind the technique is simple: You set a timer for 25 minutes-a pomodoro-and work on the task at hand for the full duration of time. Cirillo named the technique after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer-“pomodoro” is Italian for tomato-he used as a university student to focus on his studies and complete his assignments. This time management method was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s.
If you have never tried the pomodoro technique, I highly suggest trying it.
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