Say Goodbye to Procrastination using POMODORO Technique

Saddam Rafiq
3 min readJan 1, 2021

Almost everybody experiences the “Procrastination” situation in their life but very few of them really know about it. Let me explain to you what it is and how can we overcome this by “Eat that Frog with a Pomodoro”.

What is Procrastination?

Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing something. (Wikipedia)

I guess the above-mentioned picture defines procrastination very well.

How can we overcome this?

There is absolutely a solution to every problem. Don’t worry guys. We have the solution of Procrastination and its “Pomodoro Technique”.

What is the Pomodoro Technique?

Pomodoro is an Italian word for tomato and in this technique, we manage our time by using a timer traditionally 25 minutes timer and break down the tasks into small parts and start completing the small parts of the task and in the end, our Major task will be completed.

Eat that frog with a Pomodoro

In France, people usually love to eat frogs but don’t worry we will eat the frog with the Pomodoro technique not with the fork and knife.

I am going to share my experience with you guys that how I ate this frog with the Pomodoro technique.

My Experience:

I have decided on the task to complete four sections of the course “#SuperHero Resume”. First I noted down my tasks on a sticky note as well as set the Pomodoro alarm to 25 minutes. I started working at 1:00 am. I kept working until I finished Section 01 around 1:37 am. Meanwhile, the Pomodoro alarm rang but I was highly motivated toward completing the section, so I didn’t take any break. Now I started section 02 and completed it at 2:14 am. After that, I took a break of 5 minutes and drank water. I gained energy and started section 03 and section 04 respectively and finally completed at 3:30 am.

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Conclusion

The experience was quite good and really very easy for me and I obviously accomplished more because it was the late-night and I really wanted to sleep but this Pomodoro gave me a boost but I feel like that I am a very dedicated person so to be very honest I really don’t need to apply this technique because its built-in quality in myself or you can say God gifted to me.

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