50-minute focus session for applications and forms with distant thunder, when you have just finished work

1 Before you start

• Get water now, so you do not have to get up in fifteen minutes.
• Remember that motivation usually arrives after starting, not before.
• Close the door, or put headphones on, whichever signals "working" to the people around you.
• Let go of the version of this task you imagined doing perfectly.
• Set the timer where you can see it, or where you can deliberately not see it.

2 While the timer runs

• If you are bored, the boredom is usually the last thing before something clicks.
• When you have drifted for the fifth time, that is still four returns. Keep going.
• If you feel the urge to check something, write it on the paper beside you and keep going. Deal with the list afterwards.
• Notice whether you are working or performing work. They look similar from the outside.

3 When it ends

• Put the notes you made where you will find them next time.
• Decide whether the next block is the same task or a different one. Do not drift into it.
• Look out of a window for thirty seconds. Your eyes have been at one distance for a while.

4What to put on

distant thunder — Low rumbles with long gaps. Suits people who find sudden noises more distracting than constant ones.