Focus session · problem solving · 50 min
50-minute focus session for problem solving with forest at dusk, when you want to finish something
50 minutes on problem solving — before looking anything up. Fifty minutes, the length of a therapy hour, with ten minutes off afterwards.
50:00
Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.
Notice where your body touches the chair. That contact is doing more for you than it looks. Wanting to finish something is a better motivation than wanting to relax. Straight through, at a normal pace.
1 Before you start
- Make sure your chair is at a height where your feet are flat on the floor.
- Remind yourself that you are allowed to produce something mediocre in the first pass.
- Go to the toilet first. It sounds trivial until you are mid-sentence.
- Remember that motivation usually arrives after starting, not before.
- Put your phone in another room, or in a drawer you cannot reach without standing up.
2 While the timer runs
- When you get an idea for something else, park it. Do not follow it.
- If you feel restless, change your posture rather than your task.
- The first urge to stop usually arrives early. Sit through it once and the second one is quieter.
- If nothing is working, write badly on purpose for two minutes.
3 When it ends
- Take the break away from the screen, even if it is just the other side of the room.
- If it went badly, note one thing that worked anyway. There is usually one.
- Decide whether the next block is the same task or a different one. Do not drift into it.
4What to put on
forest at dusk — Birds settling, leaves moving, nothing sudden. It works because it sounds like a place you can safely ignore.
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