Focus session · portfolio work · 50 min
A 50-minute block for portfolio work, with plain quiet, when you are cold and want to be warm
A single 50-minute block for portfolio work — the last ten percent.
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. Get a blanket first. Being cold defeats the point. No preamble. We start with the body.
1 Before you start
- Have a piece of paper beside you for the thoughts that will try to interrupt.
- Lower the bar until starting feels almost silly, then start.
- Get water now, so you do not have to get up in fifteen minutes.
- 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.
- If nothing is working, write badly on purpose for two minutes.
- 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.
3 When it ends
- Leave the desk tidier than you found it. Two minutes now saves ten later.
- Write down the question you could not answer, so it has somewhere to live.
- Note what you actually got done, not what you meant to get done.
4What to put on
plain quiet — No added sound at all. If you have a quiet room, that is usually better than any recording of one.
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