Focus session · language practice · 90 min
A 90-minute block for language practice, with brown noise, when you are not sure this will work
A single 90-minute block for language practice — repetition rather than novelty.
90:00
Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.
Let your next exhale be a sigh, if a sigh is what's waiting there. Not being sure it will work is a perfectly good reason to try it once. Straight through, at a normal pace.
1 Before you start
- Have a piece of paper beside you for the thoughts that will try to interrupt.
- Expect to want to stop at about the eight-minute mark. That is normal and it passes.
- Write down the one thing you are going to do, in a single sentence, before you start.
- Remind yourself that you are allowed to produce something mediocre in the first pass.
- Dim the screen slightly. Bright screens make long sessions harder than they need to be.
2 While the timer runs
- If you feel the urge to check something, write it on the paper beside you and keep going. Deal with the list afterwards.
- If you start tidying your desk, that is avoidance. Sit back down.
- When you have drifted for the fifth time, that is still four returns. Keep going.
- If your attention keeps sliding, shorten the next block rather than abandoning this one.
3 When it ends
- Do not immediately open the thing you were avoiding. Give the block a proper end.
- If it went badly, note one thing that worked anyway. There is usually one.
- Put the notes you made where you will find them next time.
4What to put on
brown noise — Lower and softer than white noise, closer to a waterfall heard from a distance. Good if white noise feels too hissy.
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