Focus session · admin and email · 25 min

Deep work timer: 25 minutes of admin and email

One block of admin and email with vinyl crackle underneath. One pomodoro, long enough to get somewhere and short enough to start.

25:00

Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.

If you're sitting, let the chair do the work of holding you upright. A few minutes is the whole requirement. No preamble. We start with the body.

1 Before you start

Get water now, so you do not have to get up in fifteen minutes.
If your mind is already racing, write down the three loudest thoughts before you begin.
Close every tab that is not needed for this one task. Not minimised — closed.
Let go of the version of this task you imagined doing perfectly.
Decide now what you will do when the timer ends. Otherwise the decision will eat the first five minutes.

If you feel the urge to check something, write it on the paper beside you and keep going. Deal with the list afterwards.
When you get an idea for something else, park it. Do not follow it.
When you catch yourself re-reading the same sentence, stop and write down what you were looking for.
If nothing is working, write badly on purpose for two minutes.

Write down the question you could not answer, so it has somewhere to live.
Take the break away from the screen, even if it is just the other side of the room.
Write one line about where to start next time. Future you will be grateful.

vinyl crackle — A thin layer of surface noise over nothing much. Just enough texture to stop the room feeling empty.

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