3 Smart Twists on Popular Productivity Hacks
Because there are thousands of ways to get things done
Some popular productivity hacks just don’t work for everyone. Like with sampling different cuisines, you have to pick and choose what you’re into. I love Indian food and day batching. The Pomodoro technique and Chinese food? Not my favorite.
Some of my clients say they feel like they have failed if they can’t force a specific productivity tool to work in their lives. This is absolutely not true. Tools exist to help all of us get to where we want to go. And there are thousands of ways to get things done.
The key is finding what works for you and sticking with it (until it stops working — hey, we all change). Here are three productivity hacks for which I have found alternatives that work for me.
Popular hack: The Pomodoro Technique My alternative: Time blocking
People swear by the Pomodoro Technique. Invented by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s, it consists of breaking your work sessions into bursts of 25 minutes with five-minute breaks. Then, after three of these sets, you take a longer break.
I tried for years to make this technique work for me. It didn’t. I am a person who needs longer sessions of…
