EAT THAT FROG WITH POMODORO

Muniba Akram
3 min readJan 1, 2021

So, I was sitting in the lounge relaxing not worrying about anything just doing my online courses , and then suddenly I reached to the task where we are assigned to do a task by following Pomodoro technique. So I just skipped it even after listening the most motivational TED talk by Tim Burner. I skipped the task because you know the monkey( which Tim mentioned) in my brain was telling me to relax more and giving me suggestion like; you must be tired and you need rest so I did that. So, later on I realized that; Oh that was procrastination and I should not let it in my way.

Procrastination is the action of postponing or delaying.

you are supposed to not to do that, so keep reading.

I decided to do the task which was making my resume. So, set the timer to 25 mins and started to do that. After like 15 min, I was still on the first section that was my personal information, yeah yeah I know that is a bad sign , after 25 mins my timer ringed and finally I was finally at my professional experience section. So, I took a break of 5 mins and started doing my task again. OH WAIT, what am I doing, you guys must be thinking that I am following POMODORO technique, which is something like this:

So, I already divided my task into steps and I was completely into it, focusing on it still even when that frog which we were supposed to eat was hopping and telling me to chill and saying come on buddy lets watch another episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine and then I literally ate that frog like this:

I know its gross but you have to eat this.

So, I followed all the steps that were mentioned in the Pomodoro technique successfully and here I am writing a blog about it.

> So, was that experience difficult for me or not:

YESS, it was very very difficult as making resume was quite a task and a difficult for me but I was determined to do that and I did it successfully.

> Yes , it helped me a lot to accomplish my task and in a more efficient way and I definitely achieved more.

> I am definitely planing to do this again and I will try to take short breaks in between as I took a long one in between so my focus will remain on the task.

It was a great and healthy experience and I like it a lot as I accomplished the task very well. So, I highly recommend it do it.

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