I tried time blocking tasks with pomodoro method seriously this time to accelerate my study (in Italian I'd say "to put pepper on my ass") and I must say I found it very helpful!
I managed to finish by the early afternoon the amount of work I normally do in an entire day, leaving me time to start the next history chapter. I'm also pretty happy with the quality of my study today!
While the previous times I only used the timer to focus on one long assignment, this time I did it to set a deadline or measure my tasks timewise, to correlate and visualise a bit more clearly how much I needed to do and how much it would realistically take me.
My focus time is already quite long and I have a good routine of alternating intense study hours and quick refreshing pauses, but what slows me is always considering my impending tasks only through time or extension, quite never correlating the two.
My problem has always been time management when the deadlines are still far, knowing that stresses me even more and considering the whole amount of work left scares me every time, so I end up spending more time to make strict unrealistic plans to co-opt my future self into being consistent rather than analysing and breaking through the tasks I have ahead of me to make them feel as simple and as comprehensible as I can.
Once I noticed the amount of pages I could study and write in 25 minutes, the paragraphs and chapters begin to feel way more manageable.
I'll try it again but so far I'm liking it ✨
