3-3-3 Method - Fork My Brain
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3-3-3 Method - Fork My Brain
It is easy to set up. You start by making a list of all the regular tasks, obligations, and appointments you have every week—your fixed-time expenditures, so to speak. You then make a grid of your week on a calendar or appointment book and plug each fixed obligation into a regular time slot.
the Pomodoro method, which is one way of working out your prefrontal cortex.
Because of scheduling issues, others may need to break up their study time into increments, perhaps a half hour in the morning for personal growth and work-related study, and a half hour at night for personal study. (For a complete list of recommended tools you can use to keep your Stimulus Queue in order, visit AccidentalCreative.com/book.)
For this book, I worked in 15-minute work intervals with 2-minute breaks three times an hour, and a 9-minute email check at the end of every hour. I stretched, used the restroom, or otherwise didn’t look at the screen for the full two minutes, I found this helped my mind reflect and decompress, so that I could get back to writing. Sometimes those t
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