Nothing but my word processor, a couple dictionaries and the notes I need in order to write (using OneDrive for storing my files, makes it really easy to share the one I need between my two accounts). Here is another trick I use: to make sure I’m not tempted to waste my time online, I have a separated ‘work’ account on my computer, where I don’t have Twitter or email configured, no games either.
#Work timer windows 10 free free#
After that, I’m free to do whatever I want.ĭuring a session, I’m not allowed to go check my emails, Twitter, and so on. Rinse and repeat, until a day’s worth of work is done. Then I’ll start another session often, but not always, followed by another break. I’ll take a short break after that first session, and have breakfast. It’s also very useful to realize where I waste most of my time during any day, and to fight procrastination.Įvery morning, accompanied by a big cup of coffee, I will start working around the same time ( very early) for a 45’ or a 2h session, depending on what I want to do. It helps me to roughly know where I’ll be at the end of every day, no matter what. And it is still is, even if the way I do things, and the time I need to do them, constantly evolves.
Timing my writing, in fact all of my work, was the best change I’ve ever made to my work routine. One’d better know how and where one spends it.
Sure, I’m not paid by the hour, or it would be a misery if not less than that, but writing takes a lot of time and one’s time is limited. For years, I frowned at the idea of timing my work-“I write dude, I’m not getting paid by the hour!” I repeated myself.
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