• Get a timer. The original method uses a timer that’s shaped like a tomato. You can use a kitchen timer. No cell phone – timer. You need to keep your cell phone turned off and away from you.
• Now, with this technique you will also want to disable your email alerts. If you use Gmail on your computer, just shut that tab. Turn off your desktop alerts. If you use Outlook, turn off the sound notifications. Turn off the tray notifications.
• Set your timer and stay on the same project for 25 minutes (or whatever amount of time that you choose). Do not take visitors. Do not take phone calls. No email. No Facebook. No Twitter. Nothing but focus during that time. At first, it’s going to be hard. You probably will spend time wondering about email, Facebook, and everything else. Just work through it. Do not check those things until the timer goes off. If someone comes to your door (or into your cubicle), they can wait unless they have a broken bone, they’re having a stroke or heart attack, or if they are on fire. This technique will make you more efficient. This is because you are working to complete as much as you can on a project in a specific increment of time.
• You’ll find with this technique that you feel less burned out once you get used to it. It creates a specific amount of time (multiple times per day) that you can totally and unashamedly focus on your work. This stops you from procrastinating. That means you aren’t working frantically next to the deadline.
• Give yourself a few minutes to take a break between each session.

Please refer to the book for more details on this activity.