Stress, who?
Why would anyone want to sit for work leaving social media and a dozen other distractions aside when they have always come out of pressure situations feeling like a winner because they pulled an all-nighter, ending up performing, if not better than equally good to the others. Sounds crazy, right?
I am not here to convince you to do otherwise, so yeah feel free to read ahead. The thing I am trying to do here, and failing miserably (braincells for sale anyone?) is talking about eating a frog! I recently was challenged by the Amal curriculum team to eat one and let me tell you, you have to develop a taste for it! a habit, in human language. Planning ahead and scheduling, to-do lists are all fun and stuff but I think eating a frog when you are under pressure is equally important. (why are you all looking at me like that?) Because, if you really want to shine through that all-nighter, then your brain needs some frog blood (oxygen for humans?) and you get that by giving yourself small breaks of about 2–3 minutes during 25-minute slots, this way you get a chance to step back and reevaluate (because you do not have days waiting for you so utilize those 3 minutes) and perhaps activate the braincells on sleep mode.
So about that frog-eating challenge, I set to work on my resume (because of the thrill of working a night before deadlines, right?) using the Pomodoro (frog-eating), and to be honest, I do not know if it was the deadline or the Pomodoro, but I got done with it in two hours. Imagine! 2 hours for a task that would take me 6 hours and two existential crises in the least, on any normal day. But, as much as I know myself (too much) I know it would have taken me 6 hours even today, if it were not for the frog-eating, so yeah! IT WORKS. But only if Whatsapp and a dozen other applications do not so, choose wisely (I know there is no fun in being on those applications without guilt *hugs*).
As for myself, I think I will be using it often since I am always two breaths away from deadlines and it gives me a chance to get things done with proper oxygen supply. Until next time!
