In this solo instructional video, Morgan, "The Habits Coach," introduces viewers to the Pomodoro Technique as a structured method for boosting focus and productivity. He outlines the classic 25‑minute work / 5‑minute break cycle repeated four times, followed by a longer break, explaining how these intervals create deep work periods while allowing regular mental rest. Morgan emphasizes two key advantages: heightened concentration during work blocks and the ability to review productivity after each interval, helping users understand where their time goes. He then recommends the mobile "Focus" app as a practical tool to implement the technique, noting its customizable timer settings (e.g., 50‑minute work periods, varied break lengths) that let users tailor the method to their personal workflow. The video concludes with a call to action to try the app, like the video, and subscribe for more habit‑building content.
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What's up guys, Morgan here, The Habits Coach, and today I want to share with you a strategy that you can use to be more focused and productive when it comes to your work. So what is this strategy? It is called the Pomodoro Technique, and I hope I'm not butchering that name, but that's at least how I think it's pronounced. Um, but it's the Pomodoro Technique, right? And really all this is, is structuring your work in a way where you have very strategic blocks of focus and very strategic blocks to rest, right? So usually how it's structured is it kind of goes in, in 4 cycles. So a cycle would be 25 minutes of focus and then 5 minutes of break. So what people usually do is they do 25-minute focus, 5-minute break, 25-minute focus, 5-minute break, 25-minute focus, 5-minute break, and then 25 minutes of focus, and they do a longer 20-ish minute break. So what this really allows you to do is a couple things. It allows you to be super focused when you are working, but also give yourself a break and give yourself time to go grab some tea, or time to go to the bathroom, or time for your mind to wander, or time to just, to just sit there and do nothing and not be like so focused on the task, right? And then when you do return to the task, you are so much more productive. So that's one of the reasons I love it. The other reason I love it, and this is something that I, I work a lot, I work a lot on this with myself and I work a lot on this with my clients, is like really owning your time and really tracking like where your time is going. And the neat thing is about when you do these 25 minutes on and 5 minutes off, in that 5 minutes off you can really say, okay, what did I get done in that 25 minutes? Was it productive? Because a lot of times like what people are telling me is that they they don't really know like where their time goes. You know, they have this 2-hour block and at the end of it they're like, what really happened in that 2-hour block? Right? So it's not only a great way of keeping you productive and keeping you on task, but it also provides a space for you to say, what happened in this 25 minutes? What happened in that 25 minutes? And so on and so forth. Right? So that's the technique. Um, I would love to give you a practical strategy or a practical app really, um, that you can use to implement this. And ironically it's called the Focus app. So download that one on your phone. That's what I use. And really try this technique out and see how it works for you and see if it makes you more focused and more productive and more accountable to the work that you're doing, right? And the last thing I want to say about this app too, this Focus app, is that you can, you can tweak it based on the kind of work that you're doing or what you feel you need to focus. So if you don't want to do 25 minutes and 5 minutes, you can do 50 minutes and 5 minutes or 50 minutes and 10 minutes if you like. It's really whatever works for you and using this app this Focus app, you can adjust that for yourself. So go try that out. I hope that it really, really helps you be more focused. And if you like this video, definitely hit the like button. And if you are on YouTube, hit that subscribe button as well. And I will see you for the next video.
