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A carpenter with years of experience, was ready to retire. He communicated his contractor about his plans to leave the house building business to live a more leisurely retired life with his wife and family. The contractor felt a little upset that his good and experienced carpenter was leaving the job, but he requested the carpenter to build just one more house for him. The carpenter agreed with the contractor but his heart was not in his work like it used to be. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials for building the last house of his career. It was an unfortunate way to end his career. When the carpenter completed the house and the employer came to inspect the house. He looked around the house and just before he exited the house he handed the front-door key to the carpenter. “This is your house,” he said, “my gift to you.” This was a huge surprise to the carpenter. Although it was supposed to be a good surprise, he wasn’t feeling good as he

We are all excellent planners but when it comes to execution we have a lot of flaws. Perhaps you daily promise yourself that you will be at your work/study desk for 3 hours straight but it never seems to happen isn't it. At the end of each day, you regret. This time management trick will help you to focus on your task and do the real work instead of doing random things. In the Pomodoro method, you will work in 25 minutes chunk. After every 25 minutes, you will take a break for 5 minutes. You have to repeat this cycle 4 times. Before each cycle, you have to set a timer for 25 minutes and in these 25 minutes you should turn your phone off and avoid other distractions. In the end, it will look like this. ( 1 session = 25 minutes work + 5 minutes break  ) Session 1  25 minutes - work  5 minutes - break Session 2 25 minutes - work  5 minutes - break Session 3 25 minutes - work  5 minutes - break Session 4 25 minutes - work  5 minutes