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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
If you will not look at clocks, let something tell you instead. A watch or phone that buzzes every fifteen minutes, or on the hour, rebuilds a rough sense of how long you have been at this.
Start with a gentle interval, a quarter of an hour or half an hour, and treat it as a question rather than an alarm: what am I doing, and is this…
Reading the time off a clock does nothing on its own. The useful bit is the question straight after it: where was I meant to be by now, and how much is left.
Try adding one sentence to every glance. It is twenty past two, so I have forty minutes and I am about halfway. Said out loud it sounds laborious,…
Keep one short question and use it everywhere: is this what I should be doing right now. Nothing clever, just the same words often enough that they turn up on their own.
The value is in it being fixed. An intention to monitor yourself is far too vague to survive a busy afternoon, whereas a set phrase can be triggered…
The timer you will actually use is the one that takes two seconds. A dial you twist beats an app with four taps, every time, whatever the app can do.
Keep a cheap kitchen timer where you work and another where you get ready. If speaking to a smart speaker is quicker for you, use that instead.…
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