• Keep an audit-record of how each interval of 40 minutes (inclusive of five-minutes-breaks) actually gets used throughout the day.
     
  • The five-minutes-breaks can be utilized for doing anything that refreshes you.
     
  • The audit-record will give you a pretty good idea of how your alertness levels change during the day.
     
  • Use the periods when your concentration is at peak for the important tasks and the ones with low alertness levels for repetitive tasks viz: filing, photocopying…