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People are using this method for all kinds of things:

Commit to a small, productive block of time. I suggest a minimum of 30 minutes and a maximum of 60 minutes at the beginning. This block of time is not a huge commitment–surely, your job search deserves 30 minutes of hard work! If you do this correctly, you will find one of two outcomes: 1) you will be surprised at how much you can accomplish in 30 minutes of uninterrupted hard work, and 2) once you get your momentum in those first 30 minutes, you will want to continue your progress. Suddenly a minimum commitment of 30 minutes turns into an hour and a half of focused productivity.

I wrote my most recent article in daily 30-minute sessions. I wasn’t feeling too good, so 30 minutes a day were all I could manage. And this strategy still worked. It took me 46 days to write the article from start to finish. I have to say, though, that there was a very lengthy preparation process. I had a detailed plan of the article specifying what I would say in each paragraph before starting the actual writing.