My Go at the Jimmy Reyes Thing
So, I kept hearing this name floating around, ‘jimmy reyes’. Not sure where I picked it up first, maybe some forum thread or a comment section, you know how it is. Anyway, it stuck in my head. People were talking about some kind of method, a way of doing things, tied to this name. Didn’t sound like anything revolutionary, just a simple approach someone called Jimmy Reyes supposedly used or talked about.
Decided to give it a whirl myself. Why not? Always looking for little tweaks to how I get stuff done. The core idea, as far as I could piece it together, was super basic: just pick one single thing and really, really focus on it. Like, tunnel vision. No checking emails, no phone, no other browser tabs. Just that one task.
So, Monday morning, I thought, right, let’s do the ‘jimmy reyes’. Had this report I needed to finish drafting. Usually, I’d chip away at it between other little jobs, calls, whatever. But this time, I cleared my desk, literally pushed everything else aside.
Here’s what I did:
- Shut down my email program. Completely off.
- Put my phone on silent and flipped it face down. Out of sight, out of mind, right?
- Closed all browser windows except the one with my document.
- Told myself: one hour, just this report. Nothing else matters.
Honestly, the first ten minutes were weird. Kept feeling the urge to check something, anything. My brain was itchy. But I stuck with it. Just kept typing, rereading sentences, fixing paragraphs. Forced myself back to the document every time my mind wandered.
After about twenty minutes, something clicked. I actually got into a flow. The words started coming easier. I wasn’t worrying about incoming messages or what someone else might need. It was just me and that report. Felt kind of old-school, you know? Just doing the work.
Did I finish the whole report in that hour? Nah, not quite. It’s a chunky report. But I got way more done than I usually would in a scattered hour. Way more focused progress. When the hour was up, I felt like I’d actually achieved something solid, not just bounced around between ten different things.
So, this ‘jimmy reyes’ approach, or whatever it really is? It’s nothing magic. It’s just basic focus. But consciously deciding to do it, setting it up like a mini-event, that made a difference for me. It’s easy to forget how much time we lose to little distractions. Will I do it every day? Maybe not for everything. But for tasks that need real concentration? Yeah, I think I’ll be pulling out the ‘jimmy reyes’ single-task blast again. Simple stuff, but it worked for me this time around.