I realize if I Pomodoro most things, instead of some thing, I feel more motivated to go through my to do list. Sorry if this is already obvious. I tend to do Pomodoros on repetitive, long-term, open-ended tasks like studying, practicing or working.

I'd refrained from doing any Poms on short-term goals, that are uncertain in time it takes, it may take longer than an hour but less than 8 hours, for example researching health insurance; I feel unmotivated to start it because I know it's going to take a long time but not too long, but I don't know how long, so I procrastinate. Putting on my list to do 2 poms of research on health insurance, then reassess if I need more poms, feels more motivating.

If I had to guess why I had a tendency to leave smallish tasks off my pom list, I would guess I was being arrogant in thinking I had the will power to just out right do these tasks with out resorting to poms.