Do you have a free minute to organize? How about 10 minutes? If you answer no check out the article in my personal development blog about some of the myths of being busy. And then try answering that question again.
So Why 10 Minutes?
I was reading a post by Glen at LifeDev blog about how 10 minute increments can benefit your productivity. And I couldn’t agree more. You can be quite productive in 10 minutes. In fact, if you spent just a single 10 minute increment daily organizing items or processes in your home or life that would mean you’d complete 365 organizational tasks annually. You’d spend 3,650 minutes a year organizing your home or life.
Your home and life could be more organized than it has been in the past 10 years by just spending that 10 minutes on creating organizational processes or organizing items around you.
If you doubled that to just 20 minute increments, imagine the possibilities.
Why Will This 10 Minute Increment Approach Work for Organizing Your Home and Life? Several reasons…
1) If you tell yourself that you’ll do an organizational task for just 10 minutes, that seems reasonable and easy enough. You’re more likely to motivate yourself to organize something if you say “I’ll just do it for 10 minutes” than if you say “That’ll take me hours to do”. In the latter case you’ll probably put it off, possibly forever. In the first case, you might even find yourself engrossed enough in the task to go longer.
2) If you have a short attention span normally then 10 minutes is long enough to get something done but short enough to focus before your attention deficit sets in.
3) You truly might only have 10 minute free increments some days between your job work breaks, attending to matters with your spouse or children or attending and waiting for appointments.
What Can You Organize in 10 Minute Increments? (more…)
