Tag: time management

5 minutes

Posted on by philipdodson

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Today I started to use this site called moosti.

You can set various timers, like the one I have set now for 5 minutes.

I kept setting this timer all morning, and then when the 5 minutes is up, an alarm sounds.

Initially, it makes you realise that you are not really doing very much in 5 minutes, like I have been messing about on Facebook through 3 alarms, shit 15 minutes.

Then it makes you focus and realise how much you could have done with those 5 minutes. Say for instance, this blog has taken less than 2.5 minutes so far.

Then it becomes a game to see just how much you could get done in 5 minutes.

5 minutes is longer than you realise if you are focused and there is always time.

With 22 seconds left, media added, tags added and corrections done. Posted in less than 5 minutes.

Don’t do today, what can be done tomorrow

Posted on by philipdodson

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We are taught to never put off, always do it today, get it done etc.

Procrastination is seen as a bad thing.

It is.

Well only for the things that matter.

So the question isn’t whether to procrastinate or not, it is what to procrastinate on. We have to accept that there is not enough time to do all the things that we want to do.

However, most of the success in anything actually comes from doing less, but the things we do, need to be the ones that are going to make the biggest difference.

So look at your list, and if it is not going to make a difference, then procrastinate on it, not just for a few days, but permanently. It’s easy to spot what to procrastinate on, if it has been on the list a while, and nothing good or bad has occurred from not doing, then probably best to put it off for good.

Then for ones that make a difference, the few tasks, then grade them from most important to least and then procrastinate on the least for a while, allowing time to get the really important tasks done.

This is a hard habit to build, but life is all about forming the hard to form habits, and sticking to them.

Put off the unimportant, forever.