10 minutes a day revisited
During my last coaching sessions I discovered a new aspect of the powerful “10 minutes a day” technique. Notice the difference:
I decided to work an hour a day on my project and I managed three times this week. The other days I didn’t even get to half an hour.
I decided to work at least ten minutes a day on my project and I managed six days out of seven, two of them I worked for twenty minutes and three more I was so in flow that when I realized a whole hour was gone!
In the first case, an hour working means 60 minutes of work. In the second, it means 10 minutes work and 50 minutes fun. Usually, however, the right comparison is between 60 minutes procrastinating and 10+x minutes of advancement.
Tuesday, 30. November 2010 • 10:13 pm
Excellent thoughts here. And what I really like about this strategy is that revolves around how you choose to frame up your project. Rather than thinking of the enormity of it, or how long it will be until you finish, your only responsibility–now, at this moment–is to start. Start, nothing more.
Make that first hurdle as easy as possible (after all, who can’t work for 10 minutes on something?), and then you have the choice to quit or to continue. Ironically, continuing is usually the easier option.
Dan
Wednesday, 1. December 2010 • 10:10 am
Thanks for your comment Dan!
Is this is the physics of work? A state remains unchanged unless a force acts on it. Once you get started it is easy to stay in flow.