Yes, I know that’s a very vague example… but I’ve seen similar situations so many times as I worked with past clients to help them better organize their home and structure their schedule. If you had simply set a timer and moved on with your day when the timer buzzed, you could have completed part of your task/project, finished the rest of your to-do list for the day, gotten to bed at a reasonable hour, been more awake the following day, and most likely had time to finish the rest of your task/project. In reality, YOU LET IT TAKE TOO MUCH OF YOUR TIME! More often than not, it will take significantly longer than you anticipated to COMPLETELY finish whatever you were working on… which means you’ll end up way behind on everything else you wanted to accomplish that day… which means you’ll stay up too late… which means you’ll be tired the next day… and you’ll probably end up vowing never to do _ again because it “took too much time” and ruined your productivity for the rest of the day. I fully understand how frustrating it might be for you to move onto something else without completely finishing what you were working on - but it really is the better alternative in so many situations. Want to run into the mall (or your favorite shop) to look at a few things, but don’t want to neglect the rest of your to-dos? Set your timer (maybe a little more than 20 minutes!) and vow to leave when it buzzes. Focus on the sinks, counters, and toilets and leave the rest for another day.
Want to (or need to) clean your bathrooms, but you probably don’t have time to clean them all? Set a timer for 20 minutes and see how quickly you can clean.
Want to read a book, rest your eyes for a few minutes, or just scroll through social media? Set the timer for 20 minutes and then force yourself to move on when the timer goes off. Then pack up and move onto to the next item on your to-do list. Want to work on a craft, hobby, photo project, but don’t want it to consume your afternoon? Set the timer for 20 minutes… if you’re really rolling along, set it for another 20 minutes. Want to work on organizing part of your closet, but don’t have all day? Set the timer for 20 minutes, then pack up and move onto the the next thing when the buzzer goes of. Not only are timers a great little motivator (at least for those of us with a competitive streak!) they are also fantastic reminders for anyone who tends to be easily side-tracked. Since Day 1 of my blog (and my organizing business) I have preached the benefits of setting timers for various tasks and activities throughout the day. It might sound silly, but if you’ve tried it, you know that timers work! HOWEVER, simply setting the timer on my phone gives me the same sort of motivation and accountability to move quickly and do as much as I can WITHOUT getting side-tracked by all the other things I could be doing.
#Start 20 minute timer tv#
Now that we’re all “grown up”, I don’t watch all that much TV anymore and even when I do, it’s Netflix, so there are no commercials! One person would stay in the living room while the others ran to do part or all of a chore, and the person in the living room would shout out when the show returned. We’d watch the next 10-15 minutes of our show, and then race off to finish the chore we started earlier, or move onto the next thing during the next commercial break. Growing up, my sisters and I would often use TV commercials as our time to quickly tackle the list of chores my mom gave us….
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