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The “one-minute rule”
With this rule, you do anything that presents itself, right away, as long as you can do it in a minute: Hang up your coat, read a letter and toss it, fill in a form, answer an email, note down a citation, put a dish in the dishwasher, etc.
Because the tasks are so quick, it isn’t too hard to make yourself follow the rule, but it has big results. Keeping all those small, nagging tasks under control makes you more serene, less overwhelmed.
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Productivity and priorities
One nice thing about the “one-minute rule” is that you don’t have to think about priorities, because you do anything that presents itself, right away.
And your productivity will shot up because you get so many little things got done quickly, so you'll have more time for the bigger...
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Two ways to apply the two-minute rule
- Completing quick tasks. Often, the little tasks like needing to book a doctor's appointment or sending an email can fill our minds and haunt us. The longer we put something off, the harder it seems to do.
- Starting a big task. We often avoid ambitio...
The advantages of the 2 minute rule
- With the 2 minute rule, there's no complex workflow, 4x4 grid, or inbox to input your tasks. It's simple and straightforward: Do the quick task quickly.
- Instead of adding a task to a list and finding time in the near or distant future to complete it, ac...
The 2-minute rule
The 2-minute rule is a strategy for quickly assessing and taking action on small tasks so they don’t take up too much mental energy.
Ask yourself if a task is going to take you 2 minutes or less. If so, just do it.
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