The Power of 10 Minutes

It certainly works as a motivator during exercise: more and more trainers are telling their clients to just commit to ten minutes and then see how they feel. Of course, they know damn well that the clients will feel better after ten minutes and want to continue.

But it would definitely depend on the activity. If I’m doing an involved writing project, I wouldn’t break it down into anything less than hour units, because it would interrupt the flow. Fact is, though, that most of our tasks nowadays are designed to be highly interruptable and episodic, so this tip would work for most work-related activities.

I agree with your idea. It’s better to do our task in small alloted time rather than in one piece and waste most of the time.

Doesn’t work for me: 10 minutes is the time it takes to get my attention focused on something.

Projects that I planning a lot of time are very unsuccessful. But that things which appearing in 10-20 minutes always became very profit.

Thank you for this article.

This is certainly helpful as I probably rank in the top 1000 procrastinators in my region! It definitely gets one doing something about the task (especially initiating it) rather than wondering and whiling away the time. 15 minutes works mad miracles for me. Thanks for the insight!

This is something I’d evolved for myself too, when feeling distracted and listless. That it is mentioned as a tool for good working, reaffirms the logic-process. Thanks.
Surekha

hi,,,can give me idea to create circuit timer for 10 minutes,,,the timer on the minute and stop 10minute again,,,and after 10 minutes timer operation again,,,no used the reset button,,,can???
i have no idea about that,,can help me//if u can,,,email me the circuit and component to use…encik_amin@yahoo.com.my…

Such a technique has been developed and “researched”, it works with 25 min cycles. Check out http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ they have a free good ebook about that.