The Ten Minute Way
There are a few things in my life that I don’t do, but should. I have been trying to think of a way that I can do these things more often, even when I tell myself that I don’t have the time. I got the idea from Rhys, when he was telling me about his 15 seconds a day. The deal with that is that you write for 15 seconds every day. Who can say that they don’t have 15 seconds to write? No one. Especially when you want to be an author, and writing it something that you love- you’re just too busy for it most of the time.
So I modified it to 10 minutes, mostly because 15 seconds of the things that I want to do everyday make it worthless. So for ten minutes every day I will:
1. Exercise. I’ve worked out that if I walk to the bottom of my drive way, back half way and take a detour to my shed, then come back and walk the rest of the way up to the house, it’s about 10-15 minutes. It’s up and down hills, and along straights and it’s really quite a work out, especially if you jog.
2. Pray. I’m a Christian, and I hardly ever pray. I know that I should do it more then 10 minutes a day, but it’s start, right?
3. People. People are an important part of my life, but my timetable hardly shows it. I’ve decided that I need to dedicate at least 10 minutes a day to one member of my family. That’s one every week day (weekends I’ll save in more entirety for everyone, including Luke). 10 minutes isn’t much, but once a week it’s meaningful, and 10 minutes will inevitable turn into 20, and in some cases more.
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May 30 2007 08:53 am | Useful
May 31st, 2007 at 10:29 am
That sounds like a great idea T, I should do the same.
The problem is, I probably won’t. Hmmm.