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.
#SET TIMER 20 MIN 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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