The 2 minute rule

A coworker of my gave a student this advice the other day:

If you can finish a task in 2 minutes or less, do it immediately.

You'd be surprised how much you can get done throughout the day using two minute bursts of productivity.

It is the logic I used today when washing my dishes, putting my clothes into the dirty laundry pile, inputting already graded tests into the online gradebook.

Most students, and lets face it, adults usually waste two minutes just thinking about the task they don't want to do. Instead, they could have just finished it and been onto the next thing.

I've said it to students before and I am sure you have heard it, too.

(if you weren't the person saying it)

We are all guilty of it.

That is okay. The next time you do go wash your dish from that one meal, I dare you to set a timer to really see how long it takes you to clean up right away.

It will surprise you how quickly the mundane tasks take you to complete.

2 minute rule.

Set a timer, see what you can accomplish in two minutes. When the timer goes off, you can stop.

You will stop many times. But you may also continue on in that productivity.

For most us, its just the initial starting moment we struggle with.

2 minutes. That is 2 tik tok videos. Maybe even less than 1 if its a long one!