This is the 2-minute rule you need to finally end your procrastination or other bad habits and achieve more out of life. Procrastination and other lousy time management habits lead to many missed opportunities and chances for personal growth to build up your business. It encourages laziness and lacks accountability, in turn stalling your momentum, focus, and consistency needed for success.
What Exactly Is The 2-Minute Rule?
It’s a stress-free approach to starting new habits and kicking bad ones. It’s a rule designed to help you achieve more goals without feeling overwhelmed and keeps you from delaying action any longer than you should.
The two main concepts for the rule include:
- If it only takes two minutes, then get it out of the way right now.
- Establishing new habits or routines should only take two minutes to begin with.
As with most methods, if they are misused, they provide the opposite results than you intend.
Here’s how to use the 2-minute rule effectively to kick your bad habits and achieve max productivity:
Keep It Relevant and Realistic
Only use the rule if it is relevant to whatever you are doing at that time. In other words, don’t just do whatever task comes to mind if it doesn’t relate to what you are actively doing.
For example, if you are trying to finish your next content package for your client, it’s not a good idea to go ahead and get that email notification about your next business meeting out of the way. It is unrelated and will ultimately get you off track and prevent you from finishing your course. Instead, think, “what can I do in two minutes to finish this course?”
Don’t Make It Hard
You don’t need to gain success or be the best overnight. Don’t make adopting new habits challenging and overwhelming by speeding up the process. Small gradual changes make it easier to accomplish and stick around long term. For example, science proves that those who lose weight over a more extended period of time maintain the weight longer than those who lose it very quickly.
Meaning you shouldn’t focus on what you can’t do; rather, what you can do instead. For just two minutes, what can you do towards changing one bad habit? Then the next day, add two more minutes and keep repeating the process.
It’s All About Perspective
The main goal of the 2-minute rule is to change your perspective on how you see a challenge or annoying tasks. You can trick your brain into believing a task is simple and easy, even though it can be hard. Anyone can deal with something for just two minutes, and sometimes the most challenging part is just starting.
Give this 2-minute rule a try the next time you feel that you need to push off your work to Monday. You won’t regret giving it a try.
Over the next 30 days, we will be talking exclusively about quarterly planning to maximize your productivity by learning the core values and habits needed for success.
Reaching your productivity goals requires understanding, harnessing, acquiring, and juggling many different ideas, concepts, and skills. Throughout this report, you will learn the core values and habits needed for success, what everyday habits to avoid and how a straightforward change in your plans can maximize your productivity.
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