Okay, so this one’s a short one because it is pretty self explanatory but none the less it is still very effective.

And as the old saying goes. It doesn’t matter if it’s a simple trick, as long as it’s an effective trick.

This is about getting you to do the things you need to do but keep putting off. Now I can’t remember everything that I’ve said, so who knows, maybe I’ve already told you about this one before. But the technique goes a little like this, if there is a task you have to complete, like doing the washing up or something along those lines, ask yourself “can it be done in 2 minutes?”, the 2 minutes is an arbitrary choice, you can chose 5 or 10 instead, up to you.

The point of this is to get you to recognise the things that you have to do but don’t want to do, really don’t cost you as much as you think. You might think, well that’s all good and well for basic household chores and stuff along those lines, but I have university assignment or a business proposal to write, this won’t work for that. And guess what, you’re dead wrong; the issue there, is you are only looking at the finished product as the task. Reality is, those bigger projects are just a series of interconnected smaller tasks.

So, in those cases, break it down; for both examples the first small task could be to turn on your laptop and open up a Word document. And I’d argue you could do that in two minutes. From there, just continue breaking things down until the thing is done.

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