Five minutes, 300 seconds, it doesn’t seem like much in the grand scheme of your day. But have you ever really timed it? Once you do you’ll realize, as I did, how much you can accomplish in 5 minutes or less.
Throughout our days, we can all find pockets of available time such as a tv commercial break, while on hold with the pediatrician’s office or cable company, or that lull between telling your kids it’s time to go and when they are actually ready to walk out the door for practice or school. This is a great time to mark an item off your to-do list.
Here’s a few suggestions of tasks that can be accomplished in 5 minutes:
- Clean out your purse or wallet
- Organize the junk drawer
- Throw in a load of laundry
- Water your plants
- Write a Thank You note
- Respond to an email
- Clean the microwave
- Vacuum the living room
- Put away a load of laundry
- Cull through old magazines
- Purge your makeup drawer
- Sort the mail
- Pay a bill online or over the phone
- Build some muscle with crunches, push-ups, or lunges
- Take out the trash
- Wipe down the front of the stove and refrigerator
- Wipe fingerprints off the sliding glass door or windows
- Sanitize your keyboard and mouse
- Load or Unload the Dishwasher
- Sweep the kitchen
- Breathe and relax
All these little things that add up on your to-do list can be worked into the fabric of your day with hidden patches of five minutes. When the end of the day comes, you’ll feel a calm knowing that you’re ahead of the game and relax without thoughts of the undone. I challenge you to set a timer and see what you can get accomplished in 300 seconds or less.
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