What’s five minutes? Does it change anything? It really does. If you took five minutes of every waking hour to do something in your twelve hour day, that is an hour. You can empty the dishwasher, paint your toes, fold laundry, read a bedtime story in five minutes. Small potatoes, this five minutes. What about a five minute break after doing something for an hour, that would feel pretty good. An extra five minutes in a tied game, at someone’s bedside, meditation or snuggling with someone you love. Small things do matter.
It is important to give yourself five minutes. Starting or finishing hard things, processing information, you time. Sometimes it is the only time you have. Life is busy and goes by swiftly, go outside, look at the sky, listen to the birds. Those minutes can be used either way, escape or a self starter. It depends on what stage of life you are in. It could depend on the day. I need the minutes to think, to plan, to rationalize, to decide how I feel.
An hour a day sounds different, maybe use them to celebrate small victories. I get bored going at something for long periods of time. Breaking up many projects and accomplishing them over several days feels better to me. Using my rule of ten to do things I hate, then taking a break and going back, actually makes me more productive. Whatever works, hubby can start and finish something in a day, I am envious of that. I get frustrated, I have to walk away, he does not. He problem solves until it is done, I would rather set it in the yard and burn it! Five minutes works for me.
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