![]() ![]() But I was struck to hear the meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein talk in similar terms about a different personal policy he adopted a few years back: whenever he experiences the impulse to be generous, he tries to follow through on it, there and then. I've long practiced the two-minute rule as a way to power through tedious chores (even if far from perfectly, as the previous paragraph indicates). ![]() There's no way that didn't use up as much time and effort as just ordering the bags. By the time you've "clarified the next action", or made an entry on a list, or scheduled a time to focus on it, you could have just done the thing.Ĭase in point: recently I realized I'd made three separate reminders to myself to order new bags for the vacuum cleaner. Those lists and plans take time and effort, and for some smaller tasks, it's simply not worth it. His point was that anyone who takes a systematic approach to managing their time – with some combination of to-do lists, plans, schedules, and so on – inevitably incurs overheads. He wasn't recommending that you spend your days ricocheting between random little activities, the moment they pop into your head. ![]() Back in 2001, when David Allen published the groundbreaking productivity book Getting Things Done, he coined the "two-minute rule": if you encounter a task that would take under two minutes to complete, just do it now. ![]()
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