What You Can Do in 10 Minutes a Day
October 9, 2009
Post by Justin Dixon Follow me on Twitter Photo Courtesy of Nessa Land
Too often we get caught up in how much there is to do. There is no time at all to make our dreams happen today right? Well, partially. You may not be able to make all of your dreams come true today right now, but there is always something you can do. It may not always be as big as you want it to be, but there is always something.
We have to get rid of this idea of success only coming to those who have lots of money to start with, or that we need a certain education to become successful or even that a job that you have no passion for is a surer way to success. These have all been proven false by history time and time again.
The owner of Virgin mobile and Virgin airlines has a 5th grade education. Many of our greatest minds such as Henry Ford, Ayn Rand, and Abraham Lincoln did not start off with great amounts of money. And in a study on what makes people successful it has been found that the most successful people of our times, are those that chase after their passions rather than their dreams.
But than if you don’t need those things what do you need?
Start by setting aside ten minutes. Set ten minutes a day aside. Its not a huge chunk of time, and can easily be made up for in other works. You may have to watch less tv, you may have to have ten minutes where you are not doing a job, or a chore. This is your life, those ten minutes are yours, you can claim them.
Make a list of things you can do today. If your dream is to be a painter don’t wait for the paint supplies, start practicing composition and sketching outlines. If you dream of running your own business than write up a plan. It doesn’t have to happen all at once.
Follow through on your list. All the greatest plans in the world will get nothing done unless they are acted on. You can write an outline in ten minutes, you can fill out some details in ten minutes. You may not even finish your outline, but you can set it aside, and come back at tomorrow’s ten minutes.
Keep it up. If you continue and your persevere, and you let yourself really get submerged in what you are doing, you may find yourself making more than ten minutes of time, but even if you don’t persevere. Push through every trial. If one thing is stopping you don’t waist time on it. Do what you can.
Ten minutes may not be a lot of time, but it is way more time than not starting at all. If you will really focus yourself for ten minutes a day, on truly taking action. Start a website, send out a survey, look up a club, read on your topic and write out action to take based on your reading. Ten minutes may not be much, but for your dreams, for your success, ten minutes could be everything. What is so important that you can not take ten minutes of your day to live your life? I’m making it a challenge. What will you do with ten minutes?
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Dayne | TheHappySelf.com | October 9, 2009 at 10:15 am
Justin, such fantastic and practical ideas. It is amazing what we can do in our life if we have goals we want to achieve, and we simply take small chunks of time to devote to them and be consistent.
Thank you for the great post!
Dayne
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Positively Present | October 9, 2009 at 9:37 pm
There’s definitely a lot you can do in 10 minutes and, as you wrote, it’s way more time than not starting at all. Great point and great post!
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Tristan Lee | October 10, 2009 at 3:58 am
Thanks for this Dustin. Taking small steps a day can really add up and help us developing good habits, even if it’s just doing something for 10 minutes a day.
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Justin- AlittleBetter | October 10, 2009 at 11:39 am
and its amazingly easy to lose track of this too. I partially wrote this as a reminder for myself on how I started moving forward.
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Susan | October 11, 2009 at 10:30 am
Justin; terrific post! The message that struck me was the line about following my passion not my dreams. What a great way to differentiate between the many ideas that flit through the mind V. The deep, heartfelt passion that can fuel my drive to make a difference.
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Geri Langlois | October 11, 2009 at 11:37 am
Very good advice Justin. Ten minutes really is a lot of time for focused attention to small but important tasks. I like to save my morning hours to work on things that I am passionate about. This is my best, most productive time — I call them my golden hours.
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Jai kai - SharingSuccess.TV | October 11, 2009 at 1:01 pm
10 minutes for your success development is great.
One of my mentors also says by reading 10 pages a day from a book about personal development, success ect. that you will end up reading 15 – 20 books per year. How is that for inspiration, knowledge and wisdom.
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Justin- AlittleBetter | October 11, 2009 at 2:49 pm
That is actually one of the main ways I’ve been able to increase how many books I read a year. Though I would go in to more than just self-help. There are several lessons and inspirations that can be gotten from other genres as well. I’m still trying to catch up on my classics.
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Madeleine | October 30, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Justin, Yes, there is always something you can do in 10 minutes. I like you suggestion that you may have to watch less TV. As you know, this issue comes up a lot in terms of exercise. People claim that they don’t exercise because they don’t have enough time. However, they seem to have plenty of time for sedentary pursuits, such as watching TV.
Another benefit of claiming 10 minutes is that it gets you started on something important to you. And once you actually get started, the momentum will carry you on. It even works for doing things I don’t enjoy but need to do.