Comments on: The 5-Minute Productivity Breakthrough

By: Dana Burghel

Dana Burghel — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:15:48 +0000

The 5-Minute Productivity Breakthrough http://lnkd.in/MgnxdD

By: Shawn Fumo

Shawn Fumo — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:40:54 +0000

Thanks! This sounds like a good thing for me to try.

One interesting thing is that I’ve sort of been doing this already in a different way. Have you ever found yourself frozen? Like if you’re really tired and don’t want to get up, or you’re depressed and just can’t move.

If I ever find myself in the position, I just concentrate on moving a finger or a toe. Generally that is always possible and then you move all your fingers, your hand, your arm, and before you know it, you’re up! The whole process might take as little as 5 seconds or so, but the main thing is just building up the momentum..

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:29:29 +0000

Yeah, I can do that too. Did you happen to see my post about 7 Ideas to Help Prevent Mindless Web surfing? There's a utility linked you can download for free that blocks you from surfing once you cross the 5 minute limit.

By: John M

John M — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:58:42 +0000

Great article, although I think I just realized that the reverse is also true. When I tell my self I’m only going to spend 5 minutes to look something up online I get locked-in for hours!!

By: The Deliberate Life

The Deliberate Life — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:21:02 +0000

Get Productive with 5 Minutes

For many of us, getting things done often means developing little tricks to get us moving. Here is nice little article from Brad Isaac at Achieve-IT! that just might help you to get things going. Here’s The Five Minute Productivity

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:49:09 +0000

If something is working for you then by all means use it and don’t change.

However, the power in the 5-minute method is you are building a fast and furious “push” during that time. The faster the ball rolls, the harder it is to stop it from rolling.

By: me

me — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:22:15 +0000

I do this but I make it for 15-20 minutes and distractions are permissible, so it works about to about the same thing, e.g. I will clean house for 20 mins but during that time I can put the kettle on, check the time, have a drink, put the radio on.

Babysteps work. I don’t understand anybody who doesn’t use them.

By: Steve Zipp

Steve Zipp — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:54:24 +0000

This is an excellent idea. I had used it a while ago (years…) after I first learned of it from either “Becoming a master student” (Book) or “Where there is a will, there’s an ‘A’” (Video).
I think I’ll go use it right now

By: Ryan Abrams

Ryan Abrams — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:44:22 +0000

Great post! So simple, but so effective.

By: Matt Anderson

Matt Anderson — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:26:50 +0000

Brad, you continue to post some simple ideas that are easy to blow off as not improtant. Action seems to be my biggest challenge and when I take it, things just happen. I need to come up with a way to put all of these in an easy to access, “Try this one Today” format.

Thanks,
Matt