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Master your 5-Minute Tasks that Seem Impossible

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Have you ever noticed that some of the tasks that sit undone on your
task list are ones that only take 5 minutes or less to complete?

How can that happen? Even as pressed for time as we are, we still
have 5 minutes available. It would be outrageous if there had been a
task sitting undone in your list for 5 weeks if it only took 5 minutes
to do in the first place — wouldn’t it?

But these are the tasks that feel impossible sometimes. There
is real or imaginary pain associated with them. We imagine clearly how
painful it will be to do these tasks. That is why they are the ones we
put off as long as we can.

Here is the start of a list of tasks that take 5 minutes but feel impossible to do:

1.  Write a hand written thank-you note
2.  Eat a piece of fruit.
3.  Unpack a suitcase the moment you get  back from a trip.
4.  Carry a box of old papers from the attic to the trash.
5.  Drink the recommended daily allowance of eight 8-ounce glasses of water.
6.  Rewrite the 3 most important tasks of the day and get to work on the top ranking task.

I know you have some impossible 5-minute tasks too!  That’s why I left my list so short, so you could add yours to the list. 

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