10 minutes every day is better than an hour a week.
10 minutes every day is better than an hour a week.
Simple, but you may be asking in what context. Well first let’s do the math. If your spending 10 minutes a day for an entire week, you are now spending 70 minutes a week. This is 10 more minutes than if you have if you only spend one hour a week. Soon, these extra 10 minutes will compound and after 6 weeks you will get a free hour. After 3 months, you will have gained 2 free hours, and after a year you will get about 8 free hours. These are free hours you are gaining by just spending 10 minutes a day instead of an hour a week.
Now, what does this apply to? Essentially, anything that you would like to do, but mainly to cultivating hobbies, learning new skills, and working on side projects. In this world, we live with the obsession of overcommitment, like discussed before, which may leave us little time to do things that we enjoy. This is why if we start by just committing 10 minutes a day instead of an hour a week we can get stuff done.
10 minutes is very a small amount of time to an hour. Finding time to set aside an hour in our busy schedules may be hard to do, but 10 minutes is definitely possible. And you may be thinking that 10 minutes is too little to get anything accomplished, and yeah 10 minutes can definitely be not enough time. But what we are starting to do is committing to ourselves and our interests. 10 might seem too long if we are starting on something difficult, or too short if we really enjoy what we are doing. However, these 10 minutes is just the starting point. I feel that many people struggle with starting the activity, the inertia of the activity, but once they start, it becomes super easy to keep going. Soon enough these 10 minutes may extend to 20 minutes, to you thinking about it throughout your day, to you not being able to wait to get back to it, and to you realizing that this activity is way more important to you than the other activities that you were doing to merely fueling your ego.
By doing what we like every day we start bringing ourselves more appreciation for life. We also prove to ourselves that committing to our needs is way more fulfilling than taking on an extra hour to make your boss feel good. So let’s stop procrastinating on our happiness and dream about a future far away, but instead let’s work to that future by just spending 10 minutes a day.