Working for just a few minutes a day on long-term goals is an effective means to change your life for the better and is one of the principles of my Ten Minute Virtuoso method for mastering skills and learning efficiently.
I’m obsessed with how you can manufacture more time in your day so you can do things that are important to you but that you often skip.
I recently blogged about making more time by shutting off social media and by having a news blackout.
One reason both of these strategies are so important is that media today – social media, news outlets, music streaming services, video streaming services, etc – are purposefully designed to keep you involved with the media. There are thousands of engineers specifically working to keep you engaged with the media their companies produce. Our brains are no match for this.
One of the best discussions of this I’ve seen recently is in a BBC News article entitled “How to stop ‘digital gangsters’ stealing your time.”
Yes, as always when I recommend a link while simultaneously suggesting that you take back your time, I understand the irony of learning how to make more time in your day by reading yet another online article. Believe me, it’s fine with me if you skip my suggestion and go do something to accomplish your goals. If you do read the BBC article, I hope it scares you enough to take a break from many digital media services you’re using so you can focus on something you truly want to do!
