I’ve been finding Yoda timers helpful, but not because they show “look how much you can do in 5 minutes!”—many of my tasks had to do with cleaning things up around the house, and these tasks take at least an hour to actually accomplish.
There was some clutter in my kitchen from more than 2 years ago, including a container of Soylent powder, some syrups that I used to flavour plain Soylent, and bottles of vodka and rum. I only drink ready-to-drink Soylent (I had ordered the powder to try it out, but it’s not as convenient as RTD Soylent), and there’s now enough variety in the flavours of Soylent that I don’t have any need for extra flavours; I also no longer drink alcohol, because the idea of putting poison into my body to relax just doesn’t seem appealing to me these days.
Beyond all the unused items, the area was also just very dusty. I could have easily cleaned the area a long time ago, but it never really registered on my radar as a problem that needed to be fixed. Yesterday, walking through my house as part of the Bug Hunt, the messiness of the kitchen (as well as other parts of my house and car) stood out to me, so I made a note of it as a bug to potentially fix, and once I had chosen that bug for my Yoda timer, even though I knew it would take more than 5 minutes to thoroughly clean the area, the Yoda timer gave me just enough space to create a plan in my mind and rally the motivation to actually tackle this problem that has been there for a long time.
I’ve been finding Yoda timers helpful, but not because they show “look how much you can do in 5 minutes!”—many of my tasks had to do with cleaning things up around the house, and these tasks take at least an hour to actually accomplish.
There was some clutter in my kitchen from more than 2 years ago, including a container of Soylent powder, some syrups that I used to flavour plain Soylent, and bottles of vodka and rum. I only drink ready-to-drink Soylent (I had ordered the powder to try it out, but it’s not as convenient as RTD Soylent), and there’s now enough variety in the flavours of Soylent that I don’t have any need for extra flavours; I also no longer drink alcohol, because the idea of putting poison into my body to relax just doesn’t seem appealing to me these days.
Beyond all the unused items, the area was also just very dusty. I could have easily cleaned the area a long time ago, but it never really registered on my radar as a problem that needed to be fixed. Yesterday, walking through my house as part of the Bug Hunt, the messiness of the kitchen (as well as other parts of my house and car) stood out to me, so I made a note of it as a bug to potentially fix, and once I had chosen that bug for my Yoda timer, even though I knew it would take more than 5 minutes to thoroughly clean the area, the Yoda timer gave me just enough space to create a plan in my mind and rally the motivation to actually tackle this problem that has been there for a long time.