Nicole Soer | Your Productivity Coach
2 min
Updated: Nov 10, 2020
Does this sound familiar? I need to start exercising. I should start meditating again. I'd read more if I could find the time. I want to learn to play the guitar. I am guessing you have similar things that you want to do or accomplish or learn.
I started my own weekly holiday and called it 2-Minute Tuesday or #anti-procrastination day. Its main purpose was to help motivate me with something I was procrastinating about or with tasks that seemed overwhelming. At the beginning of quarantine 2020, I found myself extremely motivated to improve aspects of my life. I did a 10,000 step challenge in April, embarked on a no-sugar challenge for May, and decluttered during the month of June. Then July hit and all of these 30-day challenges seemed both unsustainable and overwhelming and the 2-Minute Tuesday habit was born.
Let's be honest: a 2-minute habit isn't enough to turn you into an Olympic athlete or make you a world-class guitar player. But that doesn't mean it's not powerful. I find that it transforms my mindset and establishes a consistent, frequent habit. It is enough to get me started and is incredibly doable.
Choose just one thing to start with and make it so simple that you don't even have to think about it. I ride my stationary bike for 2 minutes. That's it (although sometimes I find myself at 3 minutes). And I do it while my coffee is brewing. Coffee as a reward happens to be a happy by-product.
I am riding my stationary bike every morning and will report back when I feel it becomes a habit like brushing my teeth or getting dressed in the morning. In James Clear's book, Atomic Habits, he mentions that if you miss a day, just get back to it the next day otherwise you are creating a new habit of not doing the new activity.
I would love to know: what new habits are you excited to develop in 2 minutes?