Having Trouble Working And/Or Need Motivation - Then Try The 48 Minute Rule
October 2006
Negativity often breeds negativity and that’s a bad and often scary position to be in. But conversely the flip side is that optimism or in this case productivity breeds productivity. And it’s all a case of shifting ones working habits.
The 48 or 50 Minute Rule Can Help Achieve This Goal
In the Blog world there are many excellent websites about personal development and more importantly good working practices. A Blog is a simple website on a certain topic, often written by the man-in-the-street that’s designed to be updated frequently. And if the blog is well received you’ll also have surfers adding their own comments to the articles and topics written about.
When surfing the internet recently we came across an excellent site called SuccessBeginsToday . One of its recent articles was entitled The Power Of 48 Minutes which has subsequently been modified to 50 minutes.
The idea basically states that you –
- Get a countdown timer to place on your desk – we actually use this free piece of software called 1Time which places the timer on our screen (we do use 2 computer screens though)
- Set it to 48 or 50 mins and work solidly for this time period
- Then have a break of say 10 or 12 mins before resetting the counter and dong another 48/50 mins
- 48/50 mins seems to work well before it's not taxing on the brain or our effort levels, contrast this with the fear many people have when confronted with a job that will take 3 hours solid work
Productivity Breeds Productivity
We said this line in the opening paragraph and so far we’ve found it to be true when following this strategy. For example, the fella behind the article remarks that he now starts to play mental games with himself as to how much he can achieve in a 48/50 minute period whereas before focused work was always a drag.
It’s also a good idea to keep a daily note of how many 48/50 min sessions you do because there’s a good chance that if you did 6 today you’ll try and beat this by doing 7 the next.
Summary
Spend 20 minutes or so reading through the different articles on the SuccessBeginsToday Blog that relate to this 48/50 method.
You might just find it’s a strategy that will enable you to either work better or perhaps more importantly kick-start your present working habits.
Good luck!
PS. We’ve just banged out this article, posted it on the web in about 30 mins thanks to this strategy. Before it would have taken us about double the time.
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