If you can’t get ahead, take one step back or outside.

One minute increments to make or break success.

As most are aware the amount of anxiety going into planning anything is often due to time, resources, and expectations of outcome. Usually this doesn’t seem like a huge deal for anyone who seems to never deal with the fallout of mistime, mistake, or misinformed decisions. For you though I’ve had more than a fair share of inconvenience to tell you, yeah it’s likely you’re being bright-sided into thinking it’s all in your head.

Realistically a failure ratio of anything you start for the first time without doing similar tasks is exceedingly high.

For example I didn’t get into a data entry position until I had already floundered several positions including housekeeping and dishwashing. (Both seemingly super easy in retrospect. Are not when added in poor health. Diseases made through consumption would cause you surprise at what cannot be achieved.)

What you’ll want for this exercise:

• A wind up timer (like your kitchen timer)
• Couple of Tasks you can time
• A small note book

Why it’s important;

Essentially the wind up timer, a metronome or an hour glass force your brain to exist outside of usual focus.

When you use this to time your tasks you are actively engaging regions of the brain that require muscle memory and training to efficiency.

By using a notebook you are tracking the level of efficiency you start with and the ability you’re improving.

Just because the advance doesn’t seem fast doesn’t mean the improvement isn’t there.

As you break down all the tasks you start to just one minute intervals you start to understand how many seconds it takes you to complete a task. If you’re coordinated and not purchasing health or options of less stressful outcomes on the regular most people won’t ever have to try this.

However, timing yourself and giving yourself only a single minute to do a task gifts you a little more confidence than what you started with. Due in part to helping the brain articulate trends and patterns in a less harmful way. The noise of the device is an intrigue that fosters curious strategies over normal stress.

By dragging your attention out of your usual focus you actually end up ahead. This trains you to access less fear in an environment that often only rewards undermining behaviors. At some point you gain enough confidence by doing just a few one minute exercises that soon it makes a lot of sense to achieve it another way. Since you tried it someway else you become more flexible in choosing new strategies. Ultimately lowering your stress while allowing you to achieve higher and better outcomes.

Basically by having the game on mindset you’re likely to achieve way more than just hyper focusing on a bad outcome.