119 - Twenty 5-Minute Tasks

<p>Once you have streamlined and moved most of your household tasks to large chunks of time in your calendar, you can now start to use 5 minute snippets of time to knock off some of the repetitive routine tasks on your list. This opens up more valuable chunks of time to get done bigger - and more valuable - projects. </p> <div> </div> <div>I know it sounds kind of counterintuitive, but if you are always doing little tasks here and there, you never feel done. If you have a 4-hour time block set aside to do those tasks and can knock 30 minutes off during the week through six 5-minute chunks, you feel accomplished and organized!</div> <div> </div> <div>Here are twenty tasks I do in 5-minute pockets of time to get you started thinking about what your twenty tasks will be:</div> <div> <ul> <li>Start a load of laundry</li> <li>Empty the dishwasher</li> <li>Fold a load of laundry</li> <li>Clean off the kitchen counter</li> <li>Do the dishes</li> <li>Clean out a shelf in the pantry</li> <li>Empty all the trash cans</li> <li>Pick up toys in the family room</li> <li>Collect all the towels and start the laundry</li> <li>Vacuum a room</li> <li>Delete email and voicemail from your phone</li> <li>Change your furnace filter</li> <li>Take items up or downstairs</li> <li>Go through your mail and open it all</li> <li>Write a thank you note</li> <li>Book a doctor appointment</li> <li>Refill soap dispensers</li> <li>Clean out 1 drawer</li> <li>Shred paper</li> <li>Put 10 things away</li> </ul> </div> <div>Use those minutes you spend talking on the phone or waiting for people knocking off your repetitive tasks!</div> <p> </p>