Posted on 16 December, 2010 By
Kim Woodbridge
20 Comments
10 Things to Do With 10 Minutes
Frequently, I finish up a task and discover that I only have 10-15 minutes until I have to go pick up my daughter or until my next phone call. And I often find that I end up mindlessly sitting at my desk clicking around at nothing and I feel like I wasted the time.
So, I started thinking about what I could do with that 10 minutes and came up with the following list.
The List
- Clean the litter box. This only applies if you have indoor cats. If you don’t, you are welcome to come clean out mine.
- Check Facebook and leave super witty and clever comments. If you are lucky, people will “like” them. ;-)
- Reply to comments on your blog
- Unsubscribe from newsletters that you no longer read rather than just deleting them.
- Leave a comment on someone’s blog post.
- Check twitter and retweet some of your followers.
- Answer a couple of quick emails. (if you have such a thing).
- Start a load of laundry, fold some clothes, empty the dishwasher.
- Find the perfect image for your next blog post.
- And as my friend Pat suggested, sit and do nothing.
How about you? What do you do with 10 leftover minutes?
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December 16, 2010 at 1:47 am
#4 is the one that I’ve been working on lately. I tend to sign up for everything and anything that offers something for free and then I have an inbox full of newsletters and most of them are just about sales. I’ve only been keeping the ones that have some value.
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December 17, 2010 at 7:29 am
Hi Danielle – Me too! I just have too many and have been unsubscribing all week.
December 16, 2010 at 1:55 am
hmm, Let me see.. Brush my teeth, change, and put my make up on… oh, look for the keys..
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December 17, 2010 at 7:30 am
Hi Pam – Those are good ones. I’m a stickler for putting things in the proper place so fortunately I always know where my keys are.
December 16, 2010 at 9:51 am
I’m writing this comment with the ten minutes I have this morning.
December 17, 2010 at 7:31 am
Hi Karen – lol :-)
December 16, 2010 at 9:59 am
Excellent suggestions, I find myself there often. I usually check things I forget too otherwise, like stats.
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December 17, 2010 at 7:31 am
Hi Dennis – Wait! You don’t check stats obsessively every 10 minutes each and every day ;-)
December 17, 2010 at 9:01 am
Until recently, 1-2x per year, true story. lol
I’m getting into it a little more, since I’ve started promoting a little more then just blog commenting.
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December 16, 2010 at 10:06 am
Your list is mostly what I do the rest of the time and try and squeeze real work into the ten minute gaps between tweets and checking Facebook ;-)
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December 17, 2010 at 7:37 am
Hi David – Funniest comment of the day :-)
December 16, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Hi Kim,
that was a pretty good list. Since my inbox overflows, 10 minutes would let me delete a batch of unneeded ones. I am also horrible at snail mail. Using 10 minutes periodically, I could process some of that and make it go away. I could also clear a pile of paperwork, clean under a bed, vacuum a room, brush Teddy… On it goes. Now I will need a 10 minute nap!
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December 17, 2010 at 7:37 am
Hi Julie – Aaahh … I didn’t think of the 10 minute nap.
Playing with the cats is a good idea – sometimes I think they don’t get enough attention.
December 16, 2010 at 11:53 pm
i spend 10 minutes doing linkbuilding and responding to emails.
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December 17, 2010 at 7:38 am
Hi Henway – Sounds like good choices.
December 17, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Nice tips! What I will surely do is number 1 and 5 :D
waiting for your next tips.
December 28, 2010 at 3:44 pm
I think I have an internal priority system that I check through when I have 10 extra minutes. Email and voicemail are at the top of my list. Once those are done, it’s usually blog related stuff.
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December 29, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Hi TJ – Checking voicemail is a great idea!
June 29, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Google things like ‘what to do with 10 minutes’, which is how I ended up here…now I have 7 minutes.
June 30, 2011 at 3:12 pm
LOL :-)