The Power of Fifteen Minutes

Have you ever had a skill that you've seen someone else do but you thought you never could do? Well, here is your chance to learn that one skill that you never thought that you could have. If you just took fifteen minutes every night, regardless of situation, you could build almost any skill that you wanted. Fifteen minutes every night for a year adds up to more than 91 hours! And it doesn't have to be one skill, you could work on a different skill every day! And in no time you'll be able to master any skill that you want.

Like for me, I've never learned any of my multiplication tables beyond 12. I know that you learn that in 5th grade, but I never went past it, so I've been working on them every night and I've gotten really good at it. Everyone has something about them that they're embarrassed about, so work on that! Think about how much you could get done!

Here's a couple tips so that you spend the fifteen minutes to the best of your ability:
- Don't always be watching the clock, stop when you feel like you've spent a good amount of time on it.
- If you can't figure out anything to do, just find anything to do. You could try memorizing all of your contacts on your phone so you're not as dependent on it.
- Make it fun! Try making challenges out of the simple things for exhilaration, or you could do it really methodically for meditation.
- It could be anywhere that you want! It doesn't have to be at your home, it could be on your lunch break, or while you're waiting in a lobby. It doesn't matter!
- Don't skimp out, everyone has at least fifteen minutes that they could use every week. Everybody.
- Practice an instrument of your choice!

Try not to work on easy things during that fifteen minutes (talking on the phone is not a skill), but if you don't have anything to do (despite all of my other suggestions), you could maybe try picking out an outfit for the next day (assuming that you do this at night), and the next morning, that would be one less thing to do. Or try writing a story. The trick to this time is that you're working on something specific, that could help you in the long term, and isn't short term. So you could look at colleges that you want to go to or jobs that you want (try to avoid things like online shopping though, that is a short-term thing because the majority of the time that people do that, they never buy the item, they just take pleasure in viewing items).

Before start your time think "What long-term benefits does this build?" You can still do short-term things, just make sure that you have the fifteen minutes of long-term things built up. Don't ever think that something that you've imagined is stupid or useless, because it probably isn't. All of your thoughts have gone through your subconscious, being nitpicked at every angle before you even get the idea, so chances are it is worth your time to do.

There is one and only one hard part about this whole plan. And that is getting out and doing it. The difference between goals and achievements is discipline! So right now, stop reading my blog, close your web browser, and turn off your computer and work on something.