Never underestimate what you can do with one minute.

When setting goals, many people often like to set their yearly resolutions with lofty intentions in mind. But the truth is, most people underestimate how much they can accomplish with every small action they take.  

Even taking one minute per day to do something that’ll help move you forward towards your goals is worth it. Every minute truly counts! 

How Just One Minute Matters

To put it into perspective, at the end of the year:

• 1 minute per day = 365 minutes or over 6 hours
• 2 minutes per day = 730 minutes or over 12 hours
• 5 minutes per day = 1,825 minutes or over 30 hours
• 10 minutes per day = 3,650 minutes or over 60 hours

This means that spending simply one minute each day for a year towards your goal totals over 6 hours spent on that task. Up that to ten minutes per day to dedicate to one of your goals, and you’ll have spent over 60 hours in a year working towards something that you care about! 

For example, cleaning your entire kitchen and organizing each pantry may seem like a daunting task, especially if it’s not something that you typically keep up with. But if you were to dedicate five minutes each day to work on a small section, you can potentially clean and organize your kitchen entirely over the course of a month. 

Dedicating five minutes (or even just one minute!) toward a task may seem as if it’s not worth it in the moment, but when you think about how each of those minutes adds up, you realize that every minute matters and how much you can accomplish in a longer period of time. 

Utilizing The Compound Effect

This is called the compound effect, a strategy of accomplishing bigger goals or tasks through continuous smaller actions over time.

Using the power of one minute will help you reach your goals without the added stress of feeling like you have too much to do at once so that you aren’t overwhelmed. 

Something small like taking your vitamins each day can help you slowly feel better over time, experiencing healthy energy levels and quality sleep to slowly move you forward every day. Just think of how you are supporting your health and wellness by taking this one minute each day for yourself, and how you’ll feel by the end of the year.

Learn how you can have your best year yet when you use each minute to its fullest potential.

Time Blocking to Accomplish Your Goals

Here at MaryRuth’s, we aim to empower you to create structure within each 24-hour period through performing micro-actions to achieve your macro goals — and you can’t get much more micro than utilizing even one minute per day! 

How can you remember what actions you’d like to take every day to help work towards your goals? We recommend time blocking!

You can write down tasks you’d like to accomplish by hour, and even write in some of your one-minute blocks of time you want to dedicate towards a larger goal.

Download our time blocking sheet to use: 

No matter how you choose to manage your time, hopefully this has inspired you to see how precious all of our time is, and how to use your time wisely to accomplish your dreams and live the life you want.

Check out other tips on time management and more on the blog.