3 Minute Rule

Conquer Procrastination & Unleash Creativity: The 3-Minute Rule & More on Living Lucky®

Feeling stuck in a procrastination pit? Dreading that overflowing inbox or unfinished creative project? This episode of Living Lucky® with Jason & Jana Banana is your lifeline!

We dive deep into the life-changing "Three-Minute Rule", a powerful technique to smash through procrastinationand get things DONE. Learn how to set a simple timer for just 3 minutes and watch your productivity soar. (Spoiler alert: It's easier than you think!)

Here's a taste of the golden nuggets you'll get:

• Break the Chains of Procrastination: Discover how the 3-Minute Rule helps you overcome the initial hurdle of starting any task, even the most dreaded ones. (Say goodbye to CliffsNotes excuses!)
• From Dreading to Doing: Hear Jason and Jana share their personal battles with procrastination and how the 3-Minute Rule transformed their approach to work (and maybe cleaning the garage!).
• Small Steps, Big Results: Learn how tiny actions can unlock a chain reaction of productivity. You'll be amazed at how much you can accomplish in just 3 minutes!
• Nurture Your Creativity: We don't just tackle procrastination; we also explore how to cultivate your creativity. Think of your creative projects as your own precious "children" that need love and attention to flourish.
• Embrace Imperfection: Perfectionism is the enemy of creativity! Jason and Jana encourage you to give yourself permission to be imperfect and focus on the joy of the creative process.
• The Power of Play: Shift your perspective on tasks and see them as opportunities for play, not chores. This playful approach can make even the most mundane work more enjoyable. (Video editing, anyone?)

Feeling inspired? We want to hear from you! Share your progress with the Living Lucky® community by emailing jason@livinglucky.com.

Ready to conquer procrastination, unleash your creativity, and start living lucky? Download this episode and get ready to be empowered!

Keywords: Procrastination, Productivity, Three-Minute Rule, Creativity, Play, Imperfection, Living Lucky®, Personal Growth, Inspiration, Motivation, Action Steps, Community

Transcript

Overcoming Procrastination With Three-Minute Rule

Jana Shelfer 0:00

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start Living Lucky®. Good morning. I'm Jana, I' Jason and we are Living Lucky®. You are too. I was reading this book called the Three Minute Rule.

Jason Shelfer 0:26

Hello, I wish I could. I'm trying to get to three minutes.

Jana Shelfer 0:30

Now, I didn't actually read the book and so don't quote me. Don't quote me on this. Did I get quoted on that? But the gist of it, according to Blink List, which is like a cheat sheet for all books, why didn't they have this when?

Jason Shelfer 0:46

I was in what was it called Cliffs Notes? Yeah, when I was in school, it was Cliffs Notes. They will not help you pass a book report, oh really.

Jana Shelfer 0:54

I swear by Cliffs.

Jason Shelfer 0:54

Notes. Well, not with Miss Susie Johnson, they don't.

Jana Shelfer 0:57

Really.

Jason Shelfer 0:58

No way, Jose. You try a Cliffs Notes pass pass and is definitely a fail.

Jana Shelfer 1:03

Really, my dad was actually a teacher and he was like Jana get the. Cliffsnotes. He encouraged the CliffsNotes and also read the book. In fact he was like go above and beyond. You need to read the book and get the CliffsNotes.

Jason Shelfer 1:17

That is a solid piece of advice.

Jana Shelfer 1:19

Yes, because it will help you understand it.

Jason Shelfer 1:24

It helps you get a deeper level of understanding. Now, my take one year during summer reading was get the CliffsNotes only Okay, because I didn't want to read all the words and all the pages. And I studied those CliffsNotes.

Jana Shelfer 1:39

Why didn't we want to read? I don't understand that I didn't get the value of the reading.

Jason Shelfer 1:43

It was a time suck for me because I read so slowly.

Jana Shelfer 1:46

Because we wanted to be with our friends. What was it? I didn't have a lot of friends, what was it?

Jason Shelfer 1:52

I just didn't like reading.

Jana Shelfer 1:53

I think it was that I didn't like to move my eyes and I also.

Jason Shelfer 1:57

Well, my eyes jittered a lot, but I just I didn't. You had jitter eyes.

Jana Shelfer 2:02

I did. I had jitter eyes. Was that your nickname? It?

Jason Shelfer 2:04

made me tired.

Jana Shelfer 2:04

And I had to read the same paragraph over and over, and over again. Yeah, I know, I did that.

Jason Shelfer 2:10

And I would fall asleep.

Jana Shelfer 2:11

I always did that with those weekly readers. They called it speed reading.

Jason Shelfer 2:14

I call it sleep reading. I would literally just I would read because of my time. You called it repeat reading so I could get through some cliff notes, but it was a struggle. Okay, I want to talk about Now. I love it.

Jana Shelfer 2:28

I really want to talk about the three-minute rule. That's what I really came here to talk about. And the three-minute rule has a lot to do with procrastination and it has a lot to do when you have a project that you are just putting off. You don't want to do it For example, cleaning the boat and you're like I just don't want to do it.

Jason Shelfer 2:51

I'm not going to do it or getting our taxes ready.

Jana Shelfer 2:54

Yeah, and you're like I don't want to do it, and you're like I'll start next month.

Jason Shelfer 2:57

I'll do it. I'll do it next week, I'll do it, I'll do it one day. It's never going to get here Right it one day. Yeah, we're gonna get here right next month. It's been. It's been on the weekend to-do list for four months, eight weeks like just to get caught up. I know, I know because once you're caught up, it's very easy. I know once you're a couple months behind. It seems like, oh my god I know what have I done to myself?

Jana Shelfer 3:21

I know, I know there's a lot of things like that. If we just stay on top of it, yeah, it doesn't seem like a big deal. I know what to do.

Jason Shelfer 3:30

Why don't I do what I know?

Jana Shelfer 3:33

no, there's a lot of things like that, cleaning the garage, I mean, if we hey, clean as we go attacked if we clean as we go and keep it clean.

Jason Shelfer 3:43

That's what my friend Jerry always used to say. Good or no, clean as you go.

Jana Shelfer 3:46

Oh, I know he said that. I feel like he's channeling me right now when we say that.

Jason Shelfer 3:54

So this three-minute rule makes perfect sense, because a lot of times I just don't want to start it.

Jana Shelfer 3:59

Okay. So the three-minute rule, according to what I read on BlinkList, which is a cheat sheet for all readers, literally said just give yourself three minutes. So if there's something that you absolutely do not want to do, just say I'm going to do it for three minutes. Three minutes, set a timer, I'm going to do it for three minutes. Three minutes, set a timer, three minutes. I only have to do it for three minutes. And what happens usually is, if you just Give yourself three minutes to do it, when your three minutes is up, you're usually so proud of yourself for doing it for three minutes that you're like oh well, you know what. I can go ahead and do, just a few more minutes.

Jason Shelfer 4:49

I'll do yeah, or even just three more minutes maybe.

Jana Shelfer 4:52

I'll do three more minutes and then I'll have six minutes under my belt.

Jason Shelfer 4:56

Because, like it didn't, it wasn't as hard, it wasn't as painful, it didn't, it wasn't as hard, it wasn't as painful, it didn't hurt as bad as I thought. We try to avoid the pain of it, it's, it's like, it's like the band-aid you know it's like it's better than the band-aid, because I avoided, like the pain wasn't there, that I was expecting, and I'm getting pleasure out of having getting something.

Jana Shelfer 5:18

Getting it done. It feels better getting it done than it did putting it off.

Jason Shelfer 5:25

Yeah, and it's that we build up this mountain of thought and anxiety and worry on it, and just like there were years ago when your year for the word was start.

Jana Shelfer 5:38

It was just start.

Jason Shelfer 5:39

And I got goosebumps because that reminds me of this three-minute rule.

Jason Shelfer 5:43

And it's oftentimes that we just don't give ourselves a chance to start. And if you just give yourself a chance to start, you might find that if you are in alignment with it, you get into the flow of it. And even if it's something you don't want to do and if it's not in alignment but it's one of those has to get done, like it's one of those things that just it's part of life that needs to get done and right now you're the person for it, until you can delegate it or delete it. It is what it is, but it's something that needs to get done and it's going to be weighing on your conscience, needs to get done and it's going to be weighing on your conscience. It's going to be sucking up some of that vital mental and energetic resource of you until you do start, until you get it off the plate.

Jana Shelfer 6:25

And sometimes starting means give yourself permission to be imperfect or give yourself permission. Sometimes starting means okay, you know what this is weighing on me. I'm just going to Google something about it. Yeah, Like that is starting.

Jason Shelfer 6:45

Give myself the grace of being imperfectly perfect wherever I'm starting from.

Jana Shelfer 6:50

Yes, but at least I'm going to, I'm just going to poke around, yes.

Jason Shelfer 6:57

Right, and that lets some of the air out of the problem.

Jana Shelfer 7:00

It does, because the more that I just keep avoiding it.

Jason Shelfer 7:04

You build it up to be bigger than it is, it becomes a monster.

Jana Shelfer 7:08

Yeah, it becomes this monster of fear.

Jason Shelfer 7:11

It becomes a monster of fear. So what is? So? We have to ask ourselves what is it, that thing that I've been putting off, that I just need to take three minutes and and start, and, and just give myself the grace of saying I'm just gonna try it for three minutes and and for me it is probably going into the garage and saying I need to work on the other half of it no for you, I believe it is taxes. Yeah, that too. For me it is video editing.

Jana Shelfer 7:43

It is video editing, and I will say that on Tuesday, having Lucas come over, he helped me so much. However, as soon as he left, I was like, oh yeah, I'm so inspired to do more and more. And then, as soon as he left, I was like, oh yeah, I'm so inspired to do more and more. And and then, as soon as he left, I was like, oh, I don't know what to do.

Jason Shelfer 8:06

Do you know what I'm saying? Because he had, he brought in all this new knowledge and all these new tools and resources, which are beautiful and great. But and this is again why we have coaches and why we have people that are experienced in that total immersion Like it's beautiful when you have total immersion because you can go, give yourself a ton of time to be in it and get the efficiency and effectiveness. But even if you can't do that, giving yourself three minutes to start to play and recognize it as play- it's play, it's play.

Jason Shelfer 8:45

I'm telling you Play is imperfect, but it's fun.

Jana Shelfer 8:49

So, like my biggest thing is perfectionism. It is perfectionism. So, like video editing and perfectionism don't always go hand in hand, because I like things organized and I like things perfect, and so it can build up into this mountain and then I don't want to dive into it because it's time consuming and there's a lot. Yeah. And there's a lot yeah, and if I just take three minutes, the three-minute rule, once I take three minutes I can get sucked into it and then Then you have some fun with it, and then I start having fun.

Jason Shelfer 9:29

Yeah.

Nurturing Creative Growth Through Commitment

Jana Shelfer 9:30

It becomes creative. And once I attach it to my creativity and say this is my creative baby, Hello. Then I start giving birth.

Jason Shelfer 9:42

Then you get to my creative baby, hello.

Jana Shelfer 9:44

Then I start giving birth, then you get to nurse that baby Right, then I start being able to mold it the way I want to do it, then it grows into something beautiful.

Jason Shelfer 9:56

So if you've got something that you're willing to commit to, give that three minutes to send us an email at jason at livingluckycom or janna at living, actually send it to jason at livingluckycom so we can keep track of it. We'd love to support you in it and just know that you have made that commitment to yourself and you're making progress towards something, and we'd love to hear from you. So keep Living Lucky®, have a great day, give yourself that.

Jana Shelfer 10:16

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