Make It Happen In 10 Minutes a Day/The Simple, Lifesaving Method for Getting Things Done

By Lorne Holden

"I LOVE THIS BOOK!" Jack Canfield, New York Times Bestselling Author, The Success Principles and Chicken Soup for the Soul SeriesWould you like to double your happiness and productivity in life?Have you tried formal Time Management programs and felt they did not work for you?Are there things you really want to create or achieve in life but feel you can't because you don't have the time?If you answered YES to any of these questions, MAKE IT HAPPEN is the book for you.In MAKE IT HAPPEN in Ten Minutes a Day, you will learn the simplest success skill ever. You will learn a strategy for managing your focus and achieving your goals by taking small, reliable actions every day. Day by day. In Ten Minutes a Day.In brief, compelling chapters, author Lorne Holden explains:* The simple strategy that will help you focus on what you really want in life.* The “Ten Minute a Day Methodology” that will help you to accomplish your goals more quickly than you could ever imagine.* How small steps really do add up, and why it’s important to remember to stay focused on what you truly want.* A way of thinking that will allow you to be in charge of your life.It's time to stop putting off lifelong dreams because you don't think you have the time they require. Overwhelming tasks do not need to be overwhelming anymore. You can actually make big things happen, in small amounts of time every day. Ten Minutes a Day adds up to sixty hours a year. That's a lot of time to claim or waste. Claim that time and a powerful method of productivity is yours."Stretches of hours threaten us but minutes are a possibility. It's a psychological thing. I found that ten minutes leads me onwards.This method makes me feel as if I'm in charge of the task, rather than the task being in charge of me." Judy Pollard Smith, Author

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lorne Holden
• Release date: Sep 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301925896

Lorne Holden

Lorne Holden is an award winning artist and author living in New England.

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Copyright © 2012 Lorne Holden

All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without the permission of the author.

Cover Design: Lorne Holden/Glenn Geiger

Artwork: Nicole Zaccaria

ISBN: 9781479212477

Artwork

Nicole Zaccaria

Design

Danny & Ulana Chapman

Contents

1. Introduction

Flower by Flower

2. The Idea

What’s Ten Minutes, Anyway?

The Power of Ten

Time Bloom

The Time Inside of Time

A New Mindset

3. How to Begin

The Start Sheet

Next

Buddy Up!

Time Frame

Marking the Time

4. Making It Happen

Creating the Little Dream

Creating the Big Dream

The Big, Dreaded Obligation

That Niggling Thing

5. Words of Advice and Support

Time is Elastic – Slow it to Grow it

The Antidote to Procrastination

Identify What is Stopping You

Create a Reason for Completion

Reward Yourself

Divide and Conquer

Know When to Pause

When You Have Too Much Time

When You Absolutely, Positively Have No Time

Beware of Naysayers

6. Specific Ideas

You and Your Physical Wellness

Your Emotional Wellness – Ten Minutes to Connect

You and Your Spiritual Wellness – Ten Minutes OFF

Ten Minutes ANYTIME

Ten Minutes of Radical Self Acceptance

House Zap

You and Your Kids

Ten Minutes and Your Car

You and Your Friends – Gang of Ten Party

Planning

7. Some Last Good Words

Sweet True Stories

Finally

Online Resources

Acknowledgements

There are no great acts.

There are only small acts,

done with great love.

– Mother Theresa

1. Introductio

Flower by Flower

You’re busy, right?

If you picked up this book, then your answer is yes and we have something in common - not enough time. And perhaps the sense that large things can’t be created or conquered because we don’t have the big time they require.

I offer a simple solution: make intentional ten minute efforts every day.

This idea was borne out of necessity in my life. During a recent summer, I was still in the labor-intensive phase of raising my young son. I longed to put in a flower garden, but as a single parent with neither partner nor family nearby, time for such endeavors did not exist.

Still, I wanted that garden.

So one day, I bought a six-pack of impatiens and upon returning home, I got out of the car, dug one hole and planted a single flower. Then I went inside to attend to the many things that needed my attention. I left the other flowers in their container at the edge of the grass. And for the rest of the day, I could feel that one flower singing. All day long.

Something had happened: I was back in the flow of possibility. Step by step, flower by flower, and day by day, I created a garden that knocked me out with its beauty. I never spent more than ten minutes on it, because I never had more than ten minutes. Nonetheless, its magnificence was the single most sustaining element of my world that summer. Every day, its beauty soothed and inspired me. I would look down on it from the window above and feel proud, accomplished and ... sane.

Not only was the garden itself incredible, but every time I looked at it, I was reminded that I could make things happen, even with very