The Power of One Minute
At the end of each year, I ask my clients to complete some questions that help them reflect on the past year, as well as look forward to what they want to accomplish in the year to come.
While many of my clients are on track to reaching their goals this year, there’s one who is doing something very small, but very significant that I thought was worth sharing with you.
At the beginning of this year, she set an intention to start setting her alarm for one minute earlier every morning – yes, just one minute earlier.
Here’s what’s happening as a result.
Waking up one minute earlier every morning is a small change, but it has led to her getting a lot more accomplished.
For example, because she knows she has to get up a minute earlier every morning, the night before she starts eating dinner with her husband a littler earlier.
Because she’s eating dinner a little earlier, she’s getting to bed a little earlier.
Then, the next morning when she wakes up, she already feels good about having an accomplishment under her belt – getting up one minute earlier today – she did it!
This good feeling leads to her next small win, where she heads over to her writing studio and turns on a yoga video to work on her balance, strength, and flexibility.
Two successes already into the morning, she realizes the day is still young and gets going on other projects she’s working on.
This is the power of one minute.
She did it and so can you.
Maybe for you it’s not waking up one minute earlier so you can accomplish more things, but it could be:
- Practicing mindfulness for one minute
- Jogging for one minute
- Writing in your journal for one minute
- Reading for one minute
- Practicing (the piano, another language, etc.) for one minute
If you did something good for yourself for just one minute every day, what could that mean for you?
Where could these small daily wins lead?
Perhaps the best thing about making an intention like this is that one accomplishment leads to another accomplishment and so on.
As a result of my client waking up just one minute earlier each day, she’s been able to make progress on a book she’s writing, lessen her back pain and increase her flexibility by doing yoga every morning, and so much more.
At the end of every coaching session with my clients, I ask:
“What’s one thing you’re going to take away from our time together today?”
“Little by little, inch by inch,” was her response the other day.
She always knew it, but now she really understood that moving forward on the things you want to accomplish for yourself doesn’t happen in big steps or quick changes; rather it occurs “little by little, inch by inch.”
What could YOU accomplish in the remainder of the year just by doing something good for yourself for one short minute a day?
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