My Poor Daughter: I'm Using a Timer to Remind Myself Now
My daughter needs to clean up the old things before playing with a new thing; I tell her to clean up; I’m working; you can guess what happens… I forget to check! She doesn’t clean up!
Ahh, but now, the poor girl is suffering under the tyranny of the TIMER!
I have a timer by my computer that I use when I’m working on something that lends itself to becoming a tangent — searching the web for new technology that could help me solve a problem, for instance. I set the timer for 15 minutes and then enjoy exploring, knowing that I’ll get reeled in before I’ve spent an hour on a string of interesting things when I didn’t mean to.
It just occurred to me to set the time for 1 minute so that I can look at my daughter, tell her to keep cleaning, set the timer for another minute, and then get back to work.
Refreshing, for me. Probably not so refreshing, for her.
Not everyone likes efficiency, I’ll bet.