Set timer 20 minutes free#

You can choose between a tornado siren, newborn baby, sunny day, music box, bike horn, and simple beep.

Then, choose the sound that you want the timer to make when the countdown is finished.

For example, you could enter “Time for another 30 pushups!” If you want to enter a message for your timer, simply type it into the message box. You just set the timer and use it whenever you want.

Set timer 20 minutes free#

For example, the bones of this very blog post were first blurbed out during one of my 20 minute keyboard stretches + there appears to be skeletons for a few more blog posts already partially first drafted in my daily writing Google Doc since I started a couple weeks ago.Īlso, don’t underestimate the accumulative power of doing something for a little bit each day - not only do you get daily feelings of accomplishment each time you cross your ‘daily habit’ off your list of things to get done, but it doesn’t take too long before those daily 20 minute exercises grow into something much bigger and better than the sum of their parts.If you need to set a timer for 80 minutes, then you are at the right place! This simple-to-use web app is free to use. I mean, the personal bar was set fairly low, but still, I have already polished off 15+ titles by July (and some of those were THICC f*ckers like Keith Richards autobiography).Īnd you might think that writing for only 20 minutes a day is no way to compose anything of value ( so what’s the point of even bothering?) but the reality is that once you get the juices flowing and the brain dump dumping, you can either continue writing after your timer goes off OR you can come back and expand/improve upon one of your daily first drafts and turn it into something more polished. So, on January 1st, 2020, I put my iPhone timer on double duty and started sitting down to read for at least 20 minutes every day (some days I’ll read a little bit extra to reach a proper stopping point in the book + some days I end up in an ideal ‘beach day’ scenario and read for a lot more than 20 minutes).Īnd, I gotta say, I’m 6+ months into a daily 20 minute reading schedule and I have already finished more books this year than any other year of my life. But… timer don’t lie.īut, since the ‘20 minute timer’ technique was already a proven successful habit forming tool when it came to getting myself into a daily meditation routine (which is my most important habit and something I would highly recommend everyone start doing on a daily basis, for the betterment of not just yourself, but, also, for everyone else in your orbit too), when I came across someone recommending that rather than saying your goal is to ‘read X amount of books in a year’, which is just asking for failure, you should instead aim for ‘reading for X amount of time each day’ -well, that advice really resonated ( the sound thinking behind that tip was that not all books are created equal, in both size and readability, so picking an ‘X amount’ to read in a year is not a helpful way to set a realistic target and can also lead you to giving up on the task quite early in the year as that ‘X amount’ becomes more and more unattainable with each passing week/month that you fall further behind reaching that ‘X amount’ for the year). Without that simple & strict rule, if I had left things up to ‘waiting for when it felt like a good time’ or ‘do it until it felt like it had been long enough’, I’m sure I would have ducked out of sitting for less & less time each day or just easily forgotten to meditate on any given day altogether. Of course, there’s a lot more to meditating than just setting a timer ( aka all the mental exercising you get up to while you’re sitting there for those 20 minutes meditating), but I really don’t think I ever would have got anywhere with my daily practice if I wasn’t using such a regimented and hard-to-cheat process as: “Did you set a timer for 20 minutes and sit there until the timer went of? No? Well, then, you don’t get to count today as a day you meditated and the daily streak will be over.”

** Originally posted July 2020, but sometimes I tweak and/or re-bump up the HI54 homepage because… reduce, reuse, recycle, innit? **īack in November 2017, I started a daily meditation practice that is still going strong today ( note: this is still true as of July 2022) - and one of the major components of getting that daily habit set in stone was the simple act of setting a timer for 20 minutes every morning and not getting out of my seat until the sound of chimes began chiming.