Two Minute Offense

I don’t know if thise was intended as a meme, but I’m turning it into one! Here’s the original:
Open Loops: Got a minute? Get Something Done!

What I can do in thirty minutes
* Do a filing session and empty my “To File” folder
* Mind map an upcoming project
* Complete my @Calls list
* Read a professional journal, marking articles for deeper review
* Clean the inside of my car

What I can do in 15 minutes

* Return voicemails
* Chunk my inbox
* Prepare a meeting agenda
* Review notes from a meeting and process Next Actions into my system
* Write some thank you notes
* Process my email inbox

What I can do in five minutes

* Prepare materials to work on a project
* Review my @Context lists to choose a Next Action
* Schedule an appointment
* Transfer some Next Actions from my digital recorder to my system
* Review my email inbox or blackberry for emergencies to handle
* Answer an email on my blackberry

What can you do in five, fifteen, and thirty minutes?

30 minutes:

• Most work tasks that don’t require a longer, concentrated effort
• Clean out my work email Inbox (I’m still working getting everything from my inbox to a list; sometimes I add a Next Action to my list, but leave the email in my inbox since filing it away would make it take that much longer to find. And as I write this I’m realizing that maybe I could use some more folders … Hmmm… That seems like a whole different discussion)
• Read most of my blog subscriptions in BlogLines (cause BlogLines makes it easy, I’m telling you)
• Read half a magazine (I find that things like ESPN the Magazine, InfoWorld, and Chicago magazine take me about 60 minutes when I read the articles that interest me)

15 minutes:

• Pick a topic that I’ve saved as a draft and make it into a post (this applies to this blog and GiveMeTheRock, although sometimes this gets into the 30 minute area)
• Write an email to my friends or family
• Get through email newsletters, Google Groups, and forum alerts (it’s a stretch to do all of these in 15 minutes, but I’m working on my efficiency)
• Enter blog stats into spreadsheet (it takes 15 minutes since I’ve got 3 blogs for which I track stats)

5 minutes:

• Do half the dishes (assuming we haven’t let them pile up for too long)
• Clean out/chunk my personal email Inbox

and … since this IS the 2 Minute Offense… things I can get done in 2 minutes:

• Follow-up on an email
• Pick off the low-hanging fruit in my BlogLines account (I do this more often than I need to)
• Make the bed
• Put away some clothes
• Review and update a to-do list