The 10-10 Method

12/20/2025

Thought

I forgot where I came across the 10-10 method on productivity. But it’s been helping my productivity in such a huge way lately.

What happened

I’m all about productivity. I’m always looking for new ways to systematically improve the things I do in life. I never want to feel like I’m consumed with the thought of just planning. I want action. This is a personal one. For the longest I’ve had a big mess in my basement. Heck, it’s still there now. But one day I ran into the 10-10 method. As mentioned above, I forgot where, but it must’ve been a YT video or one of the blogs I usually end up reading on my spare time.

What changed

There are many use cases to this method, but I used it for productivity. Let’s talk about my basement as the center piece of this method. Today for example, I went down to my basement, looked around and decided to do something with it. When I say that it is messy, boy I could prolly hide a body down there and it’ll take years to find. I was bout to get overwhelemed just from everything that was in it then I memba that there was a systematic way of tackling this side project. I picked up the first thing that I saw and started to count. One. Then picked up another piece. Two. Then another. Three. And I kept going until I hit ten things. Next, it was as simple as either throwing these things away or putting them where they actually belong.

Why it matters

This is the power of this method. It breaks the cycle of feeling overwhelemed and getting stuck at the planning phase. You choose ten things in a specific room/location and for ten minutes (this is where the 10-10 piece comes from) you clean. As a result, you’re not overwhelemed and just moving clutter from one room to the other.

Consistency is key, so I’m going to repeat this process everything day until my basement is where I want it to be.