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Invent Boston designs and develops original products to add science + whimsy to  every day tasks at home.   Our first product is a Two Minute timer, Two Minute Turtle, a visual timer. The Two Minute Turtle helps children and adults focus on two minute tasks such as brushing teeth, physical therapy, taking a shower and speaking (practicing a presentation or learning a language).

How to Create a New Habit? Take the 2 Minute Challenge!

Invent Boston™, Home of the Two Minute Turtle Timer™

Invent Boston™ blog offers tips and stories by parents, for parents of children ages 4-12 to make toothbrushing and other healthy habits at home, more fun. We write about simple tactics to help kids do what they like to do-touch, seeing, play games and strive for independence. We recommend products to help stay healthy while being kids. We share stories to transform daily healthy habits from something kids resist (for example, toothbrushing, handwashing, toilet training, organizing, taking time-out or pausing, yoga, and taking turns) into something children are motivated to do independently, without parents’ reminders. The original physical product Invent Boston has designed for families is the new light-up Two Minute Turtle Timer, an analog, interval toothbrush timer to make brushing teeth fun for kids. Kids like to press the button, follow the flippers and brush until all the lights blink—the Victory Lap signals to brush the tongue.

How to Create a New Habit? Take the 2 Minute Challenge!

Virginia Berman

Is there a habit or an activity you would like to start? There is for me. Here’s one. I love to draw. But I don’t draw much at all. Drawing feels like a big deal. It’s not part of my routine—finding the time, the space, the clear head. In these times of working from home now, more than ever, we can find the time to do something we have been meaning to, especially something we love doing, even every day!

Last week, I decided to do something different so that I would draw more. I am taking the 2 Minute Challenge—with the Two Minute Turtle Timer. It’s simple enough. I bring my pencil and small pad of paper to the window along with my Two Minute Turtle Timer.

I press the Turtle and I draw what I like—the view. I take 2 minutes to draw each morning. Some mornings I draw a few minutes longer.

Two Minute Turtle Timer for the 2 minute challenge

It’s a new routine—started just last week. So far, I have missed a day but I went back the next day. I am enjoying this new routine and the results. The result, I hope, is to establish a habit, a routine where I begin every day, with 2 minutes of drawing.

What habit would you like to add to your day? Will you take The 2 Minute Challenge—do that new habit for 2 minutes every day? See how it goes. Here’s to creating a new habit of something we love, every day.

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A website I recommend for helping start and keep healthy habits (and get rid of ones we’d like to quit) is:

https://jamesclear.com/habits This website and James Clear’s book, Atomic Habits, emphasizes the importance of 2 minutes every day when establishing new healthy habits. Good luck!

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