Exercise. Anything within 2 minutes - 3 push ups, some squats, etc.
Learn iOS programming. 2 minute video, which I often play in 2x speed.
Work on my side project. 2 minutes is quite a lot of progress as the bulk of the work is data entry.
One task for a game I'm playing. It's not productive but I'll do it anyway. It used to take an hour, but thanks to habit, I shortened it to half an hour and can go even less.
Spending a little time dedicated to the family, nothing else, no phones. Cook breakfast, run with the kids, tell them a bedtime story, help them with homework. I thought I might have neglected this, but it seems it's already a habit.
Two to a regular work task. One in the morning, one in the afternoon. It's usually something like write 5 lines of code, remember to keep it to 2 minutes to cut out procrastination.
What really happens is that I'd rush through all the chores. After all they take just two minutes. I watch an intro video to iOS navigation, which is unsatisfying and end up watching a whole chapter. I write 4 lines for my project when I'm busy, or code an entire module when I feel like it. I do three push ups when I'm exhausted that day or run the whole neighborhood when I'm in the mood.
It's put me 'in the mood' to do a lot of productive things. I end up delaying the bad stuff until later, or have no guilt over doing them because I had a good day.
One trick I've learned is to just show up. Instead of planning to write a whole module in a day, I now plan to just write 5 lines of code. This has helped me a lot - I've picked up two programming languages in three months just with the intent of watching one minute a day. I've had a lot of work done on my side project and have recently been getting fan mail on it. I cut down on a lot of bad things simply by planning twelve 2-minute tasks a day, and being engrossed in them.
Similarly, it's important to avoid creeping into bad behavior. Once we drop good behavior, once we're a couple minutes late for a meeting, a class, a deadline, things rapidly deteriorate from there.
Career wise, my goal is no longer to make a better salary (I have enough), but to do more meaningful work that I'm satisfied with. Meaningful work tends to be recession-proof too.