Get Anything Done with the 5 Second Rule

Dave Wentworth
Jul 28, 2017 · 4 min read
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No, not the rule that says you can eat off of the floor if you are quick enough to pick the food up in under 5 seconds.

I just read Mel Robbin’s book 5 Second Rule and I loved it. It teaches the impossibly simple, but weirdly effective 5 Second Rule, where you count backwards from 5 whenever you want to begin doing something you don’t immediately have the motivation to do.

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