The 5-Second Rule for Instant Motivation and Productivity

Get anything done with the 5-second rule to the habit of doing the task now — and the identity of the kind person who doesn’t procrastinate.

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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.

The classic example is that when your alarm rings, instead of hitting that snooze like we’re all so used to doing, you count down to yourself, 5–4–3–2–1 and then you just get up.

That’s Ridiculous

My wife laughed at me when I told her the premise. I have to admit, I laughed at it at first too.

If it’s stupid, but it works, it’s not stupid.

Count backwards from 5 and then just do it? C’mon…