The 5 Second Rule

In The 5 Second Rule (The 5 Second Rule) we will learn about a small rule that can solve us from the biggest problems in life. This book tells us how by using the five second rule you can eliminate your fear, anxiety and laziness and focus on the work you should be focusing on.

Who is it for?

- Those who are lazy.

- Those who worry a lot.

- Those who want to control their emotions.

About the author

Mel Robbins is an American commentator and TV host. She is also a writer and a speaker who works to inspire people. He is known for his Ted X Tak ke which has 1 crore 50 lakh views on YouTube.

Why should you read this book?

We often do things in our life which we should not do. For example, worrying, being lazy, being afraid. We know that all this does not help anything. We know that all this is just in our mind and if we can get it out of our mind then we can overcome many of our problems. But still we are not able to do this.

This is not just your problem. This is the problem of every person who has emotions. But these emotions can sometimes prove to be very harmful for us. To control this you can use the five second rule. This book tells you about this little rule. This book tells you how this rule works and in which situations you can benefit from it by using it.

-What is the five second rule and how does it work?

-How the Five Second Rule can help us overcome fear, laziness and anxiety.

- How just a few seconds of bravery can lead to big results.

You can learn to make right decisions by adopting the five second rule.

Many people have the habit of postponing today's work for tomorrow. Many people set their alarm for 6 in the morning and keep pressing the snooze button and wake up at 7. We all sometimes do some things which we should not do. In such situations you can use the five second rule.

When you have to do some work and you don't feel like doing it, then count backward starting from five. If you have to give a speech and you are scared, you can still use it. When you do this, you shift your focus from fear, anxiety or laziness to counting. As soon as your attention is diverted from it, all your excuses disappear and you are able to do the work easily.

Sometimes limits are only in the mind. When you stop thinking about them, you can easily push your boundaries and do things that need to be done and that you don't want to do.

You can use this to leave bad habits and adopt good habits. You can use it to wake up early in the morning. This will make you feel that you are in control of your life and when you feel that you can control your circumstances, good or bad, then your ability to work increases. This was stated by a psychologist named Julian Rotter in 1954.

With the help of the five second rule, you can push yourself forward and achieve what you dream of.

The five second rule sounds simple but its consequences are not trivial.

Sometimes just 1 minute of bravery can prove to be very beneficial for you. A very good example of this is Rosa Parks who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955. After this he was arrested for 4 days and the news of his arrest spread throughout America.

The very next day, many black people stopped using the bus. Rosa Parks reached very high. She was a member of many groups and societies and was also very famous among her friends. His social connections were so numerous that upon hearing the news of his arrest and the reason behind it, many people took to the streets.

Here we are trying to show through this example that such a big movement started with just a small no which Rosa Parks said to a white man. That 5 second act of bravery revolutionized America.

Similarly, we also think that people who are very successful probably have more skills than us or do a lot more work. In reality they just work a few hours more every day. They take risks by showing their bravery just for a few seconds every day. We see the benefits of that risk in the future when we keep doing the same work every day and never have to do it again.

Every day gives us an opportunity to do something different, learn something different and make ourselves better than before. But if you do not take some brave decisions and do that work, then you will remain there. With the help of the five second rule, you can bring out that brave person within you.

Don't wait for the right time and decide to fulfill your dreams now.

Are you also one of those people who always stop themselves by saying that this is not the right time to work? The truth is that there is no such thing as the right time and if you wait for the right time, you will keep waiting forever.

If you feel that this is not the right time to do some work, then count down from five and then go and do that work. Today, most employees do not give feedback to their managers because they feel that it is not the right time. Most children do not raise their hand to speak in class or in staff meetings because they feel that this is not the right time.

Would you like to be that person about whom people say that they always waited for the right time or would you like to be that person about whom people say that whether the times were good or bad, they could not stop them from achieving success.

If you need a push to do something, it does not mean that you are not capable. Even many capable people need a push sometimes. A good example of this is Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

When Steve was getting funds to start the company in 1977, he was very afraid that if the company did not work, he would have to lose both his job and the company. That's why they were not leaving their jobs. But he was somehow convinced by his friends and today he is the CEO of Apple.

You can't control your emotions but you can control your actions.

Everyone has the fear of losing, but what you do when that fear comes is what makes the difference between you and others.

Successful people always use their emotions to their advantage. They know how to control their emotions. Unsuccessful people let their emotions rule them and become slaves to them, and a slave can never succeed. We all feel lazy after waking up in the morning but whether you go back to sleep after it comes or wake up after overcoming it, that is the reason for all the difference.

We take most of our decisions based on our emotions. Antonio Damasio showed in his research that we do not work by thinking but by feeling. If you are afraid of some work then you start running away from that work. You know you can't always run away from them and running away won't make the problem go away, but as Demasio points out, we act by feeling, not thinking.

The Five Second Rule helps you overcome fear. With this you can defeat those things which have the power to stop you just by staying in your mind. With this you can control your emotions.

With the help of the Five Second Rule, you can stop postponing today's work for tomorrow.

Many people postpone today's work for tomorrow. Psychologists say that our mind always thinks of providing relief to itself. So whenever he finds a small way to relieve stress, he forces us to follow that path.

Dealing with stress this way is not good for you at all. If you always keep postponing your work for tomorrow, you will not be able to complete your work on time, which will increase your stress further.

Many people also believe that postponing today's work for tomorrow is the result of not managing one's time well or being tired due to doing too much work. This is also true to some extent. When you postpone today's work for tomorrow due to these reasons, then it is understandable, but if you are postponing your work for tomorrow just because of laziness or because of your stress, then it is absolutely a good thing. Not there.

Five second rule can be very useful for you in such situations. Whenever you feel that you are unnecessarily postponing today's work for tomorrow, count down from five and then complete that work. The first step to complete any work is to start it and the five second rule can help you in this.

With its help you can learn to control your life as per your wish.

 

Learn to live life instead of worrying all the time.

There is only one result of worrying. If something bad is really going to happen to you, then you trouble yourself twice and if you just feel that something bad is going to happen to you but in reality it will not happen, then you also trouble yourself. Let's trouble once. Overall, whenever you worry, you add a problem to your life.

Dr. Carl Pillemer is a professor at Cornell University who has been trying to find out the meaning of life from 1200 elderly people for the last 10 years. Most of them feel that they have wasted their lives worrying.

The five second rule can help you get out of this. Whenever you feel yourself worrying, count down from five and then ask yourself two questions:

- What good is happening to me right now?

- Who should I be thinking about at this time?

By asking such questions you can look at the good aspects of your life. Your attention gets diverted from worry and you are able to lighten your mind by thinking good things. You will always have something or the other that you should be very happy with. So why not keep yourself happy by thinking about that thing?

overall

Limitations are in our mind. If we can somehow make ourselves feel that we are in control of our lives, then we can do many things and be successful. We can make ourselves capable by overcoming our fears, laziness and emotions and taking right decisions. You can do all this work with the help of five second rule.

Give your anxiety a different perspective.

Next time, if you feel homesick or uneasy before doing any work, do not tell yourself to calm down, rather say - I am curious about this work. Discomfort is an emotion and instead of running away from it, if you look at it differently, it can prove beneficial for you.

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