Book Summary:
Learn how to take action, change your behaviour and live with more courage and less fear.
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Quotes:
You can’t control how you feel, you can control how you act.
Start before your ready. Don’t prepare, begin.
Book Summary Notes:
- Why do so many people procrastinate and put off pursuing their dreams?
- The 5 second rule is a simple system for making changes in your behaviour.
- Count backwards from 5 whenever you feel like taking a shortcut or avoiding the thing that needs doing. This can help to distract you long enough to mentally overcome the apprehension you feel towards beginning the task.
- Don’t like getting out of bed in the morning? Count back from 5 and take a deep breath. Often this can be enough for you to overcome the feeling of needing to hit the snooze button and roll back over.
- In 1954 the concept of locus of control was developed by the psychologist Julian Rotter. It explained that those who feel more in control of their lives tended to be much more productive. The 5 second rule can give you back this control.
- Stop waiting for the right time and use the 5 second rule to begin pursuing your dreams now.
- Instead of letting fears and worries stop you. Take 5 seconds and then get to it.
- Procrastination isn’t just being lazy. It’s also related to how we deal with stress.
- We all have a desire for instant gratification, procrastination feeds that by offering us a quick, but immediate, reprieve from life’s stressors.
