Quit Procrastinating with This “5 Second Rule”

It's a way to assert control over your own thoughts.

If you tend to procrastinate a lot…this might be helpful. Best-selling author, personal development coach and motivational speaker Mel Robbins says all it takes is five seconds to break out of being lazy. She recommends you invoke “the 5 second rule” whenever a task looms and you feel anxious, loafish, or distracted. Basically, just start counting down from five and when you reach one, get immediately to work. It’s a way to assert control over your own thoughts and is almost like a race to make yourself get up and get to work before you reach the last second.