The Five Second Rule

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Recently I was looking at a TED Talk by  on of my favourite speakers, Mel Robbins. The talk was called, "How to stop screwing yourself over". I have watched it a few times now when I need a pick me up!

In this talk she mentions the "Five Second Rule" which basically is, that those ideas and impulses you get, if you don't act on them in the five seconds after, you are likely to hit the snooze button and do nothing!

I totally agree with this and it also comes to ideas and things you hear.

How many times have you sat in a coffee shop or line up and heard someone else's conversation and they have said something you were interested in? Or a good line or words that you thought were really cool however did nothing about.

Now this isn't a poke to get you to buy my new book however I made a book for myself you may find useful...which I will get to shortly however two things I learned about Amazon before I forget!

Firstly, your name. I am old school and put spaces between the initials in my name and that is exactly how the search engine on Amazon will respond!. I put R. B. Morgan or R B Morgan and if I put RB Morgan, someone with a name close to this comes up! I think it is Ted Morgan or something!

So, to compensate for this, my next books won't have the space....just so you know!

Secondly, my friends who don't buy on Amazon often, bought my book however won't allow them to leave a review saying they don't buy enough!!!! SERIOUSLY! They want you to pay folks to give reviews? It seems to be the case! SIGH.

And be aware, I just ordered something I specifically looked up on Amazon and put it in my cart and paid for it and IT ORDERED SOMETHING FROM MY WISH LIST. Fortunately I noticed because of the late date it said it would be delivered!

Now back to the notebook. I now keep this book in my pocket so those ideas or things I want to write down, I can do in the next 5 seconds because I totally believe if you don't jump up and do something, it is gone and never happens!

I made this little gem as cheaply as possible with two other sections that I just bend the page down to find, however a tape tab or bookmarks work too!

Whether it is as formal as this, or something you make for yourself, I suggest it strongly so that you always can go back and review. I have a tape dictaphone recorder that can put ideas on to my computer as files however I find I just don't access them enough and my computer is full enough!!!

So remember, got an idea, jump onto it in the next 5 seconds!!! Mind you, as you get older, you may find you jump to do it and then forgot what you were doing! lol that is ok, it comes to us all especially if your brain is running at full tilt all the time!

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