Hello everybody, it's Reed Tracy. Welcome back to the You Can Heal Your Life podcast.

I'm thrilled to have with us today, Mel Robbins. Many of you know her from the book The

Five Second Rule, which sold millions of copies and millions of people listened to on

audio and Mel has a brand new book coming out with Hay House called The High Five Habit

and we're going to learn all about that today. How are you doing, Mel? Hey Reed, it's

great to talk to you. I'm doing Dynamite. Great. Well, I'm going to jump right in here

and one of the things that I love about this book, which is it's so simple and easy concept

but I love how you really expand upon it and tell how you used it in your own life and

saw great results and then you added in and researched all the science that backs up. It's

not just a good, a simple idea but it has a ton of science behind it that proves it really

works and I love that and I'd love to start the conversation just with you telling us how

you came up with this idea. Well, let me start Reed by telling you how I wish I had come up with

the idea because I wish I had come up with the idea of just sort of having an epiphany one moment

when life was really good and then getting into it that way but my sort of brand of personal

development is to find myself in a very low moment in my life and to have to pick myself back up

and the five-second rule was that way on the high five habit is that way too. So let me tell you

the story because I know that you and everybody listening can relate to this. You know, it doesn't

even matter what is going on in my life. This is such a universal feeling that I'll just tell you

what I was feeling. I woke up one morning and there was a tremendous amount of stress and uncertainty

and sudden change going on in my life and I used the five-second rule and went five, four,

three, two, one and pushed myself out of bed and then I made my bed because I make my bed every morning

it's a habit and then I dragged myself into the bathroom and I started brushing my teeth

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