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🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.
This week, I’ve chosen a section from my conversation with Mel Robbins. Mel is the author of The Five Second Rule, a business woman, a life coach, and a sensation in the world of self improvement. At a point in her life Mel was really struggling with huge amounts of depression, anxiety, and fear, making it extremely difficult for her to get out of bed in the morning and generally just be present in her life.
This moment describes the method that has changed Mel’s mindset to become who she is today. Mel got herself out of her dark side which saw her marinating in fear and anxiety, using her Five Second Rule. The rule was born from that window of hesitation that comes into our minds before we make a decision, a decision that could define your whole life. Inside that window lives fear, anxiety, procrastination and imposter syndrome, so we create patterns of feeling, patterns of behaviour, and patterns of thinking that tempt us to steer away from making that decision.
It can be a dangerous cycle getting stuck in these broken patterns of denial so Mel brings this down to one fundamental method. The Five Second rule works because of its simplicity. You make yourself a promise, you count backwards - 5,4,3,2,1 then you do it.
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0:00.0 | This 5 Second Rule. |
0:03.5 | Uh-huh. |
0:04.5 | You released the book, I think, 2017 called The 5 Second Rule and it's all about, you |
0:10.0 | know, well, you tell me what it's about where it came from. |
0:11.9 | I know there was a rocket. |
0:12.9 | You're watching a rocket on TV. |
0:14.5 | And that was a little bit of the initial inspiration. |
0:18.1 | But where did this come from and what is it? |
0:19.8 | Well, so, you know, I think I alluded to earlier that it seems like my version of personal |
0:27.2 | development requires me to fall into a hole or dig one. |
0:30.6 | And then I realize nobody's coming to rescue me and if I want to get out of the hole, I'm |
0:34.6 | going to need to build a frickin' ladder. |
0:37.4 | And so at the age of 40, I found myself in a place that I just never envisioned I would |
0:45.1 | be. |
0:46.2 | And that is, I had, my husband and I had three kids under the age of 10 and I was unemployed. |
0:53.3 | And my husband had been in the restaurant business with his best friend and the housing |
0:57.0 | crisis hit, especially hit in the United States. |
1:01.7 | And we found ourselves 800 grand in debt because we had secured the restaurant business |
1:06.4 | like complete morons with our kids college, Von, in our house and every credit card and |
1:10.8 | the home equity line and the cars and everything. |
1:14.2 | And that's great when your business is working. |
1:16.1 | It's absolutely terrifying when it's not. |
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