 there's no way of getting around work being hard. You put in effort, you put in time, you put in sweat and you get a result. But these five things can make it a lot easier on you. Keep watching to find out what I'm talking about today. Kyla Denigno and you're watching Kyla's reading day and we're talking all about the five second rule. Okay so this book is written by Mel Robbins who was a lawyer. I have to say that off jump. And the genre of the book is nonfiction. The theme of the book is self-improvement motivation. Okay so here are five ways to make hard work easier. Lessons that I learned from the five second rule. The first thing is you have to motivate yourself. Okay the whole reason the five second rule is a rule is because Mel Robbins was having a really tough time. She counted five four three two one get up. And the point is you got five seconds to wallow, five seconds to be pissed and then you do the action. Okay now for me five seconds is too long. I can talk myself out of anything in five seconds. So I've altered it to the three two one rule. Oh I don't feel like sending an invoice three two one go do it. Oh I really don't feel like jumping rope three two one do it right. There's tons of things you don't want to do in the world. Countdown from five at blastoff at launch it's time to go. Number two action. There has to be action to your words. I'm gonna lose 30 pounds. I don't want to eat less calories. How you gonna lose these 30 pounds? Well I know how you can eat the same way move your body. Boom. But you have to put some action to it right. When there's a rocket ship going you count down five four three two one action is taken off. They light up whatever's under that rocket. Boom and then it goes okay. The third way of making hard work easier is you have to keep doing it. Now we're human things happen you stop okay. Let's say you're working out four days in a row that fifth day you just can't it's raining it's whatever you can't find your shoe whatevs. You can't go more than two days after breaking the rule okay. I'm not gonna eat sugar I'm not gonna eat sugar oh I had some cake the next day you gotta get back to not eat sugar. You have to stick with it. You're even committing to keep watching this video that's some commitment. You press play that's your action. You were motivated maybe to thumbnail okay. Mel Robbins has a great chapter in here where she talks about any diet would work. I don't care if it's juicing. I don't care if it's low carb. I don't care if it's no fish. Any diet will work if you do it. The problem is you get started oh this was fun for about five days six day no. How you gonna get to the hard work hard work is hard because everybody can't do it okay. And you're here watching this because you want to find out what to do to make hard work easier all right. While you're here please consider subscribing to the channel I talk about books every single week okay. So let's get into the last two reasons. Number four confidence is a skill when I read this oh my goodness I I was in tears because confidence is a skill confidence does not have to be you get up and you're just like I'm about to crush the day look at how amazing I am I cannot wait I'm about to go crush brushing my teeth I'm about to crush it when I make this coffee you don't have to feel like that but if you practice the actions you keep going you keep going you keep going and then it's not even like it becomes second nature because it might always be work which is why the five second rule works because anytime something hard happens you can then just pick yourself back up and go do it but but but but confidence is not something that just you put on like I put on this t-shirt confidence is a practice skill so you have to practice if you want to keep going towards it okay. So let's get into my all-time favorite thing from the five second rule and that is so what let me give you an example oh I cannot wait to become a millionaire here we go here we go I'm about to do it I'm about to start this company you get up you apply for a grant you don't get it oh that's so embarrassing how could they do that so what you put action out there the result is not the point the action is the point okay okay okay now I see which so let's use another example okay I'm gonna eat these salads every day for the month of January I'm eating salads I told my husband why doesn't he agree with me so what he didn't say he was eating salads every month you said you were eating salads every day if there's something that you want to do you are certain that this is something that you want to do you go after it you chase after it you crawl after it with veracity and the people who do not accept it so what you had the idea you put action to it you were consistent with it and what was number four the result is not the point the point is the action the launching yourself the putting yourself into motion right and there were two really big examples in here that hurt my feelings because Mel Robbins talks about the guy who sees the woman oh it makes him just he stops he can't breathe she's so gorgeous he makes him starts walking towards the bar to go talk to her we don't find out what happens because it's not for us to know he put himself out there they got married they had eight kids oh that's not the point the point is he saw someone he couldn't shake it he wasn't married you know I mean it wasn't like one of some nefarious stuff but go after it and then there's another time where a woman wants to speak up at a meeting about doing something she speaks up I don't remember if we got the result but I don't think we find out the result I remember the boss saying hey that's a great idea and I think that's it because you don't need to find out this lady spoke up in her meeting her boss loved it a year later she was CEO that's not the point if you can make a five second decision to do something and you put action to it and then you're consistent and you do not care about the result so what so what who's watching so what who cares so what did you miss today get back to it if you can do all those things you are constantly practicing confidence you are constantly putting yourself out there you are constantly saying Kyla look at that great decision you just made I bet you could do it again Kyla you just did this amazing video I bet you can record another you are constantly propelling yourself constantly telling yourself good job keep going keep pushing five second decisions can absolutely change everything okay so would I reread the book the five second rule yes absolutely now this is an evidence-based book there's a lot of chapters in there that are real real dry so I will skip and pick around in the chapters that I want to read but yeah for the most part I would reread the book the five second rule okay so thank you so much for hanging out with me and watching this video I hope you got some good tips about what to do with whatever the mountain is in your life whatever you are considering hard work okay I will see you next time on Kyla's Reading Day