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Advice for Remy, Day 72. If something needs doing and it’ll take less than five minutes, do it now. It’s very easy to be organised, efficient and sensible in theory, but often falls down when put into practice. May of us are well-intentioned in our approach, vowing to get all the small jobs done first, but end up putting things off until later (which just results in us drowning under an ever-swelling mountain of small jobs). Putting things off until later always seems like a good idea at the time, but always, ALWAYS comes back to bite you in the end. Future You will not thank you – he’ll curse you for not being more organised and not planning ahead. He’ll hate you for pushing the problem onto him instead of sorting it yourself. It doesn’t take a big life shift to resolve this however. One of the easiest ways to go about better organising yourself is to adopt the attitude that if it’s going to take less than five minutes to do, do it now. Don’t think about it, don’t schedule it, don’t put it in a list and sort it alphabetically, don’t spend ages debating about the best way to achieve it – just do it now. A five minute task is not a lot on its own, but delayed and stacked and mounded on top of other five minute tasks it gradually turns into a large hour-and-a-half super task which takes a lot longer to unravel and sort. I’ve done this in the past with all sorts of things – delaying ringing a restaurant to make a booking, delaying emailing that person back, delaying taking those tools back down to the shed. It’s one of the few times in life when it’s best to ignore that voice in your head, don’t think about the consequences, and just do it. Future You will thank you, I can guarantee it.

The five minute rule! It’s okay to be negative when things go wrong, but not for more than 5 minutes at a time. Set a timer whenever something bothers you, goes wrong or you get steamed up about. Allow yourself 5 min to bitch, moan, complain and or vent about what annoyed you. When the 5 min are up that’s the time to move on and when you stop putting your energy into it and start focusing energy on where you want to go. . #fiveminuterule #energy #stressmanagement #siezetheday #wednesdaywisdom #wednesdaywellness https://www.instagram.com/p/B7WfJTulOFX/?igshid=1x9hob087danl

The five minute rule! It’s okay to be negative when things go wrong, but not for more than 5 minutes at a time. Set a timer whenever something bothers you, goes wrong or you get steamed up about. Allow yourself 5 min to bitch, moan, complain and or vent about what annoyed you. When the 5 min are up that’s the time to move on and when you stop putting your energy into it and start focusing energy on where you want to go. #fiveminuterule https://www.instagram.com/p/BxOSGZNBc6t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jbrtylljrr2o