The 5-Second Rule (A distinctive lifehacks to stop Procrastination)

Saifuddin Rakib
3 min readMay 11, 2021

A significant number of highly ambitious people are following many methods to stay productive in everyday life and digest self-help books to break the code of procrastination, where some books are transforming inner spirituality.

Procrastination’ Metal Print by Kajoi | Illustration |
Procrastination’ by Kajoi | Illustration |

We read a lot of books where we don’t commit them to take in our life. We heard know that writing in a journal will help us to grow more productive and stay focus every time. Write something and draft it on an electronic site for not to overlook where we will find our information to take the advantage of our daily life.

To Begin, Begin!

This is a line with deep understanding to gain access in desultory life. Simply think about the effort to make something done in your comfort zone. this is really hard to make room to stay focus and doing this activity for long a period of time. Mel robbins who is a lawyer and Illustrates a neutral ritual for taking control of any individual’s life with a proportionate case study.

5–4–3–2–1-Go!

Taking five seconds to make a decision where people are sitting in front of a desk and go outside to do their work. In contrast, this formula is working as a catalyst into our prefrontal cortex and pushed ourselves into the present moment. Our brains are continuously triggering signal where this hard to make the decision over time. Instead, we are thinking about how to make a good excuse to neglect this works that we don’t have any control over.

Go after Passion

Even if we are ready, it’s not going to feel good when we do it. Admittedly, there are some steps to explore the purpose of this driven life.

Firstly, the exploration of passion is not easy to discover where we have to push to learn the materials inch and out by using cramming learning.

Secondly, We have to draw attention to what we’re learning with people at Institutions and building the momentum to push ourselves for the next phase.

Pursuing Passion
Infographics of a Path to Passion

Nevertheless, we have to draw out the intriguing circumstances in-between ‘anxiety’ and ‘excitement’ which is the vital segment to grasp in full chaos. In order to commit a small portion of courage, we reframe the concept of having excitement as practical for intervention.

Finally, Faith is an organic phenomenon and the rest is history. Being exploited or struggling with finding passion, a calculated small step can make an impact on what we will rejoice after we committed.

Enrich our Relationship

An act of courage is always an act of love. Properly navigate the ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ to justify a decision that you’ve made or an action you have taken and lessen the importance of the conflicting belief. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. To defeat the fear, we are anxious to get exposed with an anchor thought. Building a skill needs acting out of character which is a natural progression to build a relationship with mind and body.

Beat Fear

However, we are now leading the life of home birds since pandemic happening for a long time. Sometimes, we have to sacrifice better health to accomplish our goal. This is not the right way or process to burn the midnight oil. These are just excuses, however, because the truth is that we’re scared of what might happen if we try. As long as we keep putting it off, we can live on hope. We can see ourselves achieving our goal and becoming the success we always imagined ourselves to be. But if we are foolish enough to actually try to do something, we might fail.

#5SecondRule

Following all of these tools and having fluctuation in the daily lifestyle, if we look closely and narrates this book in one sentence, “There are 5 spiritual elements: Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Metal; Focus on exerting the mood of procrastination by 5–4–3–2–1-Go ”

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Saifuddin Rakib

Mechanical Designer driving in innovation in Automotive and AI