At the worst you get 5 minutes work done and at the best you will have found a second wind, got focused and become productive. Of course what you are aiming for is to move into The Zone when suddenly work becomes effortless, the words just flow, the paperwork gets dealt with, you make that call you’ve been dreading, nothing seems a problem. But imagine if you hadn’t applied the five-minute trick you might have never got there you might have gone and switched the television on and watched a replay of the ball-game!

You can use the the 5-minute-more trick in the Gym as well or when doing jobs in the house. I actually hear my lazy inner-self thinking up excellent reasons why I should abandon my endeavour, you’ve had a long day, mustn’t tire myself out for tomorrow, it’s too cold or hot or windy and the most crafty one shouldn’t you be doing another task altogether.

Remember the other 5 minute rule that we often want to give up a task after just 5 minutes, 5 minutes into writing an essay or starting a run that’s the danger time before we’ve warmed to the task before we see any progress, you can use the five-minute rule to help you through this discouraging phase.

Go on do five minutes more…

Of course it’s tough at the beginning working on schemes which may never earn money but with time it works and you start to receive payment notices via email and even checks in the post.

So the answer is yes you have to work really hard but unlike your j-o-b it is possible to “work once get paid many times”

But you have to try, you have to take the first steps, you have to believe; I see so many of the people who sign up to say PTC using my referral link only ever visit the PTC website once! ie they give up straight away they never give it a chance. Don’t be like them if you take the trouble to sign up for something, say to yourself I will stick at it long enough to properly evaluate if it is right for me!

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Make it principle that if you join a gym or a language class that you will stick with it, remember how often you hated something before you like it and how grateful you are that say a parent forced you to keep at it. But you you are independent and the only person who can do the forcing is you!