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As Marlowe put it, “it’s absolutely incredible and awe-inspiring how easy things
become once you wrap your head around your own ability to PUSH yourself.”
She’s right. Once you start using the Rule to push yourself out of your head
and into action, you’ll be “astonished” by how easy it is to make a five second
decision that changes everything.
As I used the Rule more and more in my life, I realized that I was making small
decisions all day long that held me back. In five seconds flat, I’d decide to stay quiet,
to wait, and not to risk it. I’d have an instinct to act and within five seconds my
