When you want to quit, tell yourself to do just five more. Five more emails, five more minutes running, five more pages. The small number tricks your mind into starting again, and you usually keep going past it.
Ever feel like quitting when you're overwhelmed? Here's a simple trick to stay motivated. Just 5 more. Don't try to finish everything, just say to yourself, just 5 more. Got a whole batch of email to answer? You're sick of it? Just 5 more emails. You're out for a run, seems like you have to go forever? Say to yourself, just 5 more minutes. You're reading something that's absolutely boring and torturous, but you have to actually do it? Say to yourself, just 5 more pages. The secret of this technique is that when you do 5 more, you often will do 10 more or 20 more. You'll get back on track. But even if you don't, you've answered 5 more emails, you've run 5 more minutes, you've read 5 more pages.
