"The Life-Changing Lesson I Learned from My Very First Mentor"

So when things go wrong, we have a rule. It's okay to be negative, but not for more than five minutes. Give yourself five minutes. Set your timer on your phone. You can literally teach us. At the timer, you get five minutes to bitch, moan, complain, cry, vent, punch a wall, whatever. And after five minutes, you take a deep breath and say three really powerful words. Can't change it. And it's simply an acknowledgement that I can't change what's already happened, so there's no value in wishing it were different.

I can tell you for a fact that this works. How can I tell you for a fact this works? This guy was actually my very first mentor that I h as a one on one coach when I was 19 years old. His name is Hal Elrod. He taught me this strategy when I was 19 years old. Which means if you won't remember this thing in five years that just happened to you, don't spend more than five minutes on it. But in those five minutes, be pissed. You can rage, you can throw pillows, you can punch pillows, whatever it is that you want. But after those five minutes, you have no right to care about that thing anymore. Because caring about the past and putting all of your focus steals the focus and the energy into your future. In creating the life that you actually.