The Rule of 5

By NinjaX on October 5, 2007 11:34 AM

handoff.jpg"Everyday, do five specific things that will bring you closer to your goal. Don't deliberate; pick five things, and get moving on them. TAKE ACTION." - Jack Canfield, Success Principles

Need more tools for your ninja toolbelt?  The Rule of 5 is one of the useful things you can use to get your goals accomplished.  Watch obstacles fall and success draw nearer and nearer.  The basis of the Rule of 5 is to get five things related to your goal done every day.  Multiplied by 365, that's a whole lot of action.  So much action that it's practically impossible to fail.

The actions you take can be simple, this doesn't need to be a Rude Goldberg machine that takes hours.  If you're looking for a job it can be as simple as sending out filling out five job applications, looking over five job search websites, or letting five friends know that you've reentered the employment pool.  You can mix and match and do something like the following:

  1. update your resume
  2. read a chapter in a book related to your profession
  3. search the local classifieds for jobs
  4. browse a personal development website
  5. submit an application
Why is this one of your top weapons?  As you do this you'll find your morale jumping.  It puts you back in action and you start to see results almost immediately.  If you've stalled, this is the perfect way to get your Ninjamobile started.  Instead of focusing on something negative, you get out of your head and back into the world.  It's hard to complain about your circumstances when you're doing something to make them better.  Imagine asking out five girls or guys out each day for a week.  You'd have to stop after a few days because you wouldn't have enough evenings to date them all.

The other wonderful aspect of the Rule of 5 is that the universe will start responding to you.  By taking action, you're aligning your efforts with your goal and start to attract the resources necessary to complete it.  The universe responds to heartfelt desires, and action signifies that you're serious about what you want.  Whereas you might have been spinning your tires the day before, people magically appear to assist you, problems vanish, and results happen.

For example my goal today was to do five things to improve this website.   First, I researched other people's information about the Rule of 5.  That led me to several blogs that covered not only the Rule of 5, but other topics as well.  Those topics got the creative juices flowing and prompted me to come up with at least two more article ideas as well as several bits of useful information.  I wrote this and two other articles.  And I made a few minor cosmetic changes to the website.  Right now I feel pretty darn good.

You can keep applying the Rule of 5 each day till you achieve your goal.  The more you work at it, the more results you'll get.

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