The Five Second Rule is by Mel Robbins, a no-nonsense self-help guru I think I'd enjoy having a beer with. She mentioned the five second rule almost in passing in her TedX talk and was flooded with comments from people it helped. So, she published this book.
The TedX bit is very short. The book should have been shorter. It's full of (cringe-inducingly unedited) testimonials, and Mel made the unfortunate decision to introduce the testimonials by telling you what they say. Then you read it yourself. So, especially the early chapters *really* drag without giving you any great quantity of practical info.
The later chapters are better, and the book as a whole is, well, a miracle cure for procrastination.
When I started reading the book, I was procrastinating many things, but the most public and pressing thing was my one-hour talk for LIFE is Good Unschooling Conference. I had nothing done, just a collection of links and some half-assed scribbled notes. I sat down with the book one day, got about ten pages in, and then got up and started writing my talk. I made significant and high quality progress on that talk and its accompanying slides for three days in a row, and then it was DONE. What's more, it was done two days before my personal deadline and five days before the actual presentation. If you know me, you know how unprecedented this is.
And I hadn't finished the book! The Five Second Rule is life-changing. Skim or ignore the boring, repetitive bits, pick out the good parts version, and watch things start to happen.
Also, definitely do the free 31-day coaching Mel links to in the author blurb area. Good stuff!
Spoiler: One of the lessons in the mentoring asks you to do something you've been procrastinating. That lesson hit my inbox maybe ten days after I read the book. Friends, there wasn't anything. I couldn't think of anything I was procrastinating because I'D DONE OR STARTED EVERYTHING. Seriously. Miracle cure.
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