The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple HabitKindle

When I first heard about the High 5 Habit, I was highly skeptical. No way Mel Robbins could write an impactful book about high-fiving yourself in the mirror every morning. And NO WAY that it actually works.

But I love Mel's work. I love her energy and how she shows up for her community so I bought the book.

First, I realized that if you do high five yourself in the mirror...that it works. I now give myself a high five followed by a HUGE smile every morning. It makes me feel great and I can't think of a better way to start the day.

Second, this book is about so much more than high-fiving yourself in the mirror. This book is like having Mel Robbins as your personal coach. She shares so many great tools for managing your mind, calming your anxiety, and training your brain to find possibilities and opportunities.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has big goals and the gap between where you are now and where you want to be seems insurmountable. Thanks, Mel for writing such a useful and uplifting book.

I really enjoyed this book and the High 5 challenge as this a great read and can be done in as little as two sittings. I read it pretty quickly. I am a huge fan of Mel Robbins and studied her all summer. I like how she approaches her material and how available she is to listen to. Aside from this book, the YouTube videos, her website, and the Facebook pages (Mel Robbins, and Best Decade Ever) are awesome. Mel delivers value in so many ways. I hope that everyone that reads her book(s) (the 5 second rule), will appreciate all that she is doing. For me personally, this summer has been a journey. Mel perspective, honesty, research, and tools have helped me in so many ways. Being in my mid-50's, single, no kids nor never been married, this is a very tough time in my life. I can say that I am definitely a 5-sec rule gal. Adding High 5 Habit will add the icing on the cake. Please note, life is not easy and her stories let you know the tough times in her life. She does reference her family a lot. As a suggestion to her to please add more about older single individuals, especially with no kids. Getting older is really tough, especically alone. Thank you Mel and congratulations.

Update 4/25- After an online chat, Amazon corrected the problem and replaced the misprinted copy. I have upgraded my review to a 5 star since Mel deserves it with sharing a great habit to get her fan base motivated to build back our self confidence.

I ordered two books including the High 5 Habit and The 5 Second Rule. I finished the latter first and just read the first 40 pages of The High 5 Habit just to find the last sentence I read never finished?? I flipped to the next page to find the same 40 pages I just read -that’s a first for me. So now I go from page 40 to page 89 never finishing Chapter 3 and picking up somewhere in Chapter 7. Amazon’s return window has closed so I’ll never know if I can give this book a true review.

I really enjoyed this book because of how genuine the author is in share her personal stories of success and setbacks. This book is written in a friendly narrative with a clear informative voice when needed. I have always been a fan of these types of books, motivational focus books. This is one that I will probably now purchase the physical form of after reading the ebook.

What I like about these book is that there is usually a new perspective or insight that I gain from the book. Or the book will remind me of something that I knew or a technique that I had forgotten about it. In this case I gained a new insight. My two favorite take aways from this book is the "hand on the heart" and journal pages. The first time I tried the "hand on the heart" technique I could feel my whole body relax deeply. Then I did it again but this time I recited some of my own personal mantras after doing the initital technique. I had the most amazing day afterwards! It felt right too. As for the journal pages, I journal every day upon waking up but I felt like I was missing something in my journaling. The two-page journal pages seem to give me the structure support that I was missing in my own journaling.