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  • Hello this is Greg and I'm at the

  • University of Kansas Cancer Center and

  • this is what the 5 Second Rule is all about it is

  • chilly out here and you just make it

  • happen but going back to jun 2011 my

  • life changed my life changed right here

  • it actually changed right inside there I

  • was going through some follow ups at my

  • one I was one year cancer-free in June

  • of 2011 so I was going through

  • follow-ups continuous stuff you know

  • watching blood numbers going up and down

  • to find out now whether or not the

  • cancer looks like it might be coming

  • back or something but to be honest with

  • you my life kind of just hit a rut all

  • the things that I done in life all the

  • excitement and motivation everything

  • I've done in my life from the time I was

  • 18 I talk about in my book all the way

  • through the military living my life

  • until BAM I get hit with cancer and

  • everything stopped but what cancer

  • allowed me the opportunity to do and

  • gave me more opportunity to come up with

  • excuses so when I got to the one year

  • mark I got thinking to myself is this

  • really what is left of me for life I'm

  • just fine I'm just okay everything is

  • alright and i thought no no no it

  • doesn't have to be that way so one day I

  • am I luck here I was surfing on my

  • computer wasn't this computer in 2011

  • but I was surfing on my computer waiting

  • for an appointment here and lo and

  • behold it was June fifteenth a Wednesday

  • to 13 and I know exactly what it was and

  • along comes this video from TEDx San

  • Francisco with Mel Robbins and Mel

  • Robbins comes rushing across the stage

  • grabs the audience talking about are you

  • fine are you sure you're really fine

  • because you know what you deserve a life

  • better than nap and she started talking

  • about the five-second rule and it

  • changed my life while I was sitting

  • there in that chair I applied for a

  • position in Germany right there one two

  • three didn't even take four and five I

  • applied for a job in Germany and said

  • you know what I'm going to do this I

  • just made a decision that for the rest

  • of my life everything I'm gonna do Mel

  • got me so fired up

  • about five second row I just kept going

  • and going I bought her book this this

  • book right here which is a great great

  • book stop saying you're fine i recommend

  • everybody read that so i went ahead July

  • thirty-first 2011 I flew to Germany

  • ended up staying here for five years had

  • I stayed here at the University of

  • Kansas cancer center waiting for my

  • positive follow ups for year 2 3 4 or 5

  • i'm not sure i don't know what happened

  • i just know that by going to europe and

  • on the weekends going to London in Paris

  • and Rome and Barcelona and traveling the

  • world my life changed five-second rule

  • Heidi's always want to write a book made

  • a decision that I'm gonna write my book

  • I did it while I was in Germany made a

  • decision that I was going to run so I

  • run a half-marathon got a full marathon

  • and now I've run 11 marathons I'll do

  • the five-second rule everything that I

  • have done from jun 15 2013 cancer

  • centers around the world I'm going again

  • overseas in a couple weeks to speak

  • everything that I've done my whole life

  • changed because of the five-second rule

  • and because of Mel Robbins it just it

  • just changed my life I encourage

  • everybody to read this book about the

  • five-second rule you are more than

  • welcome to ask me at any time contact me

  • and I'll tell you all my experiences

  • everything that I've gained through Mel

  • and the five-second rule again this is

  • greg from greg cheek speaks of the

  • author of the three points of contact

  • endorsing a thousand percent please

  • please read the five-second rule by Mel

  • Robbins thank you very much and have a

  • great great day bye

  • you

  • you

  • you

Hello this is Greg and I'm at the

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