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Use the five-minute rule

do 5 minutes just anybody can do 5 minutes of exercise whatever that may be and probably once you've started you'll do more maybe you'll do 10 15 20 minutes and it's the same wi...

Course: Cambridge language skillsSection: Building a writing practice habitSubtitles: en

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run then just

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do 5 minutes just anybody can do 5

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minutes of exercise whatever that may be

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and probably once you've started you'll

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do more maybe you'll do 10 15 20 minutes

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and it's the same with writing you write

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that first sentence and once you've sat

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down with the paper and you found a task

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you'll probably think well now I'm here

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I'll write a couple more sentences but

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really it's getting over that barrier of

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just doing it that Pro procrastination

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so as I said that's my little challenge

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for you if you're not practicing the

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writing tasks now then start write

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something it doesn't have to be

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Shakespearean it doesn't have to be

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perfect just write something and build

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the habit of doing something regularly

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and you'll be much more confident on the

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day of the exam okay so are you going to

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take up my challenge let me know in the

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comments and I'll see you very soon for

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another

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video

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