Macbook suddenly takes 5 minutes to boot up

I was gone over the weekend and when I returned I turned my Macbook on. It literally took over 5 minutes for it to get past the apple page before finally opening everything up. Once it's up and running everything seems to be running fine. I turned it off last night when I booted up again today it did the same thing again. Any ideas of what that could be and how i can fix it?

Hey Jesse,
Try doing a safe boot (restarting the computer pressing and hold the shift key) you do need to login, once your at the login screen you can just click restart and see if it got any faster
Reset SMC (remove battery and power adapter and press and hold the power button for 5 seconds)
Also try repairing disk permissions
Applications folder > utilites > disk utility
Select macintosh HD on the left hand side and click repair disk permissions!

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