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The Mel Robbins PodcastHow to Make Next Year the Best Year: Ask Yourself These 7 Questions
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At a glance
WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Seven-Question Yearly Audit Turns Reflection Into Next-Year Roadmap
- Mel Robbins walks listeners through a seven-question “yearly audit” designed to mine the past 12 months for personal data, lessons, and direction.
- She emphasizes that people usually rush into resolutions without first understanding where they are, what worked, what hurt, and what truly brought joy.
- Using photos, calendars, and honest reflection on highs, lows, and personal growth, she shows how to create a personalized stop–start–continue plan.
- The episode concludes with a call to take one immediate action and, ideally, to do the audit with family or loved ones to support each other’s best year ahead.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasAudit before you set goals.
Instead of jumping straight into resolutions, first understand where you are by reviewing your last 12 months; your real wisdom comes from lived experiences, not abstract wishes.
Use your camera roll and calendar as a memory jogger.
Scrolling month by month reveals forgotten trips, milestones, routines, and emotional patterns, giving you concrete evidence of what brought joy, stress, or stagnation.
Treat both highlights and hardships as actionable data.
Highs show what you want more of; lows reveal boundaries, misaligned roles, and dynamics you need to change, rather than reasons to shame yourself.
Apply the Stop–Start–Continue filter to your life.
Decide specifically what you’ll stop doing, what new behaviors you’ll start, and what positive habits you’ll continue, so your plan is simple, focused, and realistic.
Recognize when you’re in the wrong role and pivot.
Feelings of ongoing friction or frustration often signal a bad fit (in work, relationships, or family roles); admitting this lets you redesign your role instead of blaming yourself.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesMathematically speaking, it's impossible to give somebody directions unless we know two things: where are you and where do you wanna go?
— Mel Robbins
You have a deeply personal, extremely wise, and deadly accurate set of directions that lead you to the simple things that will create the best year of your life.
— Mel Robbins
Anywhere in your life where you're feeling friction, you're in the wrong role.
— Mel Robbins
The answers are not out there. They're actually in you.
— Mel Robbins
It's not the big things that create the best year of your life. It's the little things you stop, start, and continue doing.
— Mel Robbins
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