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The Most Important Wake-Up Call You’ll Ever Hear

Ready to make 2024 your best year ever? 🌟 https://bit.ly/melrobbins_bestyear 👈 Download my FREE, 29-page workbook designed using the latest research to help you get clear about what you want and empower you to take the next step forward in your life 🔥 — You need to hear today’s episode. I have something profound to share with you. It is a deeply personal message, straight from my heart to yours. This is not a pep talk. It’s not a motivational speech. This is a goddamn wake-up call. Your life is like a melting ice cube. Your excuses are endless, but time isn’t. Stop waiting for the perfect time. Stop waiting to feel ready. While you’ve been full of excuses, waiting for someday to come, time has been passing you by. So, if you’re sick of standing still or talking yourself out of the changes you want to make and the goals you dream of achieving, this one's for you. My mission is to make today the someday you’ve been waiting for. This is the coaching you need. And you need to hear it right now. Xo, Mel In this episode: 00:00 Intro 03:22 Can you relate to Cathy’s self-doubt? 06:45 If you hear anything today, let it be this. 11:10 This is how you actually reach your goals. 13:34 Steps 1 and 2 when you have a dream you want to make REAL. 15:38 Stop wasting your time and energy on this. 18:02 Frozen because you don’t have experience? Let me drive this point home. 23:17 Is your schedule already full? Switch your mindset this way. 28:13 I told myself the very same excuses you do! 30:53 Filling your time with things that have nothing to do with your goals? You’re not alone! 34:38 How do you start focusing on yourself once and for all? #dreaming #keepdreaming #dreams #motivationalvideo — Follow Mel: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melrobbins/ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@melrobbins Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melrobbins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melrobbins Website: http://melrobbins.com​ — Sign up for Mel’s newsletter: https://melrob.co/sign-up-newsletter A note from Mel to you, twice a week, sharing simple, practical ways to build the life you want. — Subscribe to Mel’s channel here: https://www.youtube.com/melrobbins​?sub_confirmation=1 — Listen to The Mel Robbins Podcast 🎧 New episodes drop every Monday & Thursday! https://melrob.co/spotify https://melrob.co/applepodcasts https://melrob.co/amazonmusic — Looking for Mel’s books on Amazon? Find them here: The Let Them Theory: https://amzn.to/3IQ21Oe The Let Them Theory Audiobook: https://amzn.to/413SObp The High 5 Habit: https://amzn.to/3fMvfPQ The 5 Second Rule: https://amzn.to/4l54fah

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September 4, 2023
Duration
37m
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The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Ready to make 2024 your best year ever? 🌟 https://bit.ly/melrobbins_bestyear 👈 Download my FREE, 29-page workbook designed using the latest research to help you get clear about what you want and empower you to take the next step forward in your life 🔥 — You need to hear today’s episode. I have something profound to share with you. It is a deeply personal message, straight from my heart to yours. This is not a pep talk. It’s not a motivational speech. This is a goddamn wake-up call. Your life is like a melting ice cube. Your excuses are endless, but time isn’t. Stop waiting for the perfect time. Stop waiting to feel ready. While you’ve been full of excuses, waiting for someday to come, time has been passing you by. So, if you’re sick of standing still or talking yourself out of the changes you want to make and the goals you dream of achieving, this one's for you. My mission is to make today the someday you’ve been waiting for. This is the coaching you need. And you need to hear it right now. Xo, Mel In this episode: 00:00 Intro 03:22 Can you relate to Cathy’s self-doubt? 06:45 If you hear anything today, let it be this. 11:10 This is how you actually reach your goals. 13:34 Steps 1 and 2 when you have a dream you want to make REAL. 15:38 Stop wasting your time and energy on this. 18:02 Frozen because you don’t have experience? Let me drive this point home. 23:17 Is your schedule already full? Switch your mindset this way. 28:13 I told myself the very same excuses you do! 30:53 Filling your time with things that have nothing to do with your goals? You’re not alone! 34:38 How do you start focusing on yourself once and for all? #dreaming #keepdreaming #dreams #motivationalvideo — Follow Mel: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melrobbins/ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@melrobbins Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melrobbins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melrobbins Website: http://melrobbins.com​ — Sign up for Mel’s newsletter: https://melrob.co/sign-up-newsletter A note from Mel to you, twice a week, sharing simple, practical ways to build the life you want. — Subscribe to Mel’s channel here: https://www.youtube.com/melrobbins​?sub_confirmation=1 — Listen to The Mel Robbins Podcast 🎧 New episodes drop every Monday & Thursday! https://melrob.co/spotify https://melrob.co/applepodcasts https://melrob.co/amazonmusic — Looking for Mel’s books on Amazon? Find them here: The Let Them Theory: https://amzn.to/3IQ21Oe The Let Them Theory Audiobook: https://amzn.to/413SObp The High 5 Habit: https://amzn.to/3fMvfPQ The 5 Second Rule: https://amzn.to/4l54fah

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, featuring Mel Robbins and Guest, The Most Important Wake-Up Call You’ll Ever Hear explores stop Waiting For Someday: Mel Robbins On Starting Your Dreams Now Mel Robbins delivers a direct wake-up call about how we waste our finite lives postponing the dreams that matter most, using the metaphor of life as a melting ice cube and a solo road trip. She argues that self-doubt and impostor syndrome are not signs of incapability, but signs of being a beginner who hasn’t yet started. The episode focuses on reclaiming your time and energy in tiny daily increments to move dreams from your head into physical reality. Through listener examples, she shows that the true risk isn’t failure, but spending decades never starting and living with the regret of inaction.

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