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

I need you to realize that your life, it's a melting ice cube. And I think we all believe that we have time, that at some point, it'll be the right time, that someday you'll feel ready, that someday it'll be perfect, that someday you'll be a legitimate writer, that someday you'll have something to say. And I'm here to tell you right now, today is that someday. You will waste your whole life, and you will watch that ice cube melt. And you are listening to this right now because you needed to hear this. Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. So, I have something pretty amazing that I want to give you today. It's exactly what you need to hear. It is not just a pep talk. It is the kind of message that a really dear friend who's fed up with you delivers straight between the eyes. What am I talking about? I'm talking about your dreams. You're the kind of person, just like me, that every single year, you write down the things that you want in your life. And I would imagine that as each year rolls on and the new list gets written, you move the thing that you didn't work on this year to the list that you do for the next year, and on and on and on. I mean, how many years have you been thinking about writing a book? Or changing your job? Or changing where you live? Or healing some aspect of your past or finding love or learning how to love yourself or starting that business? These things that you hold in your heart, they are meant to be out in the world. And today, I'm on a mission to get you to stop waiting. Stop waiting for the perfect time. Stop waiting to feel ready. Stop waiting for the money. Stop waiting for permission. Stop waiting to feel like somebody's going to care about this. The only person that needs to care enough is you, because today is the day that you're going to pick up the pen, you're going to start the research, you're going to commit to taking action. Why? Because that's what you're meant to do with your life. You're meant to create a bigger vision for yourself. And the reason why I wanted to talk to you about this today is because I know you need to hear it. See, a couple weeks ago, we did a episode on impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome is just self-doubt. It's just when you intellectualize your self-doubt and you talk yourself out of doing what you want to do. You tell yourself, "Oh my God, I want to be a singer," or, "I want to be a writer. I want to, I want to travel more. I want to do this. I want to do that. I want to do the other thing." And then you tell yourself that you're not ready, that you're not worthy, that it's not going to happen to you. That episode was called The Four Words that Silence Self-Doubt. So the day we released that episode, two really interesting things happened, and it made me realize, I need to talk to you. I need to talk to you about how you're holding yourself back from pursuing the goals that you want to pursue in your life. And so here's what made me realize we got to talk about this. First of all, on the morning that the episode aired, number one, I woke up and there was already a voice memo from a friend of mine. She was only halfway through the episode. She was already starting to tear up because the episode made her think about this dream of writing a book, publishing a book, and how she's been putting it off because her self-doubt and feeling like an impostor, it has kept her from picking up the pen. Here's that memo.