Mel Robbins: You watching, this is for you too. You’re training for this moment.
Mel Robbins: There's only one rule when it comes to productivity. There's only one rule
when it comes to success. There's only one rule to getting everything you've ever wanted and here it
is. You're never going to feel like it. Ever. In any area of your life that you don't have what you
want, whether it's the amount of money, the amount of people on your team, the amount of sales, the
amount of trips for your family, the read. If you only did the things that you don't feel like doing
you'd have everything you've ever wanted. Those areas where you're happy you do the work.
Those areas where you're complaining you don't feel like it, so you don’t do it.
Mel Robbins: So how do you be effective with yourself knowing that you're never going to feel
like doing all the work that it takes to have this business be everything that it possibly
could. So you're going to use the five-second rule. And what that means is this.
Mel Robbins: You've only got five seconds to take action otherwise it's gone. Your
brain will swoop in so fast, be “uh-oh, there's an idea whoa no way, no way, you don't feel like it,
you're overwhelmed, you're here by the way... You've got five seconds and that's it.
This is all you’ve got!
When the idea comes you must act upon it immediately!
With no questioning.
No hesitation.
Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One!
This is the time you differentiate yourself from the rest!
This is the time you take control of your brain and take action!
This is when you turn your dreams into reality!
That class you want to enroll, that project you want to make,
that book you want to write. Start doing it now!
Become the new you! Build a new life by aggressively pursuing what you want
before the time runs out!
Before it is too late...
Mel Robbins: There was this one morning where I walked into the bathroom
and I was standing in my underwear brushing my teeth in front of the mirror
and I looked up at the mirror and my first thought was “uh”. I noticed that my jowls were starting
to look like saddlebags on a packhorse at the grand canyon. And I had like these crazy lines by
my eyes and my neck was really like kind of saggy and one boob was hanging lower
than the other and my gray hair was coming in. And I, and as soon as I started kind of critiquing my
thoughts or my looks and appearance, then my mind, Rich, started going “Fuck! I didn't get that email
back to that person. And I got that presentation I need to do, and my God did that speech just cancel
again, what the fuck am I gonna? Look down and the dog needs to be walked and then I think I got
a zoom call in nine minutes, like, I gotta get my shit together.” And before I knew it my whole mood
was low. I felt overwhelmed. I had taken myself down mentally. I just wanted somebody to walk in
and be like “Mel, it's gonna be okay. Like, you got this, girl. Like it's, lift your head up,
you can handle this.” c, Rich. This is pathetic, but standing there in my underwear in front of
my bathroom sink I raise my hand and high-five my reflection. And I cracked a smile because it's so
corny. I even thought of that guy Stuart Smiley from the SNL skips, remember that? I’m
nice, I’m kind, people like me. Went on with my day. That was it.
Every day you criticize yourself.
You think about what you don’t like about your appearance.
You think about what you don’t like in your performance.
You think about your failures.
But when will you take the time to contemplate your beauty?
To congratulate yourself for your accomplishments and your effort.
When will you stop pitying yourself and recognize the greatness that lies within you?
You won’t gain anything by only seeing the bad!
You won’t gain anything by being a cynic!
You will only get something when you decide to change your perspective!
Try to change your perspective!
What have you got to lose?
Mel Robbins: What have you got to lose? Seriously. What if this is actually the secret.
Like how hard is it honestly to stand in your knickers in front of a bathroom mirror and raise
your hand? And let me tell you something about the cynicism and the resistance and all the crap that
you're going to feel. There's a couple things that are going to happen when you try this.
And, you know, first of all, the cynic, I’m going to tell you it would be a huge mistake to let
pessimism and cynicism keep you from trying something that sounds too good to be true.
What I’m about to tell you is the single most powerful thing I have ever discovered in my
entire life. And my passion about this topic is not coming from the fact that I want you to buy
the book. Don't buy the book! You don't need to. I put all the content out for free anyway.
My passion comes from the fact that I know that this habit will crack you open in a way that
you need and it will reintroduce you to the most important force on the planet. And that is belief
and support and validation of yourself. Life is what turned you into a cynic. You were not born
that way. And so what I’m here to tell you and I’m standing not only on my own experience but
on the experience now of hundreds of thousands of people and the validation
of the world's leading scientists. I know that this sounds dumb. I know that this is cheesy.
And I am telling you if you take this on, just do it five days in a row, something profound
is going to happen. What you're going to realize at the deepest level, is there is a human being
that stands in that mirror with you every single morning and you have been criticizing and
ignoring them. And the moment that you wake up and you realize that every single
morning there is another, there's a human being that looks at you that needs you.
That wants you to pay attention. That needs your support and love and you have abandoned them.
You've criticized them. You've beaten them down. And the second that you
change your relationship with the person that stares back at you in the mirror,
your whole life changes because your relationship with yourself is the foundation of everything.
The best relationship you should have is with yourself.
Because you are the only one that holds the power to do something to yourself.
You are the only one who can make yourself fail.
And you are the only one who can make yourself succeed.
Be the best for yourself!
Beat the odds for yourself!
You can accomplish great things!
You can change your life forever!
But you got to love yourself first.
You got to understand that you are the greatest gift you could ever have.
And knowing that is the first step to becoming the best version of yourself.
You can do wonderful things!
Mel Robbins: You are capable of so much more. This is handing you a moment where you
get to become an even stronger and more capable version of yourself. Now, does
that mean that you're going to be motivated all day long every single day that you wake up? No!
But it means you've got to have the mental fitness right now to continue to get up to show up
and to dig deeper when it comes to your mindset, when it comes to your attitude when it comes to
your, just knowing that you are going to get through this. And so this moment, everybody,
it's telling you who you are. It's telling you whether or not you're the kind of person
that shows up to a challenge and you're pissed off or you're sad or you feel depressed or you
feel despair or you feel all of these things that start to take you down the drain of negativity.
And what I'm here to tell you is that you are built for this moment. You may not feel
like it. You may feel sad. Those are all normal feelings. You may feel negative, it's very easy to
do. You may start to feel a little bit of despair. That's gonna come and go but this is
where the test of this race that we're currently running lies. When those feelings rise up and you
start losing ground and you start feeling like you're not going to make it to the finish line
and you start feeling unmotivated can you dig deeper and remind yourself that you were built
for this moment? Because one of the things that I know is that when the shit is hitting the fan
I guarantee you there are people in your life that are looking to you. There are people in your life,
whether it's clients or colleagues, or family members, that are looking to you right now. You
know what that tells me? That you’re the kind of person that people rely on. And now is the moment
in time in the race that we're all running where you got to teach yourself to rely on yourself.
Now is the time to decide the type of person you will be.
Will you cower in face of the challenges?
Or will you endure the pain until you make it?
You already have what it takes inside.
But you must choose.
Choose to go until the end.
Choose to get to the first place.
Choose to become the most powerful you can be.
Winning depends solely on you.
Will you rely on yourself?