Hi, I’m Mel Robbins
At age 41, my life was a mess. I was unemployed. Facing bankruptcy. Marriage spiraling. Confidence shot. Hitting the bottle hard.
I struggled just to get out of bed. Every morning, the alarm clock would ring. I knew I should get up and deal but anxiety rushed in and I’d hit the snooze button instead. Here’s the thing. I wanted to change. I just couldn’t make myself do it. The smallest things felt impossible. I read books and bought journals. Nothing stuck. I prayed for motivation. It never came. There was literally always an excuse.
Have you ever felt so stuck you wanted to give up? Well, that was me. One night, I was drowning my sorrows in bourbon, feeling like the world’s biggest loser, when suddenly a rocket shot across my TV screen during a commercial and it gave me a crazy idea – what if, when the alarm rang, instead of thinking, I launched myself out of bed like a rocket.
“First of all, when I hear the word passion and you didn’t say passion, but that’s kind of the word people use: ‘I need to figure out who I am and what I’m passionate about and where I’m going and what my values are?’ I believe that passion is another word for energy. That’s its. What energizes you? And that we naturally have a tremendous amount of body wisdom about that, and that everyone of us has a internal fuel tank that is either empty or fuel. And if your empty you feel depleted. If your fuel you feel energized. If you simply are in any situation, I mean any situation and if you pay attention within 5 seconds to ‘does this person energize me or do they deplete me?’ Where are they on the scale? You just gain some tremendous wisdom. And the simply way to start to figure who you are and what you want? Is start aligning yourself with more things that energizes you.”
“ Now being depleted versus energized has nothing to do with whether or not things are hard or easy. It has to do with what naturally expands you or shrinks you. And so if you look at your client list and measure it depleted versus energized. ‘What shrinks or expands me?’ You have the actual map. And when you start to find the courage to make the decisions that energize you and expands you, even if they are scary as sh@@! or not. That is when everything changes.”
How Mel feels about giving her success secrets away, she responded, “The more generous you are. The more generous you are the easier, and more satisfying and fun your life is. And it took me so long. I don’t know why? To realized there is enough success and happiness for everybody and the second that you figure out how to stay in your lane. Which is where you energize and where you expanded. That is actually how I think I figured it out. Is that when you focus on; In your lane, which is what your wisdom is telling what energizes and expands you. You have so much capacity to cheer for everyone else.”
Sources:
- https://youtu.be/E3RKIyU4GuU
- https://medium.com/@richardfontaine/mel-robbins-on-finding-your-passion-5e764befb2f4
- https://melrobbins.com/about/
- https://www.westernslopenow.com/the-mel-robbins-show/
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