Episode: 441
The Ultimate Life Advice: How to Get Motivated, Build Confidence & Create Better Relationships
a Solo Episode
Do you have a question about your life that you wish someone would just give you a straight answer to?
In this episode, Mel is answering your biggest questions about relationships, career, health, confidence, change, and how to trust yourself when life feels uncertain.
You’ll learn how to deal with the guilt that comes with choosing yourself, how to bring more energy and passion back into your life, what to do when your emotions take over, and how to move forward when something you thought would last forever comes to an end.
You’ll also hear Mel’s advice on health, fitness, breakups, moving away from family, career changes, and the books she can’t stop recommending.
If you’ve been feeling stuck, restless, overwhelmed, heartbroken, or unsure about what comes next, this episode will help you get clear, trust yourself, and move forward.
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You can change your relationship. You can change your habits. You can change your job. You can change where you live. You can change your mindset.
Mel Robbins
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Key takeaways
Creating more passion simply means paying attention to where you’re pulled, using your heart to find the direction, and then use your head to build a plan for getting there.
Notice what energizes you, put more of those activities on your calendar and give yourself something to look forward to.
You can change your entire mindset for health by changing your goal from changing how you physically look, to focusing on feeling stronger, healthier and more energized
When your emotions take over - recognize what you’re feeling, name the emotion and practice pausing before you respond
A breakup is grief - not proof that the right person got away. To properly move on, you need to create space from any reminders of your ex.
Resources
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- Watch Marc Brackett’s Mel Robbins Podcast Episode
- Watch Katy Milkman’s Mel Robbins Podcast Episode
- Stanford Report: Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say
- Greater Good Science Center: How Thinking About the Future Makes Life More Meaningful
- Knowledge at Wharton: Get It Done: Two Techniques to Fast-track Your Goals
- CDC: Adult Activity: An Overview
- National Institute on Aging: How can strength training build healthier bodies as we age?
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Fiber
- Medline Plus: Dietary Proteins
- UCLA: Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects in the Brain; UCLA Neuroimaging Study Supports Ancient Buddhist Teachings
- American Psychological Association: Breakups aren't all bad: Coping strategies to promote positive outcomes
- Psychological Science: Waiting for Merlot: anticipatory consumption of experiential and material purchases
- Management Science: Holding the Hunger Games Hostage at the Gym: An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling
- Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes: Teaching temptation bundling to boost exercise: A field experiment
- Psychological Science: Giving Time Gives You Time
- Women’s Health Issues: Type of physical activity goal influences participation in healthy midlife women
- Psychological Science: Putting feelings into words: affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli
- Educational Psychologist: RULER: A Theory-Driven, Systemic Approach to Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning
- Emotion: Teaching emotion regulation in schools: Translating research into practice with the RULER approach to social and emotional learning
- Prevention Science: Improving the social and emotional climate of classrooms: a clustered randomized controlled trial testing the RULER Approach
- Yale School of Medicine: Permission to feel
- Forbes: A Psychologist Shares The ‘90-Second Rule’ To Survive Emotional Waves
- The Journal of Positive Psychology: Addition through subtraction: Growth following the dissolution of a low quality relationship
- Journal of Neurophysiology: Reward, addiction, and emotion regulation systems associated with rejection in love
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Design for forgetting: Disposing of digital possessions after a breakup
- Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking: Facebook surveillance of former romantic partners: associations with postbreakup recovery and personal growth
- Computers in Human Behavior: Social media observation of ex-partners is associated with greater breakup distress, negative affect, and jealousy
- Women's Health Issues: Type of Physical Activity Goal Influences Participation in Healthy Midlife Women
- International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity: Rebranding exercise: closing the gap between values and behavior
- Women’s Health Issues: Fitting Fitness into Women's Lives: Effects of a Gender-tailored Physical Activity Intervention
- Frontiers in Nutrition: Effects of resistance training combined with creatine supplementation on muscle strength, physical function, and muscle mass in older adults: a systematic review and three-level meta-analysis
- American Psychological Association: How to support young people on the road to adulthood
