whether you set goals for 2024 or not I'm just wondering how's it going I wanted to use our time today to help you think about the next 6 months because we're a third of the way through the year 6 months from now what's it feel like in your day-to-day life what's happening in your career are you making more money has your health changed did you move are you happier this Workshop and the episode you're listening to the perfect thing for you to spend time on today because it will leave you with a big game for the next 6 months hey it's your friend Mel I'm so glad that you are here with me today because today you're going to answer one question that will determine where your life leads you in the next 6 months and I know you're ready to answer it because you chose to listen to this episode and the fact that you did it tells me that you do want to create a better life and that you want to know how to make cool things happen and I'm here to help you do it because today's episode I don't really think about it as a conversation I think about this episode as a free Workshop how cool is that it's a workshop where I'm going to ask you a question that will help you become laser focused about what you're going to make happen in the next 6 months because time is is going to keep moving whether you do or not and after today's Workshop one thing is for sure you're not going to let that time just pass you by because you are going to make something really cool happen in the next six months now I know that we have a ton of new listeners to the Mel Robins podcast so first of all I just wanted to thank you for tuning in for spending some time with me it's real honor to be here with you we also want to welcome you to the Mel Robbins podcast family and I think it's important that I give you a little bit of background if you're new okay I often do these free series that help you take what you're learning on the Mel Robbins podcast and apply it to your life at a deeper level I always do one at the end of the year to help you create the best year that you can and to find your goals and this episode that you're listening to yeah it's like a free Workshop but it's part of a series that I'm launching right now called make it happen that helps you translate what you want want into action okay because I do believe that you have big dreams and they're really important and I also believe that setting goals is critical to you creating a better life because dreams and goals they do two really important things first of all they give you a sense of direction and they Define a game worth playing and when you define goals and when you have Big Drams it basically helps you lift lift yourself out of the day-to-day minutia and create more meaning and excitement in your life and so you know as I mentioned I do these free workshops and there's always one that I do at the beginning of the year if you didn't take it no problem the one that I did at the beginning of this year was called best year and I led a workshop on how you go through the process of setting goals in order to make this the best year of your life and I'm really proud to share with you that almost a million of you not only took the workshop on how to create the best year but you also downloaded the free 29 page workbook that acted as a companion to that workshop and I filled out the workbook with you and I planned out my goals for an incredible 2024 to make this the best year and I'm going to come back to that in a minute but here's the thing that was four months ago right seemed like a long time ago it was four months ago and as I'm taping this right now here in the United States it's April we are in the height of spring and that means that four months have gone by since you and I planned out the year four months have gone by in your life too and whether you were part of the best your Workshop or not whether you set goals for 2024 or not I'm just wondering how's it going do you even know how you're tracking against the goals you set for yourself or if you weren't that intentional about what you wanted to make happen this year are you thinking about the things that you thought you would take on this year and I'm pointing this out not to be a jerk not to call you out but to say it is so easy and fun to plan isn't it but the devil is really in the details of the execution so I wanted to use our time today to help you think about the next 6 months because we're a third of the way through the year and the things that you want to make happen they're not going to happen by accident they will happen on purpose so I've shown up here with a really big purpose and that is to help you define a game worth playing over the next six months and to teach you how to make it happen and I've designed our conversation today to be a workshop so that you can get very serious about the next 6 months of your life for real like what what's going to happen between now and October and then we're going to talk about how to make it happen and so before we kind of jump into the meat of this Workshop I want to give you a few sort of instructions on the logistics first of all this episode has a free companion workbook if you're watching me on YouTube you can see it right now it's bright green it says make it happen with Mel Robbins if you are listening you can kind of hear that I've got this in my hands and I want to tell you something you want to get get your hands on this puppy and you can download it for free at melrobbins. com makei happen that's melrobbins. com maketh happen now let me tell you what's going to happen when you go to melrobbins.
com makei happen first of all there's going to be a welcome video for me secondly you're going to be able to download this workbook and third you will also see that I've created two brand new video trainings that you can watch on your own time that will help you go even deeper into this free workbook and it will be an extension of this podcast episode which is really kind of kicking off this project called make it happen so just go to melrobbins. com makei happen and once you download your workbook it's right here in my hands I can't wait till you see this I will send you a link to the video trainings once they're live and you can watch them when you want and one of the reasons why I'm doing this for you and I'm going the extra mile here is simple I'm humbled that your support made the Mel Robbins podcast the number five most followed podcast in the world on Apple last year and we have consistently been ranked in the top 10 podcasts on all Platforms in the entire world for the past four months this year you did that and as you know I'm on a mission to empower you with tools tools to help you create a better life and I want you to not just listen and learn and be inspired and empowered and to feel like you're not alone and that you're here with your buddy Mel Robbins but I really truly want you to take action and apply what you're learning to your life because it's only through the action that you will make it happen that you will see change stick and that you will see your life getting better and when I saw that almost a million of you downloaded the guide to creating the best year and setting goals I was like okay I got to figure out how to help you go a little further we got to take the next step like now that you're clear about what matters to you about what your goals are I want to help you bridge that gap between creating the plan and making the plan a reality okay where we go from thought to action and the coaching that I do and the workshop that I do every year at the end of the year is about creating a great year it's about getting clear about what you want here's how this Workshop is different it's a check-in about what you want but it's focused on Translating that to the actions that make it happen and if you're somebody who's been working on your plan you've been creating the best year ever you're going to the gym you're writing the novel you've gotten the new job you're getting a better mindset you're taking the steps fan freaking tastic then you're going to use this training as an important opportunity to really Define for yourself even clearer targets that you're going to hit in the next six months maybe you're going to raise the game maybe you're going to Pivot on the game maybe you're going to add in something entirely new because you're just kicking ass and taking names because if you've already been working on some of your goals then you've probably learned some things in the past four months and in fact I can give you two examples of this from my own life so at the beginning of the year one of my goals this year was to get my hormones balanced and to take control of my health and to stop complaining about it and I got to say something Mel Robbins you you done good kid because for the past four months I've been doing more resistance training I've been following the expert advice I've been putting myself through a gut Reset Program I've been doing the intermittent fasting I've been doing a lot of zone two cardio and you know what it's working pretty cool you know kind of neat that when you take the simple advice that's backed by science and you actually do it you see the results however four months in I've learned a lot and I'm seeing a lot of progress and I want to assess where I am and make a very intentional and strategic decision about where I'm going to go next and let me give you another example of why a pivot is super important because another goal that I said at the beginning of the year when I did the workshop on creating the best year was I really wanted to make it a goal to save money I haven't squat about it I mean not a nothing in fact if I had to guess I've been so unintentional about it that I've not only not made saving happen I've probably spent more money than I usually do now this goal still still kind of matters to me but if I plan on saving money and making that happen then I got to use this Workshop to give myself a reality check because I'm going to need to do something different I got to show up differently in the next six months I got to have a different approach and so in both of these examples whether it's the strength training which has been working or my goal of saving money which I failed miserably at I will benefit from taking a Beat and using this Workshop to create a strategic pivot right you refine what you're doing and clarify your goals or you remove it to make room for something that you actually care about and by taking the time today to go through this workshop with you as I teach it I'm also going to be doing it and I assess what I really want to make happen in the next 6 months it will help me with both those goals and whether I pivot on on the approach or I decide I don't care about that right now and I want to focus on something else that idea is so important and most of the time you do not take the time to do that so whether you've set goals for this year or not whether you're making progress on your goals or not this workshop and the episode you're listening to the perfect thing for you to spend time on today because it will leave you with a big game for the next six months so go to melrobbins. com make it happen get your workbook get it and please share this episode and then share the workbook sign up with absolutely everyone you know what was so cool about the one that we did at the end of the year is so many of you filled out the year-end planning guide with your family oh my God and it made a huge difference you actually got together you did it in person and it improved the dynamic and the energy and the Rel relationships in your family I also saw so many of you online posting about it with your teams and your roommates and your friends it was so cool well guess what this Workshop exact same power and possibility share it share it share it because it's going to translate the clarity that you will have into action and the truth is there's no reason why you can't make these next six months amazing there's no reason why you can't make big things happen and that's exactly what this Workshop is going to do so please share it all right got it good let's jump into it so that one question that will determine where you are in 6 months is this what do you want to make happen in the next six months of your life I'm going to ask that question again what do you want to make happen in the next six months of your life and I want you to really consider that as I mentioned I'm recording this in April we're almost a third of the way through the year already just wrap your brain around that because 6 months is going to pass like that what do you want to make happen in the next six months of your life I'm going to ask you to just truly think about it and I'm going to invite our sponsors to tell you a little bit about what they do because they allow me to bring you this free workshop at zero cost and as you listen to our sponsors I want you to think about where you want your life to be 6 months from now what do you want to make happen and I'm going to be waiting for you after a short break break to continue digging into your answer stay with me oh my God it's spring in for mod I'm ready to make something happen AR you awesome let's spring into action because action's the answer you don't need motivation you need to know how to make it happen my free training this year is about execution I want to teach you the science the physics the Neuroscience all the strategies you need to move from thinking about what you need to do to springing into action and making cool stuff happen it's free more than half a million people have registered do not miss out on this opportunity to let me not only inspire you but teach you what you need to know so that this is the year that you finally execute on everything that you've been thinking about that you deserve to make happen in your life all right melrobbins.
com make it happen baby boom let's do this together I can't wait for you to see the trainings and to experience the workbook and to see yourself actually doing the things you want to [Music] do welcome back it's your friend Mel Robbins and today I'm asking you a question that will determine where you are in the next six months of your life and it's a powerful question and I want to remind you if you have not downloaded the free workbook right here that goes with this Workshop we're doing today I want you to go to melrobbins. com maketh happen get your hands on this workbook because we are going to dig deep into this question what do you want to make happen in the next six months of your life and I keep saying that time is going to pass that I'm recording this and it's April here in the United States we're a third of the way through the year already and I want you to truly just think about how much time has gone by so fast like it just seems like yesterday that it was New Year's and the fact is 6 months it is going to just pass in the blink of an eye when I think about the next 6 months holy cow my son he's going to graduate from high school do you know how fast that time is going to go we're going to fly through the spring graduation is going to be here and then we're going to be into the summer and next thing you know I'm going to look up and it's going to be fall and we're going to be dropping him off at college and wherever it is that you're watching this right now or you're listening to my words just take a minute and think about the next six months in fact close your eyes if you can and time travel with me 6 months from now and imagine what you want your life to look like for me when I time travel ahead 6 months from right now now it's October I'm turning 56 Chris and I will be empty nesters one of our daughters will have moved to New York the other one will be out in Los Angeles our son will be off at College where will you be 6 months from now what's it feel like in your day-to-day life what's happening in your career how have your relationships or your friendships changed are you making more money has your health changed are you happier where are you did you move I really really want you to stop and visualize it what do you want to make happen in the next 6 months of your life what do you want it to feel like and as you really start to turn that over in your mind I'm going to share with with you some of the things that come to mind for me and as I'm sharing the things that I see when I time travel forward and I allow myself to imagine life six months from now and I think about what do I want to make happen I want you to continue to be in your own life 6 months from now and in the workbook which helps you dive deep into this question you're going to see that there are five categories that Define your life that will help you consider what do you want to make happen in your life in the next six months and these by the way are the same five categories that you used when we did the beste planning workshop because these are the categories that make up your whole life and those categories are health and wellness what do you want to make happen as it relates to your health and wellness in the next six months second category career money school what do you want to make happen you may be starting a new school you may be starting a new career has your business taken off third category relationships love friendship what's going on in that area of your life six months from now happiness I love this category because it's like hobbies and how you feel and your daily habits and what it's like at your home are you happier God I hope you're happier and the final category as you really sit and contemplate that question what do I want to make happen in the next six months of my life purpose spirituality meaning just really allow yourself to travel head here's a couple things that jump out for me when I think about 6 months from now and it's October and I'm 56 and Chris and I are empty nesters so in the area of happiness that one kind of jumped out first for me when I go ahead 6 months I immediately started to think about my home probably because I said the word empty nester right and as I'm walking around my home with Chris and it's just us and the two dogs something kind of funny popped into my mind and this is one of the categories that you will be led through in your workbook to go deeper and journal on but here's what jumped out for me with happiness so I live in southern Vermont and we have lived in this house that we have renovated and I just love this place and now we've lived here full-time for two years do you know there is not a single framed photo of anyone in my family on any wall of this house and if I'm being perfectly honest if I float through and I think about countertops or you know kind of those nice side tables that people have or shelves I don't have any photos there either I mean we've been living in this house for 2 years and there's this one wall that is over a bench that we have in this breakfast area off the kitchen and when we designed the house you know what I always imagined I imagined one of those beautiful picture walls I don't know if you've ever been in somebody's house or maybe this is your house where you have one of those walls that is just so beautiful where it's matching frames and everything's lined up and it's great photos of the family I have always wanted a photo wall of the family and when we design the house I'm like I am going to hang photos there well guess what I've been thinking about that for 2 years and it hasn't happened why because things don't happen by accident they happen because you make them happen and so one thing I really do want to wake up and see that I have done in the next six months because it's going to make me happier especially when Chris and I are empty nesters is to walk into the breakfast area of the kitchen in October and see that that wall is done that would make me happier for real let me give you another example of something that comes to mind for me in the area of relationship love and friendship when I time travel ahead 6 months what do I want to make happen in that area of my life this is very very clear for me I want to look back on these last six months and see that I spent a ton of time with our son Oakley because I feel that I am in that moment it's like a melting Ice Cube it is disappearing the time that I have with him is disappearing before my eyes and so it is super important to me when I think about that area of my life that in the next six months I spend as much time with Oakley as I can and I got to make that happen and you know what that's like you kind of set this intention and then you mean to do it and then you don't do it why because life is busy that's why you have to get serious about turning this into a project that you're going to make happen I think about my parents in the next six months I want to spend more time with my parents in fact my dad has just gone through this situation where three of his friends have had these catastrophic things happen two have died like suddenly and one of them fell downstairs and like broke just about every single bone and we know that that is a horrible thing to have happen and my dad is turning 80 this year and I want to spend more time with my parents in the next six months I have to make that happen and it's not going to happen by accident it happens on purpose the next category if I travel ahead 6 months is career money or School I've got so so much I want to do there but what I got to do first is take a short break so we can hear a word from our amazing sponsors but here's what's going to happen I'm going to be waiting for you after the break I want you to continue to think about that question what do you want to make happen in the next six months of your life and when we return I'm going to share what I want to see happen in my life what I'm going to make happen I should say in my career because it's some pretty big stuff and I know it's going to inspire you to think big two so stay with me we'll be right back hey it's your friend Mel and I've been thinking it's time that you and I take our relationship to the next level this may be a little bit forward of me but I've got a gift that I want to give you I've been working on this for a little while it's a brand new free two-part video training that I created for you using principles of physics and Neuroscience and all kinds of research to help you go from thinking about what you want to actually making it happen see I want you to not only be inspired here on social media I want you and I to take it to the next level and get off social media and let me coach you and teach you on how you yes you can make the next 6 months of your life the best six months of your life it's not going to happen by accident it'll happen on purpose homie wants you to do it too there he is hi you've got a gift for them too oh my gift is better because it's a free training that'll help you change your life all you got to do is go into the comments and type free F re I'll DM you a link to the training that's how easy you can make this training happen last time I did this last year more than half a million people accepted this free gift I hope this year you'll take our relationship to the next level and let me coach you on making the next 6 months of your life extraordinary let's make it happen [Music] together welcome back it's your friend Mel Robbins and I'm so thrilled that you're here you're listening to a workshop about how you can make some amazing things happen in the next 6 months that by October when you look up you will see things that you've done that make you so proud and I've been asking you over and over this one question that's going to determine what happens in your life over the next six months what do you want to make happen imagine that it's October and I want you to think about your career and think about money or think about school and allow yourself to drift to October and look up what have you done that you're proud of for me when I think about where I am in October holy smokes I am going to publish my next book The let them Theory yep I'm writing a book about the let them Theory and it's coming out in midt which means 6 months from now I am going to be in the middle of a massive book launch and that doesn't happen by accident I got a plan for Success just like you need to plan for Success so that's going to have to be something I'm journaling about in this workbook I got to get going on that that's going to take a lot of work and if you want more success in your career or in school it's going to take work and so let's start today in making that happen here's another thing I think about I don't know if I've talked about this on the podcast or not with you guys but I have this desire to launch a product company in the women's health space you know I mentioned that I'm in this this super confusing supplement routine for my hormone balance it's working but it's so confusing that it has lit this fire inside me that I'm like I got to do something about this I got to simplify this I got to figure out something in this space to help everybody translate this confusing expert advice and all this supplement stuff like I got to do something and six months from now if I really get quiet and I time travel and I go what do I want to make happen here's what I see I see that I have done the research on the space that I've got a business plan sketched out that I know where the funding is coming from whether I'm going to fund it or I'm raising money and I also know who I'm going to recruit to be the CEO of this thing that's a lot but that's what I see and I can wish for it I can want it but that doesn't make it happen if I truly want to make it happen I got to convert that wanting and wishing into a plan of action and you know what I'm realizing as I say this is something else because those two things have come up in my career this massive book launch for the let them Theory which is coming out in mid-september and this desire to spin off and launch this incredible company is that you know how I said I had that goal of saving money that that was part of the goal setting that I did for best year here's what I'm realizing I don't really care about saving money right now because I have too much going on and the fact is I have been saving money for years I mean like I'm like a squirrel hoarding my nuts I have been squirreling away money because I'll tell you something if you've ever faced bankruptcy like I have if you have ever been in such financial distress that you can't pay for groceries like I have you get to a point where you never let yourself do that again and so I have been saving for years I'm extremely risk averse I've lost so much money in the past that I am not going to let that happen again but here's what I realize in this moment as I'm talking to you is that I don't care about making that a project right now I don't care about making that happen because I already kind of do that anyway and just being able to say that this isn't a priority this is so liberating is there something that you created as a goal at the beginning of the year that you're realizing now that it's April you're like I actually don't really care about that I just kind of said that and I cared about it then but the truth is life has changed or I realize the work that it's going to take and I'm being honest with myself like why have something on your list that you have no desire to make happen so here's another takeaway your friend Mel Robbins I'm giving you permission right now as you go through your workbook melrobbins. com make it happen as you go through this workbook there is a page in here where you can list out the things that were once a priority that are just not a priority anymore that is a moment of honesty that you need to have with yourself clear away the guilt seriously clear it off your to-do list take it out of the best year goals and create room for something that you care about that you actually will make happen and let me tell you why this matters it matters because it's so easy to find yourself lulled into this kind of robotic autopilot mode in your life right where one day Blends into the next and you know it's basically get up go to work come home make dinner clean the kitchen go to bed get up go to work come home make dinner clean the kitchen go again it's just like what the hell you've already forgotten what it is that you cared about because you're so exhausted next thing you know you're like wait four months have gone by six it's October already and I didn't even do anything not happening to you defining a game worth playing over the next 6 months will create meaning and excitement in your life sometimes the only thing that's missing from your life is a project that's worth getting out of bed for I mean think about it when you have a kid that's playing a sport right and they're like driving towards the championship and a winning season you're driving towards something and the fact that they're playing that big game of having a winning season that creates excitement and meaning when you're planning a wedding when you're looking for a new apartment when you're training for a marathon when you're taking a class it creates excitement and meaning and don't look at these things that you want to make happen as a chore that's not what the next six months of your life is about you get to choose this is an opportunity to infuse the next six months of your life with something better something worth getting out of bed for something worth not getting lulled into that oh get up and go to work I just did the same old all the time and look you want to know what so cool is that I've only covered the first few pages of the workbook for real as I've asked you to time travel as I've asked you to consider this question over and over and over again what do you want to make happen in the next six months of your life think about these categories and the workbook is going to take you even deeper this is such a gift to give to yourself and look I could keep going but here's what I can feel I can already feel your desire to download the workbook I can feel your desire to start imagining some kind of project that you can take on and design for yourself something that is going to make the next six months just awesome something that you want to make happen and look it could be something that is kind of simple and crafty like my photo wall do you know how happy I'm going to be that I actually made that happen and it's going to take a lot more work than you would think I got to pick the photos I got to figure out the measurement I got to figure out the side like it actually will take time it sounds kind of stupid but it doesn't matter if it sounds stupid to you this is something that matters to me and this is really important if you want the next six of months of your life to be awesome you got to pick something that is personally important to you that if you were to work on it and see yourself chip away at it it would give your life life a sense of purpose it would create some momentum it would really Infuse you with this energy and this enthusiasm that's why this matters yes we're going to talk all about how you translate this project into action but first I got to get you to start dreaming a little bit I got to get you to Define what would really help you come alive and so here's how this is going to work the second you go to melrobbins.
com makei happen you will see a little video from me welcoming you you will get a copy of the workbook right there and I've even taken the steps with my amazing team you can download it you can print it we even have a loow ink format this is bright green and really colorful you can do one in black and white or we've created an electronic format for you too all for free that's all you have to do to be registered for this free Workshop just go to Mel robin. com make it happen and then what's going to happen is there are two in-depth video trainings and those video trainings will help you translate this into action I'm going to walk you through all the remaining exercises in the workbook in those videos and I'm going to teach you a bunch of principles some that are strategies that Business Consultants use with some of the top companies in the world we're going to talk about a principle from physics called the domino effect that will teach you how to take action how to get started how to leverage momentum and fight inertia and for everyone in your life who is graduating right now this is an incredibly important thing for you to give them because it will help you define what you want to make happen in the next six months because think about graduation holy cow you know what happens when graduation hits holy smokes it's like tidal wave and it sweeps you right into summer and the next thing you know you look up and six months has gone this is also exactly what anyone in your life needs if they've been laid off or if they're looking for a better job or they're thinking about applying to graduate school or they're launching a business this Workshop gives you the structure to Define it and then it will give you the tools and the teaching that you need to translate it to action the difference between time moving forward without you and you moving forward with it is taking a minute right now to figure out what you want to make happen during that time just imagine how different you will feel if you look up and it's October and you aren't thinking about that side Hustle but it's actually up and running and it's making money you know how proud you're going to be of yourself just as proud as I'm going to be when I walk into my kitchen and I sit down for a cup of coffee and I look up at the beautiful photo wall that I've been thinking about for the last two years and I finally got off my rear end and I stopped thinking about it and I made it happen that is what's available to you to stop talking and to start doing to stop wishing and wanting and to start creating that's what we're doing here and all you need to do is go to melrobbins.
