oo I am so happy you are here with me because you and I are going to have one of my alltime favorite conversations today there are six simple questions that I'm going to ask you they force you to reflect back on the past 12 months and they also give you this like instant clarity about what you want in the coming year so question number one one hey it's your friend Mel and welcome to the Mel Robins podcast hey YouTube It's Mel I can't wait to share my favorite six questions that I ask myself every single
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to the six questions o i so happy you are here with me because you and I are going to have one of my alltime favorite conversations today I'm going to be sharing something very very personal with you it is a year-end ritual that my husband Christopher and I have done for the last 20 years we do this every year at the end of the year together and for like the past 10 years we have done this exact same ritual with our three kids so we do it as a family now I'm going to walk you
through the ritual in today's conversation and I'm just going to tell you it is so simple and it is shockingly powerful and that's why I've been doing this every single year at at the end of the year for 20 years here it is there are six simple questions that I'm going to ask you during our conversation today and these six simple questions they force you to reflect back on the past 12 months and they also give you this like instant clarity about what you want in the coming year and when I ask you these six
questions one by one and you start to reflect on the answer to each one of them you're going to be really surprised by just how much wisdom you have gained over the past 12 months and you're also going to feel really empowered because these questions have a way of not only kind of stirring up all this wisdom that you've gained in the past 12 months but they seem to highlight a very clear path forward that is unique to you that is personal and that is really authentic to what you actually want so I'm going to
walk you through these questions one by one I'm so excited for this but before I do that I want to tell you something really exciting I wanted to take this ritual Beyond just the listening or the watching experience and so my team and I have prepared a free download for you it is a companion Journal you can hear it right now it's right here that we have created it is beautiful it contains these six questions it has inspiring quotes from our conversation today and you can download it for free as long as you have access
to the internet from any of the 194 countries that you may be listening to the Mel Robbins podcast in go to melrobbins.com bestar melrobbins.com bestar that URL is on the screen on youtube.com it is also linked in the resources in the show notes for this episode we got you covered and I really can't wait for you to download your free Journal all right we got the logistics handled and before I ask you the six questions I just want to tell you a quick story and give you a metaphor that will really set the table about
the deeper meaning around what you and I are going to do today last week I took our entire team on a 4-day retreat and we went on this Retreat because this year has been incredible it's also been a lot of work and we needed a break and as I was leaving the property that we held The Retreat on I couldn't get Google Maps to connect like it just wouldn't connect and give me the directions that I needed and you know here's the funny thing the whole point of the retreat was to go somewhere where we
could get off the grid we could unplug no phones were allowed and so here I am I'm leaving the retreat I'm in this Blissful State I've unplugged for four days and as I'm driving off the property I realized I have no idea how to get home and I can't get Google Maps to connect and I start freaking out there are cars behind me I'm going to have have to decide in about 200 yards whether I'm going right I'm going left I'm going straight I don't know I'm starting to get stressed out so what do I
do well naturally I pull over I pull over because I don't want to get to the stop sign and have these cars behind me I don't want to make the left turn or the right turn and not know where I'm going and here as I am pulled over on the side of the drive out of this property and the other cars are passing me by I just sat there and I turned off my phone and I was waiting for it to come back online to see if it would connect and as I'm sitting there this
older dude in a golf cart pulls up beside my door and he kind of like waves at me through the window and I look over and I roll down my window and he's like ma'am are you lost do you need some help and I laughed and I said yes I do need some help but basically I just need to take a minute and figure out where I am so I can figure out where I'm going and that's what you and I are going to do with these six questions you are going to pull over right
now metaphorically speaking so that you can figure out where you are and then as I ask you these six questions it's going to help you figure out where you want to go next see everybody misses this step when it comes to setting goals or making resolutions or trying to create a pivot in your business or in what you're doing with school or your career you just keep flying down the highway of life you're making decisions a million miles an hour oh yeah make resolutions and goals for next year that's just added to the to-do list
at the end of the year along with buying presents for people and doing this and doing that and the problem with going through life like that is that you'll just create goals and resolutions for what you think you should do but have you really stopped just for a second and taken time to think about what you really want not what you should do but what do you want what's working in your life right now what's not working what are are you willing to do the work for in order to have something new in your life
and what are you not willing to do the work for and in a couple episodes I'm going to talk to you about the research related to goals and the two requirements that you need in order to create a goal that you will actually stick to and care about and I'm going to tell you right now what those two things are and we'll go deeper into it later but you need to know what you want and you need to know why you have that goal what I love about these six questions is that they help you
determine what you want why you want it and they also help you illuminate the way forward so that you can make these goals happen and I'm so excited for you because by the end of the conversation that you and I are going to have today you're going to feel completely different I'm going to feel completely different because every time I ask myself these six questions it's just like so motivating and clarifying and you're going to be so excited about the next 12 months of your life because you're going to realize that the best days the
best years of your life they're ahead of you some of the best friends that you're going to meet in your life you haven't even met them yet and the version of yourself that is waiting for you to arrive it's waiting for you in this coming year and so these six questions work because they're grounded in a very simple mathematical principle in order for you to create a set of directions you must have where you're starting from and where you want to go next it is impossible for Google Maps to give you directions unless you put
in where are you starting where are you going and a major mistake that so many of you make is that you jump right into the new thing where you're going without understanding where you are just think about me last week as I'm leaving the retreat if I didn't stop and wait for Google Maps to register where I was I'd just be driving down the highway in the wrong direction spinning around not connecting it's complete stupidity you have to stop for a second so that you can connect to where you are now I get it I
am afraid to stop too I'm afraid to look in the rearview mirror I'm afraid to kind of really think about where I am but wait until you see what you learn about yourself when you answer these six questions and if you're driving in a car or you're running errands or you're listening to my voice at the gym or you're watching on YouTube you can just keep listening and watching as I walk you through these questions and then what you're probably going to want to do is you're probably going to want to come back to the
episode after you've printed out that free Journal at melrobbins.com bestyear and dive even deeper into the wisdom contained in each and every one of these six questions and one more Pro tip make sure you share this episode and you share the download with your family in fact do it with your family do it with your team at work do this with your Mastermind group in business or some of your best friends this is an excellent way to connect with people and it's one of the reasons why I love doing it at the end of every
year with Chris and our kids we answer the questions we share our answers with one another we go deeper with one another in fact when I do this with my kids and with Chris they always remind me of things that I forgot about and things that I'm not giving myself credit for and so you're going to find the same thing too when you share this with your friends and family Al righty you ready me too let's jump into the six questions the first three that I'm going to ask you they help you figure out exactly
where you are right now and they unearth the wisdom that is contained in the last 12 months of your life and where you are right now and the final three questions that I'm going to ask you are borrowed from transformational business Consulting practices and these last three questions are going to help you identify specifically what you need to do to move your life forward in a direction that is deeply personal and fulfilling for you so question number one what are the highlights from the past year of your life I'm going to ask you that again
question number one what are the highlights from the past year of your life so you're going to think back over the past 12 months and I want you to start collecting all of the highlights from the past 12 months now let me give you a few tips here do not do this from your memory because you will not believe how much you have forgotten in fact you can even test yourself on this one just try answering the question what are the highlights from the past year of your life and you can think back January February
March you think of the spring the summer the fall the you know the beginning of the winter think about the highlights but if you really want to get full credit for all the highlights of this past year of your life you you want to print out the journal at melrobbins.com bestyear and then you want to pull out your camera roll and pull out your calendar and go through the past 12 months week by week in your camera roll or on Snapchat or on Tik Tok you can look at all the highlights there and you will
be shocked by how much you've already forgotten there were people you had lunch with forgot about that there were day trips that you took there were books that you read There were places that you visited there were trips that you took there were things that you witness stuff that you experienced oh remember that outpa surgery nope forgot about that Mel you're going to be shocked by how much happened to you this year that you don't even remember so look at your camera roll when we're done with this episode look at your calendar and ask yourself
the question what are the highlights of this past year of my life now as I do it and I start to go through my camera roll let's go all the way back to January whoa I I'm just scrolling right now I have not done this year end ritual yet with Chris and so I'm explaining it to you before I even do it and so I'm just kind of as I'm talking to you looking back oh I got a lot of photos you're going to notice you take a lot of photos too um holy smokes okay
I'm going back oh we had a lot of okay so I'm looking back and here's some of the things first of all holy cow uh we marked the one-year anniversary of this podcast pretty incredible oh my gosh I forgot that Kendall graduated from college this year and she sang the national anthem in front of 60,000 people I know I know I shared about it on the podcast but I kind of forgot about it there's a bazillion photos of sunsets and sunrises and you know what that reminds me of it reminds me of the fact that
I really took PE and being present in the moment more seriously and I can see that as a real highlight this year because of the number of photographs um I see a lot of photos with new friends and it reminds me that I was really happy in this new community oh whoa remember the story I told you about the owl That We rescued it happened on the night of my 27th anniversary I talked about that incredible story of the owl that was hit by the car and rescuing it on a rainy night and holding it
in my arms with a towel wrapped around it for 30 minutes whoo I would have forgotten about that oh this is clearly the year that I started wearing one piece bathing suits we opened a new studio that was a huge win for me personally opening the new studio for our production company I was so scared to commit to a space and to build it out I mean I mean a five-year lease that's placing a bet on your business when you sign a five-year lease and it really shows me that I used to think that my
success was luck and I realize now this is a huge highlight that that's not true I work very very very hard and signing that lease which I took a photo of the day that we did it that was me placing a beted on myself and that that's a highlight so why are you and I doing this why are you looking at the highlights I'll tell you why because you need to remind yourself that your life is way bigger than how you feel in this moment and way too often at the end of the year or
in those moments when you're trying to change you're in a temporary emotional state and you forget the full context of who you are what you've done all the things that you've experienced good and bad what you know based on all of that and this question what are the highlights of this past year of my life it brings all of that wisdom right to your face and that wisdom is going to help guide you in terms of what you're going to do in this next year of your life all right so that's question number one and
that's a whole lot that we've already unpacked from this past year of your life coming up we've got the remaining five questions and I'll tell you what question number two is when we return from a short break from our sponsors stay with me welcome back I'm so glad you're here it's your friend Mel and I am teaching you a yearend ritual that I've done with my husband Christopher for the past 20 years we now do this as a family of five our kids love this ritual and I know you're going to love it too we
are jumping into the second question and I want to remind you before we jump into the second question that you can get a free download from me it is a journal that we have designed it is beautiful I holding it in my hands right here I can't wait for you to download this it's at melrobbins.com bestyear but for now I'm just walking you through the six questions the first question was what are the highlights of this past year of my life and now the second question what were the hardest aspects of this past year and
I want you to really think about that what were the hardest aspects of this here for you and again I'm going to guide you in how you can go a little bit deeper into answering this question first of all photos in a calendar are super super helpful but what also helps me with this question because this can kind of be a big stumper you know what I mean and I don't want you to stay in the big themes of what was hard I want you to get really specific and be reminded and so have your
phone out have your photos out have your calendar out and I also want to to share with you that I like to break this particular question into five different categories because I get much richer data so what are the categories that you're going to think about when you think about the hardest aspect of this year number one Health and Wellness number two your career money School number three relationships love and friendship number four fun and happiness number five purpose spiritual uality and meeting those are the big categories and don't you worry in the free Journal
at melrobbins.com bestyear I've got all of this spelled out for you with lots of room to write and lots of prompts for you so it's really going to help you go deeper now what's interesting is that even though I just told you my highlight reel I can see that I had some really big struggles in each one of these five areas and yes you may find that areas of struggle can also overlap with your areas of highlights like remember how I said that oh this was clearly the year that I started wearing one piece bathing
suits and longer shorts well let me tell you why that was a highlight but it also highlights a struggle that I had in the category of health and wellness and one of those struggles for me personally was menopause I am fully in menopause my body has profoundly changed and I struggled with it this year and I know that that and I'll explain in a bit why unearthing struggles for you is part of the important process of figuring out what goals you're going to have moving forward second category career money and school this has been a
year of massive highlights in my career it has also been a huge struggle and let me tell you why the hyper growth of this podcast nearly killed me in launching this podcast it had always been a dream of mine I shared about it a lot not a single person on our team has ever done the job that they're doing right now and so we all stepped into the launch of this podcast super excited with massive dreams and the reality of running a show this big ran our asses over holy smokes and it was a real
struggle to stay ahead to keep our heads above water to respond to the demand and I realize that sounds like an amazing problem to have but uh I have felt like I've been hyperventilating all year and grateful at the same time but it's been a struggle okay relationships love and friendship um fun and happiness both the same struggle I spent way too much time working this year because of the success of this podcast and because we were so caught off guard and by the way we're hiring so please if you have mad experience for a
show this size if you are absolutely you're like I got to work on that team I got to be on the number five most followed podcast in the world This Is My Jam and I've got the experience to prove it we want to hear from you for real um purpose spirituality and meaning this is another area where highlights also overlap with struggle um I mentioned that one of the highlights is seeing so many photos of sunrises and sunsets which were a signal to me that I really tapped into a level of peace and contentment and
presence living here in Vermont but when I look back at the early part of the year I was still new to living here and back in January and February Mel Robbins was lonely she was up on this mountain staring off with a panic in her face I can see uh the look of struggle in her face and kind of acknowledging that and seeing it and seeing that it was a struggle the loneliness that I felt uh being in a new community it's really important and this is why looking at the hard things in your life
is a critical step before you look ahead okay last year I did this exercise at the end of the year I asked myself these six questions with my husband and our kids and the struggle that really dominated my life 24 months ago was a deep level of betrayal that had happened in my business and in relationships in my business and so going through the exercise and being honest with myself about that struggle led me to create goals for this year that were around addressing those issues those issues of loneliness in my life and the issues
of a lack of systems and betrayal in my business and that's why I'm in a better place as I'm talking to you right now that's why I feel like a totally different Mel Robins than the Mel I see in the photos in January of February 12 months ago where I was still really lonely and knowing what's hard in your life allows you to do what researchers tell you that you need to do if you want to set goals that you care about the goals that you set need to be relevant they need to be relevant
to who you are right now where you are right now what's good what's bad what you're struggling with because when you make goals to improve based on what's been hard the Decades of research studies will show you that those goals then become tied to something that's personal to you and that Taps into what research archers call intrinsic motivation which is that internal fuel that comes from deeply personal change deeply personal meaning if it matters to you to not be lonely again this year you'll do something about it if it matters to you to not be
hyperventilating when you go up a flight of stairs you'll do something about it and that's why answering question number two and digging into your challenges is so important your challenge are trying to teach you something so take this part of it seriously what was the hardest aspect of this year for you maybe you lost somebody you love this year and you've been grieving and by writing that down and unpacking it you realize that when you look ahead you want to give yourself permission to be happy again you want to work on that sense of connection
and happiness and meaning in the wake of this and when your goals are informed formed by the things that you've struggled with and that you're moving through those goals take on a richness to them a a meaning to them and that's why this matters so much all right let's jump into the third question what did you learn about yourself this year and again I invite you to have your camera roll I invite you to have your journal from melrobbins.com bestyear I invite you to break it down into these five categories Health and Wellness career money
and school relationships love and friendship fun and happiness remember that fun and happiness purpose spirituality and meaning and so as you're looking at your photo roll and your calendar and you're working through the free beautiful Journal that you've downloaded this is one of those questions that boy oh boy does it help if you do this with other people what did you learn about yourself this year you're going to Short Change yourself but when you do this with other people oh they're going to remind you they're going to tell you how you showed up they're going
to be your cheerleading squad and but oh remember that thing that you're not giving yourself credit for well here are some of the big things that I learned about myself this year and I share this with you not only because we're friends but also because it might stir something up in you I learned that with regard to my health and wellness the things that I used to do when I was younger in terms of diet and exercise they're not going to work they're not going to work now that my hormones have changed if I want
to feel better in my body I need to change what I'm doing and maybe some area of your life is like that that all of a sudden this past year you hit a wall that the way that you had always been showing up in your marriage it's not working anymore the way that you keep showing up at work it's not leading to the promotion or the responsibilities that you want you know the other thing that I learned this year I'll share another one um that was a big kind of point of knowledge for me is
that I learned a lot this year about how to not take take on the responsibility of managing other people's emotional reactions and breakdowns see there's a big difference between supporting somebody that you care about in your life and feeling responsible for them supporting somebody versus being responsible for their emotions and that has been a revelation and I loved that this was a huge thing that I learned from this past year of my life okay so let's recap question number one what were the highlights of this past year of your life question number two what were
the hardest aspects of these past 12 months for you and question number three what are all the amazing things that you learned about yourself this year maybe you're more resilient maybe you learned what mistakes you're not going to make again maybe you learned something about relationships or you learned something that made you really proud when you look back I want you to take these three questions really seriously because this helps you again it helps you identify that starting point where am I right now in my life and it helps you get a really rich and
full answer now when we come back I want you to hear a short word from our sponsors the amazing sponsors of the Mel Robbins podcast help me bring this content to you for free I love that so take a listen when we return you and I are going to dig into the three remaining questions that are all grounded in a business trans transformation strategy that top brands use and now you're going to use them in your life to help you chart a course forward when we return Stay With Me welcome back it's your friend Mel
Robbins and you and I are walking through a ritual that my husband our three kids we do this every single year it is a year-end ritual I also use this exact same ritual of asking myself six questions uh whenever I'm going to do any new business goals business planning any big pivots in my life I absolutely love this we've already gone through the first three questions which were all about identifying the wisdom and the knowledge that you need so that you know exactly where you are right now and you can now tap into all of
that wisdom as we answer question four five and six and what I love about questions four five and six is that these questions now have us looking forward this is the set of directions that a Google Maps is going to point out because we now know where you are now let's talk about what do you want and where are we going how cool is this okay you ready Cool all right let's put these insights into a plan for the final three questions of this year-end audit let's borrow a very simple business and strategy planning tool
this is a tool that is used by the top Global brands that you know and love this is used by publicly traded companies this is used by executive teams everywhere and now guess what you're going to use these three questions because they are super simple they get right to the heart of what it is that you want and here it is you ready drum roll please stop start continue that's it these three questions come from a transformational business Consulting practice called stop start continue and one of the reasons why I love these three questions stop
start continue is because it makes you focus on what you truly want when you want to change or it's the beginning of a new year it is so tempting isn't it to do more to do better to get bigger to move faster to change but what about just making things simpler what about doing more of what is working and less of what is not working what if you focused on what you were going to continue doing in order to make this next 12 months one of the greatest years of your life I mean you need
consistency right and a lot of times when we go to set goals it's about more better different well what about what you're going to stop what about those things that are the backbone of the change that you've already started initiating those are just as important as the big bad amazing new stuff you're going to do and so let's start with question number four what are the things that you are going to stop doing in the next year of your life so think about the next 12 months let's look ahead on the road of your life
what are you going to stop doing for me personally I'm going to stop traveling for work my life for the last decade has been as a road warrior I mean I used to be on the road 150 days a year I basically missed out on our daughter's High School experience because I was gone I was working I was paying the bills and over the past two years I have become more and more and more committed to getting off the road and being home more and I'm doing it so I'm going to stop accepting speaking engagements
there's a handful that I'm willing to do if they meet certain criteria but typically at this time of year I would be fully booked a year ahead there were years where I would have 120 speeches booked for the 12 months ahead not this year last year I don't know I did 25 maybe you know how many how many I've agreed to this year one February the MGM Arena Keller Williams let's go 10,000 of you we're going to D we're going to crop dust that place with motivation and tactical advice however I'm going to stop saying
yes I'm going to stop saying yes to these opportunities I'm also going to stop saying yes to all the people that come at us and want us to create content for them and I am going to focus on the project that are ours so that's one thing that I'm going to stop doing another thing that I'm going to stop doing because it's really helpful and again if you get your download at melrobbins.com SLB bestyear listing out the things you're going to stop doing in each of the five categories is going to help you gain a
lot of clarity because I realize there's something else I need to stop doing and that's bitching about menopause I have spent a lot of time and on some podcast episodes with you complaining about my body complaining about my hormone changes complaining about how stubborn it's been to try to figure out how to be healthy complaining about hot flashes I need to stop I need to stop doing that and I need to have a different relationship with where I'm at with my hormones and where I am with my body and so I want you to ask
yourself this fourth question what are you going to stop doing in the area of Health and Wellness what are you going to stop doing career money school maybe you need to stop complaining about your job and show up differently maybe you need to stop complaining about the lack of money that you have and start showing up differently around it maybe you need to stop complaining about relationship love and friendship and create a different relationship fun and happiness purpose spirituality and meaning these five categories what are you going to stop doing and stopping doing something that
can lead to massive transformation in your life we've talked about that a lot sometimes it's more effective to stop doing something than it is to constantly focus on the new thing that you're going to do in some cases and so I want you to really really go deep on this question that brings us to question number five what do you want to continue doing this year I love this question because when you make goals goals never prompt you to think about well what am I going to keep doing that's working this question is so important
because it gets you out of that whack-a-mole thing you know how you can get into these phases in your life or at least I do where like I'm super focused on Fitness and so I focus focus focus on Fitness and then I ignore my relationship with Chris or I'm super focused on getting out of debt and then I ignore the fact that I need to carve out time for happiness and so when you also take the time to answer question number five what are you going to continue doing in the next year of your life
well I'll tell you what I'm going to continue doing I'm going to continue using my let them Theory I love letting people have their emotional reactions and not managing them I love letting people just show me who they are so I can figure out what I'm going to do in respon I love not being responsible for managing everybody else's emotional meltdowns and reactions and Tantrums and childhood wounds and all that crap that we're all dealing with and just let people be human let them have their reactions and I love the feeling of peace and control
that it gives me in my life and the final question that's going to help you create one of the best years of your life next year what are you going to start doing and the next 12 months in all five areas of your life which again are listed in the journal the beautiful Journal that we created for you that you can print out at melrobbins.com bestyear what are you going to start doing well for me when it comes to health and wellness thanks to Dr G who did the muscle Centric medicine episode with us I
am going to be strength training three days a week period full stop another thing that I'm going to start doing you're going to love this I'm going to start writing my next book which is the let them Theory that's right I'm doing a whole book on it and it's going to be incredible I'm excited for it I bet you're going to be excited for it too uh another thing I'm going to start doing is I'm experimenting with an entirely new way of working I mentioned earlier that I'm stopping down the work travel um way too
much work travel last year so I'm taking it seriously this year to change that and we're trying out the experiment where our team has one week on where we do Productions together in our new studio space in Boston and then one week off not like off you're not working but off you are in the deep pocket doing the deeper work to get all the stuff that we did during the other week across the finish line and I think that Rhythm could be really really cool I'm going to start also getting aggressive about saving money again
we moved up to Southern Vermont as you probably know and we did a renovation project up here and like most everybody that does a little home renovation project we went a little over budget and I might have gone a little over budget on our new studio buildout in Boston you know but now that the uh now that our daughters are both out of college and our house project and our studio project in Boston is done I really want to start focusing again on saving money and investing in startup companies again and I want to remind
you about something don't forget that starting also includes starting something that you used to do something that you used to do in the past you can start it up again maybe you need to start listening to music again you know how you used to love to create playlists and you always had music going in the house maybe that's something you want to take on this year maybe you want to start playing your guitar again or playing the piano again or maybe you want to start traveling again even if you don't have the money to go
on some big fancy pants trip maybe it's just taking day trips and exploring where you live and going to new places or maybe it's time to start cleaning out your social media accounts again you know I'm a huge fan of what I call unfollow Friday and making it a point every week to align your social media accounts the input with accounts that match what you want the coming year to look like like imagine that imagine if your social media didn't make you feel bad imagine if you took the time to align all the input you
get on social media to match what you want to do more of this year how cool would that be or maybe you want to start wearing your hair short or long again or maybe you want to start uh speaking French again you know you used to speak fluent French but you haven't done it in 10 years and so you want to really brush up on the language again so again what do you want to start doing you want to start being more visible at work you want to start taking classes to uplevel your skills go
through every one of the five areas of your life and identify what you want to start doing all right so now that I've explained the six questions I want to give them to you one more time what were the highlights of your year what were the hardest aspects of this past year for you what did you learn about yourself over the past 12 months what did this past year teach you about yourself about life about work about what you want where were all those lessons number four what are the things you want to stop doing
and not bring into the next year number five what do you want to continue doing in the next year and number six what do you want to start doing like for real really matters to you what do you want to start doing in the coming year now I don't know about you but I'm feeling pretty excited and I haven't even done the exercise yet for real I mean my daughters as I'm recording this conversation for you they're not home yet so Chris and I and our three kids we're all going to sit down about five
days from now with our printouts we're GNA have our journal from Mel robbins.com bestyear and I can't wait and I kind of wish that you were sitting here with me because now that I've gone through these six questions I'm like all fired up to like really dig in to take an hour and go through my photos and to have the questions in front of me and to go back and forth with you and look I know that you're here with me because you're listening to my voice or you're watching me on YouTube but I would
love to be able to see you and I want to see you doing this and I want to cheer you on and so how about we make a deal when you print out your Journal would you hold it up and take a photo of yourself or if you're going to put it on the screen uh wherever it is that you download it will you take a photo of yourself with it on your phone or whatever and then post it and tag me because I really do want to find you and give you a virtual high
five okay and one other thing bookmark this episode no joke bookmark this episode I want you to come back to these six questions over and over and over again I'll tell you why because every time you come back to these six questions you are in a different place and before you drive ahead and before you set new goals and benchmarks for yourself I want you to take the time to figure out where you are exactly beyond your emotional state I do this ritual all the time it's the six questions I asked myself that made me
finally go that's it I'm going to start doing the podcast that's it I'm GNA stop making excuses I'm yeah I'm going to continue doing the things that make me successful but by God I'm going to start this podcast and so please bookmark this episode please share this with your friends and family and I want you to do it together it's such a great exercise to do with your family and with your friends because it will make you feel more connected and speaking of connected now that I've gone through these six questions and I've glanced at
my photos and I've kind of thought about the last year I feel like my Google Maps just connected I feel like I got a sense of direction and I don't know about you but I can't wait to dig into this exercise for real and I cannot wait for you to do the same thing to print out your journal to write down your answer ERS to go through your phone and your calendar to unearth all that wisdom and to truly chart a course for yourself for the coming year that really matters and speaks to you I
do believe that this next year could be the best year of your life I do believe that some of the people that you will love deeply in your life you haven't even met yet they're waiting for you in the next 12 months I do believe that all of the things that you want deeply in your heart and the things that you learned when you get serious about what you're going to start doing and stop doing and continue doing you can make it happen and I also believe in you I love you and I believe in
your ability to create an extraordinary year in this coming year and to create the set of directions that are unique to you that you need to follow in order to get there because the truth is you do deserve to have the best year of your life you are brave enough to start you can gain the clarity to know what you want and you do have the courage to go after it and when you do that I promise you this will be one of the best years of your life and your friend Mel Robbins will be
here cheering for you every step of the way and I look forward to spending so much more time with you in the coming year I'll talk to you in a few days and for you watching on YouTube thank you thank you thank you so much for being here you can find a link to melrobbins.com best year right in the uh description below the video also if you have not subscribed Please Subscribe I mean for real I can bring this to you for free because of our Advertiser support subscribers are a huge deal and only 36%
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