4 Important Life Lessons I Learned the Hard Way (So That You Don’t Have To)
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No matter what is happening to you, life is trying to teach you something. In this episode, Mel unpacks the 4 most important lessons life tries to teach everyone, and the sooner you learn them, the faster your life will change for the better.
In this episode, Mel covers:
- Why you need to slow down if you want to make your life better
- The only way to make lasting and meaningful change
- How to be more creative and inspired at work
- The 6 questions you must ask yourself before the new year
- How to create opportunity for success in your life
- The one question to ask yourself if you don’t know what to do next
- How to feel more fulfilled without achieving, buying, or earning more
- How to determine the biggest lesson you need to learn from the past year
- Mel’s favorite practical tool for self-doubt called “drop the sword”
- How “bracing” yourself through life blocks your happiness
- Why seeking balance is not always a good thing
- How to create boundaries you can actually keep
- The boundary Mel set this year that changed her life
- What feeling frustrated actually means
- What to do if you are in a process that isn’t working for you anymore
- Why change takes a FULL year
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In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:40: Why you need to slow down if you want to make your life better
03:34: The only way to make lasting and meaningful changes
04:39: How to be more creative and inspired at work
05:47: The 6 questions you must ask yourself before you enter the new year
07:16: How to create opportunity for success in your life
09:42: How to feel more fulfilled without achieving, buying, or earning more
11:06: What it means to “drop the sword”
12:15: Why “bracing” through life blocks happiness
16:12: Why seeking balance is not always a good thing
18:29: How to create boundaries that you can actually keep
22:34: The boundary Mel set this year that changed her life
28:07: What feeling frustrated actually means
35:04: What to do if you are in a process that isn’t working for you anymore
38:24: Why all change takes a FULL year
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It reminded me of Psalm 23: "He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul." Loved that! ❤
@mollycote1021
5 ай бұрын
Love that!
@pandorasflowerbox
5 ай бұрын
He shows us the way, always💕 @chhrrisstian thank you for posting this message❣️🚀
@ArtByHazel
5 ай бұрын
Amen!❤
@jasmindiaz1831
5 ай бұрын
Amen 🙏
@decoryourdays8120
5 ай бұрын
Very true...
Slow down, audit your year. 1.learn how to be happy, you might be fighting against your own happiness... drop the sword 2.forget about balance and focus on boundaries 3.fustration is a sign you are growing. It's a signal something isn't working that you have outgrown. Look for the opportunity to grow. A method to use: 3 ps. Project, process, and people. (What needs to change or updated in these areas) 4. Change takes a year...give yourself a year to make or see those serious changes in your life. Change and process takes time
@Anamarhaba
5 ай бұрын
Thank you!!
@michelemarch2562
5 ай бұрын
❤TY SO KINDLY,!
struggled with finding happiness and balance in life. Mel's lessons hit home, especially dropping the sword. Aspect Health played a role too, not pushing it, just sharing my journey. her insights on boundaries and frustration resonated deeply, offering a new perspective. transformations take time, and her personal anecdotes added a relatable touch. grateful for the guidance.
I'm a 39 year old single mom ! I have been making so many changes to better my self it is hard having kids,working having bad habits, thanks to you I been working on myself day by day. I listen to your videos every morning going to the gym,when I'm clean when running errands etc..my process is going slowly!! Lol, but going I have good days, bad days, sad days, frustrating days, but I have to keep on pushing. Thanks Mel!! ❤️
Good morning Ma'am, My name Caurcy, and I'm a student, from Africa. Coming to France for studies. I'm here just to tell you thank you so much, 'cause your lessons that you give us through your videos, help me a lot. These give me strength, and also open my eyes. Today I now know the direction given to my life. 🙇
"Drop the sword". One of the best metaphors I've ever heard. It's helped me in many situations. Tonight I shared it at a support group. Everyone appreciated it and the lessons you've taught continue to spread Mel. Thank you ❤
I was a military kid and NEVER has a year to adjust. We moved every 2-3 years and it made me extremely adaptable. I'm so grateful to have grown up in that milieu because things like this are not an issue. So not all of us need a year to "adjust" to a new situation no matter what life throws at us.
@ayteezy139
5 ай бұрын
That’s awesome! This advice is probably targeted more towards others who get discouraged easily looking for a quick fix or people who aren’t as adaptable and can be more resistant to change, as many of us are! ❤
@asmitasrivastava3704
Ай бұрын
So true @@ayteezy139
Happy New Year Mel! 🎉you can do. 🥰From Granny Down yonder
This month marks a year since I started listening to Mel. I can't imagine life now without her podcasts. She always shares these nuggets of wisdom exactly when I need to hear it. I just love Mel Robbins. She truly is that friend in your head. And this podcast is one of my favorites!! ❤ Happy New Year all!!! May 2024 be our best yet!!
You're right Mel, that's my big thing is slowing down. I've had so much monkey wrenches to wreck my day because I lost or left something and it domino's to a large snowball that knocks me down!!!
This is golden
I am so appreciative for this. I'm filling the life skills bag a lot quicker than I expected thanks to you. I have grown to love listening to what you have to say you help me make it make sense and I ❤️ YOU for that! 🙌🏿🙏🏿❤️👸🏼❄️⛄🕯️🦌🌲🎁🕛🎇🎆
Mel, the very first thing to do is drop the word and concept if "Try". It implies failure. Instead always think "I will DO" then launch into these 4 lessons or however many one has experienced. I learned this my first day in graduate school in 1985 and it has served me well. Great talk as I sit in the forest listening after my hike. ❤
@Ikr2025
5 ай бұрын
Love this advice.
Hi Mel. Just listened to this now. Fantastic lessons. Thank you. Xx ❤
Thanks Mel! I’m having a vision board party for my birthday and I sent your link to my friends to get the e-book. We will use this as a guide. It’s so perfect and right on time. Thank you for being so gracious and genuine about helping others! Happy Néw Year.
Thank you Mell for all that you do ❤
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou and Happy New Year. All of your life coaching has helped me since I started listening this past summmer. I completed the workbook and will be using it this year to slow down, balance my needs, and define boundaries. Best Wishes to you and yours.
I cannot wait to start this work book. I am new to your work Mel, and I am already so inspired, so early in. Thank you for walking alongside so many people and truly changing their lives.
We appreciate you sharing the good, bad, ugly, and hard of it with us so we can know for our work and contributions.
#3 was my favorite but it all resounds with me! I posted in your short video but Thank you again for the workbook. Started into it straight away after downloading it. You’re the Best Mel! Love you!
Thank you for sharing this workbook with us Mel. You are a very kind person. I really appreciate your videos and find them so helpful. Take care.
Thank you so much for your KZread podcasts! You have helped me get unstuck! I loved learning that I am frustrated with my work because I am in learning mode and that is so me!!! Yes, I need a new job, I have outgrown it! I also loved your podcast about letting things go, this has helped me immensely! You have a way of talking right to me and saying the things I need to hear in a positive way!
Did the workbook last week and am rereading it now. Love and appreciate you, Mel!
thanks for your workbook dear Mel, Ive just downloaded it. wish you all the best in a coming year🤩💖
I did download this and plan to complete it tonight! Thanks Mel. 💜
Thanks for the wisdom, enthusiasm, and caring nature 🌸
Hi Mel! Thank you for this! 😁
I believe in connection and this connected with me to my soul. Very thankful ❤
Thanks for this. Happy new year.
Love you Mel! Thank you for all you do
Mel ❤️ Your stuff is wonderful and has been so helpful. From figuring out I likely have ADD, to starting to organise my life.. It's great. Thank you ❤️
Mel you are so AWESOME ! I am so greatful you do these podcasts. You have helped me so much. You are like a good friend of mine who always gave me good advice. (My friend is looking down from heaven now).
THANK YOU MEL 🙏👏🙌🙏 LIVE YOU AND YOUR CHANNEL. 💝 GREAT PODCAST AS ALWAYS❤️❤️❤️ HAPPY HOLIDAY TO YOU AND YOUR 🎄☃️🎅🥳💃☮️🎄
Mel, this is awesome. I needed this today
Thank you @Mel!
Mel Ii appreciate this so much thank you thank you for talking about frustration
Thank you Mel! Really helped me today! Along with the goal setting toolkit!
What great lessons that everyone can learn from! Love this! Thank you so much for sharing ❤
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you, for me this is reminder for lessons. I learned and forgot again. For me the most important now is the boundaries.
Thank you beautiful soul💕
Thank you, Mel! ❤
I love this, Mel. Thank you!🥰🙏🏼🫶🏻‼️this will be a new start for me! I’m doing it today not waiting. For the New Year! Yay, me❤️🩹🎈🫶🏻‼️
This is great 😅 for the new year .. happy new year 🎉
Sometimes I am frustrated and confused massively to the point where I feel like I'm being held like a prisoner for unknown reasons while very strange things seem to be happening on quite a crazy scale sometimes while most people get frustrated and mad at me even though don't really mean to make them that way. Just my persona and how I view the world.
Hearing to give myself a year made me exhale and relax. Truth. Thank you
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS.
Thank you so much❤
Thank you ❤
I love this podcast, is my way for Learned English!
My favourite lesson was “boundaries”. The podcast hasn’t even finished and I’m already taking steps and putting things in place to preserve MY boundaries 👍
I love all your videos and watch every video ❤❤❤
2022 almost broke me as well.
WOHHW! Dropping the sword! All the other lessons so profound too!
Thank you mell for your beautiful podcast. I have been your fan since 3 yrs ago. These are the things i am doing since i hit rock bottom three yrs ago and i am glad to hear your story and conclusions too. ❤ just a little suggestion. As a fashion designer , i love to see you in more colors. 🥰 i think it will have better impact on you and the viewer. Just a suggestion
I love you Mel ❤❤❤
I very much appreciate you. I just watched the interview with you and Lisa on women impact it was so good You’re so honest it gives rest of us permission to do the same!!
00:02 Life doesn't just go okay Abracadabra Mel now you're happy 02:12 Slowing down is important for making meaningful changes and enjoying life. 06:41 Use the companion workbook to reflect on the past year and set goals for the next 08:51 Lessons from a challenging year led to growth and healing. 13:29 Drop the sword and soften into the moment 15:37 Focus on boundaries, not balance. 19:29 Setting boundaries with phone usage improves presence 21:13 Setting boundaries can enhance presence and well-being 25:10 Frustration is a sign of growth 27:16 Frustration is a signal of outgrowing something. Turn it into a project, fix the broken process, and evaluate the people around you. 31:06 Learning from success and frustration 33:05 Recognize frustration as a sign of growth 36:45 Change takes a year 38:38 Give yourself a year to make significant life changes. You Can't Judge A Video By Its Cover. you can by its first few chapters and certainly by its last.
Nice background. Much brighter and sleek looking.
you inspire me everyday!
Hey Mel- I love the 2024 “review” book. Since it was a free download, I hope it’s okay but I sent it to staples to be bound and I am giving myself and my spouse them on new year’s for us to review 2023, regroup for 2024, and use it as a tool for better communication. Thank you! ❤ Sorry, not sure how to change my user name! Jen 😊
Boundaries are a life saver ❤❤❤❤❤
Learning the hard way is our “homework” so the lesson becomes ingrained in us. It helps us let go of what is hindering our growth.
I have visited your business. I pray that your business will prosper
@spirituallysafe
5 ай бұрын
Pray to who?
@seo_expert_USA
5 ай бұрын
@@spirituallysafe Dear Friend, I am praying to God
@seo_expert_USA
5 ай бұрын
@@spirituallysafe Thank you very much for asking
@spirituallysafe
5 ай бұрын
@@seo_expert_USA Which god? That was the question!
@seo_expert_USA
5 ай бұрын
@@spirituallysafe Dear Sister, if you don't mind, I can ask you a question, What is your religion?
Im enchanted with mel
Same here Mel.
Best wishes to you. go ahead
It’s like meditating you need to slow your mind down
Hey you are not the only one you learned the really hard way.....❤
I know what to do for my success .. But im afraid to start them...this causes to procrastination every day 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
I actually think that by implementing boundaries, balance can actually be achieved ♥️
God I feel like such a failure. Aside from running 3 world marathon majors in 2023 my life has been a dumpster fire. I hope this workbook helps bring clarity.
Mel looking cool and fresh, love the outfit and vibe ❤
It’s really very simple.
I keep wondering that too
6:33 Cannot wait to use the Free Workbook to get life happening in 2024! Just thinking too, Mel ❤, and I say this with love. Perhaps you learn things the hard way because life is trying to tell you something! I’m a 53 year old man. My life too was very hard, and still is somewhat. Then when I was 33 I was clinically diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Aspergers Syndrome). This diagnosis clarified everything for me. Now, Mel…and I say this with so much love for you…have you been diagnosed too? I love your ways of explaining yourself 13:21 . I still think you could be on the Autism Spectrum too. Does this ring true for you? Might you benefit from a diagnosis, my great friend Mel? I say this with so much love…❤…and I feel honoured to be able to communicate this to you. Matt xo
@michelemarch2562
5 ай бұрын
I'm a medical professional, & I don't see Mrs Mel Robbins Having ANY S/S A THING ON THE SPECTRUM WHATSOEVER SO I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHERE YOU'RE GETTING THIS FROM??? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THROUGH I'M GOING THROUGH PERIMENOPAUSE MENOPAUSE TO AND BOY THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING LET ME TELL YOU THAT CHANGES ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU THOUGHT PMS WAS BAD FORGET ABOUT IT AT LEAST FOR ME PMS ISN'T EVEN TOUCHING IT, USING THOSE ESSENTIAL HORMONES THAT WOMEN ARE USED TO HAVING IS HUGE HUGE NOT KIND ADJUSTMENT.
@michelemarch2562
5 ай бұрын
Losing those , oh really the significant and rapid decrease in estrogen and progesterone can do a # in a woman, believe me!
DANG IT MEL, that DROP THE SWORD is brilliant and I love this so much !! As You spoke about BALANCE ..I heard the "Whispering's" saying "BALANCE IS FOR CIRCUS PERFORMERS!!" bahahahha
Those who learn the most important lessons the hard way are those best suited to teach others those lessons.
nice video
love you too
Please listen. I have a valuable life lesson I want to share. Don't get caught up in right and wrong or think it is split between good and bad. Especially when you correct someone who messed up. Try to be more patient. A worker at my job touched coworkers a lot. _Casually,_ on arms or shoulders. He was always very outgoing and tactile at work. Still, I'd taken him to my colleague’s office and told him he shouldn't touch anyone without consent. Just handshakes. I said we needed the workers to be comfortable in a good work environment, that he shouldn't talk about anything other than work and school. How he shouldn't tell his stories because they may be inappropriate or upsetting (I forget my words) to the other workers. Like, funny to him only? I think he’s about 25. He seemed pretty quiet during my speech. Answered a question or two with a nod and headshake. I even said to my colleague "Is there anything you want to add?" I didn't realize how insensitive I was. After work, I saw him (from my balcony) fight a group of thugs, two of whom had knives. He managed to vanquish the guys and barely dodge the knives. You have no idea how scared I was when watching the fight. I went over to see him, but the police had given him a ride. However, I saw a letter fall out of his pocket as he entered the car. Had my name. He wrote that he was so sorry for making his coworkers uncomfortable and that he never meant to. That he wouldn't have if he had known. That he wanted to make things right and redeem himself. He also explained that he had ASD and sometimes acted socially flawed, inappropriately jocular, and unfiltered. He said he felt so bad about that and that whenever he got the impression someone didn't like him, he would be quiet around them to avoid provoking them. He also wanted the person he discomforted to know he was sorry. That night, I dreamed he was dyíng in gashes and cuts. I think it was a guilty conscience mixed with my dread of the what-if. Our last moment together could've been in the office had the thugs ended him. I realized I wasn't very respectful to him. And I pushed him to tell me something I'm sure he was uncomfortable about: his ASD. And the fact that he felt the need to "redeem" himself....well, I pushed him there too. He shouldn't have to feel that way. I was right that he couldn't just touch coworkers whenever, and that he needed a filter, but being right isn't the important thing. I could've handled his mistakes better. Like, in a hallway, not in the office with me and my colleague. And I could've told him that occasional touches were okay, depending on the person. Life isn't always right and wrong. There are gray areas, and room to apologize when you were in fact right.
I feel I have an anger management problem. I think because I don’t feel I get enough time doing what I want to do. I feel like the family servant. Always running around after every one else, meeting other peoples agendas. 3 dependent quite needy children. Husband who isn’t very good at seeing what needs doing and sticks to his ‘role’ and is reluctant to be flexible and go beyond that. Eg he’ll cook dinner but won’t try to do anything in addition to that one task. He’ll wash dishes but refuse to dry and put them away. He won’t bother making the bed because that’s something I usually do. Even though it makes a big difference to the look of the room & how we sleep that night. I want to get a ahead and do things like declutter and look for a job but feel stuck & bogged down in the constant reoccurring chores like cooking, bed making, laundry, dishes. I try to get my family to help but they are reluctant, slow & inconsistent.
Don't Look Back You're Not Going That Way
I'm new to this how and where do I download the book on this show
I have come to believe that you need the hard to learn the lesson. If it's easy many you don't learn the same lessons and you don't realize the abundance of inner strength that you have.
it works does it? Need to get a little more communication in my life with my people instead of manipulation, lies or bullying. Almost done with that phase then will see where it all goes. Always hoped somewhere nice.
I fill out my printed work book. 🇵🇱 POLAND 🇵🇱
We’re do i get the free journal dowmnload for 2024
Frustration and you're explanation "You've outgrown some aspect of your life". Yes! Ok, I get it. This simple comment works for me. Thank you. I learned more than that but I can carry this with me forever. Not just for 20 minutes. ha!
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The link says it’s not available. 😢
Hi mel I'm unable to download 😢
Why would it be color like the blue front so now you have to use all the blue in your printer? I don’t understand that
The 6 questions that everyone should ask themselves... . . . If you could do anything what would that be❓ What kind of support do you need❓ I'm SO WORN OUT............ That's 2 questions
Hi Mel am a 52 year old woman. I have recently started learning about living a good life and have started working on myself seriously however I keep thinking deep down if in my age still there is a chance for success and happiness. Could you please help me 😏
Too late. I'm my mother 's daughter. Going through this part of my life the hard way.
People say find a mentor when you do not know how to manage. However, when you doing things that very few did, finding mentor is difficult. Trying and failing is only way?
Everybody should actually go to their doctor and check their thyroid it's very important
Red Raspberry Tea and St John’s Bush Tea
Girl unfortunately the hard way is the only way I learn a lesson! I hate it