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Mel Robbins
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October 9, 2021 - February 21, 2022
Maybe your past is littered with horrible things that have been done to you, or horrible things you’ve done to other people.
Feeling encouragement, believed in, and celebrated are the most inspiring forces on the planet.
That makes zero sense to me. If you’ve suffered as a kid, you should do everything you can to make sure it doesn’t happen to your kids.
To create a life of happiness and fulfillment, you need to be kinder to yourself—and that begins by practicing acts of kindness toward yourself every day.
You can’t change what happened, but you can choose what happens next. That’s where your true power is.
You perceive these as failures, but they aren’t. They’re all lessons. Like steel, confidence, resilience, and wisdom are forged in fire.
Your relationship with yourself is the foundation for everything in your life.
The only choice you had was to try to survive it.
Negative thoughts fry your nervous system.
The first step: FORGIVE YOURSELF for all the things you did while you were just trying to survive. The next step: SILENCE, then EVICT that bully that lives in your head.
I to musze zapamietac!
The residue has been accumulating since you were a kid in the form of: other people’s opinions, negative self-talk, rejections, disappointments, heartbreak, discrimination, trauma, guilt, and self-doubt. These experiences have created mental lint. It clogs your mind and blocks you from being able to celebrate YOU. There’s a lot more to this than a cute metaphor.
YOU have to decide that you’re tired of thinking this crap.
Wow pieknie powiedziane ja musze zdecydowac zy chce rozmygslc o tych glupotach z przeszlosci, jak nie chce to cala naprzod!
The stories you tell yourself (about yourself) are so crucial.
Amazing outcomes can materialize just as easily as bad ones. I’m serious. But
“I forgive myself and I am becoming a better version of myself”
I can solve any problem. (I can clean up any mess.) This is preparing me for something amazing that’s coming. (If it’s preparing me, I’m not messing up, I’m learning.)
Taking consistent action toward change is not always easy, but you can do it.
Skepticism, doubt, and cynicism are like lint in a dryer. They block you.
“I’m not thinking about that.” That’s what it means to check the filter—you check in with your thoughts.
Your negative voice has one weakness: it hates being interrupted and told to shut up.
Meaningful Mantras
Never leave a bathroom without high fiving yourself in the mirror.
Sign up for the #High5Challenge at High5Challenge.com.
Identify your negative beliefs and experiment with flipping them.
Current Limiting Belief: If somebody else has it, I can’t. Flip It: Their success is just proof that I can have it too.
Don’t allow jealousy to block you. Just flip it into inspiration and go looking for that something.
And here’s the other cool thing—if you are not willing to do the work to change or make it happen, then you have no right to be jealous.
Flip It: People can be disappointed in you, or upset with the decisions that you make, and still love you.
This is the game of life, so you might as well jump in and play.
think it’s the secret to life: doing what works for you and letting people say whatever they want about you.
if you can’t value yourself, you will look for validation from other people.
But I watched my mind like a hawk. If I felt myself go low, I just told myself it all must be happening for a reason and kept going. Thank God I did, because it turned out something incredible WAS happening.
Tomorrow morning, try it. When you wake up, put your hand on your heart. Take a deep breath and say: “I’m okay. I’m safe. I’m loved.”
Breathe deeply and slowly Take a walk outside (especially in nature) Meditate Hum or chant
Gargle water Sing at the top of your lungs Take a warm bath or a cold shower
