A Bit of Optimism · 2026-01-06 · 57 min · 10,377 words

Revisited: The First Steps To Reducing Your Anxiety with Author Mel Robbins

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If your friends don't invite you out this weekend, let them. If the person you're dating doesn't want a commitment, let them. If your kids don't want to go to the flea market with you this weekend, let them. Stop worrying about managing and stressing about other people. Stop forcing them to change.

Let people be who they are because they are revealing themselves to you and they're revealing their priorities and what matters to you. And then you get to choose. You get to choose how to respond. And that's where your power is.

I love the way you speak. I'm been captivated this entire time, taking in every word, not agreeing with all of them, but taking them in. Let them. Uh let them.

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