BITESIZE | Mel Robbins: How to Reduce Overwhelm, Reclaim Your Energy and Feel More In Control of Life #572

Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 525 of the podcast with best-selling author and expert in life improvement, mindset. and behavior change, Mel Robbins. Studies show that we spend up to 70% of our mental energy focusing on things we can't control, which affects our relationships, stress levels, and health. In this clip, she shares two simple words that could help us break free.

If you're exhausted, if you're not achieving your goals, if you can't catch a break, if you're constantly overwhelmed, You're not the problem. The problem is the power you give to everybody else. The power you give to their thoughts, to their actions, to their moods, to their expectations. Every time you allow somebody else's behavior to impact you, or you allow their emotions to bother you, or you make it your job to make people happy, or you allow their opinions or the fear of their opinions to stop you, you are giving power to other people.

And it took me until I was 54 years old to realize that holy cow, there's a different way to live. Yeah. So just stop as you're listening right now and consider that there is something that you would like to change or try in your life. Like maybe you want to write a book, maybe you want to start a YouTube channel or a podcast, maybe you've thought about changing careers and

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