Mel Robbins

This is the tool, but it reminds people of what they know to be true since the beginning of time.

And what I'm grateful for is that having almost lost everything I care about and having just clawed my way out of debt and built this just brick by brick over the last 16 years, I have stayed laser focus on what really matters.

I live in the middle of nowhere in Vermont.

I have no interest in the bigness aspect of all of it, because you guys know, the second something hits, everybody thinks they know what you should do next.

Everybody sees something bigger for you.

I would like more time with my husband and my kids.

I would like to enjoy some of this success, meaning I'm not actually working all the time.

And so for me, I think the anxiety or the issues that I face is more around just saying no and letting people have their expectations about what the podcast should become or what I should do next and staying laser focused, not on up here, but on what's right in front of me right now.

Mm-hmm.

Because if you lose sight of what got you to where you are, you basically blow up everything you created.

And so I am staying very focused on waking up every day and just making decisions that make me feel proud of myself and doing the best that I can and giving people a little bit of grace and focusing on what I can control and what I can't.

And then the rest will take care of itself, you know?

I think the single thing that people think will make them happy that doesn't is achieving the thing.

There's so much research that when you get the million dollars, you're gonna be happy.

When you win the race, when you get the person,

Right.

It's the pursuit of it.

Everybody needs something that gets you out of bed.

Everybody needs something that you're excited about, whether it's video games or it's bird watching or it's volunteering.

If you don't have something that you're pursuing that's bigger than you,