Robbins Mel Quotes

You can’t control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act.

You need to hear this loud and clear: No one is coming. It is up to you.

Start before you're ready. Don't prepare, begin.

You Are One Decision Away from a Completely Different Life

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you

If you only ever did the things you don’t want to do, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted.

You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.

Your feelings don’t matter. The only thing that matters is what you DO.

Hesitation is the kiss of death. You might hesitate for a just nanosecond, but that’s all it takes. That one small hesitation triggers a mental system that’s designed to stop you. And it happens in less than—you guessed it—five seconds.

The 5 Second Rule The moment you have an instinct to act on a goal you must 5-4-3-2-1 and physically move or your brain will stop you.

There’s one thing that is guaranteed to increase your feelings of control over your life: a bias toward action.

I was the problem and in five seconds, I could push myself and become the solution.

That’s the problem with so many adults, we’re all focused on getting it perfect, instead of trying. What ever happened to good enough?

Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind.

That’s what it takes to get what you want. Not big scary leaps once a year. It takes small, but irritating moves every single day.

Facebook is nothing but heavily packaged “Kodak moments” that bear no relation to how people really live.

Life is gritty and hard and then suddenly it is brilliant and amazing.

When it comes to change, goals, and dreams, you have to bet on yourself. That

it’s not the big moves that change everything—it’s the smallest ones in your everyday life that do.

I may not be perfect, but I am worthy.

I have a hard time finding the balance between not beating myself up when it doesn’t happen as fast as I’d like it to, and not wasting time while I wait for it to happen.

Procrastination is not a form of laziness at all. It’s a coping mechanism for stress.

Resistance loves surfing the Web, vegging out in front of the TV, sticking to routine, not picking up the phone, hitting snooze, avoiding confrontation, making excuses, rumination, and isolation.

Change your decisions and you’ll change your life. And what will change your decisions more than anything? Courage.

pushing yourself to take simple actions creates a chain reaction in your confidence and your productivity.

Every phase of your life and career will require a different you. Using the Rule, you’ll become the person you’re meant to become in this next phase of your life.

Win or lose, at least I'm doing something.

If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed.

IN any area of your life that you want to change, adopt this rule. Just do the things that you don’t want to do.

There will always be someone who can’t see your worth. Don’t let it be you.

What Exactly Is the #5SecondRule? The Rule is a simple, research-backed metacognition tool that creates immediate and lasting behavior change. Metacognition,

You also need to learn how to give people the space to have those feelings and not make it mean anything about you.

It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.

We are all capable of greatness. I believe that. It is our feelings and fears that convince us now is not the right time and keep us from achieving greatness.

Anytime there’s something you know you should do, but you feel uncertain, afraid, or overwhelmed…just take control by counting backwards 5- 4- 3- 2- 1. That’ll quiet your mind. Then, move when you get to “1.” Counting

You aren't battling your ability to stick to a diet, execute a business plan, repair a broken marriage and rebuild your life, hit your goals, or win over a bad manager- you are battling your feelings about doing it. You are more than capable of doing the work to change anything for the better, despite how you feel. Feelings are merely suggestions, ones you can ignore. To change you must do the same, you must ignore how you feel, and just do it anyway.

But when you’re stuck, the major task is deciding if you’re going to change at all. The challenge is finding the ability, in the face of an overwhelming amount of resistance, to create a small change in your life and build on it.

If you can’t get yourself out of bed, then you’ll never be able to pursue all of the other changes that you want to make in your life. And if you take that simple step of taking control of your mornings, you’ll catalyze a chain of events that leads to change everywhere.

You do the same thing every time you whine about problems but do nothing to fix them.

What I discovered is powerful: pushing yourself to take simple actions creates a chain reaction in your confidence and your productivity.

There is only one you. And there will never be another one. Thats your power

Will it be your Heart that wins, or your Fear?

We are all so afraid of uncertainty that we want a guarantee before we even try. We want evidence that if we take a risk we will "get the girl" Its a numbers game. To play any game, you have to start. To win, you need to keep going. If you want to make your dreams come true, get ready for the long game. Life is not a one and done sort of deal. You've got to work for what you want. Picasso created nearly 100 masterpieces in his lifetime. But what most people don't know is that he created a total of more then 50,000 works of art. .. Thats two pieces of art a day. Success is a numbers game. You are not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait. The more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed.

Forget motivation; it’s a myth. I don’t know when we all bought into the idea that in order to change you must “feel” eager or “feel” motivated to act. It’s complete garbage. The moment it’s time to assert yourself, you will not feel motivated. In fact, you won’t feel like doing anything at all.

if you find yourself riddled with self-doubt: the world didn’t say, “You can’t have this.” YOU did.

That’s an instinct reminding you of the goal. That’s your inner wisdom, and it’s important to pay attention to it, no matter how small or silly that instinct may seem.

You change your life one five-second decision at a time. In

It’s so sad because waiting for validation will be the death of your dreams.

Whatever is happening right now, this is it. This is your life. And it’s not going to begin again. You can’t change the past, but in five seconds you can change your future.

Seth Godin once wrote “a different part of our brains is activated when we think about what’s possible rather than what’s required.” I believe the same is true when we think about being courageous, rather than focusing on the fears that stop us. It’s the difference between focusing on the solution rather than the problem, and that tiny switch is mentally liberating.

Right before we’re about to do something that feels difficult, scary or uncertain, we hesitate. Hesitation is the kiss of death. You might hesitate for a just nanosecond, but that’s all it takes. That one small hesitation triggers a mental system that’s designed to stop you. And it happens in less than—you guessed it—five seconds.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

You have no idea how much easier things could be if you stopped being so hard on yourself.

your relationship with yourself is the foundation of every relationship you have in life.

Your dreams are your responsibility. No one is coming.

When it comes to your dreams, you have two choices: pursue them or be haunted by them.

Your mind is designed to help you achieve your dreams. Your job is to believe it is possible and encourage yourself to keep walking toward it.

The problem was very clear. It was me. I was holding myself back, five seconds at a time.

Pick a plan to follow, any plan will do—and then 5- 4- 3- 2- 1-GO. The only thing you will need to choose after that is choosing each and every day to DO IT

You know you're on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back.

if you can’t value yourself, you will look for validation from other people.

This is where the #5SecondRule comes into play—you don’t have to want to do it, you just have to push yourself to do it.

You’ll never feel like doing what you must do.

Waiting around for something to change will slowly kill you.

If you want to make your dreams come true, get ready for the long game.

We’re discovering that many of our feelings are just a kind of sophisticated shorthand for all sorts of complex calculations that are constantly occurring in the back of your brain. Your

Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance, or no time out. Stop waiting. It’s now or never. When you wait, you aren’t procrastinating. You are doing something more dangerous. You are deliberately convincing yourself “now is not the time.” You are actively working against your dreams.

I owe my morning routine to Duke University professor Dan Ariely. According to Ariely, the first two to three hours of the day are the best hours for your brain, once you fully wake up. So, if you pop out of bed at 6 a.m., your peak thinking and productivity window is 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. And so on.

Marriages suffer from this same cycle. You start dating someone with wonder and anticipation, drunk on love. You romanticize everything about your partner, and even mundane activities like going to the grocery store together can seem like a fantastic date. But then you fall into a routine, and years later, you’ve become roommates, circling the same safe topics while packing lunches, the monotony broken only by occasional date nights. Deep down, you know why these parts of your life have gone stale. It’s because nothing new is happening. You may say you fear change, but the lack of change in your life is why you feel so blah. Monotony will drive any human relationship or endeavor into a ditch.

jealousy is simply blocked desire. If you could flip that jealousy into inspiration, the block would disappear. If you could celebrate jealousy as a sign of your next big step in life, it immediately lifts the burden of frustration and insecurity you feel, and gets you moving forward with a high five attitude again.

You can go for it today. Here’s how you start—you simply act as if you already have what you desire.

Ironically, the more trapped you feel by your life, the more you’ll convince yourself it’s okay.

it’s not the big moves that define our lives; it’s the smallest ones.

you thrive when you receive this kind of support. Feeling encouragement, believed in, and celebrated are the most inspiring forces on the planet.

You should never mistake your brain’s messages for the actual truth about your ability to perform a task or as an accurate analysis of what the future will look like.

One of the most important revelations you can ever have is that your life and your happiness begins and ends inside your own mind.

The lynchpin to your happiness at work is whether or not you have a manager who cares about you.

You need to celebrate that shit.

Regardless of how you learned to beat yourself up, the bottom line is if it makes you miserable, you have a responsibility to change it.

we so overengineer the way we plan to start, we never start at all.

I gave myself permission to believe I could have these things. That permission to believe you are capable and worthy of having what you desire is powerful.

jealousy is an indicator that you can and should have that thing you are craving.

Change requires you to do things that feel hard and scary. Change requires courage and confidence

I FORGIVE myself for the things I did when I was trying to survive. Every day I am becoming a better version of myself.

Act like the person you want to become, no matter how you feel right now.

If you don’t learn how to untangle your feelings from your actions, you’ll never unlock your true potential.

the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.

locus of control.” The more that you believe that you are in control of your life, your actions and your future, the happier and more successful you’ll be. There

work expands to whatever time you give it.

Your relationship with yourself is the foundation for everything in your life.

The 5 Second Rule.” Just like NASA uses a 5-4-3-2-1 countdown to launch a rocket, I counted down 5-4-3-2-1 to launch myself into action before my negative thoughts pinned me down. I’m dead serious. Alarm rings. No staring at the ceiling. No panic attack. No snooze button. No rolling over and shoving your head under the pillow to blot out the day. 5-4-3-2-1: kick your own ass.

When you wait, you aren’t procrastinating. You are doing something more dangerous. You are deliberately convincing yourself “now is not the time.” You are actively working against your dreams.

if all you ever do is THINK about what you want, it’s not a dream—it’s a wish. A dream requires action. It demands partnership. It only becomes real when you find the courage to step toward it.

You cannot get what you want if you refuse to face the truth. You are struggling. You long for more. We all do. That tension between where you are now and what you want to become is what makes you human.

Life is not a one and done sort of deal. You've got to work for what you want. Picasso created nearly 100 masterpieces in his lifetime. But what most people don't know is that he created a total of more then 50,000 works of art. .. Thats two pieces of art a day. Success is a numbers game. You are not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait. The more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed.

every day you have a choice. You can turn toward the pull of your dreams or argue against it. Fighting that desire inside you and telling yourself, It will never happen for me create so much tension in your life.

Do it anyway. Part of the reason why you don’t have what you want in your life is because when you don’t feel like doing it, you don’t do it. Your life only gets easier when you do the hard things all the time. Push through your resignation and do it.

You have to stand face-to-face with that part of you that you hate, forgive yourself for the hurt you’ve caused (especially to yourself), and do the work to become a better you. It’s the only way to create the self-respect and build the self-esteem that you desire.

You are doing better than you think. Step by step, day by day you are making progress. Trust the process. Life has a way of giving you what you want in the most unexpected ways. It will happen when you are ready and the time is right. Just keep moving forward. You're closer than you think.

One of the most important revelations you can ever have is that your life and your happiness begins and ends inside your own mind. What you say to yourself, how you treat yourself, and the thoughts that run on repeat are everything. It does not matter how successful, thin, famous, muscular, or wealthy you become, if you always focus on what’s “wrong” with you, you’ll never be happy.