The Mel Robbins Podcast

He wrote a manifesto about this called The Power of the Powerless.

I promise you that Power of the Powerless, it's free.

I want to read to you some of your words from your book, Shook One, which is an incredible book.

For many years, I was edgy and risky with my words on my mic... I'm embarrassed by things that I've said in the past.

When I put out this book, Shook One, it came out in 2018. I remember it was the week of Thanksgiving, 2018...

She said, buddy, you've written a book called When the Body Says No. No, you better write it one called When the Wife Says No.

There is a line in Finding Ultra, which is when the heart is pure, the universe will conspire to support you.

I was officially like cutting myself off from the escape hatch of returning to the law. I was like, I am doing this. I'm all in. There was no plan, but there's a line in Finding Ultra, which is when the heart is pure, the universe will conspire to support you.

When the book came out, I let my bar membership dues lapse.

I read out of Ryan Holiday's The Daily Stort and I read out of Robert Greene's Daily Laws...

I've written a book about Roth IRAs and automation and all that stuff. Oh my God, I'm already asleep. We're not talking about that.

And I'm really excited for everybody to hear what you're about to teach us because when I think about somebody who could fundamentally change the way that a person thinks about money and the way they use money to live and experience what you call a rich life, you're the one person on the planet that can do it.

I love talking about this. It's kind of weird. You know, usually you don't think about someone actually loving talking about money and it's actually, you know, okay, listen, I've written a book about Roth IRAs and automation and all that stuff.

There's also this incredible book, The Power of Fun by Catherine Price. And she says that fun has three ingredients, playfulness, connection, and flow.

Playfulness means you're not taking yourself too seriously. Connection means fun usually involves other people. Flow means you're immersed in the moment and time disappears.

I started reading books about people, memoirs, autobiographies, about people who had done extraordinary things... It was everything from Shoe Dog by Phil Knight to Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont to Becoming by Michelle Obama to Open by Andre Agassi.

Dr. Pooja Luxman is the author of the bestselling book, Real Self-Care.

Real selfcare is actually all of the decisions that you made to get to that place of going to sleep at 9 p.m.

When you're practicing these principles and you're applying them to your life, you feel like you have choices. You're able to actually take a step back when somebody asks you for something or asks you to do something and consider it.

It's like a thermometer that I have in the book. It's like you're assessing yourself.

The book manuscript was due that by the time I rolled into the TV room where my husband had been watching TV for half an hour...

you started by saying that you went back to Cambridge... and what would you go back and tell yourself at that age? ... Adam, which is also the title of the first book of yours that I ever read.

Her groundbreaking research has concluded that it is your ability to navigate your inner world, meaning your thoughts and feelings and self talk because that inner world ultimately impacts your outer world of actions, careers, relationships, happiness and health.

Her best selling book is Emotional Agility and Harvard Business Review awarded her the Management Idea of the Year.

Dr. Conci is the author of the best-selling book Trauma and the Invisible Epidemic.

Sean Aker is a friend, he's a New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential.

Her newest book is The Parenting Map.

And I also want to congratulate Dr. Shefali because she's finally launching her own podcast, Parenting and You with Dr. Shefali.

I wrote a book called Out of Control because we're operating out of control, but everything becomes out of control.

I wrote a book called Out of Control because we're operating Out of Control, but everything becomes Out of Control.

She's the author of a book on techniques for how to get good sleep entitled Sleep for Success.

And I'm so grateful to have a chance to come on and explain all this stuff.

And he's the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Irresistible, Drunk Tank Pink and the brand new bestselling book Anatomy of a Breakthrough.

So I think the term addiction is I use it in the book as a sort of shorthand to describe a lot of what I think is going on in this case, because the definition that I use is it's something that you want to do over and over again.