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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

133 | Mel Robbins: “Your Problem Isn’t Ideas, Your Problem is You Don’t Act on Them.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Mel Robbins, author of The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage, tells us about the importance of getting out of our heads and actually acting on our ideas —and the sooner the better. So, what are you waiting for?!

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Your problem isn't ideas.

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Your problem is you don't act on them.

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And that is the quote of the day.

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

0:37.0

I'm your host Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and dot com.

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Today we're getting a really good talking to from Mel Robbins,

0:44.0

author of the five second rule.

0:46.0

And what Mel's talking about is taking immediate action on our impulses

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and our ideas.

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You ever just get the impulse to go talk to someone or to reach out to

0:56.0

someone who you really admire and respect or you get an idea that you

0:59.0

think just might change the world.

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But the more you think about it, the more you start talking

1:04.0

yourself out of it.

1:05.0

You start lighting up those fear centers in your brain and your

1:08.0

imagination starts going wild with all of the things that are going

1:11.0

to go wrong when you do what you want to do.

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What Mel's going to encourage you to do today is to take action

1:17.0

within five seconds.

1:19.0

Here's Mel.

1:22.0

I think when you feel stuck or dissatisfied in your life,

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it's a signal.

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