Yo, today's QOTS, you cannot see something bigger for your life if you're busy carrying a to-do list in your head. Here we go.

Welcome back to the QOTS of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton, a Sean Croxton.com. It's throwback Thursday and we're turning back that clock all the way to episode number 149 in our feature speaker, Mel Robbins.

Today, Mel is going to share some of her very best advice for overcoming overwhelm and getting out of the weeds. Mel Robbins is coming up.

Well, the first thing that you have to do, the very first thing is you have to get out of the weeds.

Successful people are all in the weeds. The busier you are, the more you have going on. You know that old saying that everybody says don't work in your business, work on your business, but we are all in the weeds.

And the key to seeing something larger for yourself is getting out of the weeds. I mean, don't you feel like this dude? I know I do.

And I awake, I brush your teeth, make the coffee, feed the kids, pack the lunches, put them on the bus, get in the car, text your friends, get some coffee, arrive at work, fame, interest, answer emails, update Facebook. Make cold calls, avoid the meeting.

Look, busy, crunch some numbers, update Facebook, get in the car, go to carpool, feed your kids, feed the dog, check email, update Facebook, kiss your husband, climb into bed, full around, are you kidding? I'm exhausted. Turn off the lights.

I live in a two-household, thank you. On to a entrepreneurial family. I'm exhausted. I'm busy. How the heck am I going to see something larger for my life when I have a business to run, when I have kids to take care of?

Well, you have to get out of the weeds. And you know, the truth is there's some good news. And the good news is I heard about this pill that's in development.

Yeah, I know, I'm waiting for it too. And you know, the problem though is I think that they're going to have naming problems, forget it all. It seems like a kind of a bad name for a pill, even though I might take it now and again.

So I thought before we jump into how you see something larger, I need to yank it out of the weeds first. So I'm going to give you my advice for what I do in order to keep myself out of the weeds.

And you guys don't need remedial personal development. I got that. I just feel obligated to give you some some actionable things to do. So getting out of the weeds.

Number one, run your life like a business. What does that mean? What that means and what it means for my life is every Sunday night, we have a family meeting and we handle all the logistics, all of them.

Everything from what days the kids are going to buy lunch at school to who's going to pack to what's going on when you're going to exercise handle it all because if you don't plan your week.

Out before the week starts, you're going to be in reactive mode. You're going to be running around. You're going to be you're going to be chasing down the biggest thing that's happening in your life. You're going to be constantly responding.

This is one of the most important things that you can do. If you're not married, if you're not living with somebody, do it for yourself. Plan your week. You know this already.

Number two, this is my favorite thing to do. I do it a couple times a day. I know some of you are doing this right now instead of actually taking notes. This is do a brain dump. If you feel overwhelmed.

If you feel like you're in that mode where you're on a treadmill and you're going nowhere and it's just getting faster and faster. Somebody said to me on the radio the other day, I love that she said, I feel like I'm in a rocking chair.

I'm just rocking and it's going faster, faster, faster. Take a second, dump everything out of your brain. The old mash episode you're thinking about the fact that you have to pick up the dry cleaning, the new valuation you wanted to crunch out for your company.

Whatever in there, get it out of your brain. You cannot see something bigger for your life if you're busy carrying a to do list in your head.

Final thing, hugely important exercise. I'm not going to dwell on this. I'm not on a mission to make you skinny. I am on a mission to help you figure out what you want to do with your life and to get it done.

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