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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

964 | Mel Robbins: “Your Brain is Full.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

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

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Feeling tired and overwhelmed? Mel Robbins returns to The QOD Show to give you her best tips on how to deal with overwhelm, exhaustion, and procrastination.

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOTS! Your brain is full. Here we go!

0:30.0

Welcome back to the QOTS! I'm your host, Sean Croxton, and Sean Croxton.com. We got

0:38.0

Mel Robbins on the show today, and if you are feeling tired, if you're feeling

0:44.0

overwhelmed, this is for you because what Mel's gonna do, she's gonna share her

0:49.3

very best tips on how to deal with overwhelmed, exhaustion, and procrastination.

0:55.6

Here's Mel. So here's the thing. What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do to trick

1:04.3

your brain? So the interesting thing about your brain is that it uses the exact same

1:10.7

strategy, because what'll happen is this. You'll be sitting at work and you'll

1:14.3

say to yourself, you know, I really need to have that talk with my wife. I really

1:21.0

do. I've been avoiding it for six months, but I really need to. And your brain is

1:24.2

gonna all of a sudden be like, uh-oh, uh-oh, wait a minute Michael just said that he's

1:28.8

gonna have that talk. We need to get him to stop doing that because we want him to

1:33.2

just avoid the subject like he always does, because it's much easier to be putty

1:37.0

about these kind of things, because you know she's gonna be a total raging, you

1:40.1

know, what about this? So don't do it. You know, I'm feeling a little alone, I'm

1:44.0

feeling a little overwhelmed by that. I think I'll do it tomorrow. Or you know,

1:47.6

David is sitting at his computer and says, you know, I think I'm gonna go to the gym

1:51.0

tonight immediately. Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. David's having an idea to go to the

1:55.4

gym tonight. Immediately, let's stop this right now. Somebody tell him he's tired,

1:59.0

tell him he's tired, because then we'll get him on autopilot and go home, sit

2:02.2

down the couch, you're gonna have a beer. Your brain uses feelings to screw you over.

2:06.8

So let's talk about overwhelmed, because that's a big one. Overwhelm is nothing

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