CRUSH Indecision in 5 SECONDS | Mel Robbins EP 470

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author and speaker Mel Robbins debunks the myth that you need confidence and courage to make changes, advising instead that action precedes motivation. She details how we make emotionally-driven decisions, stifling growth by overanalyzing. Robbins shares how she created her "5-second rule" to push past hesitation and fear by counting down then acting. This habit trains the mind to override doubts, building confidence through small daily wins. Robbins explains hesitation signals danger to our brains, but counting down triggers focus and conscious choice to lean into growth. She emphasizes seizing power in moments of decision to stop negative patterns, transforming life through tiny steps outside your comfort zone.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	You think that you need to feel confident or courageous in order to get started.
0:17.0	You don't. You actually just have to start and that's the riddle of life.
0:21.0	That lying in bed, hoping that you wake up some morning motivated to change,
0:26.8	that's not the answer. You actually have to learn how to push yourself. You have to learn
0:31.7	how to leverage the power of your decisions and you've got to learn how to
0:35.1	take action when you don't feel like it because every morning when I woke up I
0:39.3	did not feel confident I felt like a loser every night I would I would lie in bed and I would say to myself,
0:46.0	tomorrow it's the new you. Tomorrow you're going to wake up and be motivated, you're going to get up, you're going wake up and be motivated you're gonna get up you're gonna exercise like everybody says you should you're gonna meditate
0:57.0	you're gonna get those kids on the bus you're gonna screw Fox you're gonna look for a job you're gonna cold call Cox Media and you're going to you're going to do auditions
1:04.2	come on girl let's go let's go you're going to take a cold shower woe you know here we go and I meant it when I was
1:10.2	saying it but then I would wake up and I didn't feel any of those things. So I would hit the
1:15.8	snooze and I would hit the snooze. Now why was I hitting the snooze when I knew
1:20.0	it wasn't the right decision? I'm going to tell you why. And this is something that I was blown away by when I discovered it.
1:26.6	You don't make decisions with your goals. You don't make decisions with your prefrontal cortex.
1:31.9	You don't make decisions with logic. Do you know how we make decisions? I didn't invent this. A
1:37.4	neuroscientist by the name of Damasio who does his research in Brazil who gave
1:41.2	an incredible TED Talk and wrote about this forever and ever and
1:44.4	ever. We make decisions of feelings. 95% of our decisions are made by how you feel in the moment and
1:51.7	that is the problem. You need to take control of the moment and
1:55.7	leverage the power of your decisions and make them up here. Because when I was
1:59.9	lying in bed, I wasn't saying to myself I should get up because that's going to help
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