Hey, it's your friend, Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.

So I have something pretty amazing that I want to give you today.

It's exactly what you need to hear. It is not just a pep talk.

It is the kind of message that a really dear friend who's fed up with you

delivers straight between the eyes. What am I talking about? I'm talking about your dreams.

You're the kind of person just like me that every single year you write down the things

that you want in your life. And as each year rolls on and the new list gets written,

you move the thing that you didn't work on this year to the list that you do for the next year.

And on and on and on. I mean, how many years have you been thinking about writing a book

or changing your job or changing where you live or healing some aspect of your past or finding

love or learning how to love yourself or starting that business? These things that you hold in

your heart, they are meant to be out in the world. And today, I'm on a mission to get you to stop

waiting, stop waiting for the perfect time, stop waiting to feel ready, stop waiting for the money,

stop waiting for permission, stop waiting to feel like somebody's going to care about this.

The only person that needs to care enough is you because today is the day that you're going to

pick up the pen. You're going to start the research. You're going to commit to taking action.

Why? Because that's what you're meant to do with your life. You're meant to create a bigger

vision for yourself. And the reason why I wanted to talk to you about this today is because I

know you need to hear it. See, a couple of weeks ago, we did an episode on imposter syndrome. And

posture syndrome has just self-doubt. It's just when you intellectualize your self-doubt and

you talk yourself out of doing what you want to do. You tell yourself, oh my God, I want to be a

singer. I want to be your writer. I want to I want to travel more. I want to do this. I want to

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