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The Mel Robbins Podcast

Try It For 1 Week: 4 Small Decisions That Change Your Body, Energy, and Life

The Mel Robbins Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Relationships

4.715.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, irritable, anxious, sad, or like you’re just barely getting through the week, feeling better comes down to 4 simple choices you can make starting today. In this episode, Mel breaks down the small choices that make a surprisingly huge difference in your life – choices that determine whether your day gets easier or harder. These aren’t big life overhauls, just tiny decisions that help you take back your power, time, energy, happiness, and peace. And that’s good news because when you’re worn out, the last thing you need is a massive “fix your life” plan. What you need and deserve are easy micro choices that leave you feeling refreshed, clear-headed, and in charge of your life. By the end of this episode, you’ll know exactly what to do whenever you need a reset – from the moment you wake up, throughout the day when your patience and energy wear thin, to bedtime when your brain won’t shut off. You’ll learn: -How to stop starting your mornings in reaction mode -How changing the way you talk to yourself changes how you experience your day -How to instantly boost your energy (and stop snapping at the people you care about) -How to protect your peace at night and focus the next day in one powerful move. It’s time to stop living life feeling constantly stressed or like you’re running on empty. There’s a better way. You can start making better choices today. And those choices can change your life. For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page. If you liked the episode, check out this one next: 7 Things You Need to Hear Right Now. Connect with Mel: Order Mel’s new product, Pure Genius Protein Get Mel’s newsletter, packed with tools, coaching, and inspiration. Get Mel’s #1 bestselling book, The Let Them Theory Watch the episodes on YouTube Follow Mel on Instagram The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram Mel's TikTok Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes ad-free Disclaimer

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0:00.0

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

0:08.7

So I was just talking to our executive producer for this podcast. Her name's Tracy,

0:13.2

and she told me this story that I just had to share with you because I know you're going to

0:18.7

relate. So the other day, she wakes up, she has huge plans.

0:22.6

She's excited for the day.

0:24.2

But then what did she do?

0:25.8

She reaches for her phone.

0:27.3

Now, the reason she reached for the phone, it's a really good reason.

0:29.9

She said she's just trying to stay informed with all the news that's going on right now.

0:34.1

Well, she's informed all right, in bed, for an hour. But the result of that choice to reach for the

0:42.3

phone? Really bad. See, that one tiny choice to reach for the phone meant she wasted an entire

0:49.0

hour in bed. And by the time she got out of bed, she was running late. And now she's cranky because

0:53.6

she doesn't have time to eat and she's exhausted and she's

0:55.4

freaking out.

0:56.0

Her big plans are kind of derailed because she didn't mean to stay in bed that long.

0:58.7

And just really stop and think about the power that one tiny choice, the power that it has

1:08.5

to leave you stressed, late, cranky, behind. Well, that's what you and I are

1:13.9

going to talk about today. Four micro choices that have a major impact on your life every day.

1:22.5

These are four moments that you're probably missing that have a surprisingly huge impact on how you feel,

1:30.3

on your mood, on how your day turns out, on everything. And here's the thing about these

1:34.8

four choices. They're right in front of you. And once you hear all the amazing research

1:41.9

about why you need to make these four micro choices and take them

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