If You’re Feeling Behind in Life, Listen to This

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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

4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

If you’re feeling like you’re behind in some area of your life, today’s episode is a must-listen. Mel is directly addressing one of the most requested topics of all time: when you don’t feel like you’re on the “right timeline” compared to everyone else around you. By the time you finish listening, the way you view your entire life will change. In this episode, Mel goes decade by decade, and speaks to the pressures that people face in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and even 80s and 90s. She will hit, head on, the “invisible checklist” and myths that are making you feel stressed out and behind in life. If you’ve ever felt like you should… -Have your career figured out by now -Have already met the love of your life -Have more money in the bank -Own a home -Find a life partner if you want to have kids -Be less stressed and happier -Have found purpose and meaning -Be ready to retire -Found your lifelong friends Today’s episode is for you. Mel is going to liberate you from the expectations of society, your family, your friends, and even the ones you’re putting on yourself. She has the facts, the science, the psychology, and thousands of listener comments to back everything up. This is an episode you do not want to miss, and that you’ll want to share with everyone you love. For more resources, click here for the podcast episode. If you liked this episode, the next one you should listen to is: What Makes a Good Life? Lessons From the Longest Study on Happiness Connect with Mel: 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 Sign up for Mel’s personal letter 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.
0:08.8	I am so excited you're here because today you and I are going to dig into a topic that
0:12.8	has been on your mind. This topic is stressing you out. And I know this because you've been
0:17.3	flooding the inbox at Mel Robbins.com telling me that you feel like you're
0:22.9	behind in life, as if there's some sort of invisible checklist that you're supposed to complete
0:28.2	by a certain age. You know, if you're in your 20s, you're writing me saying, I'm behind. I don't
0:33.7	know what I want to do with my life. Or those of you in your 30s, you feel this pressure that by now you should have kids.
0:39.3	You should have found the one.
0:40.2	You should be buying a house.
0:41.7	And I so relate to the feeling that you can have in your 40s, 50s, and 60s that you've really screwed up your career.
0:48.3	You didn't save enough money or you got a divorce.
0:51.0	You've made so many mistakes.
0:52.4	And now it's too late. It's even stressing you out if you're in your 70s and 80s, this sense that there's some perfect way you're supposed to go through life, these boxes that you're supposed to be checking in your 20s, your 30s, your 40s, your 50s. And so today, I am so excited to talk to you about this because I have so much
1:13.6	research to share with you. And this is research that is going to give you so much freedom and power.
1:21.9	Hear me loud and clear. Being a 20-year-old today is not the same experience as it was even five years ago.
1:31.3	Being 60 years old today, not the same experience as it was even just five or 10 years ago.
1:38.0	And the expectations that society has, that your friends have, that your family have about where you're supposed to be,
1:50.1	they're wrong. Today's conversation is going to blow your mind. It's going to liberate you from this stupid social pressure that you feel. The facts that I'm going to share, the simple mindset
1:56.4	reframes that I want you and everyone that you love to adopt based on the decade that you're in
2:03.1	right now, the mindset that you need for your 20s or 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s and beyond.
2:09.9	This is a mindset that is going to set you free and help you take control of where you are
2:15.6	in your life right now.
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