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

You know, there's something that I've been worried about a lot lately, and I decided today is the day that you and I need to talk about this. And here's what I'm worried about. You and I live in a moment in history where the world is now designed to steal your time,

your energy, your joy, and your focus. No, I'm serious about this. And it's crept up on all of us.

Like, you may have had this kind of feeling or you've been wondering, why am I exhausted all the

time? Why do I never have time for myself? Why can't've been wondering, why am I exhausted all the time?

Why do I never have time for myself?

Why can't I focus?

Why can't I make progress on something that's important to me?

Well, I'll tell you why.

It's because the world is designed to steal your time and energy.

From social media to the crazy headlines that make you feel helpless to endless work to do lists that

never end. I mean, I'm sure that there are so many weeks where you just crawl through your

week and you get across the finish line and then you collapse over the weekend and the next thing,

you know, oh my God, it's Sunday night and you have the Sunday scurries and you're just right

back in it again. You're just trying to survive. I know I've

been there. I did something about it and I want you to do something about it. See, I'm going to share

with you this simple checklist that I created to help me take my power in my weeks back.

And I am so excited to share this with you because it is this summary of things that I've been researching

for a decade, teaching on corporate stages about happiness and productivity and focus,

and I've boiled it down into this super simple seven item checklist that will help you fight back

against a world that's stealing your time, your energy, and joy. Enough.

The fact is, you can take control of this and you need to. I use this checklist every single

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