Mark Nepo

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918 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 8 Jan

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · The Exact Words You Need to Hear Today If It Feels Like Nothing’s Working · 13 Nov 2025 podcast

But it's a poem where the first part of the poem, I go, oh, I got to make the bed every day.

What's the point?

And I got to pay the bills.

You know, and then in the poem, a friend calls up and says, you know, it's such a wonderful day.

And so, again, the glass is both half full and half empty.

Being human, there will be days when we feel like, I got to do this again.

But by staying open-hearted and admitting and being present, we recover the miracle of it.

And the goal is not to eliminate one or the other because we're human.

So how do we be kind to ourselves and go, yeah, there will be days that I'll feel like I don't believe I have to do this one more time.

But let life unfold, and tomorrow you say, oh my God, I get to make the bed and wake up and look out the window.

And one other thing I'd say about this for me, and I don't, you know, so years ago, I would always do the tedious things first and save the really sacred things when I got all that done.

Nobody taught me to do it that way.

Somehow I did that.

I had it backwards.

By doing what matters first, it changes the entire day.

Because my lens, my aperture of heart and mind is wider and deeper and the tasks are not as tedious.

Doesn't mean I enjoy, you know, it's not like reframing that something tedious is suddenly wonderful, but it takes the edge off of all that.

Yeah, and one of the things I find myself saying more often as I get older is whatever it is, like, you know, I wish I'd known this five years ago or this, is that we're always right on time.

As much as we wanted it to happen, we can't.

You can't, you know, the things that I'm writing now, I couldn't have written 20 years ago, 30 years ago, because I hadn't experienced what I've experienced before.

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