Mel Robbins

you will never, ever, ever move forward.

You're just gonna keep on spinning your wheels.

The first trap that keeps you stuck

is you're not ready to change.

It's that simple.

It sounds so obvious, it's almost dumb, right?

But one of the reasons why it's so easy to get stuck is you're simply not ready to change.

And that can happen for a number of reasons.

You might not be ready to change because you're holding onto the past.

You might not be ready to change because you regret a lot of things and you're punishing yourself over it.

You may not be ready to change because you don't think it's gonna work.

And so you feel a lot of discouragement right now.

This is an easy one, by the way, to spot in the people that you care about.

You can look at somebody who's struggling with their drinking or you can look at somebody who's been laid off and they're not really looking for a job.

That is a person who's stuck in trap number one.

They're not ready to change.

And the only way you get unstuck if you're in trap number one is you have to make a decision to change, period.

You have to decide that where you are is no longer okay with you.

You don't have to know what you're going to do next.

You don't have to have some master plan.