Mel Robbins

And so let's listen to another question.

This one comes from Nate.

You know what I love about Nate's question is he's feeling stuck because things didn't go according to plan and he's looking for stability and predictability.

And one of the best things about focusing on...

Creating a simple plan and reducing the thing that you need to do to something as simple as 15 minutes a day of action, that gives you stability.

The plan gives you a direction to point yourself into.

reducing it to 15 minutes of action a day.

I call this the hot 15.

You got 15 minutes to make a lot of progress on something.

You'll be surprised how much those actions stack up.

So since so many of you are looking for jobs right now, I want to address how you can break free from this trap of overcomplicating everything.

Because when you have a wide open future, it's easy to start to feel paralyzed.

And when the structure is gone and you no longer have the rhythm of your day to going to a job, you will start to overcomplicate everything and you're going to start to feel unmotivated and frozen.

And the fact that there's so much that you can do is the problem.

You have to reduce what you're going to do every day into a simple plan that gives you actions that you can basically start or complete in a 15 minute time block.

Number one, you have to focus on money.

unless you're independently wealthy, you must take the time.

In fact, take the next couple of days, get a handle on your budget, get a handle on your savings, get a handle on how much money is going out on subscriptions.

And this is a moment to tighten the belt.

This is a moment to get very serious about what you have and what you don't have, because it gives you a picture of your expenses and more importantly, the runway that you have.