Mel Robbins
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First 5 Minutes of Automated Transcript:
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hey it's mel and uh i am here reading my
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instant bestseller the high five habit
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we are now for the second week in a row
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uh uh new york times bestseller so thank
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you thank you thank you for your support
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get yourself a copy of this puppy but i
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wanted to tell you quickly about
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something crazy that's happening so if
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you're going through something right now
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in your life that's really stressful or
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you're on pins and needles waiting to
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hear about something okay i have got a
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story to tell you we literally were
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about to go live and um
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we were uh holding this this place card
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saying mel's about to go live and my
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daughter
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panic texts me and starts calling like
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crazy because she and her friends are
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trying to rent an apartment in boston
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post college and i don't know what the
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rental market is like where you live but
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here in the boston massachusetts area
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holy smokes in some neighborhoods there
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are lines out the door for open houses
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you only have 12 hours to get an
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application in so high stress high
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stress high stress so as we are about to
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go live
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with you
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i find out that uh
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we still need to get a photo of a
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check-in and so we're scrambling and now
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you know the good news is the
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application is in
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i have written a letter in the realtor
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business they call it a love letter
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where you write a letter to either the
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uh property owner or the person you want
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to buy the house from explaining all the
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reasons why you would be the perfect
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person for them to either sell or rent
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the property to
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i do believe this is the right uh five
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bedroom unit for my daughter and her
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friends and i feel like and i'm sure you
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feel this way too after covid imploded
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the last two years of their entire
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college experience these girls deserve
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and need a win
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and that uh
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it's time for life to swing in their
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direction
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so what do you do
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when you're in that moment of waiting
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what do you do when the stakes are
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really high
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and you know can any of you relate to
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this right now
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that there's something that you are
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waiting to hear from whether it's a job
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that you've applied for or you're
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looking for a house and the market is so
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tight and every time you go to rent
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something or want to buy something
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somebody else has jumped in i see tons
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and tons and tons of hearts going um
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maybe it is uh that you've put a dating
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profile up for the first time in a long
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time and you're kind of waiting for
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something to happen what do you do in
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those moments okay well here's what and
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and i see so many of you saying a
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thousand percent i can relate i can
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relate i can totally relate what is it
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that you are kind of waiting on what is
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it that you are
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feeling like my gosh i just want this
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thing to come true i just wish please
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please please please please what are you
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waiting on because i can see so many of
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you say yeah this is me right now holy
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cow when is the when is a house that's
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in my budget going to come on the market
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when is the right job going to happen so
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here's and this i see wendy who's a
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realtor in chicago saying it's a crazy
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market so many clients are disappointed
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i feel their pain with them i'm waiting
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for my marriage to turn around i'm
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waiting for uh to get pregnant i'm
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waiting you know for this uh school to
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accept me to get in off the wait list so
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here's what i want you to know
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number one
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you want to focus on what's in your
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control okay
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that's what you want to do
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if you're going through a divorce you're
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waiting for lawyers and this process of
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anticipation this process of having to
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be patient
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the first thing that you need to do is
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ask yourself and this is by the way
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stuff that i talk about in the high five
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habit book this is about how to
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cultivate a high five attitude
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when things are out of your control
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how to cultivate a high five attitude
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when you are waiting
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and
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are feeling this anticipation
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how to cultivate a high five attitude
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when
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you might be disappointed
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