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Mel Robbins on Feeling Empty Despite Being Successful

25 Apr 2025 · 0 min

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Mel Robbins describes achieving outward success—recognition, projects, accomplishments—while feeling internally empty. External achievements cannot fill the void of a neglected relationship with yourself. Without self-work and reflection, external validation loses all meaning.

Can you think of a time where you were accomplishing a lot of things and outwardly had a lot of success or things looked good or you were building something and it was, people were acknowledging for it, but you didn't feel good about you?
I think a lot of my life has felt like that.
Really?
Don't you guys feel like that?
Even when you're successful?
Yes, because if you have not worked out yourself and your relationship with yourself, it does not matter what's happening on the outside. the faster you can dedicate time and energy to looking at who you are and what you can learn from the mistakes that you've made, that is the greatest gift you could ever give to yourself.