{"id":20524,"date":"2025-05-20T14:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/?p=19240"},"modified":"2025-05-20T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:13:36","slug":"let-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/lowveld\/blog\/2025\/05\/20\/let-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Let them …"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the age of 41, Mel Robbins found herself in debt, unemployed, watching her husband\u2019s business crumble.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

To deal with the anxiety and doubt she was living with, her main strategy was avoidance. Avoid getting out of bed. Avoid the pain with alcohol. Avoid responsibility by blaming her husband.<\/p>\n

After months of being stuck, a thought popped into her head. She remembered watching a rocket launch … and the countdown to blast off. \u201cWhat,\u201d she thought, \u201cif I just counted backwards like that and launched myself out of bed?\u201d And just like that, she interrupted the cycle of overthinking, and used what she called The 5 Second Rule.<\/p>\n

That rule changed her relationship with herself. And the Let Them Theory changed her relationship with other people. The first chapter in The Let Them Theory is about stopping wasting your life on things you can\u2019t control. And then there\u2019s just chapter after chapter on everything from overcoming chronic comparison and fearing other people\u2019s opinions to managing stress.<\/p>\n

Mel teaches how you can protect your time and energy and focus on what matters to you … to create a life where you come first, by letting other people live their lives while you get to live yours. Hay House<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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