Change Your Life This Year: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

In this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, Mel interviews Dr. Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist, about the seven hidden barriers preventing people from achieving their goals. Dr. Milkman explains these barriers: struggling to start, impulsivity, procrastination, forgetfulness, laziness, lack of confidence, and conformity. She provides evidence-based strategies to overcome each, such as using the Fresh Start Effect for motivation, temptation bundling to make tasks enjoyable, commitment devices to combat procrastination, and finding social support to build confidence and change behavior. The main takeaway is to make goal pursuit enjoyable and to be kind to oneself during setbacks, recognizing that change is a process.