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hey it's marie forleo and you are
watching marietv the place to be to
create a business and life you love and
this my friend ain't Q&A Tuesday it's
actually un a Tuesday where I ask the
question and the answer comes from you
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so my question which I will ask you in
just a moment comes from an idea that I
strive to live my life by and that idea
is this you never get stronger if you
only do easy things now to clarify I'm
not saying that you should make
everything harder on yourself I am all
about simplicity and efficiency where it
makes sense this is also not about
pushing yourself so hard that you get
injured or sick but what I am talking
about is the immense value that comes
from doing really really hard things
from putting yourself in situations
where you know you're gonna struggle or
from doing things that are so far beyond
your current skill set that it humbles
your ass let me tell you about a class I
took a few months ago so I was working
to build up my strength and my stamina
because going on book tour can be
grueling and I wanted to be ready for it
now I talked a lot about fitness and
movement and I am someone who moves a
lot however it's been a real long time
since I've been a Nike dance athlete and
could shoot like for fitness videos in
one day even with a broken toe so point
being my strength was nowhere near what
it used to be so I figured I'd start
taking more challenging classes at my
gym now most of these classes I had
never taken before so I had no idea what
I was getting into so one day I signed
up for this class and it was called
metcon three should have known better
because that is a scary-ass name but it
was only 45 minutes and I said to myself
hey I can do anything for 45 minutes
famous last words
not even seven minutes into that class I
wanted to die
I'm not kidding I had no idea how I was
gonna survive 38 more
minutes of this torture chamber we are
talking non-stop squats and lunges and
plyometrics all with weights and all on
a damn step you know how everybody hates
burpees well this guy had us doing
double burpees then he had us doing
these freaking air jacks and one guy in
the front of the class he was like the
happiest most fittest grasshopper you
ever met he was smiling he was sweating
he was leaping meanwhile I can't be on
my legs and I need to sit down I think
you get the idea I mean this was hell it
was that kind of physical humbling hell
that you wouldn't wish on your worst
enemies yes he squats but somehow I made
it through the full 45 minutes and yes I
was on the struggle bus the entire time
but of course after I felt oh maybe I
didn't feel amazing at all I had a
massive headache I was red as a lobster
and I seriously wanted to quit at life
but after I took a shower and
replenished some electrolytes and
actually laid down for a few minutes if
I actually did feel pretty great the
bottom line is this easier and my
friends is not always better now
obviously this story was all about
working out but I found the same thing
to be true in my business and in my
personal life doing hard things makes me
stronger whether it's physical emotional
or mental strength is where it's at and
I gotta say no matter what hard thing
you're doing whether or not you actually
reach your goal is less important than
who you become in the process so here is
the cue that I want you to a today and
it's a two-parter think about your past
right now
what's an instance where you tackle
something really challenging and you
grew so much stronger as a result part
two what's one hard thing that you know
you need to start doing right now in
order to make your life better tell me
all about it in the comments below now
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