Hey, it's Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be, hand thong, to create
a business and life you love. And this is Q&A Tuesday and today I have a question for
you.
I've gotta ask you, do you ever stop yourself from creating something you really want to
do because you look to someone you admire and you think, "Oh my God, I am never going
to be as good as them."
So if you're like many people I talk to, you're probably stopping yourself from producing
something, writing something, sauteing something because you're not willing to smart small
or start sucky. In other words, you are stuck in perfection paralysis. Now, if this sounds
like you I've got a little story that I hope will help you come out and play.
As you may know, I started out my life coaching business when I was 23 years old and I had
big dreams. I knew I wanted to teach a lot of people really great ideas that would help
them improve their life. So my dreams were loads of people and a big stage and all that
jazz, but the reality was I was just starting out and I hardly had any clients. I was just
in the baby stages of building my business.
But I was so pumped from my coach training and I was learning all of these cool, new
ideas and I just had to share them with others. So I decided to hold my first workshop and
it was titled How to Create a Life You Love and it was incredibly well attended... by
five people.
It was my yoga teacher Claire, two friends that she, like, dragged around from the neighborhood,
and my parents. Now, I was very professional. I did have a venue, it was Claire's basement
in Summit, New Jersey. And you know, of course, it was a workshop so I had workshop materials
that I created myself with Microsoft Word and some very fancy clipart. And of course
every workshop, right, you have to have an easel. So I had a nice easel with the markers
to make sure that the entire crowd could follow along.
Looking back I kinda get douche chills thinking about giving a workshop to 5 people in a basement.
It feels really painful and kind of pathetic. But the truth is, there's absolutely nothing
painful or pathetic about it. I mean, I took a risk, I did something, I put myself out
there, and I did my very best to deliver value to all 5 of those people.
That small and sucky workshop gave me the courage to keep going because, guess what,
I had already done my lamest workshop. Bam! In the bag. Nailed it!
And I'll tell you, that confidence and that momentum really fueled me ahead. Don't forget,
every pro starts off as an amateur, so the next time you find yourself stuck in perfection
paralysis, take a tip from this Tweetable tongue twister.
"Starting small and sucky beats staying stucky."
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, and then say it 3 times fast.
Now I would love to hear from you. So, are you stopping yourself from doing something
because you're not willing to be anything less than polished or perfect? Or how about
this one, if you look back in your past is there something that you did that was kind
of small and sucky that makes you cringe now when you look back at it, but totally got
your balls rolling?
As always, the best discussions happen after the episodes over at MarieForleo.com, so go
there and leave a comment now.
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