Marie Forleo

#1 NY Times Bestselling author of #EverythingisFigureoutable. CEO. Dancer. Host of #MarieTV & #TheMarieForleoPodcast.

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Years ago I pitched an idea I was genuinely terrified to say out loud. The room went quiet. Then someone said yes. The lesson I keep relearning: the scary idea is usually the right one. 💗

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What would you create if "good enough" wasn't a reason to wait? Not the polished version. The real one you keep putting off. 🌸

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I've never met a chronic overthinker who needed more information. They needed a smaller decision and a deadline. That's it. 🎯

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Back from the holiday weekend (in the U.S.🇺🇸) with one very clear realization: most of what I treat as urgent isn't. July energy: protective of my time and completely fine about it. ☀️

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Holiday weekend ahead (in the U.S.🇺🇸). My one goal: stay off Slack. Radical, I know. 🌞 What are you actually doing with yours?

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Hustle culture didn't ruin ambition. Shame culture did. Wanting to build something big was never the problem. Believing you had to destroy yourself to do it was the lie. ✨

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It's July. Officially halfway through the year. What's one thing you said yes to in January that you're SO glad you actually followed through on? 💛

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When I started my business over two decades ago, I cried a LOT.😭 I felt scattered, insecure, overwhelmed. If you're in that part right now, keep going. You've got this. 💪

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Entrepreneurs, can we stop worrying about the logo? The font? The website tab favicon? Worry about whether your offer actually solves a problem people will pay to fix. Everything else is procrastination dressed up. 💥

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For years I thought I had to pick one thing. Business coach 💼 OR writer ✍️ OR dancer 💃🏻. The minute I stopped trying to fit in a box and just started doing the work, everything worked out in my favor💗

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You don't need a perfect plan. You need one offer, one person who needs it, and the guts to ask for the money. 🙌🏻 Everything else gets built as you go. 💜

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The version of you that starts a business is rarely the version that builds it. 🤔 You become the second one by being brave enough to be the first. 🙌🏻

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Entrepreneurs, tell me about your first sale. The one where you went, "oh, I'm an actual business." Mine was a coaching client back when I was bartending at night and building my dream by day. 💖

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What's the bravest thing you've done in your business this year? Bonus points if it scared you in a "good, I'm growing" kinda way.

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Reminder to early entrepreneurs: nobody is checking your follower count before they buy. Build the thing. Sell the thing. Talk to actual humans.🙌🏻

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Most people don't fail at business because they had a bad idea. They quit in the boring middle, right before the thing was about to work. Stay in the boring.🙌🏻

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You're never going to feel ready to start. You'll feel ready months later, when you look back and realize you've been doing the thing the whole time.😅

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Building your own business is one of the most powerful acts of self-determination there is. You choose the work, the hours, the values, the rules. That's freedom worth protecting. 🌞

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Strategy isn't the hardest part of starting a business. The hardest part is the moment you decide your own opinion of yourself outranks everyone else's. 🔥

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The team you build is the business you build. So tell me, if your team could only solve one bottleneck for you this quarter, what would it be?