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The Marie Forleo Podcast

105: How to Believe in Your Business When You Don’t Always Believe in Yourself

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

How do you believe in your business when you don’t believe in yourself? Every creative or business owner can struggle with self-doubt. This “Flashlight Method” helps you take that fear and channel it into genuine confidence. Your attention’s like a flashlight. Shine it out on others, and you lose sight of your own fear. @MarieForleo

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0:00.0

Hey there, I'm Marie Forlejo and for the last 20 years I've helped millions of people

0:07.6

transform their businesses and lives.

0:10.2

If you're ready to make the difference you were born to make, get ready because this is the Marie

0:15.4

Forelio podcast.

0:18.3

This is Q&A Tuesday.

0:20.8

That means Q's and A's in today's question comes from Malia and she writes.

0:25.0

Hi Marie, how do you deal with the daily battles of fear and self-doubt in business?

0:29.8

How do you ultimately channel that energy into selling yourself, your product, or your

0:34.0

service even though you may not fully be confident in yourself. Thanks so much

0:39.1

Malia.

0:40.1

Malia, great question. I especially love that you didn't ask, how do I become constantly

0:46.5

confident? You ask something way better, which is how to work through that lack of confidence

0:52.2

and continue to move your business ahead.

0:55.2

You know, one of the biggest myths out there is that you have to be confident to be successful.

1:00.4

That is so not true.

1:02.6

Every creator who consistently takes risks and shares their ideas and produces work feels fear and self doubt.

1:10.5

I feel fear and self doubt on a daily basis and a little reality check here.

1:15.7

Those daily battles do not go away with time, experience, or even massive fame.

1:21.8

You know, Grammy Award-winning artist Adele has talked publicly about

1:25.7

projectile vomiting on someone in Brussels. And then another time in Amsterdam she got so

1:31.7

scared, she escaped out the fire exit. If you're an artist or an

1:35.7

entrepreneur fear and self-doubt are going to be your lifelong companions.

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