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The Marie Forleo Podcast

12: Why I Happily Walked Away From a Million Dollars

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

To go from good to great, you have to be willing to leave behind the "good" in order to make room to create something truly great in your life. In this episode you'll learn why I walked away from a million dollars, and how you can overcome the two main factors that keep you stuck in Good Land. It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it. @MarieForleo

Transcript

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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,

0:13.0

get ready because this is the Marie Forelio Podcast.

0:17.0

Today, I have got a question for you.

0:21.0

Have you ever walked away from a really good thing? Whether it was a business

0:25.4

that was making money, a high paying job that you were pretty good at, or a relationship

0:30.1

that was

0:33.9

easy, but here's the deal.

0:35.8

Sometimes the only way to create what you really want

0:38.9

means walking away from the sure thing you already have.

0:42.5

Now before we dive into this,

0:43.8

I want to share a little line from Jim Collins,

0:46.1

the author of the classic book Good to Great.

0:49.1

Jim says,

0:50.4

Good is the enemy of great

0:52.2

and is why so many things don't become great.

0:55.0

We don't have really great schools because we have good schools.

0:58.0

We don't have great companies because we have so many good ones.

1:02.0

And when we look back over a life

1:03.8

and see if it's a great one,

1:05.5

we don't see many because it's just so easy

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