260 - How to Stay Optimistic When Business is Slow
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Freaking out because business is slow? In this Call-In episode, you'll learn how to drum up more business when times are tough and the mindset that will set you up for long-term success.
https://www.marieforleo.com/blog/work-smarter-not-harder
If you want to be responsible, keep your promises to others. If you want to be successful, keep your promises to yourself. @MarieForleo
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| 0:00.0 | Think about the four seasons. There's winter, there's spring, there's summer, and there's fall. |
| 0:06.3 | It's impossible for any of us to be in the stage of like spring incessantly, where things are just |
| 0:12.0 | bursting and growing and they're popping it. That's just not nature. It's not reality. |
| 0:16.6 | Take that long view. Then you really make wise, intelligent, long-term decisions that allow you |
| 0:24.0 | to weather these little valleys when they come up because that really is the nature of life. |
| 0:30.9 | Hey, it's Marie Forleo and welcome to another episode of the Marie Forleo podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | Right now, I want to remind you of an inconvenient truth. You ready for it? Success is never instant. |
| 0:43.2 | That's right, it doesn't happen overnight and neither does failure. Both are actually a byproduct |
| 0:47.8 | of the small choices you make, day after day, week after week, year after year. I'm sharing |
| 0:54.1 | this with you for two reasons. Number one, to remind you and encourage you that consistent, |
| 1:00.5 | intentional, creative effort always pays off. It literally never goes to waste. |
| 1:05.4 | And number two, I always want you to think in terms of the long game, especially if you're in |
| 1:10.5 | business. So what does that mean? It means you gotta have patience. You gotta keep showing up and |
| 1:15.3 | giving your full effort, even when you don't feel like it, even when things are really hard, |
| 1:20.8 | even when the results are quite fair yet. This is something we're going to dive deeper into |
| 1:26.4 | on today's calling show. You're going to hear from Alex, a makeup artist turned freelance |
| 1:31.4 | illustrator who's in a bit of a business slump and she is struggling to stay optimistic. |
| 1:37.0 | If you're going through a tough season yourself, I truly hope today's episode is going to help. |
| 1:42.0 | Hello. Hi. Is this Alex? This is Alex. Hey, it's Marie. You're on the Marie TV live call and show |
| 1:55.2 | how are you, darling? Oh my god. So good. How are you? So good. You're here with Gregory and all |
| 2:01.0 | of team Forleo and we are really excited to talk with you. So let us know your question and we |
| 2:05.1 | will do our best to help you out. Okay. My question will probably become a story, |
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