Each and every one of us is born with a unique set of gifts that we're here to express during

our time on Earth. Look, God doesn't make any extra peeps, and when we hold back our gifts,

we truly are stealing from those who need us most.

Hey, it's Marie Forleo, and welcome to a very special five week series we're doing here on the

Marie Forleo podcast called love letters to our creatives. Now, if you've been listening to my

podcast or if you've read my book, everything is figure outable, then you know what I love most

is helping ambitious creatives like you get real results. And today's episode is all about

committing to your dreams and to your work. I'm talking about taking consistent action over a

long period of time, because guess what? There is no such thing, my friend, as overnight success,

and if you don't have a consistent practice for whatever creative goal you're working towards,

you're about to learn from Seth Godin why it's so important to embrace one starting now.

Now, the best part about Seth is that this man walks his talk. He's been writing a blog post a day

for 20 years. He's published countless books and podcast episodes, created course after course

with his Akimba workshop. I want you to listen, take notes, because mark my words, everything you're

about to hear has the power to change your life. When we do the work, whether or not the work works

in the short run, when we do the work, we can feel engaged. That's what flow comes from. We don't

get flow and then do the work. It's the other way around. There's always difficulty and there's

always trauma. There's always injustice. This year highlighted for us so many things that we didn't

necessarily ask for, and other things that desperately needed to be highlighted. But the biggest

difference is not that there was difficulty or trauma, but that all of us had it at the same time

in the same way. When it's all around us, it's very easy to put up our hands and say, I give up,

that the excuse is universally understood. It's a huge but then what are you going to do?

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