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The Marie Forleo Podcast

34: Why It’s Smart To Start Small and/or Sucky

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Progress takes time, especially when you’re first starting out and your business is still small. In this episode, you’ll learn why it’s actually a good thing to start off small and/or sucky -- and how it actually helps you grow. Starting small and sucky beats staying stucky. @MarieForleo

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0:00.0

What's up party people? I'm Marie Forlejo and for the last 20 years I've helped

0:06.5

millions of people transform their businesses and lives. If you're ready to make the

0:11.2

difference you were born to make, get ready because this is the

0:15.1

Marie Forelleo Podcast.

0:18.5

Do you ever stop yourself from creating something you really want to do because you look to someone you admire and you

0:24.3

think oh my god I am never going to be as good as them.

0:28.7

So if you're like many people I talk to you you're probably stopping yourself from producing something, writing something,

0:34.5

sautaying something, because you're not willing to start small or start sucky.

0:40.1

In other words, you are stuck in perfection paralysis.

0:44.1

Now if this sounds like you, I got a little story

0:46.6

that I hope will help you come out and play.

0:49.2

As you may know, I started out my life coaching business

0:52.2

when I was 23 years old old and I had big dreams.

0:55.1

I knew I wanted to teach a lot of people really great ideas that would help them improve

0:59.9

their life.

1:00.9

So my dreams were loads of people and a big stage and all that jazz. But the

1:05.8

reality was I was just starting out and I hardly had any clients. I was just in the baby

1:10.7

stages of building my business.

1:12.7

But I was so pumped from my coach training

1:15.8

and I was learning all of these cool new ideas

1:18.2

and I just had to share them with others.

1:20.3

So I decided to hold my first workshop and it was titled how to create a life you love and it was incredibly well attended

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