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Yeah, Marie. Help me.

Today, Marie. Today is Q&A Tuesday. That means we got Q's and A's and today's question comes from Liza and she writes,

Marie, your bubbly personality and pithy thoughts and advice bright me up every week. I'm 63 years old.

My question is this. While I love and appreciate your weekly

advice, tips and contemplations, I'm beginning to find all this self-improvement exhausting!

Ha ha! It's coming at us from all sides on the internet. Don't eat this, do that, exercise

this way, read this, try this, do's and don'ts, etc.

Yes, life is an evolving experience and we change along the way, but sometimes you just want to coast and smell the roses.

What do you think about all this? Can we coast? Or is this what internet culture has pushed us into, the feeling that we're constantly not enough,

that we should do better, be better, go bigger.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, XO, Liza.

Liza, this is a really great question, and there's some misconceptions that we need to unpack but first there's something that I want to set straight

You know the self-improvement industry isn't responsible for making you or me or anyone else feel not enough.

We human beings are really capable of feeling not enough all on our own.

And in my own life, when I look to a book or to a course or to an audio program, I'm not going

there because I think that there's something deficient or something I need to fix. I'm simply

looking at it as a way to enrich my life. Number one, don't blame the internet. So this is not about the

internet or internet culture. In fact, if you think about this whole idea and concept of

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