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Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be to create a business
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and life you love, and today I have got a question for you. Have you ever walked away
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from a really good thing whether it was a business that was making money, a high paying
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job that you were pretty good at or a relationship that was cruising along just fine? I know
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I have and it wasn’t easy, but here's the deal. Sometimes the only way to create what
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you really want means walking away from the sure thing you already have. Before we dive
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into this, I want to share a little line from Jim Collins, the author of the classic book
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Good to Great. Jim says:
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“Good is the enemy of great and is why so many things don't become great. We don't have
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really great schools because we have good schools. We don't have great companies because
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we have so many good ones…
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…And when we look back over a life and see if it is a great one, we don't see many -- because
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it's just so easy to settle for a good one.”
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Now if we unpack this a bit we'll see that there's two main factors that keep us trapped
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in good land.
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1. Comfort – whether it's a certain amount of money that you're used to making or a warm
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body next to you when you're watching Game of Thrones, sometimes it's hard to walk away
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from the sure thing you already have because you're not sure if you're going to find something
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out there that's better to fill the void.
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2. O.P.E. (Other People’s Expectations) – tough to ignore, but fun to dance to.
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The reason OPE is so hard to break free from is because we don't want to disappoint people,
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we don't want to let them down and of course we don't want to rock the boat, but if you
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want to shift anything from good to great you've got to be willing to shake some shizz
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up, which is exactly what I had to do when I walked away from over $1 million in revenue.
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Yes people were disappointed and yes people thought I was crazy pants; a little side note,
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if people think you're crazy pants, you are probably wearing the right pants.
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Here's the story. Back in the day I had two awesome programs; one was an annual conference
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that we held at Donna Karan's Urban Sense Center and the other was a year-long mentorship
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and travel program called Adventure Mastermind. Both of these programs sold out each year
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with a waiting list. They were fun, they were life-changing, and they were like nothing
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else on the market, and they were both really profitable. However, I was having this inner
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tug inside that it was time for me to clear the decks and work on new projects that would
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allow me to change as many lives as possible. I'm not going to front; this was not easy
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to do: A - $1 million is a lot of freaking money, and B - I love what I do, and it was
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hard for me to disappoint so many people who wanted to take those programs but then wouldn't
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have a chance to. So I couldn't deny what I knew to be true which was that it was time
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for me to walk away. And that's what I did.
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Now check this out. About a week or so after I decided to take those programs off the market,
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I got a call from Oprah's folks to be on Super Soul Sunday. Coincidence? Maybe, or maybe
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it was meant to be because you can't have really amazing stuff show up in your life
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if you don't have room for it.
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Let's wrap this up with a few things to keep in mind:
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First of all we always say that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but if it ain’t broke
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it doesn't mean that you should keep it. Furthermore, things don't have to be crashing and burning
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around you in order for you to walk away. You can leave on a high note, things don't
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have to get dramatic and they don't have to get crazy.
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Second, as Jim Collins said, “Good is the enemy of great. Complacency can be a curse,
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so watch out for it.”
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And the final thing to remember, and yes you can tweet this:
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“It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.”
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So now, I'd really love to hear from you. What should be cut loose in your life? Is
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there something that you're ready to let go of, or maybe you're afraid to let go of that's
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good, but it's keeping you from something that's create? Maybe it's a revenue stream,
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a relationship or something else. Leave a comment and let me know.
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As always, the best discussions have been after the episode over at MarieForleo.com,
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so go there and leave a comment now.
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Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams because the world needs that special
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gift that only you have. Thank you so much for watching and I'll catch you next time
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on MarieTV.