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Marie: Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be
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if you want to create a business and life you love. And this is Q&A Tuesday and today’s
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question comes from Paige in New Zealand, and she writes:
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“Hey Marie, I'm just about to turn 19. Even though I'm young, I have big dreams. The problem
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is people keep telling me my dreams are not realistic and that I'm letting myself down.
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I was going to be a doctor and then decided that wasn’t really what I wanted. Now I
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want to be a professional event and party planner and grow my business into something
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huge that I can be proud of. How can I get past caring so much about what others think?
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Should I play it safe and get a degree in something that has a secure job at the end
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of it? What's your advice for young people just starting out in the business world? There's
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so much I don’t know and your YouTube channel is really helping me. Thank you.”
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Paige, these are awesome questions and I think it’s something that all of us can relate
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to no matter what age we are. The first thing I want to talk about is what you shared, ‘should
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I get a degree with a secure job at the end of it?’ A little reality check for you my
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love; those days are over. There's really no such thing as a secure job anymore. I think
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if you take a look around at what's happening in the world, you go into any Starbucks and
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you'll see some lawyers and some stockbrokers networking out of there who would totally
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back me up on this.
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Paige, I know you said you want to start your own business and that’s awesome, but for
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everyone else, even if you don’t want to start your own business, hear me on this:
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entrepreneurship is a mindset that everyone on the planet needs. If you want to thrive
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now and in the future, the only people that are going to really make it in this world
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are people that'll take initiative, that'll take action and that think and behave like
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entrepreneurs. One of the first and most important things about that is getting real comfortable
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with not giving a flying fudge what other people think about you.
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Let me take you back in my own life. I was only a few years older than you and I decided
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that I wanted to be a life coach. Now you got to get this: this was back when no one
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even heard of a life coach. Those words “life coach” made as much sense to people as dream
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farmer or potato doctor. Plus, I was 23 years old; who in their right mind would hire a
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23-year-old life coach? Even I was rolling my eyes at myself.
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The point is don’t let anyone’s bullsh*t opinions or judgments about what you can't
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do, especially your own, stop you from following your dreams. You will never do anything great
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in your life if you’ve got this song stuck in your head.
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Paige, you say you want to plan parties and events, so get to it woman. Don’t wait for
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people to give you permission or until you have some degree; just find somebody who needs
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a party planned and plan the confetti out of it, and then you do another and then another
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and then another and then all of a sudden, mozoltov, you are a party planner. In terms
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of education, I am 100% for education. In fact, I always advocate for people to be lifelong
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learners, but don’t limit your education to only what you can learn in the classroom.
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You should consider getting a job or two with more established event planners so you can
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really learn about the industry from the inside out. There's one more thing and this is my
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final and perhaps more important piece of advice: you’ve got to be really conscious
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of who you surround yourself with. You got to get rid of everybody who’s negative and
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all the naysayers. If that means getting some new friends, definitely do it. You also want
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to feed yourself some really positive things to your mind and your body and your soul day
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after day. I know you love MarieTV because it’s a positive wholesome family kind of
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show and of course it’s gluten free.
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Remember, keep surrounding yourself with positive people. In fact, you should find some people
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your age and get inspired by them. Everybody knows I'm a huge fan of Malala Yousafzai,
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who is your age, and there's also another incredibly inspiring young woman whose name
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is Tavi Gevinson. You can find entrepreneur groups in your area, you can find them online;
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the bottom line here is that with the right support and the right attitude and a ton of
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action, you can create anything you desire.
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Page, that was my A to your Q. I hope it helps. Now I would love to hear from you. Have you
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ever accomplished something that people around you said was unrealistic? How did you handle
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their criticism and their doubt? I would love to know your stories so tell me about in the
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comments below. Of course, the best discussions happen 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.
