a business and life you love. And this is Q&A Tuesday and today’s question comes from Julian and she writes:

“Dear Marie, I feel like I'm just starting to hone my passions and I'm not sure where

they’ll lead me. My question is ‘do you need to start with the vision of your end

goal in order to create success? Did you always envision your business in its current form

and what advice do you have for those of us who don’t see the whole plan laid out quite

yet?’ Thanks.”

This is a fantastic question. I want to be honest. The reason that we chose to answer

this question is for two reasons; one, because we love this question and I will answer it

in a minute, but the second is because you give me a chance to talk about something I've

been wanting to talk about for a while.

One of the pieces of criticism that we get about what I do here, MarieTV and my business

and all that stuff, is “sure its easy for you Marie, you’ve got a stylist and a studio

and this whole team,” and I just sit back and I think “are you for reals? Do you think

I just magically appeared here this way?” I am a Jersey girl that came from New Jersey,

Italian American family, working class, and I've busted my buns my entire life. I have

not been handed anything on a silver platter. My parents are incredible, they're amazing

human beings, they totally supported me with my education which I also helped pay for,

but once I got out of college, I worked like seven days a week, multiple jobs busting my

ass just to make ends meet. Plus, like many people, after I got out of college, I was

massively in debt because I was silly but I got myself out of it. The point is that

I didn’t just come here and arrive with all this stuff; I've worked my ass off to

make it happen. I'm not saying this because I have a chip on my shoulder but I am saying

it because I want to make something clear: you do not have to start off with all of this

or anything like this if you want to be successful.

Now I will get off my soapbox and answer your question “did I have a clear vision for

what this business would look like when I first started out?” The answer is OMG NO.

You have got to remember I am the multi passionate entrepreneur. I liked so many things and it

was actually paralyzing, plus I had no ability to see out past six months. It was really

torturesome because I liked so many things. I loved hip hop, I loved writing, I loved

marketing and I loved fitness; that’s a lot of things to love. Well, Stephen Covey’s

advice “begin with the end in mind” is amazing and sometimes fantastic. Other times,

it’s just not possible. I had to work really, really hard at multiple passions until I eventually

found convergence for myself. In 2001, when I first started, the only things I knew was

that I was really driven to make a difference, I wanted to be successful, I want to help

people, but I had no idea what it would wind up eventually looking like.

Back then, I only had mini immediate goals. For example, in my hip hop classes, it was

all about how do I fill up my classes and make really badass choreography. In my life

coaching practice, it was how do I get people better results. And then with marketing and

business, it was how can I write more persuasive and more clear copy. I had no ability whatsoever

to see a long term vision in front of me. I only had to take the steps I knew I had

to take and do the best that I could do at the time.

This brings me to one of my favorite quotes of all time, and yes you bet your bottom dollar

it’s today’s tweetable:

“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Lets land this plane Jillian. While I'm a big believer in having a clear vision in where

you're going, sometimes that is just not reality, so the game plan for you is to bring your

A game to everything that you're doing and have faith that when the time is right, your

clear vision will emerge.

That was my A to your Q Jillian. Hope it helps. Now I would love to hear from you. Have you

always had a long term vision for your success? If not, what advice do you have for those

of us who don’t see the whole plan laid out quite yet?

As always the best discussions happen after the episode all the way over at MarieForleo.com

so go there and leave a comment now. It’s that simple.

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