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Hey it's Marie Forleo and you're watching MarieTV, the place to be to create a business and a life that you love.
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And today is Q&A Tuesday and that means today's question comes from Miss Kristen and she writes:
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"Hi Marie, here's my Q. What is something you know now that you wish you'd known earlier to help get where you are today? Thanks so much, Kristen."
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Kristen, this is a fantastic question.
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You know, it's in my DNA not to have regrets, so everything that I experienced kind of on my whole path, for me, it's been quite perfect.
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All the missteps, all the mistakes, they've helped make me stronger and it's actually made me more equipped to help and support people today.
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But when I really thought about your question, one thing came to mind.
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You know, I think about all the time that I wasted that I can never get back trying to figure out what to call myself.
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So you've got to realize, when I first started out as a coach, I was also a bartender and I did fitness and I did hip hop through Crunch and with Nike.
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Now, I spent tons of time and I would torture Josh on these beach walks practically crying trying to nail my elevator speech.
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I mean, was I a business coach, was I a life coach, was I a productivity coach?
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Do I tell people about Nike and fitness? What about my love for marketing and spirituality?
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I mean, am I the hip hop life coach?
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Ok, so I actually didn't do that then but I'm really happy I did it now because it was fun.
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So here's the thing, what I didn't realize way back then was the thing that's so much more important than some canned elevator speech was the depth and the quality of my work.
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I wish I could tell my younger self, "Hey, just keep growing, keep focusing on serving more people, improving your skills, and everything will be just fine."
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Now, I know of course some people can easily describe who they are and what they do in a quick sentence and that can be really, really useful for getting ahead, but for me that's never been the case and, to be honest, it's still not the case now.
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But it has never held me back. So if I could tell myself, my younger self, one thing it would be this: forget about the speech and enjoy the beach.
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Now, even with all that said, I really wouldn't change any of it because, number one, that experience really helps me relate to multi passionate people who struggle to fit themselves into a conventional box, much like me.
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And, of course, number two, I get to love on Josh even more because he was so patient with me when I ruined so many of our romantic beach walks.
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So let's wrap this up with a tweetable.
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If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learn from them.
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That was my A to your Q, Kristen, thank you so much for asking it.
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And now I would love to hear from you. What's one thing that you know now that you wish you'd known sooner?
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