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Name: Everything is Figureoutable
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Author: Marie Forleo

Marie Forleo

A pragmatic philosophy of self-empowerment

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What’s in it for me? Learn a pragmatic philosophy of self-empowerment.

When Marie Forleo was a child, her mother always seemed to be tackling one household repair project or another. Whether it was a broken radio or a leaky roof, money was too tight to buy a replacement or hire a repairperson, so she insisted on fixing it herself.

Now, she didn’t have a technical background, and this was back in the 1980s, so she couldn’t just look up an instructional video on YouTube. Baffled by her seemingly endless supply of knowhow, Marie asked her about it one day: “Mom, how do you know how to do all of these things?”

Well, she didn’t. She simply had the conviction that “everything is figureoutable” – meaning that every problem has a solution, as long as you’re willing to put in the work of figuring it out.

Since then, “everything is figureoutable” has been a mantra, an attitude and a philosophy by which Marie has tried to live her life. And as we’ll see, it’s applicable not just to DIY projects, but to all of our personal, professional, financial and practical problems.

Marie Forleo’s life story illustrates both the inspiring and realistic underpinnings of her personal philosophy.

As human beings, we have an incredible gift: the ability to turn our ideas into realities. It’s almost magical, if you stop to think about it: a little spark of our imagination can eventually become a life-changing personal decision, technological innovation, artistic creation or professional ambition.

The story of Marie Forleo’s success provides a case in point. Back in the late 1990s, after she graduated from college, she was having trouble finding a fulfilling career path. She’d been bouncing from one job to another: assistant trader at the New York Stock Exchange, ad sales assistant at Gourmet magazine, fashion assistant at Mademoiselle magazine. Nothing felt right.

Then, one day, she came across an article about life coaching. It was a new profession at the time, so she’d never heard of it before, and it came as a revelation to her. This is what she was meant to do – helping other people achieve their personal and professional goals. The idea kept beckoning to her, and when the publishing company Condé Nast offered her a promotion to a position at Vogue magazine, she decided to decline it to pursue her newfound dream of coaching instead. Fast-forward to the present, and Marie is now providing life advice to millions of people through her online TV show, podcast and business training program.

Of course, our ideas don’t just automatically turn into realities by themselves. There are all sorts of obstacles, challenges and problems standing in our way, and it takes a lot of hard work, skills, resources, knowledge and courage to overcome them.

In Marie’s case, she first had to shrug off her self-doubts. “I’m only 23 years old,” she thought. “Why would anyone trust me to be their life coach?” She was also saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt, and she had to take on extra shifts as a bartender just to put up a website. From waitressing to cleaning toilets, it then took her seven years of working various side jobs before she could stabilize her finances enough to focus on her life coaching business full-time.

The road from initial idea to successful reality is rarely a short or easy one, and the philosophy of “everything is figureoutable” does not ask us to pretend otherwise. Indeed, as we’ll see in the blinks ahead, it encourages us to embrace the inevitable difficulties of life and tackle them head-on.

Our beliefs can be self-limiting or self-empowering.

Despite what some self-help guides would have us believe, no amount of positive thinking can make our difficulties magically disappear.

That being said, negative thinking can make our problems seem unsolvable, which can lead us to self-defeating passivity. As clichéd as it might sound, we really do need to believe in ourselves and our ability to overcome our challenges if we want to achieve anything. After all, why would we attempt to accomplish something if we didn’t think it was possible for us to accomplish it? By telling ourselves it can’t be done, we’re essentially giving up before we’ve even tried.

The belief that “everything is figureoutable” is a powerful weapon against our self-limiting beliefs.

From thinking we’ll never have enough talent to “make it” to assuming there are just not enough opportunities out there anymore, all of us have a variety of self-limiting beliefs about our abilities and the world around us. In theory, we could try to identify all of them at once and then replace each of them with a self-empowering belief – but that would be a pretty arduous, time-consuming task.

Fortunately, there’s a more practical way of doing this. We can simply adopt the belief that “everything is figureoutable.” It’s the ultimate self-empowering belief, and it provides a universal antidote to all of our self-limiting beliefs.

At bottom, most of our self-limiting beliefs are really just excuses.

Before we continue with our quest to vanquish our self-limiting beliefs, let’s take a step back and ask a question that gets to the heart of the problem: Why do we become beholden to these beliefs in the first place?

Well, if we’re being honest with ourselves, the truth is that our self-limiting beliefs are often just a convenient way to justify or conceal the fact that we simply don’t want to do something, for one reason or another. Maybe it’s too much work. Maybe we don’t want it enough. Maybe we’re too scared. Whatever the case, the motivation to act just isn’t there – not yet, at least.

The excuses of not having enough time, money or know-how don’t hold up under scrutiny.

There are many excuses we make about why we “can’t” do things, but there are three that are especially common. Let’s take a look at them and pull them apart one by one.

The first is “I don’t have enough time.” Most of us have pretty packed schedules, so this seems like a plausible excuse. But here’s a simple thought experiment that quickly reveals its flimsiness. Imagine that your doctor told you that you had a fatal disease, and the only way to cure it was to sit still and do nothing for two hours per day.

Fear is not our enemy; we don’t have to let it hold us back, and we can even use it to our advantage.

Now that we’ve dispensed with the excuses of a lack of time, money and know-how, let’s look at another one of the main obstacles that we often allow to hold us back: fear.

Whether it’s starting a business or learning to ride a motorcycle, there comes a point with any new endeavor where we need to put ourselves out there and take a plunge into uncharted waters. That’s an inherently scary thing to do, so it’s perfectly normal to feel fear in the face of it. But we don’t have to let that fear control us. In fact, instead of allowing it to hold us back, we can even harness it to impel us forward.

To gain clarity and overcome indecisiveness, we need to take action – but small steps can move us forward.

Whenever we have an important decision to make, it’s all too easy to find reasons to doubt ourselves and hesitate. The result: indecision – one of the biggest obstacles in the way of achieving our goals.

We can waste an incredible amount of time and energy just wondering, “Can I do this? Should I do this?” Marie herself spent years fretting about whether she could or should pursue her dream of becoming a dancer before she finally decided to go for it. If we’re not careful, years can turn into a lifetime, as indecisiveness turns into permanent paralysis.

Stop waiting to be “ready” to pursue your dreams; the time to act is now.

The last obstacle we’re going to remove from our path is one that’s closely related to fear and indecisiveness: the idea that you have to wait until you’re ready before you take action.

At first glance, this seems like a logical notion; of course you want to be ready before you pursue something, right? But here’s the problem: if by being “ready” you mean being 100 percent prepared with all of the skills, knowledge, confidence and motivation you need to succeed, well, you’ll never be ready in that sense. That’s because the only way to acquire those ingredients of success is by engaging in the task at hand.

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Everything is Figureoutable (2019) provides an optimistic, but also pragmatic philosophy of self-empowerment. While fully recognizing the fact that life is full of difficulties, it encourages us to roll up our sleeves and pursue our dreams anyway. To that end, it teaches us how to counteract our self-limiting beliefs and other self-defeating tendencies, such as letting fear and indecisiveness get the best of us.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how to free yourself from self-limiting beliefs;
how to stop holding yourself back with excuses; and
how to turn fear from an enemy into a friend.

Wer Everything is Figureoutable lesen sollte

Pessimists wanting to become optimists
Optimists wanting to become pragmatists
Pragmatists wanting to become higher achievers

Über den Autor

Marie Forleo is an entrepreneur who hosts The Marie Forleo Podcast and the web television show MarieTV. She also runs the online business-training program B-School. A former life coach and dance instructor, she was named one of today's top thought leaders in Oprah Winfrey's SuperSoul 100 list.

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