Everything is Figureoutable: The #1 New York Times Bestseller

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Jayasri: For anyone feeling the impacts of uncertainty during this time, this passage from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke is one of my favorites. “Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression? Since after all, you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you. Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change.” So you'll take your phone and talk into it, or you'll take your computer and walk around the house and talk into it, or talk to your team as you're walking or dancing or whatever. You're just a real movement-oriented person. And you know that about yourself. I remember Ariana Huffington said that she was having trouble writing, and then she went, "But wait a minute, I can talk for an hour with no notes on stage. Why don't I act like I'm on stage and just talk it?" I could not underscore the importance of those habits too, and of course health and happiness, but for me that waking up every day at 5:00 AM was what allowed me and what still allows me when I need to really move on a significant in-depth project. That's how I got a roll. And here's the other thing I always like to tell people. I don't roll that way 365. It's not for me. Marie Forleo: And now my friend, it’s time for our insight to action challenge. Remember, we do not want passive listeners here on the Marie Forleo Podcast. We want you to metabolize what you learn and use it to create a richer, fuller life. Today’s challenge, very simple. I want to know what book has made the biggest impact on your creative journey and why. So all I need you to do is take a screenshot of you listening to this episode, tag me at Marie Forleo, and if you can, tag the author too. Writing a book is a really challenging process, and as an author myself, it means a lot when you hear from readers that your book made a difference to them. So tag me and the author and use the hashtag #ILovedThisBook.

Everything is as it should be" -- "In short, here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be. Unconditionally allow things to be as they are. When you deal with what is, or your is-ness, you can then choose who you'd like to be in relationship to that." (p. 12) "For the next 24 hours, make is-ness your total business. No matter what happens…pretend that you wanted it to happen. You can even say 'And this is what I want!' after any circumstance that your mind wants to resist." Well, I didn't hate it, but good Lord, it's just not captivating enough to be held on a pedestal. I can't believe it took me months to finish it! It's interesting. I think people are just built differently. I also have friends who they can just go and I have other friends who are just like, it's a little bit more of a slow burn. You know what I mean? It's a little bit more of like… I have some big news to share that’ll help you have more clarity, confidence, resilience, and success in the new year.I would say it, it's got to be three. They're all equally important. But I would say mindset is the number one most important habit. Because if you're thinking it right, you're not going to keep showing up. Or you're going to show up, but you're going to berate yourself and waste a lot of your damn time. So I would say, decide that it's going to be shit. Decide that it's not all up to you, that this is a collaboration with your muse, your God, just your unconscious that is trying to help your children live a better life. Ed writes about the people and environment at Pixar that supported the innovation behind those iconic creations. He also shares the unique principles they live by to give their teams the freedom to take risks and create in ways no one ever had before. We need you. We need your heart, your voice, your courage, your joy, your creativity, your compassion, your love, and your gifts. Now, more than ever.”

In this episode of MarieTV, we do have some adult language. So if you do have little ones around, grab your headphones now. Just finding that right turn of phrase or moving something that was at the end to the beginning or shaving something down. It feels to me like one of the most joyful processes ever. Let me ask you this, because this has been true for me. I've written two books so far, and I definitely want to do more. It's always an interesting kind of balance for me with the other things that we do to run the business because I'm writing a lot. So it's like I'm writing, writing, writing, but not necessarily aiming it at a book. We had to jump out of a taxi because there’s too much traffic. Now we have to take the two and try and get over to the meetup. Yep. Oh, is it this one? We get on this one? Over the past year, we’ve heard from SO many folks who’ve not just read the book, but DONE the book and created extraordinary results in the process. Read these three letters to inspire you to use the figureoutable mindset to create the life you want.That’s the thing. I kept hearing myself talking about, "Oh, this idea for the book. The idea for the book." I had done the talk on Oprah. So it was like, okay, I knew the book was going to be Everything is Figureoutable. A born-and-raised Jersey girl with nothing more than passion, a laptop and a dream, Marie Forleo has created a socially conscious digital empire that inspires millions across the globe. Sometimes it takes that one person expressing it in their unique voice at the right time in the right place for it to actually make a difference. You are that person for somebody. It doesn't matter how many people have gone before you. It doesn't matter how many versions of the same thing you think already exist or have been done by more talented qualified or famous people. Forget all that. With over 7.7 billion people on the planet and counting, there are more than enough humans with a diverse set of needs, perspectives, problems, preferences, desires, and tastes. This should go without saying, but I have to so everyone can see where I'm coming from: I don't HATE Marie Forleo. In fact, I'm an avid listener of her podcast, and, every once in a while, I watch her episodes from MarieTV. I happen to think she is a fun person and her content has some quality value. However, as demonstrated from my past review of her first book, there are some problematic elements in her philosophy that are so muddled with her inability to have a shred of empathy. It sounds weird for me to say because the point of being a life coach is to help others succeed, but it has become so common for me to notice that these life coaches can only see "humanity" in one group of people: The ones that give them money. I didn't sleep a lot throughout my career, but I ate so clean. I exercised. I was happy. I felt great. And so I was able to deliver. Let's see, what else? Happiness. Drama makes for really good stories, but not a great life.

This may seem more of a rant than anything else, but I really dislike this mentality that if something bad happens to you, you made that happen, it is your fault! It wouldn't surprise me if most of Forleo's ideology comes from Rhonda Byrne's doctrine because that's exactly how it feels. Hey, sometimes bad stuff happens because people are assholes! Sometimes you can be in the wrong place and the wrong time. Stop blaming individuals for their misfortune, for the love of God! Oh, by the way, once I finish reading The Secret, you'll get more insight about how I truly feel about this mindset. Well, consciousness is always expanding as is information, right? So all you have to do is talk to a 25-year-old and you go, "Whoa, kids are smarter than we were." At least the kids I'm talking to. Especially in consciousness, in vibration, in expansion. So books are the same. They're written by people. So as we evolve and grow, books do too.The company’s co-founder and former president, Ed Catmull, wrote Creativity, Inc. for business leaders who want to incorporate Pixar-level creativity into their own culture. A relationship will not save you. I agree with this. The Hollywood ideal of someone else "completing" you is always shoved in our faces, however, and we grow with this idea. Classic Disney movies - someday, my prince will come and rescue me. And don't we all have this fantasy, anyway, no matter how intellectually unsound we KNOW it is? It's not acting on it that is the lesson to be learned here. You do not need someone else to be complete; you are complete all by yourself. In the Company of Women is a coffee table collection of photos and profiles of creative women filled with heaps of inspiration. Here's how it works. Here's how it works. The people who I think are destined to be writers, y'all, like Steven Pressfield and you and Van Jones and Liz Gilbert and Cheryl Strayed and Terry McMillan and on and on. Y'all are destined to be writers. So you knew growing up that you had big shit to do here. I mean, we all have an idea. I think we're all hardwired for what we're here to do. So I think everyone across the board has some kind of idea. But especially the people that are going to be touching millions of people, they really have an idea. Thank you so much, Emma. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Thank you for coming out tonight. Really appreciate you guys.

But most people, I would say, they start hitting that resistance both internal and external and they get dejected and they stop at some point. Oftentimes that Steven, our friend Steven Pressfield talks about, they'll stop right at the end. I mean, Steven said on my podcast, and then in the book, he blew up his life when he was 99% done with a book. And that happens a lot. I have to fight it all the time too. Marie Forleo: Honestly, even if you don’t want to write a book ever, there is a good chance that you have something you want to share with the world. Maybe it’s an idea, it’s a product, it’s a service, something that you have to get the message out about. And I believe, personally, one of the most powerful skills in the world is the ability to articulate your ideas in a way that’s clear and inspires people to take action. And, yes, that is a skill. It’s one that anyone can learn and develop. I don't think so with myself, because I had a really kind of tumultuous first marriage. So I was married for 19 years and we fought more in one month than I had fought with anybody in my entire life, everybody combined. So we radically loved each other and we had lots of drama. And then we had a kid. Really great recipe, right? And then a million animals. And then my parents were dying. I moved home to take care of them and on and on and on. Whether you want to leave a dead-end job, heal a relationship, grow a business, master your money, or just find two free hours in your day, Everything is Figureoutable will train your brain to think more positively and help you break down any dream into manageable steps. If you're having trouble solving a problem or reaching a dream, the problem isn't you. It's that you haven't yet installed the one belief that changes everything.

Adopt a gentle, inquisitive approach to self-discovery . Be innocently curious. When you see something about yourself say, 'Oh… interesting' or 'Huh, look at that.' Simply observe what exists without trying to change it." I'm a freaking mess. I'm a total mess. I'm like, "I'm shit. No one's going to want this. They already know it." It's literally a mess. And I've been doing this for over 20 frigging years. I'm like, "This shit does not go away." I’ve since gone on to get a well paying job and run my own business on the side. I have a range of power tools and my very own toolbox to flip a new four-bedroom house by the sea in Ireland. I passed Marie’s mantra on through word and action to my four children. Three of them have flown the coop and are studying law, accountancy, and psychology. They are living and working independently from me without a single loan. Marie’s mantra is their mantra as well as mine and I know they’ll pass it on to their children in the future.