hey it's Marie and welcome to another episode of the Marie forleo podcast and marietv the place to be to create a business and life you love now if you ever get inspired by hearing about other people's success but then simultaneously kind of feel like crap that you're either too old or that you've missed the boat and that life has just passed you by you are gonna love today's episode our question today comes from Farrah who writes hi Marie I was watching an episode of your Show recently and it made me both happy and sad sometimes
when I hear other successful women's stories I feel so behind at 46 I'm still trying to get to the things I really want to do don't get me wrong I have a wonderful husband kids my own business family and friends but I'm still not expressing a lot of the creative ideas I have in me I wonder if time has run out and I'll never get to do all the things I want to do so my question is how do you deal with the fear that life has passed you by Farah Farah Farah thank you so
much for this question it is such a common experience especially for ambitious multi-passionate creatives like us people who have so many ideas right and so many gifts and experiences that we want to have during our relatively short time on planet Earth so first up let me tell you you said I wonder if time has run out no woman your time has not run out those are a hundred percent fats and the reason we know that is true is because you're still alive and you're still breathing am I right and to be super honest 46 in
today's world that is still really young and if you're taking good care of yourself both inside and out you have barely crossed the halfway mark which means that God willing you've got decades and Decades of possibility and Creation in front of you so now let's answer your question how do you deal with the fear that life has passed you by so there are two simple steps that you can take right now to make sure that all of your remaining months and years will be as creatively fulfilling as humanly possible step number one I want you
to write down all of those things that you say you really want to do so in your question Farah you shared but I'm still not expressing a lot of the creative ideas I have in me I worry I'll never be able to do all the things I want to do so my suspicion here is that you actually have loads of ideas swirling around in your head or just fragments of things that you fantasize about or that you get seduced by but you've never actually taken the time to write all of your creative ideas down so
you can look at them objectively in one place so look whether this takes you like 20 minutes or three hours or four days I don't care I want you to get everything out of your head and clarify it on the page why is that first because we actually need to know like how many creative ideas are we really dealing with here is it 10 is it 76 is it 2047 we don't know until you write each of them down very clearly and specifically and second I promise you this writing everything down is going to feel
like this enormous creative colonic right it's gonna unclog and release so much of The Angst and the fear and the worry that's been stagnating inside of you now look once you have all of your ideas out of your head and onto the page you are ready for step number two which is decide what's most important to you at this stage and season of your life our priorities can and should change as we grow and evolve right I mean the creative projects or the things that we want to focus on they're going to be different depending
on whether we're a teenager or we're in our 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s and so on it's also going to be very different depending on our life circumstances our health our family responsibilities like that so I want you to take a look at your big list right of all your creative ideas and really I need you to get real with yourself so out of everything that you wrote down what is the single most important project that you want to focus on this year what is truly most important to you creatively at this current stage
and season of your life I don't want you to listen to your head now I need you to tap into your heart so for example from 2018 to 2019-ish the very most important creative project for me at that time was writing and Publishing everything is figureoutable right so I consciously decided that that was the most important creative project and that decision allowed me to focus on that and hardly anything else then when I think back to the beginning of 2021 I decided that my most important creative project for me for the next about six months
was going to be giving birth to my time genius program which by the way you should really join it's open right now and in that program I show you exactly how to decide what's most important to you and then I give you all of my personal tools and my practices so you can actually get it done if you want to learn more you can check it out at jointimekenius.com the bottom line is really this deciding what's most important for you to create at this specific stage and season of your life whether that's the next six
months 12 months 36 months doesn't really matter once you know what's most important to you right now it becomes so much easier to ignore what's not now of course once you have that decision Farrah then you have to take consistent committed action to bring that project to life no matter what it is and here's the best part that part of the equation it's not super complicated but you do need a system in order to get it done and there are certain tricks and science-backed strategies that I personally use especially as someone who's multi-passionate as someone
who has an ADHD brain to really get my most important projects done in record time and once again that's all my time genius program right so if you want my help with that just go to jointimegenius.com we'd love to have you last but not least you add asked how do you deal with the fear that life has passed you by right emphasis on fear I want to remind you of something we talk about and everything is figureoutable and it's super applicable here so the best way that I've ever found to deal with the fear of
anything is by taking action now for you that means complete the two steps that we just talked about and then take consistent action toward your most important creative dream for this year because in my experience action is the antidote to fear action metabolizes fear it transforms it it transmutes it into learning and growth and fulfillment and before long you're going to be so busy living those creative dreams that it wouldn't even occur to you that you could possibly be missing out on anything promise so that was my a to your Q Pharaoh I really do
hope it helps and I need you woman to start taking action now get yourself into time genius if it's the right fit for you and of course always let me know how it goes now I would love to hear from you I'm super curious so what's the most important creative project that you are focused on at this stage and season of your life and tell me I want to know about the difference it's going to make in your life and possibly even the lives of others once you get it done let me know all that
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