Marie Forleo

And then in their mid twenties, they're kind of moving into a different zone or something like that. Anyway, that was my understanding of that world. So to start dancing with no formal training at 26 or 27 sounded crazy. So I sat myself down and I said, okay, look, you love this thing so much. You love music. You love hip hop. You love dance. If you imagine yourself, you're 25 right now.

And they're professional dancers going on tour and music videos by the time they're like 15, 16, 17, you know, like that's their peak. And then in their mid twenties, they're kind of moving into a different zone or something like that. Anyway, that was my understanding of that world. So to start dancing with no formal training at 26 or 27 sounded crazy.

So I sat myself down and I said, okay, look, you love this thing so much. You love music. You love hip hop. You love dance. If you imagine yourself, you're 25 right now. If you imagine yourself 10 years in the future, looking back and realizing you didn't go for this, you didn't actually audition to teach at Crunch. You didn't give this any sort of space or attention. Are you going to regret it?

If you imagine yourself 10 years in the future, looking back and realizing you didn't go for this, you didn't actually audition to teach at Crunch. You didn't give this any sort of space or attention. Are you going to regret it? And when I closed my eyes and imagined myself at 35, 10 years into the future, I was like, oh my God, it would be one of the biggest regrets of my life.

And when I closed my eyes and imagined myself at 35, 10 years into the future, I was like, Oh my God, it would be one of the biggest regrets of my life. And that leaning into my future and trying on a perspective of future me is the 10-year test and anyone can do it. Now, if I would have gotten the answer like, no, I really wouldn't give a shit, then I probably wouldn't have went on an audition.

And that leaning into my future and trying on a perspective of future me is the 10-year test and anyone can do it. Now, if I would have gotten the answer like, no, I really wouldn't give a shit, then I probably wouldn't have went on an audition.

But I did audition and I wound up having this extraordinary career simultaneously to building my coaching practice where I was one of the world's first elite Nike dance athletes. And I got to teach hip hop and salsa and house and all these different dance flavors all around the world.

But I did audition and I wound up having this extraordinary career simultaneously to building my coaching practice where I was one of the world's first elite Nike dance athletes. And I got to teach hip hop and salsa and house and all these different dance flavors simultaneously. all around the world.

And these incredible experiences that would have never happened if I didn't do that 10 year test and get out of a space of fear, thinking that it was like too late at 25. And again, I know how ridiculous that sounds, but in that world, contextually, it made sense.

And these incredible experiences that would have never happened if I didn't do that 10-year test and get out of a space of fear thinking that it was like too late at 25. And again, I know how ridiculous that sounds, but in that world, contextually, it made sense.

Yeah.

One of them is that I'm willing to dive in and not be good at stuff. Like everything I've ever tried when I start out, I'm not good at all. Like terrible. I remember all those times trying out for the cheerleading team and just being like so crestfallen because I was so rejected. It was like, these arms aren't straight and you don't have this. No, no, no.

One of them is that I'm willing to dive in and not be good at stuff. Like everything I've ever tried when I start out, I'm not good at all. Like terrible. I remember all those times trying out for the cheerleading team and just being like so crestfallen because I was so rejected. I was like, these arms aren't straight and you don't have this. No, no, no.

And I was just like, all right, I'm going to try better next time. And I just put myself on video camera to learn, to go, okay, oh, wow, I see how my arms are. Oh, oh, wow, Jesus, I'm a mess. Okay, great. And I think the same thing with coaching. I think the same thing with business. Like I'm not super fast. So a lot of people I think in the world

Sometimes people have these incredible opportunities where they're like, they have, I don't know if it's overnight success, but they're like fast learners. And I don't think I'm like that. I think also one of the pros to this type of personality is like, if I really love something, I'm going to just go for it and dive in and trust that it'll all work out.

I think one of the cons of having personalities like we do is you can sometimes be your own worst enemy. And you can overwork. I think perfectionism is something to really watch out for. Like there's beautiful perfectionism, which means you have high standards. And that's awesome because that's where excellence comes from. And that is outstanding.

And then it can bleed over into some maladaptive forms of it. where nothing is ever good enough. You're never good enough. You can push yourself into burnout and you can be really hard on other people too.

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