I translate "begin with the end in mind" as "know your true intention," because your intention will dictate the result of any action, (not the plan, but the underline intent). To me this Steven Covey quote does not mean "know exactly where you want to be in 5 years." Hope that little shift helps!

A plan is great but just getting started is way more important. In my business, I spent much time just perfecting my game by thousands of tiny tweaks. Some times a strict plan can work against you because running a business takes awareness of what works and what doesn't and doing what works even if it's off plan.

I have been watching Marie TV from the first episode, where you started out with your webcam. I totally believe that the right way will unfold as soon as you take action. If you show that you really want it, work hard and do everything you can, the next steps will unfold. You grow through the process, not by planning the process. Follow your heart and trust that the right opportunities will show up at the right time.

@alexandrac.macarthur4785

10 жыл бұрын

"You grow through the process, not by planning the process." - Well said!!

@AniOwo

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Great video Marie! :) I have a 3 year goal broken down into 1 year plans then broken down into monthly plans then broken down into weekly plans, then broken down into daily plans. I want to open my own gym and I am create a fan base and clientel now. Basically getting exposer. During the end of this year I will plan for next year and so on and so forth. My adivce for those who don't have the clear vision is to not kill there selves over it but try and do there part. Learn and experiance things you might be interested in. Seek and you will find. :) I hope that helped you :)

For someone like me who has trouble focusing and staying on track, my vision became clearer when I recognized that I wanted that feeling and that exhilaration of "I love my job!" I wanted to feel that passion to stay focused. You can't see the road ahead of you, but you just know you're reaching for that destination. Just know what you want!

Very good episode Marie...truth be told, this is my first time watching U, but I like your approach...the strategic part of business planning, in the beginning phases, you can plan all you want, however, as you start to work your plan new information becomes available and many times you have to adjust your plan in a new direction...if you want to be successful. Remember the old phrase about you cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel... we all know as you go down the tunnel, you can see farther, and what we see may be very different than what we planned to see. This is the way in many new businesses and especially now, when things change so quickly. Keep up the great videos!

marieforleo I absolutely love how your weekly MarieTV episodes inspire me to think with gratitude! This one is no exception. An entrepreneur for over 40 years now, I've operated on the adage, "Fail to plan, plan to fail." One of the lessons I learned early is that while it's important to plan, accept that plans are subject to change and it's up to me to monitor and revise them. Monitoring plans can be a challenge but with today's affordable technologies to assist us (Google Calendar + smart phones, etc.) there is just no excuse. I'm grateful to have a mind open to learning and change. That's just one of the reasons I enrolled in your 2014 B-School. :-)

That's awesome marie. It's funny... its only yesterday I was practicing answering this question in front of a mirror, in case it pops up on an interview in the near future. It was very similar to your answer. But im going to listen to this video again, loved it so much!!! You are making an amazing impact on the world. So well done. Xx

Awesome! I used to try the whole strategic planning thing. Gave up on it. Because anything is possible and our potential is unlimited, I don't believe we are able to even conceive of how big we can be. By growing where you're planted and pursuing your own maximum potential in each and everything you do, a person can achieve MUCH MUCH MORE than they could have imagined. Did Gates, or Jobs or ANY of the great icons of business EVER think they'd have accomplished what they did? I doubt it. You are awesome. Love your videos and your perspectives. Keep up the great work!

This video is awesome I'm graduating college this semester and I am a marketing major at this point I just have to have faith that I will find the right path!! Thanks Marie

I'm so glad this awesome lady makes TV shows every week! So inspiring and engaging!

I always love your Tuesday Q&A Marie. And today--other than completely identifying with not being able to envision more than 6 months ahead-- I particularly LOVED YOUR DRESS!!

Thanks so much Marie! The notion of thinking long-term ultimate goals is so very overwhelming because there are so many possibilities. I feel like the weight has lifted off my shoulders. Successful people like you sure keep it real

Anyone else feel like Marie was especially hyper today? Loved it!

Raising children, family, career, marriage all those COMMITMENTS drove decisions and success for 2-5-10 plans with revisions, of course, along the way. I did not have much vision for the empty nester life and poof - Divorce. Total freedom, like in my 20's is here and I welcome it. It's familiar, blanched with flashbacks of the 1980's. Deep Spiritual journeys, exploring creativity, business ideas, and DREAMING. The latter can spin and churn as months, even years go by. Making a DECISION and taking ACTION has been critical to sorting through, Marie, you are right, I can't see 5 years right now, but I am moving towards something. Having faith in something big. It's work. The dreamer wanted it to land in my lap, fall from the heavens, receive a divine blessing. It did not help me sort or navigate CHOICES. Life is the divine blessing and it's full of Choices. And, I can always change my mind.

Thanks for this video. Your vision will change and change and change, I agree that mini goals/steps get you to where you want to go as long as you're constantly moving forward. It's a fun ride!

I am chasing a dream that seems unrealistic, but this is so inspiring thank you！

It is just impossible to do a 5 year plan sometimes. I tried so hard and I was MISERABLE. Now my mantra is "Go with what you're passionate about RIGHT NOW. Make something. Write down the ideas you want to do on a later date and prepare to launch them on a later date." For example, I one day I want to do an illustrated story book for girls. I"m not nearly as motivated to do that right now as I am to do travel videos (which I have all the resources to do now and to do well). I'm not the drawer I want to be yet, as I've taken a break from drawing for ten years, so instead of pushing myself to do this project RIGHT now I'm taking drawing classes until the dots all connect.

@alexandrac.macarthur4785

10 жыл бұрын

David Platt Agreed. I keep a notebook with all my ideas. That way they are captured in case I forget or want to get to them later. Some I work on, some I don't. Like it as we may, sometimes we just have to let things unfold naturally!

I just sent this video over to a dear client of mine who needs to hear it.

I'm totally the same way! I'm such a multipassionate entrepreneur! I'm in that place of wanting to help people, wanting to pursue my art, wanting to make a difference, and wanting to be successful! I gotta continue to bust my buns in all my areas like you Marie! Such an inspiration :)

5 year or even 10 year plan is a nice helper. It helps me. Before I made it I spend a lot of time doing wrong things and being at procrastination. It helps to concentrate and focus and plan time which is very important. However it's often I sit back and change it as my life goes and something I tried and tested become uninteresting or useless for me. Having a plan like walking with a map but without compass - you see the final aim but you dont know which road to choose, so you just walk and your heart works as a compass.

I am so glad about this video. I mean, I have had this question burning for so long. I too have multiple things I would love to pursue, but it's just difficult to find a balance point for all of them. So I'm gonna follow your advise Marie, and bring my "A" game to everything I want to and intend to do. Thanks so much once again for this video...

OMG! This was the best video ever!! Im a dancer and i love all those things and more! Getting me stuck on what to do next ! Thanks marie!!!!

I believe the step by step to the staircase example I use it to motivate me everyday I'm feeling blah, first coffee, then, go, each step is closer to the feeling of Yes I can do this, I got this.

Awesome Q & A Tuesday! Thanks!

Oh man... I love this woman!

I love this video, I feel like this is were I am at this moment. I'm an artist, I know I want to make this that people will love and I could make a living off. But there are so may things I love working with. Clay, paints, and even a few stuffed animals. But this makes me feel so much better about being fuzzy with my path. Your a life saver. :)

I really loved this one, you're amazing Marie, thank you !!!

Great video. As always, you are amazing Marie.

Yes .. thanks so much Mrs Marie Forleo .. kiss hand

Well said Marie! Great video!

Marie love the show. It has been hard seeing that far in the future especially when I love so many things. So I can relate. I think being able to take small bits like 6 month plans which I like to call "6 month blue print". I figure maybe if I focus on only one or two things and create a simple blue print to get there. Then I can truth find out is it is the right direction are not. The truth is we must all go through the process and allow it to make us. So I say fall in love with the process because it can be gentle or rough but one thing is true it will happen even if you don't plan for it. Thanks for the insight you rock.

Thankx so much Gr8 tips 👌 Yep Take First Step in Faith This is my Fav Quote too

I am doing something today this decision will change my life. So I can follow my dreams. Worked my ass off last 5 full years to save upp $$$. And this helps thank you for this video. I just need to take few steps n front f me and I have faith rest will emerge too! Marie you kick a$$

I really enjoy your videos marieforleo You are now added to my "must watch" list!! thanks

My long term vision is very clear and very different from where I currently am. I am a one-man show right now for my marketing business but in everything I write or talk about I say "we" or "the team" to help me have that vision of having a bigger company with many accounts. cc Marie Forleo

Love this girl !!! She is a great person !!!!

So well stated Marie.

I don't know about "long term" vision. I have a good idea of where I want to be a year from now and a strategy of how to get there. I have few places I would like to be 5-10 years from now, but not sure which one I'll end up on. I think the important thing though is that my short term strategy is in line with my long term vision(s) and will help me get there.

You have know idea how much I needed to year that! :) Thanks Marie

Just take action otherwise you will over think things and never start that is where fear stars. Like an airplane always makes adjustments along the way does not travel in a straight line...:)

So surprised by the fact that you used to be a badass hiphop dance teacher, haha! You’re the coolest ever!!

I love you Marie! You're so awesome! "all of us are special and none of us are special" ....the paradox of life! ...hilarious!! :)

During every one of your videos I'm like OH SHE SO GOOD

I really love your personality! Great advice too. :D

Wow, I am so blessed that someone sent me your link to watch this video especially at this moment. Talk about divine timing :) I truly believe that NO ONE has their long term vision written in stone :) because our world is ever evolving and changing. My share would be to keep moving forward and learning-it's the only way to go :) My story is still being written & yes, there are days when I wish I could hit the easy button to propel me forward-it's the human part of me. As Willie Nelson once shared it took him 50 years to become an overnight success! :) Vibrational Thanks Debbie A. Anderson

I think my favorite part is in the bloopers..."We're all special and none of us are special." :)

I need my Marie Forleo in this black dress! «…So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up!»

Marie is genius.

Best episode ever!!♥

Learning Getting Things Done is the tool for guaranteed success in anything. If you apply it daily that is.

I want to believe that but I ain't so sure. maybe it depends. For me is much more about emotion associated to the goal, usally within the path and not in the goal itself. I can tell you exacly how I want to feel in 30yrs from now even if i don't have a clue of what am I going to do in the next 5 yrs. Well I have a plan, maybe because of that too. MarieTV you are awesome :)

Great video and I LOVE your outfit :)

Your hair is freakin perfect in every episode!! 👌

Marie, I like your videos!

AH! Marie had a Fran Dresher moment LOL!

Amazing!

OH MY GDD I AM THE MULTI-PASSIONATE ENTREPRENEUR!

Great answer!!! :D

Thank you!

Actually, I did have a long term vision, however, it's doesn't seem like a plan, but a wish 😄. And as usual, it takes longer than the wish to make it happened.

BTW sometimes, goals can actually LIMIT us.

I needed this. I'm 27 and have many passions. I know I want to make a difference by showing people that they can push past their figurative or real paralysis but I don't know how that translates in a business. Any more advice?

Good advice!! If you look for your greatest passion (out of all your passions) that you have the most ability to act on at any particular moment & continue to act on it, viewing everything as constructive/positive in some way, things should fall into place. I like the five year plan though. It's so much easier to think big when you're envisioning a 5 year plan without expectation that it has to be exactly as envisioned. 6 months is another story entirely. That seems to exceed the threshold of believability. p.s. It's OK to say ass...why beep? at 3:41 you say bad ass with no beeps lol Maybe it was just for effect... ~Much love

Somebody went H.A.M. today. THat blep woke me up, and so did your message. Great Job.

great Q. great answer.

And what do you suggest to say when (in interviews) they ask you "Where/What do you see yourself doing in 5 years time?"? Thank you sooooooo much ;-)

Your hair is very good

I wanna be like u when I grow up lol

Nope. Have a general goal and work hard everyday to get better at it.

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It's been 5 years have you change your mind on having the five year plan?

Nice dear friend

So how did you bring in more people into your hip hop class??

Whenever I hear the term "five year plan" I think about stalin and the ussr. So she is correct you really don't need a five year plan for anything.

I think there is a tone in your voice ?

It's 5 Years later, Do you wish you did?🤔

Thanks for sharing your story, very inspiring! My creative acronym: FAITH: "Fearless Attitude in thy Heart"! by Marlene Rose Besso

"I, I, I, I, I..." 🙄

one of my favorite quotes

Why did you censor yourself saying "ass"?