Everything is Figureoutable: The #1 New York Times Bestseller

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Dude, it's always shit and it never goes away. Sabaa Tahir who was just nominated for the National Book Award for All My Rage, she used to work at the Washington Post, and she said it was the coolest thing to see that these Pulitzer Prize winning journalists would just turn in crap the first time they turned in a story. And then they would work with it and work with it. And over time it would become magnificent, but it was always crap. She says the same thing about her work. Cheryl Strayed says the same thing. So I have a friend of mine who is a painter and she's awesome. We were talking just about the creative process and I was going into a new project and I said, "I'm taking myself away." I was going to just fly across the country. Josh is going to be in New York. I was going to be in LA for a while to just kind of get into it.

Marie Forleo: Oh, well that was so much fun. Thank goodness we got to at least do one B-School meetup. All right. We’re ready. Okay. In this country, we have a real entertainment zombie sort of approach to our time. I think the national average is five hours of television a day. I mean, we take less vacation time than medieval peasants. You hear that? Less vacation time than medieval peasants. So you've got to fuel your life with good stuff. Good food, good water, good habits. The only part of this book that I found myself really resisting is the chapter on appearance. Obviously, if you go around all smelly and grubby and dressed like a slob, that's plenty resistible. She's clearly right about that. But still, I don't like the advice to dress better and wear makeup. Blech!

Don't be insecure. (Isn't that kind of the same? Usually needy people are already insecure, so now you have TWO strikes, ladies)! a b "Interview: Marie Forleo". Archived from the original on April 13, 2015 . Retrieved December 17, 2014. 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. But, Merary," you may ask, "Does she ever tell you how to look irresistible?" Of course, she does! Get a personal image consultant (or just buy books from the What Not To Wear series,) get your hair done, put on makeup, drink water, eat well, exercise, just get it together, woman! Never mind that this is common sense, but I said it so it's valid! I'm not going to spend too much time on it because you should know this already (DUH!), just do it! That was the warning folks gave me when I shared I was heading to London for my Everything is Figureoutable book tour.

So I want to start with something that I've heard a ton in my own career when people show up on my doorstep, and I would assume it's the same thing for books. This idea that it's all already been done before. Oh my gosh, I have an idea for a book about divorce, or food, or business, or spirituality, whatever the topic might be. Yet people have this voice saying like, "Oh my God, it's all been done before." What would you say to that person? Why do I feel that this is manipulative? It is very much grounded in victim-blaming and no amount of "living in the moment" is going to remediate how I should feel about any misfortune. If I get fired from a job, am I really going to say "this is what I wanted"? No, I'm allowed to be upset! People are allowed to have negative feelings, no one truly is going to hold it against them. Sure, I understand if you are a negative person and treat others like trash, you are not going to be likable, but I get the sense that if you a person with trauma, Forleo is not going to have much sympathy for you. Change your mindset, it's NOT that hard!That state of total absorption in something you love is what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls “flow” — he believes it’s the happiest we ever are. In this episode of MarieTV we do have some adult language, so if you have little ones around grab your headphones now. I'm single in my early thirties; I have no patience for random dates. If I need a list to help me pare down idiots who are still living the bachelor lifestyle, so be it. 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. In my experience, when you become aware of a behavior that's been getting in your way and simply notice it--without judging yourself for what you discover--that behavior melts away on its own. ..."

Have you ever struggled to bring a creative vision to life? Welcome to the club. I’ve yet to meet a single human who hasn’t felt frustrated and overwhelmed by the creative process. So, yah. The book’s awesome. In the same league as some of my other favorites like Deep Work, Atomic Habits, and The 5 Second Rule. (In fact, on my chalkboard right now, I actually have “EVERYTHING IS FIGUREOUTABLE” right above “5-4-3-2-1-GO!” <- Winning combo!) 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.Marie Forleo: If you’ve listened to this show for any amount of time, you know I often interview authors about their books, but given everything that’s happening right now, I thought it would be fun to curate a little reading list just for you specifically about creativity. You can find the full list of all the books on the blog if you google, “Marie Forleo books to read on creativity.” 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."