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MARC : Well , it wasn ’ t too long ago we were in that situation . My recommendation is if you ’ re really committed to what you ’ re setting off to go do , and we ’ ve alluded to this before , find one or two people that can help mentor you through it because you ’ re going to have questions . Other than those people that you ’ ve identified and have permission and have a relationship with where you can really ask those questions to say , look , I ’ m committed to this . I ’ ve picked a date , I ’ m gonna have some questions , I ’ m gonna have some fears , help me along through this . Other than those people don ’ t talk about it anymore for so many reasons , one is if you know , you ’ re going to do it and you ’ re committed to it ; talking to people that haven ’ t done it are going to create more doubt . You don ’ t need more opinions about what you ’ ve already decided to do .
Then if you experience any setbacks or if anything gets postponed , the last thing you need to be is the person that constantly talked about what you ’ re going to go do and didn ’ t do it . I think for us , we started to hear that . I started to become aware that too many people knew what we were up to . And we were behind schedule . I didn ’ t like that feeling . I didn ’ t like the feeling of , how ’ s it coming with whatever . Knowing that we didn ’ t have a date or we weren ’ t really any closer to pulling that off than I was when I happened to tell that person six months ago or a year ago or whatnot . So I think there ’ s things that you do in your life and you tell the entire world from the rooftops , like if you want to do a triathlon , you want to trap yourself into it . You tell everybody in the world that you ’ re going to do a triathlon on this particular date and you announce it on Facebook . So the people say , how ’ s the triathlon training going ? You ’ re thinking , it ’ s going great . You know , because you ’ re trapped , you ’ re doing it .
Then there ’ s other things like this that involve a life change and maybe other people and family and friends and perspectives and whatnot that you need to be so committed to it that you actually bite your tongue and only talk about it with the people that you know are going to have your back .
TRISH : I think that ’ s the perfect leaping point for me . When you get yourself a mentor , somebody who ’ s done it , you ’ re moving in the right direction , but managing that voice in your head . If you ’ re talking to the wrong people , that voice in your head is going to get real hyper and hard to manage your fear and really grasping this is just a survival instinct . It ’ s been in me since the beginning of time , and it ’ s here to keep me safe , but it ’ s also here to keep me limited , because in order to be safe , you have to do what ’ s known . In order to do something new , you have to deal with unknowns . If you can manage that voice , that means that you can conquer this amazing gift that ’ s been given to you . That gift is your life . It ’ s the most important thing that you ’ ll ever have . I don ’ t mean to sound too poetic , but it really is . When you really start grasping that and you see there ’ s a limited time . If you have kids , you have a limited amount of summers with them . If you ’ ve had family members that have ever gotten sick before and unfortunately passed away , you realize , wow , life is short . Don ’ t wait for that moment . Get on it , get on it now , quiet the voices saying you ’ ve been successful at other things , you can be successful at whatever you set your mind to . There ’ s going to be ups . There ’ s going to be downs . That doesn ’ t mean it ’ s a failure . That just means you ’ re actually trying . So I say , keep it up , keep moving , go forward one step at a time .
It has been absolutely a pleasure to walk down memory lane and go behind the scenes and hopefully spark how you can Turn Someday into Today just like we did !
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