And I showed up in my crappy little outfit and I went straight to the back of the room and tried as hard as I could to be invisible. So I took a deep breath, I signed up for a class, and I went for it. That’s how I felt and yet something in me knew I had to do it. And I’m just gonna be there and annoy all the other people in class who are actually real dancers and they’re gonna wonder why am I taking up their space? I was thinking: I am way too old for this. It’s gonna be so hard that I’m gonna run out of the room crying because I can’t keep up. So here are the kind of thoughts that were going through my head at that time: I am gonna make an absolute fool out of myself. They’re all, like, 16 to 20 year old beasts who’ve been in ballet shoes since they were in the womb.
#FOLLOW YOUR FEAR QUOTE PROFESSIONAL#
Now, since I lived in New York City I knew that the place I had to go was Broadway Dance Center, which is intense and it’s filled with the world’s best professional dancers. Second, I was 25 years old, which sadly in the dance world is way over the hill. The only dancing I had ever done was moonwalking in my socks on my mom’s linoleum kitchen floor. So first, I had never taken a professional dance class in my life. I experienced this firsthand back when I wanted to be a dancer so bad but, I had two big things that were working against me. “Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.” And he continues: “The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and the growth of our soul.”
My friend Steven Pressfield talks about this kind of fear in The War of Art and he says: What if I do it and it sucks? Am I gonna destroy my reputation? Am I gonna lose my marriage and my family and wind up living on the streets? And the moment you imagine yourself going for it, you have worries like, you know, will people laugh at me? Will they ignore me? Maybe this isn’t even really an idea. I actually couldn’t do that,” but the deeper, wiser part of you wants this thing so damn bad.
What I am talking about though is the power of following good fear, directive fear, the kind of fear that you feel when you have an idea that just won’t leave you alone, an idea about doing something that you’ve always wanted to do, something that’s different and bold and kind of risky. Nor am I talking about doing anything stupid or irresponsible that could ruin you financially. I’m not talking about following your very useful fear of big moving vehicles and walking in front of a bus. I want to talk about the power of following your fear. And yes, I have said those things too, but today I wanna talk about the power of going in what can often feel like the opposite direction. You know, it seems like you can’t open a book or read a blog post these days without hearing somebody tell you to follow your passion or follow your bliss or follow your heart. Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be to create a business and a life that you love.
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