Mary Marantz

It's all been done before. I can't start until it's perfect. What if people criticize me? What if my voice doesn't matter? What if it's already too late? For anyone stuck in the same tired, broken scripts fear uses on all of us to keep us from showing up and living out our callings, It's All Been Done Before (and Other Lies Fear Told Me) will help you quit playing small, one small shift at a time. With incisive questions for reflection and practical prompts designed to help you shift your thinking, bestselling author Mary Marantz is the trustworthy guide you've been waiting for. In Underestimated, she delivered a knockout punch to playing small, going toe to toe with all the different faces fear uses. She created this journal to help you do the same. It is a systematic takedown of all the perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, impostor syndrome, second-guessing, self-sabotaging, and hiding in plain sight that has kept you sleeping on the dream for far too long. It's time for a wake-up call. If you give Mary just 5 to 10 minutes a day, she'll help you stop making excuses, stop worrying about other people's opinions, and stop believing the lies that keep you stuck year after year. If you're ready to name the fear and move forward anyway, you're ready for the It's All Been Done Before (and Other Lies Fear Told Me).

It's all been done. I can't start until it's perfect. What if the critics come? What if I start and then can't follow through? What if my voice doesn't matter? What if I don't actually matter? What if it's already too late? Sound familiar? Do you find that year after year you stay stuck in the same tired, broken scripts fear uses on all of us? It's time for a wake-up call. Because so often when faced with the choice between creating nothing and creating failure, we choose nothing. Another year goes by. The clock goes on ticking. And the world is worse for our absence. It's time to move from stuck to start. This book does the heavy lifting to dismantle all the lies fear uses, move you out of an endless spiral of your own excuses (not to mention other people's opinions), and bring you right up to a threshold of no return--this place where we become people who feel the fear and move forward anyway. With equal parts powerful prose and tactical action steps, Underestimated will become the essential go-to field guide for anyone who is ready to once and for all quit playing small.

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