 this video right now. The conditions are not optimal, I'm in a hotel room, the lighting is kind of weird and to be honest I am uninspired right now and most of the time when I work. This is different from what you might see elsewhere on Instagram or YouTube or wherever you follow the sort of gurus of business that some of them always look like they're on vacation, right? Always look like they're inspired and so you expect that oh so something must be wrong with me if I'm not inspired all the time like them and that I haven't achieved this vacation 24-7 lifestyle and maybe and that's what I'm supposed to do so if I'm supposed to achieve that kind of lifestyle I need millions and millions of dollars and be making millions of dollars a year which then stresses the heck out of you and makes you do things that you regret so let me tell you what I think is actually going on for most of us who do succeed we work in spite of not feeling inspired but here's the key a couple of things that will hopefully come for you here once I get going okay once I get going I inevitably at some point during my work period I will feel it in the flow again but it took that initial period of discomfort to get to the flow towards the end of it and when I finish the work session I feel proud I feel grateful I feel glad that I did what I did just like I'll be I'll feel glad that I've made this video for you all that's when I know I am on purpose people that's when I know being on purpose is not being on vacation or you know being being at some conference or retreat when I'm feeling really up and oh my god this is amazing I'm so motivated that's not that's not being on purpose being on purpose is when I am serving others it's when I'm expressing my authentic truth that's when I'm on purpose and doing that is usually not comfortable in the beginning of the thing like I didn't feel like starting this video so if I followed my my intuition or or if I followed whatever I felt like doing I wouldn't be on this video right now and if you find benefit from this video then you wouldn't have gotten the benefit but I said it's on my schedule to make my Instagram video right now so I'm gonna show up I'm gonna make it anyway and I'm I have this topic and I'll just see how it goes now the thing is I've got way more practice than you do probably because I've shown up consistently for years and so I've got a lot of practice I'm very confident that just showing up now and doing this but I wasn't like this in the beginning but I did it anyway in the beginning I showed up falteringly I showed up with you know not knowing exactly what I was going to say I showed up with lots of you know ums and ahs and you know gaps in logic and even now it's not great okay but I'm here anyway and as I do this more and more and as you do it more and more you're going to become more confident and you're going to be able to tweak how you do it so you keep improving over time but it's not comfortable in any work session at the beginning usually not sometimes you're lucky and you are but for me I'm inspired one percent of my day I'm not inspired 99 percent of my day and the one percent of my day you know what I'm inspired I'm inspired like when I'm walking my dog and suddenly an idea comes to me like oh that'll be a great video idea I stopped my dog in the moment he's very patient with me he waits for me for 30 to 60 seconds while I write the idea on the phone so that when it's time to make my video I pull out that idea and I'm not feeling inspired right now but I have that idea and I'm going to just talk it's going to talk now of course I've got lots of practice like I said but in the beginning the same thing talk falteringly I'm not sure I'm going to say but okay so in the beginning I didn't do live videos I did three to five takes for every video so I kind of gave myself a little bit of practice before I uploaded something now I'm confident I can do live videos and that's fine right but I'm inspired one percent of the day when I'm on my dog walk and I get that idea most of the dog walk I'm not inspired or and I'm in the shower sometimes I'm lucky and I get an idea right I'll write it down okay I have something called Aqua notes which you can get on Amazon or wherever else it's like a thing that you put on your shower it's $20 or something and you could write when you're in your shower it's a waterproof paper and pencil right very simple technology but but the the thing that makes the difference in my business or in in my life is not that one percent of the day when I'm inspired no it's the 99% of the day when I'm working uninspired but willing and so that's my question for you can you are you willing to say okay George I I get it now I'm going to be uninspired most of the day but I'm going to be willing to work through the uninspired moments I'm going to be willing to work through the uncomfortable moments and the suboptimal conditions which is most of the time I'm working in suboptimal conditions there's some construction going on outside my house or you know I'm not just I don't feel like working on the project that that's all my schedule to work on but I do it anyway and within sometimes five minutes or sometimes half an hour sometimes 45 minutes I'm in the flow of the project because it takes time to just get into it and like remember what I'm doing and or visit my notes and try to figure out what the next steps are it takes time to get into the flow but then at the end of the work session I'm so glad I've worked on great now the course or whatever I'm working on is farther along now now my book is farther along now I've made this video so that's what I'll leave you with uninspired but willing practice working in suboptimal conditions because that is actually the case most of the time I hope this is helpful until the next video get to work and hopefully as you work you'll remember that the purpose of life is to grow in virtues and we grow in virtues by being willing to work through the discomfort remembering remembering that all is working out for you no matter what you will be taken care of no matter what you are on the path to ultimate bliss and love and security and wisdom you cannot screw that up so be willing to work through the discomfort and just practice working through that all right be well