So I got COVID. It happened, finally, and it brought me much closer to God. Okay, this is an interesting episode. All right, I'm going to get a little weird with you, so stick it out with me because I don't know if it was the brain fog or what the heck it was, but I am back from two weeks of having been away. If you'll notice, we missed two podcast episodes. Two. It hurts. It hurts here. Because we've never missed an episode. We're coming on four years soon.

I got some big announcements coming out. I'm not going to blow one of them. But at this episode, I got another one. The next episode, see, I can't, I can't even talk. I can't put my, I can't put thoughts together. Fricking COVID. All right. So I want to walk you through what my experience with COVID was, how I got it, what it did. And I also want to walk you through

some key lessons I learned it, what it did. And I also

want to walk you through some key lessons I learned as I had an opportunity in time to just be by myself, right? Because what happens when you get COVID? You're quarantined. You stop working. You're resting. You have all this downtime. So you're in your own head and you're thinking. Also, So in my case, it got kind of dicey there for a second, all right?

It got bad.

Now, nothing compared to people who have had it really bad. It got bad enough that I was really concerned about what could happen. Thankfully, what could happen didn't happen. So, like, I curbed real quick, but I don't know, man, it just really made me think. And the biggest thing that happened is I got COVID and it brought me closer to God. And what is that have to do with anything? So I don't really believe in religion of religion. So I don't assign a religion to me, but I do follow the Bible and I follow Jesus. And I think that that's a great thing for all of us to do. And I think like most people in any religion, we are told we should pray every day. We should bring gratitude. We should

pray for the things we want. We should give thanks to God. We should be in communication with God. We should pray at least once a day. And let's just be honest. How many of us actually pray every day? Okay? We tell people all the time, oh, I'm praying for you. I'll pray for you. I'll pray for you. Do we actually ever pray? Very few of us actually sit down and say, oh, I told Sally I was going to pray for her, so let me pray.

So I'll pray for you, I'll pray for you. Do we actually ever pray? Very few of us actually sit down and say,

oh, I told Sally I was going to pray for her, so let me pray. So I'll be honest, I don't really pray near as much as I should. I don't pray a lot at all. Now, on the same side, I am around people that are amazing at it. I've got great role models who pray every day, but I don't. So let's take a step back. What happened? How did I get COVID? And what the heck does this have to do with my prayer

life and bringing me closer to God? So we did this event. every day. But I don't. So let's take a step back. What happened? How did I get COVID? And what the heck

does this have to do with my prayer life and bringing me closer to God? So we did this event at the Learn Center called the Expert Summit, which was a radically huge, massive success. And eventually one of the episodes I'm going to do soon is how I filled that room and what I did and how the event went. I mean, that event was literally a PhD in psychology.

I mean, it was the most articulately well-run event.

People loved it.

They got great value. It was a superb revenue event, broke records. It was a lot of fun. It was four days. Well, three days for the event and a bonus day for some people. So I was up for four days. Exhausted. Exhausted. I would get up at 7.30 in the morning morning get here the event would start at 9 and i would

be on stage and speak and i'd be mingling and talking to people up until like 7 p.m right and then saturday we even had a party so it's like seriously 7 a.m to like midnight and if you know me at all you know i'm an introvert so this stuff takes it all out of me because i'm on stage and then when I'm off stage, I'm mingling with people, and then I'm back on stage, and I'm off stage,

and I'm mingling with people, and everyone wants to take pictures, and everyone wants to shake hands,

and everyone

wants to take pictures, and everyone wants to shake hands, and everyone wants to talk. And this entire

time you're like, what of you has COVID? Well, Monday evening comes by and I feel a little

scratchy throat. Feels a little weird, right? And of course, I'm kind of aware of the fact that like it just got done being around 130 or 140 people that flew in from all over the world.

We had there from Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Dubai, India, South America. I mean, seriously, all over the world. And I don't think much of it because if I'm on stage for four days and I'm speaking, I feel like, I have a scratchy throat to what? except all of a sudden in our Slack channel, one of our team members messages and says,

guys, it just tested positive COVID.

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