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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

When You Have to Get Things Done But You "Don't Feel Like It" | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We all have bad days when we don't feel like doing anything, but the pressure is on and others are relying on you...

Transcript

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0:00.0

So the question is what do you do when you don't feel your best?

0:04.4

What do you do when you're not operating your best?

0:06.5

What do you do when you don't feel like shooting a video or making a phone call

0:10.0

or doing your work with inspired action.

0:12.8

What do you do in that moment?

0:18.8

Look, I've been there, you've been there.

0:21.8

I reflect back down a time when I was in New York doing an event. We had

0:25.4

1100 agents there and it was this rockin three-day event and I was you know

0:29.8

of course as the seminar leader I got to be super inspired and fired up but on the

0:35.0

Friday after that day I was going into surgery. I was given a you know

0:39.9

message from a doctor saying you've got melanoma we've got to go in and we got to

0:43.4

take this thing out and it wasn't a radical surgery but it was a surgery nonetheless

0:47.5

and somebody said to me before I got on stage hey man you seem a little off, how you doing?

0:53.6

And it reminded me that you know what, we've all been there before.

0:57.4

And I don't wish that on anyone, you or anyone you love,

1:00.9

but we've all been in that situation where we have got to be on point.

1:04.6

There was 1,100 people sitting inside that room ready to go, like they wanted the best of me

1:09.6

and I want to deliver the best of me, but in the back of my mind, I had that nagging, oh man,

1:15.4

on Friday, I know what's going down, like, and it's so, there's so much uncertainty in that.

1:19.1

So what do you do?

1:20.7

What do you do?

1:21.4

And my response is, I focus on putting myself in the best possible state

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