The question is what do you do when you don't feel your best. What what do you do when you're not operating at your best. What do you when you don't feel like shooting. A video or making a phone call or or doing your work with inspired action.

What do you do in that moment. This is one i learned a long time ago that has served me and i've shared it with my son he now does it on the tennis court. And it basically goes like i now command my conscious and unconscious mind to give me the skills. The talent.

The ability the humor. The knowledge whatever it takes to show these people to get these people to change your life starting right now baby right now. And you know what do that over and over and over and over and over and it doesn't matter. What's happening out here it doesn't matter.

What the noise is it doesn't matter what the promise is because i'm commanding my unconscious and conscious mind to follow through and be my very best and you know what that's what people expect look i've been there you've been there i reflect back down a time when i was in new york. Doing an event. We had 1100 agents. There and it was this rocking three day event and i was you know of course as the seminar leader.

I got to be super inspired and fired up but on the friday after that day. I was going into surgery. I was given a you know message from a doctor saying you've got melanoma. We've got to go in we've got to take this thing out and it wasn't a radical surgery.

But it was a surgery. Nonetheless and somebody said to me before i got on stage hey man you seem a little off how you doing and it reminded me that you know what we've all been there before and and i don't wish that on anyone you or anyone you love. But we've all been in that situation. Where we have got to be on point.

There was 1100 people sitting inside that room ready to go like they wanted the best of me. And i want to deliver the best of me. But in the back of my mind. I had that nagging oh man on friday.

I know what's going down like and it's so there's so much uncertainty in that so what do you do what do you do and my response is i focus on putting myself in the best possible state. Emotionally over and over and over and just like you would condition yourself. If you wanted to be a better athlete or you want to condition yourself to be a better sales person or a better lover with your spouse you want to keep you know doing the the plays. If you will that work i had to put myself in the best possible state.

Now you and i both know this like if i say to you hey things aren't going your way you're probably not walking around like this you don't have a big smile on your face your arms aren't in the air. Because the moment you do this and you look up in the sky and you put a big smile on your face. It's kind of hard to go i'm depressed because in this physical state. You are more optimistic more positive.

We know in human psychology. Just by smiling you get a 30 percent lift. Now you might say to me. But tom doesn't that fall into the fake it till you make it look sometimes we have to perform and things aren't going our way and you've got to ask yourself am.

I going to allow this situation to destroy my performance destroy my situation take a piece of my future or can i isolate that just for today just for a phone call just for one meeting and go out there and give my absolute best. And if the answer is yes. Then you've got to run a pattern that works and for me. I would i would stand backstage.

You know i now command my conscious unconscious mind i would do my affirmations. I'd get myself fired up i would not have any conversations about the drama. I would be focusing on my clients who am i here to serve what am i committed to what am i all about how am i going to make this the best event. I've ever done how am i going to turn this this potential moment of tragedy into absolute triumph.

You move your body the right way you put a smile on your face you ask yourself better quality questions and then you go out and you deliver look the world doesn't care that we're having a bad day sorry to be the bearer of bad news. No one cares and the next appointment you go on and the next phone call you make could be the most important phone call or appointment of your life. You got to show up at level 10. No matter.

What you got to show up at your very best no matter. What look the simple answer is we all have bad days. We all have bad moments. We all have deals fall apart.

We all have things that don't go our way. But in that moment don't lose you don't lose the energy don't lose the passion you can persevere you can get through it read books like man's search for meaning by dr. Victor frankel. And you will realize that inside of you the human spirit.

What makes you so special is just ready to come out it's not about the bad situation. It's about how you show up that is what matters. Most.