Even if you're sick, don't stop building your business.
Channel: George Kao
Date: 2016-02-16

I'm sick today, having caught a cold from my little nephew in frigid Long Island NY.

I could've taken the week off, but I'm not deathly ill, gratefully... just uncomfortable with lots of stuffiness, sneezes, 10 times an hour nose-blowing, woozy-headedness, occasional random aches, pains and chills.

I decided to make this video anyway, because I was planning on it. 

This video is imperfect as a result... but the truth is that *all* of my videos are imperfect.

Yet, it's equally true that all of my videos are perfect representations of my thoughts and being at that moment in my life.

I could have made an easy excuse that I'm going to stop building my business, my content, my audience, just because I'm not feeling physically well right now.

But I can talk for 3-5 minutes without coughing or nose-blowing.  So I went ahead and made the video, as a testament to the fact that imperfect progress, is still progress.

Over the 7 years I've been coaching/teaching entrepreneurs full-time, I've had the privilege of interacting with thousands of them.  

Unfortunately, many of them allow excuses to stop their progress toward their dreams.  They're ill.  Or their family member is ill.  Or they just ended a relationship.  (Incidentally this is true of several of my current clients... they are successful entrepreneurs because even though they have over the years gone through breakups, some quite difficult, they kept going in their business.)

You may say that I'm being too harsh on myself: I should be resting and doing no business activities at all.  In fact I am taking a lot more naps than usual, and overall doing more self-care.  I also postponed 2-hour class I was supposed to teach tomorrow, because I'd be coughing all throughout.

And yet, I'm still working on my slideshow and other projects, a few minutes here and there as I can.

If you let your excuses stop you from building your business, I would turn it around and say, actually, you might be being too harsh on *yourself*.  

Why is that?  Because you believe that unless you can perform at your best, you shouldn't be performing at all.  

Now, that is being harsh and severe to yourself.

What if everything you do is already, in a higher perspective, perfect... because you are always a work in progress?   What if you are profoundly taken care of by an unspeakably loving higher power, and no "mistake" you make can alter the fact that you have a magnificent destiny?   

I believe it.  I hope you do as well.

If so, I invite you to come back to that faith, that deep knowing.

From that place, you can keep learning and making contributions in your business and to your audience, even when you're not at your best.  

Interestingly, you'll probably find that from the sense of fulfillment and joy you receive from growing, you'll heal faster.  

At the same time, take more naps, and drink more warm nourishing liquids :-)

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