So if you wake up in the morning and you don’t want to do something, you don’t care enough about yourself. And that’s what you need to really research: “Why am I not doing this for myself?” Because that is the number one purpose in life: it is to better oneself. That’s the only purpose.
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“Because the very purpose is you. You are always the purpose.”
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