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In this world, there are a lot of things that are beyond our control.

But what you do have control over is how you react to whatever happens in your life.

What I now know is that we all become exactly what you believe.

So if you believe that you can do all things because you have been endowed by a power from on high,

given to you by the grace of God,

You believe that, you walk into the world,

understanding that whatever problems you may encounter,

you still have God to lean on.

As I grew, my perception and understanding of what God means grew with me.

I expanded my view of what it means to be a citizen of the universe,

to be a part of the energy field that is omnipotent,

omniscient, all-knowing, and all-present in all things.

And so my confidence comes from knowing that there is something greater than myself,

that I am a part of and is also a part of me.

I call that God, but I do nothing without that understanding understanding.

How I think one masters one's life is to understand that you are co-creating that life with the ultimate creator.

Not understanding that puts you at your own pitiful, meager little will.

And everything is left up to you.

And you can't do it.

You cannot survive You cannot survive in this world by yourself just believing in yourself.

You're not big enough to do it.

I'm not big enough to do it.

Nobody's big enough to do it.

You have to understand that your very presence here as a human being on Earth came from something greater than you.

And not just your parents who wanted to have a child.

The fact that that egg was hit by that particular little sperm in that particular moment and you were created

Wow How amazing is that?

Of all the different choices That had to happen in order for you to be here now What a celebration that is

So when you recognize the mystery of that creation,

all the circumstances that had to configure and reconfigure themselves,

all the questions that we don't have answers to,

you have to know this.

The fact that I'm here matters.

The fact that you're there matters.

This is no accident.

None of us are.

When you do well, people notice.

When you do your best, people notice.

And so wherever you are, always do your best.

And doing your best puts you at the next level.

Nothing about my life is lucky.

Nothing.

A lot of grace, a lot of blessings,

a lot of divine order.

But I don't believe in luck.

For me, luck is preparation,

meeting the moment of opportunity.

There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity.

And so what I would say for myself is that

because of my hand in a hand and a force greater than my own,

I have been prepared in ways that I didn't even know I was being prepared for.

And the truth is, for me and for every person,

every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

A lot of people don't know their purpose.

And if you don't know your purpose,

your immediate goal is to figure that out.

Because otherwise you're just wandering around here.

So the moment you can figure out what it is you're supposed to be doing,

the sooner you are able to get about the business of doing that.

The universe speaks to us always.

First, in whispers.

And a whisper usually in your life feels like, hmm, that's odd.

Or, hmm, that doesn't make any sense.

Or, hmm, is that right?

It just really feels like that.

It's that kind of subtle.

And if you don't pay attention to the whisper,

it gets louder and louder and louder.

And I say, it's like getting thumped upside the head.

You don't pay attention to that.

It's like getting a brick upside your head.

You don't pay attention to that,

the brick wall falls down.

Life is about growth and change.

When you are no longer doing that, that is your whisper.

That is your whisper that I am supposed to do something else.

I am interested in seeing what the rest of the world has to offer me.

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are,

you will never ever reach your personal potential.

You cannot do it.

I have known for a very long time

that I am a blessed person and

that to whom much is given much is also required

that you can't have all of this and not use it for something

that is for the greater good your intention rules your life

and determines the outcome every time it would happen I would say to my team well doesn't matter because Every season,

somebody else was coming out.

One talk show, two talk shows, three talk shows.

There have been over 100 talk shows since we started.

But every time, I would feel like,

all right, got to step up our game,

got to step up our game.

The way you step up your game is not to worry about the other guy in any situation,

because you can't control the other guy.

You cannot control the other guy.

You only have control over yourself.

So it's like running a race.

The energy that it takes to look back and see where the other guys are takes energy away from you,

and if they're too close, it scares you.

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So that's what I would say to my team all the time.

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Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see where the other guy is

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or what the other guy is doing.

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It's not about the other guy.

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It's about what can you do.

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You just need to run that race as hard as you can.

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You need to give it everything you've got all the time for yourself. For yourself.

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What I know is, you got to take responsibility for the space you hold here.

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And understand that the third law of motion,

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which says for every action,

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there's an equal and opposite reaction, that is my religion.

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That is the fundamental construct of my religion.

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And by that, I mean,

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I know that every thought that I think,

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every thought that I have that moves into action is going to create an opposite and equal reaction.

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So everything that I put out into the world is going to come back.

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It's the golden rule on steroids.

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The golden rule on steroids.

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It's true.

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That as you do unto others,

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they will do unto you.

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It's already done.

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There's an energy feel.

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There's an energy flow that I strongly feel in my own life.

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And I know lots of other people who do.

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You're either in flow or out of it.

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And if you're in flow, it's like this.

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It's like this.

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All the time.

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It's like this.

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It's like flowing with the stream.

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And the flow is in direct proportion to the center of yourself,

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where God abides, where universal energy abides,

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where the divine within you abides.

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how far you are from the center,

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from the divineness of yourself,

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from your connection to source energy,

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that which created you, is how out of sync you are with your life,

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regardless of what you call it.

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When you can align with that, nobody can touch you.

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Gary Zukav calls that authentic power.

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In his book, Seat of the Soul,

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he says, When your personality comes to serve the energy of your soul,

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that is authentic power.

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And that's the only real power that is,

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because you're going to lose everything else.

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I don't care how beautiful you are,

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one day your breasts are going to sag

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and your eyes are going to bag and you're not going to be as beautiful.

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And it doesn't matter how much Botox and how many times you get yourself pulled up

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and how many hairdos and how many makeovers or what you do,

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you know, that doesn't last.

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It's just like the most beautiful flowering tree.

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Everything passes, and it's time.

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It doesn't matter how much money you have,

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how much power you have,

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how high you sit on the Forbes list,

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how many times you make the most influential list.

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All of that changes.

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All of that changes.

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But what is real, what is lasting,

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is who you are and what you were meant to bring.

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What is the gift you were meant to give?

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And nobody can take that away from you.

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Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “inspiring words from Oprah Winfrey”. Deze video bevat 163 zinnen en 1467 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 10:19. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 142 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 90% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 12 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
abide werkwoord	/əˈbaɪd/	ondergaan, verdragen
authentic bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/	authentiek, echt
configure werkwoord	/kənˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/	configureren
meager bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈmiɡɚ/	mager
omnipotent bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɑmˈnɪp.ə.tənt/	almachtig
omniscient bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɑmˈnɪʃənt/	alwetend
pitiful bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩/	zielig
circumstance zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/	omstandigheid
wander werkwoord	/ˈwɑndɚ/	zwerven, rondtrekken
blessing zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/	zegen
scare werkwoord	/skɛɚ/	bang maken, beangstigen
influential bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl/	invloedrijk

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
step up werkwoord		versnellen, verhogen
come back werkwoord		terugkomen
come out werkwoord	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	uitkomen
fall down werkwoord	/fɔl ˈdaʊn/	neervallen
figure out werkwoord		uitvogelen, er achter komen
look back werkwoord		achterom kijken, terugkijken

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

You're not big enough to do it.
I'm not big enough to do it.
The fact that I'm here matters.
The fact that you're there matters.
What is the gift you were meant to give?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	have been endowed · is left · was hit
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	have been endowed · have been · has ever happened

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 30 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you're, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: omniscient /ɑmˈnɪʃənt/, influential /ɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: omnipotent /ɑmˈnɪp.ə.tənt/, influential /ɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: abide /əˈbaɪd/, steroid /ˈstɛɹɔɪd/, upside /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: configure /kənˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/, meager /ˈmiɡɚ/
/w/ — met ronde lippen: whisper /ˈ(h)wɪspɚ/, wander /ˈwɑndɚ/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als abide, authentic, configure.

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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