Shadowing Practice: Everything Starts In Your Mind | Steve Harvey - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Negative thinking is a major problem.
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because you've got to get control of this.
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you actually can control what this does.
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No one else is in charge.
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If the devil is in charge, it's because you gave him permission.
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you allowed him in.
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If God is operating up there, it's because you gave him permission.
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You allowed him in.
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It's a very, listen to me, it's not a magic trick, man.
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If you wanna be successful, - Hey.
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- You have to get control of this.
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Like I was telling her earlier, look, you can eradicate negative thinking from your life now it's
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not gonna say you're not gonna ever have a negative thought That's not human.
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I have them.
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but I don't have them nowhere near as frequent as I used to because I learned what they are, how they work.
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I get rid of them.
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I don't have time for you.
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I'm on a positive track.
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I got things I'm trying to accomplish.
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I got I'm trying to be successful and I'm trying to be happy.
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If you're trying to be successful or happy, you have no room for negativity.
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The best way to mask yourself from negativity every morning is to start with gratitude.
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I'm telling you, man, it's a very simple process.
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Now there are some books that you can buy.
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There's Norman Vincent Peale's "The Power of Positive Thinking." It's a very old book.
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It's only in paperback.
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It's called "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale.
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I read this book when I was 20.
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It started the process to change in my life.
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Then I read a book called The Magic of Thinking Big.
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is by David Schultz.
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This just trains you how to think big.
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You know, it doesn't take any more brain power to think big than it does small.
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Big thinking gets rid of negativity.
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Dreams and visions gets rid of negativity.
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But you gotta remember man, that you operating.
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When you pray, God ain't the only one here to pray.
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The devil is listening to.
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So his job is to dissuade you.
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His job is to keep you off track.
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Devil ain't got but one job.
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He don't want you to be successful.
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He don't want you to discover your dreams.
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He don't want you talking to God.
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So he'd get busy.
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He get busy, he busy man.
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He send people your way all the time.
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He all over the internet.
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here all over social media.
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The devil got imps, he got people work for him all the time.
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All they do is just do what he say.
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Say something folky about her.
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Yeah.
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But you can control this part.
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The difference between successful people and non -successful people is how you think.
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The Bible says a man is as he thinketh.
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So here's what you do.
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I'm gonna just give it to you flat out.
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This is an exercise.
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You gotta listen to me completely.
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That if you start doing this, it can change your life.
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from this day on, The first change you have to make is you have to live your life in expectation.
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2019 can be the best year of your life.
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if you expect it to be the best year of your life.
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It's only March.
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It's only March.
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You got nine more whole months.
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Ten, if you count this one, we ain't even ten days in it.
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You got plenty of time to make this the best year of your life, but it starts with expectation.
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If you don't expect, I expect, 2019 to be the most prosperous year of my life.
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I expected...
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So therefore, that's the beginning of it happening.
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It starts with the expectation.
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Thank you.
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All right, let me show you this here.
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Thank you.
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All of y 'all got a remote control at your house.
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Huh?
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- Yes.
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If you walk home today and you want to watch TV, you pick up your remote and you press the power button.
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and you aim it at that TV, what do you expect to happen?
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You expect it to turn on, what happens?
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Every time.
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If HBO is channel 400 and you press in 400, and you pointed at that TV and you press OK or select,
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what do you expect to come on your TV?
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HBO, guess what come on your TV?
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HBO!
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The remote control came from a theory in the Bible.
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The Bible says a man is as he thinketh.
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Nothing more, nothing less.
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We are all where we are today because we thought ourselves to this position.
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You ain't in prison because you did enough thinking to not go to prison.
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You working because you thought yourself into a job.
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You dress nice because you thought yourself, I want to be presentable.
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All of you good looking people because you present yourself as good looking people because you want people you expect that.
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That's what you did.
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You thought yourself here.
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Now, what you cannot do is bury yourself by using your success compared to other people.
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See, because here's the danger, let me teach you this.
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Success is not how far you got.
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'cause see, you're gonna be disappointed all the time, 'cause somebody always further than you.
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So now you'll forever be disappointed.
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Success ain't how far you got.
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Success is how far you got from where you started.
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That's your success.
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That's yours.
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You can be successful, but if you constantly looking at somebody else, If I look at Oprah money, I start feeling bad about me.
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'Cause I ain't got Oprah money, man.
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Oprah got a billion dollars.
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I don't have nowhere near no billion dollars.
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"But you mean to tell me that I ain't smart enough "to go steal." You used to stutter.
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You couldn't talk outside your house.
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Steve, you flunked out of school.
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Steve, you don't have a degree.
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Steve.
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You lost everything twice.
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Steve, you've been homeless and you lived in a car.
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See, I did all that.
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Oprah ain't done none of that.
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So my success ain't from where I am, it's from where I started.
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So guess what?
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I'm a successful person.
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Now, that's all to it.
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You are a successful person.
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Once you start understanding that your success is from where you started.
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Quit tripping 'cause you ain't where you wanna be.
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You in the process.
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You in the process.
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Let me tell you something.
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You're not where you wanna be, but you gonna be there.
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And you know how I know you're going to be there?
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Because you keep waking up in the morning.
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And you know why you keep waking up in the morning?
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Because God ain't through with you yet.
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Listen, man.
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If God was through with you, you wouldn't wake up no more.
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- The President of the United States.
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The moment he has nothing else for you to do, the moment The moment he ain't got nothing else to give you, you ain't going to wake up no more.
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It ain't nothing you can do about it.
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See, they got a lot of people out there talking about it ain't no God.
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You think 'cause somebody said ain't no God, you think that'd make it true?
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Who are them people crazy?
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Okay, so now here's what I want you to learn.
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Watch this.
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This is the moment You know, I just believe sometimes you come to places for certain reasons.
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You might have came to the show.
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But maybe you can't cuz you need this here that I'm finna tell you.
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Just look at it like this.
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I always see when I'm hearing something that I've never heard before.
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I always know God put me here so I could hear that.
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So now let me share this with you.
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Your brain is divided into two halves.
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Good and evil.
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Positive, negative?
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Write and roll.
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It's divided in two areas.
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Your brain ain't got no gray area.
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Your brain either do the right thing or is doing the wrong thing.
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Your brain don't...
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your brain don't almost live right.
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You ain't almost slap nobody.
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You did it or you didn't.
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That's all it is to it.
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Your brain is divided into two halves.
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two factories these factories the positive and the negative, have thousands of workers in it.
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Each one of those workers' job is to manufacture positive or negative, good, evil, right and wrong.
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In charge of each side of the factory is a foreman.
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You have forming positive and you have forming negative.
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They tell the workers what to do that day.
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and they get all of their instructions from the boss.
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You.
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So you wake up in the morning.
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And you say, Amen.
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I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
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I ain't having a good day.
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"Man, this ain't good." The foreman steps forward on the negative side of your brain and goes, you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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You're not having a good day today.
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You got it.
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All right, fellas, listen.
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Boss said we're having a bad day today.
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Said he woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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Let's make it happen.
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The workers start producing and manufacturing thoughts to justify what the boss said.
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Yep, we having a bad day today.
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My alarm clock went off.
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I can't stand the sound of that alarm.
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I got to get out here in this rush hour traffic.
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I get so sick of sitting in traffic.
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This car I got ain't working makes me sick.
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I got to go down here.
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I got people in my job.
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I don't even like half these people down here.
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And your brain just starts creating what you told it.
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You got up on the wrong side of bed.
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You having a bad day.
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It starts manufacturing.
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Suppose the boss woke up and said, you know what?
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Today is going to be a great day.
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I'm expecting some good things to happen today.
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That form and positive say, excuse me.
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Did you say you having a good day?
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You expect good things together?
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Hey fellas!
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Boss man said we having a good day today.
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Said we expected some great things to happen.
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Here's what your brain start doing.
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Hey, hey God.
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I sure appreciate you waking me up this morning.
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I may not be working where I want to work, but at least I got a check coming today.
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Hey God, I sure appreciate you giving me this car.
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It ain't the one I want, but I'm driving to work today.
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Hey man, you know what?
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There's some people on my job that ain't that cool, but there's three people down there I really, really like today.
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I can't wait to go meet them today.
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Your brain manufactures what the boss said.
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If you change your attitude You change your attitude.
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You're in charge of you.
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Don't let the devil be in charge of you.
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And the moment whenever you feel down, like it ain't going your way, Just say, you know what, God, I sure appreciate this.
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I appreciate that.
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I want to thank you for this.
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I want to thank you for that.
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Thank you.
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If you needed an education to be successful, I would not be successful.
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Stop listening to everybody.
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Now if you wanna be a doctor, lawyer, dentist, you gotta go to school.
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I ain't knocking it.
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But suppose you're not a school person.
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The majority of people I know are not school people.
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What I want to be has nothing to do with school.
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It's amazing.
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You know how many people working, got degrees, ain't working?
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You know how many people have a degree that's not working?
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It kills me when people, I got a partner.
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I got a partner right now, 60.
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He won't go back to school, get a PhD.
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He told me the other day, I saw him talking with him, he said, "Oh, man, I ain't making what I want, man.
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I think I'm gonna go back to school, get a PhD." I said, "My man, let me ask you something.
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"You got two degrees.
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"They ain't working for you.
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"Why would you go get another one of them?" What you keep getting degrees for?
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You need some more faith.
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you need to understand the principles of success you need to
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follow your dreams you need to live your gift I'm telling y 'all Some of y 'all looking at me real blank.
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and it's cool.
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'cause if you don't wanna get it, you ain't gotta get it.
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This message is only for spiritual people.
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If you're not a spiritual person, I ain't know you was coming, so.
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Thank you.
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But I ain't got nothing else for you, man.
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I can tell you no other way to make it.
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You've got to change this.
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You have control of this.
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Stop giving away.
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Now look, the Bible is all you really need.
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But the Bible has some books out there that you can buy.
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that's dealing with the principles.
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You can go get this book called "The Secret." And all it is is what the Bible say.
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They just put it in layman terms.
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See, I need those books, because the Bible's a little difficult for me sometimes, especially King James Version.
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If I read like a whole chapter, I fall asleep because my brain hurts.
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'Cause I don't know the other henceforth Thine other thence whether whenceforth man what?
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I need that Bible, new translation where I can read it in regular English.
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It's the same thing.
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I just need the message.
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I don't need the exact words of the way they wrote it, B .C and all this here.
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Get you some of them books, man.
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I'm telling you, if you buy this book called "The Magic of Thinking Be," See, let me show you something.
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If I ask this guy on the front row, What car would you like to have?
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Just tell me a car you'd like to have.
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Tesla X, what about you?
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Range Rover, what about you?
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Huh?
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Volkswagen convertible, what about you?
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Ferrari.
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Farai.
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Tesla Range Rover.
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Volkswagen, Ferrari.
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Suppose I pull the keys out to each one of them.
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I handed you the Tesla, handed you the Range Rover, handed you the Volkswagen, handed you the Ferrari.
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Y 'all would be pretty happy, wouldn't you?
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But then you'd have to go down.
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Thank you.
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I said Volkswagen.
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The dude right there said for Rod.
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You could have got a Ferrari.
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Who the hell want a Volkswagen over a Ferrari?
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Because if you sell it, Soon as you get it, you can sell it.
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You get $350 ,000.
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You get 40 ,000.
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It costs you no more to think big than it does small.
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Look, I drive big, high -end cars.
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You know why I buy big, high -end cars?
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'Cause I used to live in mine.
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Right.
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So if I ever got to live in a car again, I'm gonna go out there and get in that damn Rolls Royce.
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and kick back.
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And then I'm gonna sell it and buy me a house!
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The magic of thinking big, it costs you no more to think big than small.
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And the moment you change your mind to thinking big, That's what you expect.
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Guess what, come on.
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Just like that remote.
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You expect big things, big things come on the TV.
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You expect little things, little things is coming.
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Adjust your attitude, folks.
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Talk to God every day.
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He'd love to hear from you.
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I appreciate y 'all coming.
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Context & Background
The video titled "Everything Starts In Your Mind" features renowned speaker Steve Harvey discussing the importance of mindset in achieving success and happiness. He emphasizes the role of positive thinking in combating negativity and outlines practical strategies to maintain a healthy mental state. Harvey shares his personal experiences and insights, advocating for gratitude and big thinking as essential components of a successful life. This message resonates well with English learners, as mastering the language requires a positive mindset and proactive learning strategies.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- “Get control of this.” - A reminder to take charge of your thoughts and mindset.
- “Mask yourself from negativity.” - An encouragement to shield yourself from negative thoughts.
- “Think big.” - A powerful call to expand your aspirations and dreams.
- “I don’t have time for you.” - A declaration of commitment to positivity over negativity.
- “Start with gratitude.” - A practical tip for fostering a positive attitude each day.
Step-by-step Shadowing Guide
Shadowing is an effective technique for improving English pronunciation and fluency. Here’s how to tackle this video using the shadow speech method:
- Watch the video without subtitles. Focus on Steve Harvey's articulation and intonation. Note any phrases or expressions that stand out to you.
- Replay sections of the video. Pause after each sentence or important phrase in the transcript to repeat aloud. This mimics the rhythm and flow of native speakers, perfect for IELTS speaking practice.
- Record yourself. Use your smartphone to capture your voice as you shadow the phrases. This self-assessment helps in identifying areas for improvement in your pronunciation and delivery.
- Compare and analyze. Listen to your recording alongside the original audio. Pay attention to the differences in intonation, pace, and clarity. Look for opportunities to enhance your speech.
- Incorporate new vocabulary. Use the phrases you’ve learned in daily conversations. Regular practice helps to reinforce your learning and increases confidence in your speaking abilities.
By following these steps, not only will you learn English with YouTube, but you'll also boost your confidence in speaking. Additionally, integrating these techniques into your routine makes learning enjoyable and effective. Embrace the journey to improve your English through shadowing and positive thinking!
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.