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so i have been getting constant dms about liz can you

make a video about how to not be lazy how can i be more productive blah blah blah whatever

i'm gonna make this video i'm gonna get really fast into it

because i know a lazy person watching this will even be too lazy to watch this video

so let's get right into it let's get into the first point realize

that nobody cares if you're lazy you know what lazy people are they're the forgotten ones people

that don't want to do anything with their lives

they're they will always just end up on the sideline everybody has problems nobody cares about your victim mindset

and about how life was hard for you

and how unfair it is it's unfair to everyone okay to everyone you're not special

and life goes on that's it life moves everyone is busy with their own lives

and so you have to do the same thing nobody will sit

and pity the pity you literally maybe for one

or two seconds okay like oh that's sad

but like come on we gotta get moving honey

i had this uh neighbor in the country where i grew up

and where my family lives this woman she's literally like constantly complaining constantly drinking she's

so racist she hates muslims

and she literally terrorized us for the whole time we're living there um

and she's constantly just drinking her life away because you know she's sad

and she can't accomplish anything whatever blah blah me not my mom she's literally an immigrant

that fled from the war

that came bought us a house is taking care by her own of five children

and just getting everything done

and do you think she complains no she has no option to be lazy

she has no option to play the victim you know

when lazy goes out of the door when you're survival mode people

that need to survive have no option to be lazy people

that are walking up on the stairs

and they can barely breathe they have no option anymore than to lose

that weight people that are so vulnerable

and their bodies cannot handle of them being so underweight have no option

but to gain weight people that have to go to work

because otherwise there's no food on the table have no option to be lazy you guys

that are just saying that oh i'm just lazy whatever you're privileged you're speaking from privilege

if you have the option to be lazy you're privileged hi guys my name is liz

and welcome back to my channel in this video

i will show you how to become productive how to overcome your laziness and yeah

so keep watching before

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you need to realize is the halo effect the halo effect is basically

when we see like a beautiful person we will think

that oh they are less likely to do something bad

because we associate someone beautiful with a good person you know

it's the same way the hill effect also worked for successful people

so if we see a successful person we are more likely to think that

that person is successful in every area of their life for example

they have a successful business we will also automatically think

they have they're successful in their relationships are successful everywhere we literally start to admire people

that are successful and beautiful because we think

that they have it all together see you know

when you cannot benefit from the halo effect uh

when you're lazy okay it takes it takes effort to be beautiful

and to maintain beauty i remember there was this one uh supermodel

she talked about this she's like there was this one woman

that commented and said

that uh oh why are you doing all this stuff to take care of yourself

and all these things

and she says i have no other option

this is my career do you think

she wants to literally like watch what she eats go to

the gym do all these procedures to keep herself in shape probably not like literally probably not

you know she just wants to sit at home

and do nothing as well she has no option

because that's her career she does all that stuff

and takes care of herself she can benefit from the halo effect same way

when somebody goes do like has their own business, is working very hard to create wealth for themselves or independence or freedom.

Same way, they have to work very hard to get all

that stuff but see what you guys see is only the successes

and oh she looks good and oh he has all the money.

You guys don't see all the work that comes like behind it.

These people have no option to be lazy.

Yes, some people are born into wealth, they have it very easy and more easy than others.

I know this is also a privilege but most people are not and they also create it for themselves.

Some people come from zero

and created for themselves you know it takes it literally takes discipline

it's you think these people want to do all

that stuff no i know so many people business owners

and stuff that said like i'm so frustrated i like

but they rather have this than no freedom they want the freedom

so yeah then you have to put in the work another thing is focus on working on your life force

i was watching this netflix documentary

it's on a jonah hill psychiatrist uh his his name is phil studs he was basically saying

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that when you feel like you're lazy

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or whatever the only thing

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you need to focus on is your life force what is your life force first things first health

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and diet you can focus on moving your body doing some exercise going to the gym

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if that's what you want

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and the foods you put in your body that's what you have control over right now make sure it's foods

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that nourish your body make sure it's foods that don't spike your insulin or spike your glucose so

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If you eat foods like that, that are filled with carbs and sugar, you're going to feel lazy.

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You're going to feel like you don't want to do anything throughout the day because you feel heavy.

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Think about nutrition.

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What are you putting in your body?

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How are you moving your body?

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The second thing on your life force is your relationships.

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What people do is when they get lazy or they don't feel good about themselves, they basically isolate.

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I do this.

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I start to isolate myself.

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I don't want to be around people.

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See, that's a bad thing you should do what you actually should do is in

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that moment you should connect with people you should connect with your friends

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and family and talk to them about how you're feeling because

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that is much better than welling in your own self -pity

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in your own like feeling bad about yourself trust me

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because i do this all the time it doesn't work

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if you don't feel comfortable telling your friends family talk to a stranger talk to a stranger just tell them

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or tell a therapist talk to a therapist

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and tell them how you're feeling and

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and whatever you're going as humans we need connection

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if we isolate ourselves we feel worse we are social creatures we need connection with people

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and the third thing of your life force is you focus

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on the relationship with yourself how are you treating yourself how

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are you talking to yourself in your head what are you

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even watching what are you watching on your phone constantly all

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day what are you watching what are you engaging your own

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mind in what is going on there are you journaling are

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you writing down stuff do you even have a relationship with yourself

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and there's also one thing yeah people they they tell me like oh i can't manifest

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when people cannot manifest is

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because they are not connected with their own energy manifesting is connecting with your own energy

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and working with your energy but the reason that this day

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and age people can are unable to do that is

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because we're constantly on our phone and we're constantly distracted

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or we constantly go out with people and we're never by ourselves

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or we never take the time to sit with ourselves to meditate to write things down even writing stuff down

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if you just start to write things will come to you

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because sometimes god speaks to you your spirit guides speak to you

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but because your mind is constantly racing you cannot focus on

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that so you cannot accept guidance so you feel lost

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and you feel like you're alone

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but you're not alone you're not alone you're just not willing to listen

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if you focus on these three things health

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and diet your relationships to people

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and your relationships to yourself then you don't need anything else

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if you just keep continuing focusing on this everything else will fall into place 100 create routines in your life

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and stick to it have routines we as humans

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we need routines see for me i have a standard morning routine i have a standard night routine

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and throughout my week i know when i'm going to the gym i know

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when i'm doing what when i'm creating content i know these things i have routines

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and yes sometimes i don't stick to my routines

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but i have a base and i have always something to get back to

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when i go off track most of you people have no routines

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and just leave everything up in the air we don't work like

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that you need a structurized thing you know

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and some of y 'all i'm gonna call

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you out as well your house is dirty yeah you never clean your house one thing i cannot stand

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and i cannot work in is a dirty place i always need to clean

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and have a clean space because honestly a clean space is a clean mic

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if your room is a mess right now you go ahead

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you stop this video i want you to clean right now right now

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because that's huge disrespect to yourself not even cleaning after yourself

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There's a reason why you made this commitment and remind yourself of that reason.

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If you knew anything about me my whole life, I did not have social media.

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I was not that teenager that was on Instagram, whatever.

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I never wanted, never even literally considered it.

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The only time I've ever been on social media was to make a career out of it.

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Why did I want to make a career out of it?

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Because I wanted to help my mom pay her bills and help her with her finances and help my family.

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Now I'm able to do that.

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See, when I get demotivated and I don't want to do this anymore

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and I don't want to do social media anymore

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because to be honest to stand here right now

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and be judged by millions of people lots of people telling me

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that i'm so dumb and what i'm saying is just common sense

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and whatever or that i'm ugly it's not nice okay it's really not nice

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and i don't want to be this center of attention

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but at the end of the day i made this commitment to myself

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because i'm not gonna let my family suffer

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i'm not gonna let my mom suffer they have suffered enough i have suffered enough we deserve financial freedom

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and i'm going to create that for us

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and the same way there's a reason why you make

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that commitment to yourself remind yourself why did i even start why did i even want this goal

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and you know somewhere down the line maybe you didn't even want this goal anymore

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and you think to yourself i don't want this okay fine

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then don't do it do something else i don't care

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but remind yourself

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if you still want it why do you want

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it why did you even start think about what story are you telling yourself

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if you're telling yourself so oh i can't do this

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because i'm just a lazy person yeah that's then how you will act like a lazy person stop saying

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that stop saying that what does

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that even mean i'm just a lazy person what does

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that mean you think you think you can use

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that as an excuse for the rest of your life okay then go to the sideline yeah

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and let people like us walk through

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because we don't need you on our way okay

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because we're trying to do stuff you could have been anything

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you wanted in your life literally your mom she carried

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you nine months in her stomach for you to come out

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and say oh i'm just lazy some people watching

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this are children of immigrants your your parents have literally rescued

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your whole life literally tried to give you the best life possible for you to sit here now

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and be like oh

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i'm just too lazy to do this are you not embarrassed get a hold of yourself literally

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you guys are lazy but then you guys complain

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that you don't have the life

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that you want don't complain then don't complain

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you can literally change your reality at any second you know any second like right now

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if i want to be overlooked

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and nobody cares about me give me one month one month

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i'm going to eat whatever i want i'm not gonna take care of myself anymore 100 i'll be overlooked 100

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when i walk down the street people will not look at me the same way 100

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i can then i'm changing my reality i went from being this person to

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that other person you can change your your realities really fast

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when you start acting like the person you want to become

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but no lins it's uncomfortable because then i have to let go of my toxic boyfriend

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and this and that but i'm still gonna cry about the fact

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that i don't have what i want another thing you should do is heal the past

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and move on listen there's a lot of people they have experienced

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so much trauma and then now they sit

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and they're like oh i can't accomplish anything

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because i've been through this i've been through that this and

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that okay i've been through a lot as well

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i i've literally came two times a person tried to unalive me

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it was very traumatizing for me you know what i did instead of complaining

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i went to a therapist i even did hypnotherapies i went to two years of intensive therapy

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and i healed myself from those things yeah

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because i don't want to continue my life be the victim of a trauma

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i'm not a victim i don't even want to associate with it okay

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i don't want it to be my story i can change my story around

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and honestly i'm telling you once again

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if you did not hear this in my other videos

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if you're a victim of trauma or abuse

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or whatever don't just go around and tell people

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because they lose respect for you they lose respect for you 100 %

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I would have never ever in my life disclosed this to the internet

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or people if if I was not trying to help people

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because this is really something that people lose respect for

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when you tell them don't think

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that they feel pity for you no they see you as someone weaker someone

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that went through something it's really sad

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but I'm telling you this is the truth this is how they see

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so for yourself go ahead heal

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that heal it takes years yes it takes years okay

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sometimes it goes fast sometimes it's not fast you can't control

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that but at least work towards healing yourself well

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if you're constantly living in the past

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and reliving it your body literally will make you physically ill

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because your body thinks that you're because you're feeling those emotions still your body thinks

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that you're still in

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that same situation your body doesn't know anything different it only knows what you're feeling and what you're telling your body

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so what you're repeating in your head what you're feeling inside

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of yourself is what your body will create for you want a different outcome

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and a different future you have to do things differently not people around

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you should change not people around you should change their behavior you you have the power to control

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that you have the power to control how you react

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you have the power to control how you feel stop blaming other people

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it's not their fault yes maybe somebody did something to you they traumatized you that's on them okay

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they will receive their karma

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if not in this lifetime in another god will punish them whatever okay

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you have now the responsibility to heal yourself you do and you take that responsibility

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and go to your own next level because

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when you're stuck in the past

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and being terrorized by the thoughts of the past

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you cannot go forward you cannot move on another thing is are you lazy

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or did you stop progressing like i said in the other video the reason

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that people become happy is because they constantly progress

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when people stop progressing that's

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when unhappiness becomes like literally you can be a millionaire having everything

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but because they they don't have anything anymore

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that excites them they become depressed as well

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it doesn't matter how much money you have it doesn't matter how much you've accomplished we constantly need

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that drive or something to strive for so ask yourself am i lazy

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or do i just not find excitement in things anymore learn a new skill

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then find a new hobby create a new project do something else

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that you haven't tried before or do something

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that you used to love pick it up again you know

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but don't allow yourself to stop progressing because when you stop progressing that's

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when you stop living don't allow yourself to be like

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that too much information makes us lazy see

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because we're constantly scrolling on every app whatever we're scrolling on social media

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we hear this diet is perfect we hear this is the best shampoo

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now this is the best way to do skincare

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so we go literally insane because there's so much information

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and we don't want to do anything anymore

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because we don't even know what to do there's so much information

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but because we're so consumed in

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that we start to literally become consumed in other people's opinions in other people's lives

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and we start filling their lives with our energy that's it

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and then you wonder to yourself like huh why do i not have any energy for myself left

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because you're too consumed in other people's lives

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so you're not living your own you know

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when i spend the day scrolling on tiktok

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i don't want to do anything i don't want to do anything literally

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i just literally my brain is fried completely

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and i don't i just want to lay down and do nothing

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if i decide to have a lazy day

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and i call them lazy days i'll watch netflix shows

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i binge watch them i don't want to do anything else literally my mind is shut off then you know

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if if you are also a person that constantly goes out

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and parties that's it energy drained my love constantly drained

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but recently um my friend she took me out

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because it was her birthday

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so then i thought okay let me go out

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i went out with her the whole night i did not have one thought in my head

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and i have a mind that's racing i'm very very creative i constantly have ideas in my head

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and i constantly also get messages in my head

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that whole night i had no idea nothing nothing my mind was blank

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it's almost like i was like brain dead

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or something i was just standing there like you know what happens too many energies around you too many energies

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and you're they're completely draining it

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so that's why sometimes in order for you to create

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or in order for you to be productive

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you need to be in solitude you need to be alone you need to realize

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that feelings are not always right okay feelings are just feeling see

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if we all just react out of emotions

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i think everyone would just unalive each other oh you made me angry i'm

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so angry let me get something

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and just unalive you might feel like right now oh my heart is broken i will never find something like

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that again no you will okay you will you just feel right now really bad

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so what do you do you feel the feelings you let them purge yeah feelings purge by you feeling them

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if you're gonna repress what you feel

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and you feel like oh i shouldn't be crying about this i should be tough nope

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you're gonna store those feelings inside of your body

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and they're gonna come up later as physical illness you cannot do

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that to yourself if you feel bad right now

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and you feel like you want to cry

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or you want to scream you do that because

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that is releasing your emotions

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if you feel like you need to sleep a lot right

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now sleeping is also healing there is a reason why your body needs sleep

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because it's trying to heal the feelings purge let your body heal

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but once that's done also get up and do something okay don't stay there

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and dwell there for too long

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and it's also like oh i feel like i don't want to do this

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but what like what do you feel and what do you want okay

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because if you feel like oh i want to eat

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that uh whatever i want to eat unhealthy this and that

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but then you want

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that dream body of yours it doesn't correlate

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you need to have discipline my love like you know you can't just consume into what you're feeling

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and then expect what you want to happen to happen it doesn't work like

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that another thing is courage is being vulnerable courage is going out

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and meeting meeting new people and putting yourself out there

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and being vulnerable it might not feel good to you

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because honestly this i'm just speaking for myself right now i isolate myself i've constantly isolated myself anyone

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that lives like where I live will tell you I don't come out.

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Any of my friends will tell you I do not leave my place, you know.

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Do you think that's courageous of me?

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No. I'm trying to protect myself but because I'm trying to protect myself and I'm scared of being vulnerable,

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I don't live any experiences and life is just going by like this.

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I'm young.

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I'm supposed to be living my life.

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I'm supposed to be meeting people, getting my heart broken.

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I'm supposed to have experience.

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I don't have any of these because I'm so afraid of getting hurt or betrayed by friends.

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You think that that's happiness?

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No, you're not living, you know, and it makes you lazy as well because you're like, okay, I'm just not going to do anything.

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I'm not going to surround myself with people.

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I'm not going to try to do anything.

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That's not courageous.

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That's weak.

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Courage is being vulnerable.

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Go out there, meet new people.

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I'm not saying do something risky and then put yourself in danger

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but do something that normally you would feel uncomfortable doing

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or you rather prefer not doing it another thing is learn to ask for help

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or learn to accept help see most of you guys's issues is the fact

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that you don't accept help oh my god like i have

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so many people around me

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that are like no i don't want help i don't want help

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and then they struggle

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so much to accomplish this thing you know i could have fixed

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it for them in one second you need to start accepting help from people

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sometimes god sends these people to help you okay that's how you have to see it

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and you have to receive and then you like

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if you don't you get angry you're like god you never helped me like why don't you help me

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and god says like i sent this person to help you and you refuse them

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how do you want god to help you also ask help

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from god ask help ask help you will receive help in very miraculous ways

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i've done it myself

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i always do it another thing is be productive on your

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own terms think about what does productivity look like for me

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if i say for example go to the gym do this do

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that but you think like

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but that's not what i want to do like i don't want to go to the gym

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i don't want to do these things okay fine

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that's not for you that's not how you are productive you have a different sense of productivity

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so think to yourself what is productive for me what do i think would be like oh okay

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i'm a productive person if i do these things what are your goals create

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that productivity mindset for yourself and create a vision of what

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that looks like for you don't listen to these other people

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because what works for them might not work for you

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because that's not what you want other thing is are the people around you draining your energy

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if you have toxic friends if you have toxic family members

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and you're constantly just engaging with them you're constantly just around them

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you're gonna feel bad look at the people look

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when you feel bad what people are around you

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when you feel your worst

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and sometimes even you start to hate yourself around certain types of people there are certain types of friends

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that bring out a side in you

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that you don't like about yourself watch out for these kinds of people

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because you might feel like

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when i'm around them why do i behave like this you know you're getting influenced by them

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so it's better to distance yourself and

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when you are more stable in who you are and

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and you don't get influenced by others easily then

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if you want you can be like friends and stuff

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because they cannot do anything you know it doesn't affect you

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but when you are easily influenced distance yourself from these kind of people

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if you have toxic family members distance yourself make sure you can stay away as much as possible

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and focus on the things

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that you can focus on right now nobody can make

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you feel anything nobody can make you feel sad bad upset whatever you can only do

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that to yourself you have control over how you feel

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if for example one person when i used to be younger

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and i didn't know this knowledge

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when somebody made me angry i would think like oh they're

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so bad like i hate them whatever they did this with ill intent yeah

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and i would get angry now

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when somebody does something to me i think to myself well then there must be something

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that they're judging in me

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because they're judging it in themselves they're projecting there's something wrong maybe something i have a different kind of understanding

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and i have compassion for this person i i feel sad for them it's a different energy

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and it's a different feeling and why can i control that

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because i control how i feel i can feel sad for them

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if I want you know I can also feel happy

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that they showed their true colors to me

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so change your perspective on things how do you how do you view

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this person how do you view the situation same way

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if you're going through a breakup you can see it as like oh my god

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it was the last man on earth I cannot live without him blah blah blah

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or you can see it as like oh okay our souls were meant to cross

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because we were meant to teach each other something in this lifetime

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and then we meant to separate because it was not meant to be forever in this lifetime.

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that's it he learned his lesson i learned i learned my lesson

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and now we can go our separate ways and go to the level

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that we were both meant to be at and last

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but not least focus on the things

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that you can do i always hear people oh

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i can't do this oh my god

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i can't like what can you do what can you do

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what are you good at huh tell me three things right now what can you do

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think about these things what can i do what am i

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good at what am i passionate about what makes me happy who makes me happy

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you know be be grateful for these things realize you can do a lot

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and remind yourself of what you actually can do anyways guys thank you

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so much for watching i hope you guys enjoyed this video and yeah i see you in the next video bye

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This speaking lesson is built on the video “How to stop being lazy and pathetic”. This video has 455 sentences and 5205 words to shadow. The speech runs for 26:08. The speaker talks fast, about 199 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

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15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
lazy adjective	/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/	Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
therapist noun	/ˈθɛɹəpɪst/	Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
heal verb	/ˈhiːl/	To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
routine noun	/ɹuˈtin/	A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
productive adjective	/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/	Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
complain verb	/kəmˈpleɪn/	To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
vulnerable adjective	/ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/	More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
isolate verb	/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/	To set apart or cut off from others.
suffer verb	/ˈsʌfɚ/	To undergo hardship.
remind verb	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
toxic adjective	/ˈtɒk.sɪk/	Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
privilege noun	/ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/	A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.
drain noun	/dɹiːn/	A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
accomplish verb	/əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/	To finish successfully.
pity noun	/ˈpɪt.i/	A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go out verb		To leave, especially a building.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
bring out verb		To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
get back to verb		Return to (an activity)
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

What are you putting in your body?
How are you moving your body?
I don't want to be around people.
Do you think that's courageous of me?
You think that that's happiness?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to love · used to be
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are born · are filled · are not connected
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've also linked · I've ever been · have suffered
Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form	keep watching · keep continuing · stop saying

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 195 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, breathe /bɹiːð/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, hypnotherapy /ˌhɪpnoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, nutrition /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/
Long words — get the stress right: productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like lazy, therapist, heal.

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