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If you want to be wealthy and happy the rest of your life, just learn this lesson well.
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If you want to be wealthy and happy the rest of your life, just learn this lesson well.
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Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
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I have found in my experience that income does not far exceed personal development.
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Now, sometimes income takes a lucky jump, but sure enough, unless you grow out where it is, it'll usually come back where you are.
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Life has strange ways.
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If somebody hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire quickly.
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so you get to keep the money.
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Otherwise, sure enough, it'll disappear.
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Somebody once said, if you took all the money in the world, divided it up equally among everybody, it would soon all be back in the same pockets.
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Success is something you attract, not something you pursue.
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So instead of going after it, you work on yourself, personal development, because true happiness is not contained in what you get.
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Happiness is contained in what you become.
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Now, if you're excited and you're ready to change, let me give you three steps to start life change that can change your life, your personality, your lifestyle, everything can change.
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Here's the steps.
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Number one, find out how things work.
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To change your life really you need ideas.
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There isn't anything an idea can't change.
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And Sholf taught me the major problem is lack of an idea, not a problem.
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At first I didn't have any money.
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I said to Mr.
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Sholf, I don't have any money.
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He said that's not a problem.
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Now see up until then I always thought it was.
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Right?
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I was confused.
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He said no, no, the problem is lack of an idea on how to create money and wealth.
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It isn't lack of money, it's lack of ideas.
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So if you get the ideas, see, you can change anything.
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Now to get ideas, you need a constant study of finding out.
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If you wish to be successful, study success.
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If you wish to be happy, study happiness.
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If you wish to be wealthy, study wealth.
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Don't leave it to chance.
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Make it a study.
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Some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed.
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See that won't do it You've got to study the things that can change your economic social spiritual personal life Now she also said when you find out something that works put the information in your journal Don't use your head for a filing cabinet Put it in your journal so that you can do the next best thing repetition, repetition, repetition.
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Go over it.
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And if you repeat it, go over it, sure enough, someday, some mysterious day, the idea takes root, starts to grow, and shows up in your bank account and your dress and your personality and your lifestyle.
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Now, if you're curious, let me give you three ways to find out how to change anything, any life direction, any dimension.
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Here's three ways to find out how to change anything.
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Number one is to read.
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All of the successful people I know and work with around the world, they're all good readers.
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Curiosity drives them to read.
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They gotta know.
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They just read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read.
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Become self-educated.
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Standard education will get you standard results.
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And you can check those numbers and see if that's what you want.
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But if you want to go beyond that, you now have got to become self-educated.
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One way to learn is from your own experiences.
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But another way to learn is from other people's experiences.
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See, one book might save you five years if you read it.
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Did you know there's books on how to be stronger, more decisive?
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Be a speaker, be a leader, have a better effect on other people, develop your personality.
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Did you know there's books on that?
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Did you know that hundreds of successful people have written their stories in books and they wrote down how they did it and people don't read it?
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How would you explain that?
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Now, you don't have to read half the night, but put this in your notes, 30 minutes a day.
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30 minutes a day, read something positive, something challenging, something inspirational, something instructional, at least 30 minutes a day.
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Become a good reader.
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Now that's my opinion.
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Listen to the other lecturers and listen to me and make up your own mind.
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Don't be a follower, be a student.
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Here's the second way to find out how to change your life.
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And that's to listen.
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Get around successful people and listen.
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Now you can also learn from unsuccessful people.
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Take notes on both, negative and positive.
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Find out what poor people read and don't read it.
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Right?
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That's good information.
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Learn from the negative.
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But now you can also learn from the positive.
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Get around successful people.
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Listen to what they say.
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Listen to how they say it.
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It's important.
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Now, here's some of the best advice I've got for the whole evening.
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Poor people ought to take rich people out to dinner and listen.
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That's some of the best I got.
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But you're right.
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Poor people don't usually take rich people out to dinner.
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The guy said he's rich.
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let him buy his own dinner.
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I'm not coming up with any money.
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You're lucky to get your own supper, let alone running around trying to find a rich man to feed.
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And the guy's behind.
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If a guy's not doing well, one of the first things he ought to do is find a guy that is doing well.
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And offer to buy him his dinner.
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Spend 50, 60, 80, 100 dollars.
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Go for the full nine course.
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If you get a successful person to eat and talk for two hours, they're liable to drop ideas in your lap, change your life.
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Multiply your income by two, by three, by five.
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But you're right.
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Poor people don't usually take rich people out to dinner.
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Now, here's the third way to find out how to change your life.
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And that's to observe.
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You can pick up a lot of ideas just by watching.
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Get around successful people and watch.
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Here's why.
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Success leaves clues.
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Watch how the man shakes hands.
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Watch how the lady responds.
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People who do well do certain things over and over and over and over.
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And if you're clever, you can pick them up.
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Watch it all.
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If a guy's making $10,000 a month, I'd watch how he walks.
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Maybe that's it.
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Copy his funny little walk.
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Somebody says, well, that's kind of a silly walk.
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Say, it's $10,000.
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I haven't got the money yet, but I got the walk.
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It's bound to start somewhere.
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What I ask you tonight is to be unusual and be a good observer of what's going on.
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You can pick up ideas that can change your life starting tomorrow.
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Just be a more careful observer.
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Now, remember, there's two ways to see.
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One is called sight.
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See with your eyes.
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The other one is called insight.
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See with your mind.
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See with your eyes, you'll see things.
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See with your mind, you'll see answers.
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Put your eyes and your mind to work.
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And the best advice on developing sight and insight is pay attention.
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Don't miss anything.
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Wherever you are, be there.
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Excellent.
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Now, we've lingered a little bit long on number one here for personal development.
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Find out how things work, but it's so very important finding out.
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And I've given you three ways to find out.
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Now, here's the second step to personal development.
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Okay, number one was find out how things work.
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Here's number two, go to work.
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If there's one thing to get excited over, that's it.
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Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things.
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What could you make yourself do starting tomorrow that would change it all?
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No, tell it.
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Now, see, that's exciting.
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On any given day, you can massively change the direction of your life.
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Now, here's the key to discipline.
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Start with the little disciplines.
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Get excited over the little disciplines and get right on those because those will lead to the big ones.
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You can't handle the big challenges in life unless you take on the little ones.
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Make a list of all the things you can do.
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Get right on those.
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Discipline yourself for those, both for the results and for the muscle and for the practice.
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So that when life hands you some big challenges, you'll be ready.
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You'll have the muscle.
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But see, if you don't handle the small ones, you can't take care of the big ones.
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Here's what else it takes for life change.
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Self-motivation.
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Key phrase, self-motivation.
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I don't know why we call it self-motivation.
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It's really the only kind there is.
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You got to motivate yourself.
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And you don't want to give self-motivation away to somebody else and make it somebody else motivating you.
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The guy says, boy, if somebody just come by and turn me on.
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What if they don't show up?
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See, you got to have a better plan for your life.
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You must now take action on what you found out.
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Don't let your learning lead to knowledge.
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You'll become a fool.
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Let your learning lead to action.
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You can become wealthy.
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And there's many kinds of wealth.
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I understand that.
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Not just money.
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Money is one of the least of all values.
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I know some people with a lot of money that are very poor.
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Now here's the third step to personal development and we'll wrap up personal development.
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Step number three, it's just a little caution and all through life we need little cautions.
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This one simply says, don't try to beat the system.
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Find out how it works, work it, but don't try to beat it.
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Some people learn just enough to start slicing it, shading it, thinning it, cutting corners, and looking for cheap answers.
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See, don't fall for that.
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You'll wind up with a cheap life.
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Find out how it works best and do it that way.
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Even though it seems to take a little longer, do it right.
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Don't compromise with right.
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So if I had a word with you tonight, one-on-one, just you and me, I think my personal advice to you would be, this year, 1981, reach down inside of you and come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts.
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they're there waiting to be utilized.
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And then change anything for you you want to change.
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And I challenge you to do that because you can change.
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See, you don't ever have to be the same again after tonight, only by choice.
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Starting tomorrow, what are you going to do that'll make a change in your life's direction?
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Good question.
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What are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference?
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Now, see, if you don't do something starting tomorrow that'll make a difference, guess what?
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It's gonna be the same.
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And see, that way you can guess what the next five years are gonna be like.
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Look at the last five.
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Because the next five are gonna be like the last five unless you, major key, tomorrow change it all.
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Or change a little, or change something, or don't change.
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It's choice time.
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You can do whatever you want.
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But it's nice to know any day you wish you can change your whole life.
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- Conditional phrases: The speaker uses conditional phrases such as "If you want to be wealthy and happy..." This structure is crucial for discussing hypothetical scenarios, a frequent topic in both conversation and exams like the IELTS.
- Imperative sentences: Phrases like "learn to work harder..." emphasize the importance of taking action. Understanding how to use imperative forms can enhance your ability to give advice or commands.
- Present simple tense: The speaker frequently uses present simple to express general truths: "Happiness is contained in what you become." This tense is foundational in English and essential for clear communication in both speaking and writing.
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- Words ending in "-er": The speaker frequently uses "bigger," "wealthier," and "happier." Non-native speakers sometimes struggle with the clear pronunciation of the “-er” ending. Focus on articulating this sound to improve your English pronunciation.
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