Shadowing Practice: Set Your Goals: The Magical 10-Goal Method for Massive Success 🚀| Brian Tracy - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Take a clean sheet of paper and write down goals and today's date,

and then write down 10 goals that you would like to accomplish in the next 12 months.

and write them in the present tense.

almost like you're submitting an order.

Just write that, "I earn, I achieve, I weigh, I drive such and such a car, I own." Whatever it happens to be, and the goals will be financial goals,

family goals physical goals and so on, right down ten.

And then you take this list of ten, and you say, "If I had a magic wand,

And I could wave this magic wand and I could have any one goal on my list within 24 hours,

which one goal would have the greatest positive impact on my life.

Which one go?

And go over it and usually this will jump out at you and put a circle around that goal.

And that's the goal you transfer to a clean sheet of paper.

And then you follow the seven steps.

Write it down.

Set a deadline.

write, make a list of everything you have to do to accomplish it, organize the list into a checklist, take action, and then do something every day.

If you'll just do this, this simple exercise, then you'll all be rich.

nothing can stop you but yourself I'm going to show you the recipes and the formulas that you can use.

And sometimes it just takes one choice.

And remember, 87 % of millionaires and billionaires are self -made.

They started with nothing.

and nobody's smarter than you and nobody's better than you.

If somebody else can do it, especially with all the disadvantages that many people start off with, If someone else can do it, you can do it as well.

That's the proof.

Abraham Lincoln once said that some become wealthy is proof that all can become wealthy.

So I wanted to share with you what I call the seven C's.

So the first C is the sea of clarity.

Clarity is my favorite word in success.

It's my favorite word in business.

I have done consulting for more than a thousand corporations,

large companies worldwide, Companies like IBM and General Motors and PepsiCo and Bank of America.

Big.

companies.

And what I found is in every single situation

Problems occur when the company becomes unclear about what it is they're doing or how it is they're doing it.

Basically, it's clarity, lack of clarity.

Now here's something else I learned and they did a study of 50 owners of companies successful owners of companies like yourselves.

and they ask them what is the very best time management or business tool that you've ever discovered.

49 out of the 50 held up a right, a yellow, Writing pad.

Yellow righty path, sort of like this.

And this is what they did.

This is how they planned their day.

I made a list to -do list today.

It is 8 :00 They wrote down everything they had to do.

They always work from a list.

If you don't work from a list, it's very much like taking your hands off the wheel of your car going down a winding road in the mountains.

what happens is your life's gonna go up and you're instantly going to start doing irrelevant and unimportant

and useless things and at the end of the day you'll be exhausted and you'll have accomplished nothing.

the most powerful tool in the world is you, a pen and a piece of paper.

This is the greatest wealth creator in the world.

The second C is the C of competence.

And the sea of confidence

says it's very simple is that you can only earn a lot of money if you're very good at what you do.

And so one of the most important things you do is you break down your work into skills.

and you say, "What are the most important skills I need to have?" to be successful.

And there's recruiting is a very important skill.

Training is an important skill.

Managing and motivating is an important skill.

leading, supervising, important skills.

So what you do is you think, "What are the skills that I will need to be in the top 10 % of my field?"

You don't have to be in the top 1%.

Just be in the top 10 % because there are no successful people who are not good at what they do.

They are good at what they do

and they are good at what they do.. because they work at it all the time.

whether you're in sports or whether you're in music or chess or anything else, There's a wonderful study.

Basically what it said was, studying the most successful people is that these people spend far more hours becoming good at what they do than average people.

the other people don't do it and that Everybody has natural abilities But the ones who use those abilities

transform themselves by really, really working hard at becoming good, one skill at a time.

This is another thing that's really important.

Don't try to be good at everything.

Because what happens is you just break down.

you'll just overwhelm yourself and you'll just give up.

You say, "Oh, I tried that before." I had an experience which I'll pass on to you.

When I was a.. young man I was in my 20s

and I was in sales and I was in cold calling sales knocking on doors every day

and I was making one or two sales a week.

I was living in a little rooming house with a bed and a floor and a little bathroom.

And I was struggling.

I could tell you within a dollar how much money I had in my world at

that time because it was less than a dollar

and I worked get up at 5 or 6 o 'clock in the morning.

I'd be waiting at 8 o 'clock in the morning when people came to work.

I would knock on doors, office doors, and and business doors all day long, and then in the evenings I go out and knock on homes and apartments.

And I would make call after call after call.

I made hundreds of calls and with no sales.

The first year I made more than 20 ,000 calls.

Only made a few sales.

Just enough Survive.

And then one day, I asked a question which I'm going to help you with.

As I said, Of all the skills, what's holding me back more than anything else?

And the answer was closing the sale.

is that I...

Couldn't get people to make a decision.

So I made a decision.

I still remember the time, date, place, that in my little rooming house

when I decided I was going to learn how to become very good at closing sales.

And I began to read everything I could find.

I sent away four books.

I did everything I could find to study the psychology and the techniques and methods of closing sales.

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In one year my income went up 10 times.

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Changed my life forever.

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The third C is the sea of concentration.

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And these are not necessarily in order, but in a way these are.

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The sea of concentration is your ability to focus, which we talked about before, It's your ability to focus single -mindedly on one thing at a time.

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and to work on that one task until it's complete.

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and to discipline yourself not to do anything else or to become distracted by emails and bells and Bipson

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noises and things like that.

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It's just The ability to focus like a laser beam on a single task.

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Start and finish your most important task.

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Number four is constraints.

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between Where you are today, and where you want to be sometime in the future, a goal, is there is always one

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constraint or choke point that determines the speed at which you get from here to here.

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That's the constraint.

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So the art of life is to identify the constraints that are holding you back

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from achieving the goal that you want to achieve.

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So you say to yourself, "All right, you want to achieve a particular goal.

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So you ask yourself, what is the one factor that determines the speed at which you achieve that goal.

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And don't try to change the world, try to change one thing, one factor.

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Try to alleviate the one factor.

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and that will change your whole life.

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It's unbelievable.

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Number five, is continuous learning.

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and development is Dedicate yourself to becoming better and better at what you do.

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It must be a part of your life.

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You must breathe in, breathe out and learn new things.

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Self -made millionaires, self -made billionaires spend 60 to 90 minutes every day studying

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their field we material I Warren Buffett was just relegated from number

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three to number four richest man in the world and Warren Buffet reads 500 pages a day.

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He reads all the time and he's one of the richest men in the history of the world.

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And he and his partners all say the same thing.

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You've got to read.

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read and learn all the time and one idea can make you rich.

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So just keep flooding your mind with new ideas.

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Number six is Commitment.

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There's no success without commitment, without you putting your whole heart

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into what you're doing and putting your whole heart into what you're doing for a long time.

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But if you do, there is no limit on what you can accomplish.

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You get up in the morning and you make a decision

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that by gum I am going to succeed in this business no matter how long it takes, no matter how many hours a day, you And number seven is courage.

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and courage Winston Churchill said, "Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues for upon it all others depend.

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And in courage, what you have is two parts.

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The first part of courage is the courage to begin to launch, to take a chance, to face failure and rejection,

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to try something with a very great possibility that you will fail and you'll feel embarrassed and upset

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and your self -esteem will go down and so on.

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But the second part of courage is persistence.

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It's that he.. power to keep going and keep pushing yourself and driving yourself

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A woman that I was going out with before I was married, She asked me, "Brian," she said,

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what is your best quality and you I thought about that. And I think...

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I said, "I think my best quality is that I never give up." And I found that that's true, because I never give up.

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Never give up.

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It's not in our vocabulary.

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We never think, "We'll try something different, we'll try something new." we'll take the losses and so on, but would never give up.

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So how do you develop this unshakable quality of persistence which will guarantee your success in life.

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Nothing can stop you if you don't quit.

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If you don't quit, then the only alternative is you must succeed, and eventually you must succeed greatly.

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What do you mean?

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Great rule, you become what you think about, but you become what you say to yourself.

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So what you do is you say to yourself these magic words, you say I...

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Never give up.

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If you never give up, my promise to you, my guarantee to you, is that you are going to be an enormous success in the months and years ahead.

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And I hope you are.

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Thank you very much.

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About This Lesson

Welcome to today's lesson inspired by Brian Tracy's video "Set Your Goals: The Magical 10-Goal Method for Massive Success." In this exercise, you will practice your English speaking skills by focusing on goal-setting strategies while incorporating important vocabulary and phrases. This lesson encourages clarity in your goals and emphasizes the significance of organizing your tasks effectively. By shadowing the content of this video, you will improve your pronunciation, fluency, and comprehension, making your English sound more natural and confident.

Key Vocabulary & Phrases

Goals: Specific, measurable objectives you set to achieve.
Clarity: The quality of being clear and easy to understand.
Take action: The process of doing something to achieve a goal.
Checklist: A written list of items to be verified or done.
Positive impact: A beneficial effect or influence on someone's life.
Self-made: A term used for individuals who achieve success on their own.
Financial goals: Objectives related to earning, saving, or managing money.
Time management: The ability to use one's time effectively to accomplish tasks.

Practice Tips

To maximize your learning experience through shadowing, consider using a shadowing app that allows you to repeat phrases after the speaker at your own pace. Start by listening closely to small segments of the video. Then, use the app's features to slow down the audio if necessary. Aim to mimic not only the words but also the tone and emotion of Brian Tracy's speech. Since he speaks clearly and with enthusiasm, try to embody that energy in your practice.

As you're shadowing, pay attention to the flow of the sentences and the intonation used when discussing goals and achievements. This will help you to sound more fluent and expressive in your conversations. Make use of the shadow speak technique, where you echo what you hear in real-time, helping to train your ear for natural speech patterns.

Finally, practice regularly using a shadowing site or platform where you can find similar motivational content. This repetitive listening and speaking will boost your confidence in using these key terms in everyday discussions about your own goals and aspirations. Remember, consistent practice is the key to mastering a new language!

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

Structure	In the video
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who are · ones who use · persistence which will
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have done · you've ever discovered

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.

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