Shadowing Practice: Understand how valuable you are - Learn English Speaking with Video

listen you might be wondering why i look like a detective well it's

because i'm trying to figure out why you haven't realized your

work yet okay why you are constantly underselling yourself to everyone

and everything so recently i was meeting up with my friend

and she's a lovely woman she's 20 years older than me

and she's such an amazing artist right

so she basically she made this like painting and guys the paintings

that she makes is

so detailed like it's crazy she works on these paintings for months on end came to visit her last week

and i was like oh my god like i love your painting the one in the middle

that you made now i was like how much is that

and she goes like yeah that's a thousand dollars i looked

at her i'm like how long did you work on

that painting and then she goes like oh i worked on it for nine months okay

so you worked on that painting for nine months and you're selling

that for a thousand dollars when it's minimum worth ten thousand hundred thousand even

and then i looked at her i'm like listen you are

underselling yourself i go to art galleries i'm very involved with

art listen some of the art i've seen i just question mark okay i know

that art is supposed to make you feel something yeah it makes me feel angry like the audacity

that some of these paintings have because they're so bad yeah

but they're charging such a high fee

and every time i walk around there i'm thinking my friend

should be here like she should literally be in one of these things

and selling her paintings for so much

and then i asked her i'm like why do you undersell yourself

and then she goes like yeah

because you know in this place people that's the only thing

they can afford like that's a price they can afford i mean i would love to sell it for more

but they can't afford it for more listen my love first

of all we're living in a city where there's a lot of wealthy people first of all

so that's not true second of all never ever yeah go down in your value

because of your environment your painting should have a set price

and if your environment cannot meet

that price then you change the environment don't go down for anyone

because that also makes your paintings look less than they are worth

because when i look at your painting i think

that should be millions of dollars but

when you look at it you undersell yourself listen guys i

literally started painting i think a couple of months ago i

don't know i work on my paintings for two hours they are

so ugly that they're good they're hideous yeah

but i am literally thinking in my head you know what

i should open an art gallery i should put my paintings you know minimum 100 000 for each painting

and i genuinely in my head believe that i can do

that this is how delusional i am i am delusional

but i get the stuff done

and as much as my friend is underselling herself i know

you guys are underselling yourself too whether it's in a relationship

whether it's in a job whether it's in whatever you're doing i know

that you're not realizing who you are and your value and

when someone doesn't meet

that value you go down in value no hi guys my name is this

and welcome back to my channel okay let's get right into it first things first you should influence the room

and not just adapt to it i hear this

so many times just like i said my friend who is selling her paintings at a lower price

because of her environment

or i hear my friends say yeah liz i can't find a good guy

because this is just how guys are in this country why are you guys acting like once we are somewhere

or we've been born in a country or whatever we're like trees

and we cannot move you know you don't find someone you

like in your country you go look in another country i do not care but you don't just go settle

and lower yourself and accept bad behavior because that's just how my environment is

or you constantly let people walk all over you

because this is how it goes in my culture bullshit you

have the power to change things in your life you have the power to move

and go for what you actually want

but you are the one deciding to settle you should be

so powerful when you walk into a room that room becomes more valuable because they have you in it

You should be so powerful that when you put your paintings in a room, that room is more valuable because it has your painting in it.

Do not undersell yourself to adapt to your environment.

If you are here, we do not go down here to just make others feel comfortable.

I need you to realize that you matter.

Listen, I don't care how someone has made you feel.

I don't care whether your parents have made you feel this small.

I don't care whether it was a teacher, your culture, your toxic friends your toxic ex i do not care you

have the power to make your confidence go back up you

have the power right now to believe in yourself again i can sit here all day

and tell you that you matter but if you don't realize this and

if you don't start acting like you matter nothing will ever

change you matter to your loved ones okay you're important you matter to to maybe a stranger on the street

that you smile to and then you completely change that stranger's day

or life or you gave them a compliment and

that completely changed them

or made them feel better about themselves you matter you had an impact in this life

and you just matter because you're alive

and breathing you know how hard it is to survive in this day

and age you know like you should just be

so proud of yourself

because you're still here god still has a bigger plan for

you your mission on this earth is still not completed

because you're still here there's still things to be done

if your mission was completed if if

if nothing was about to happen anymore you would not be here another thing is realize

that not everyone should have access to you you know how

i always say i'm not better than everyone that's true

but i also should not sit with everyone some people are

not good for you toxic people are not good for you people

that drain you are not good for you your valuable your

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energy is valuable your time is valuable not everyone can sit with you okay

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energy drainers vampires people

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that just constantly want something from you they shouldn't be able to sit with you choose your company wisely

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if you sit with your company and after that you feel

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so bad you're sitting with bad company times we expand our minds sometimes we learn new things in life

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and that's why we go to a next level right

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when we're at that next level consciously we cannot sit with our old friends

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and you might feel sad because you're like you know what i i vibed with them

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so well when i was toxic myself

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but now i can't it's okay it's time for you to move on evolve

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and let go it's very sad but this happens

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when you start healing so accept

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that this is a part of life not everyone is meant to be forever

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and i will say i don't even believe in meant to be forever i believe

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that we're meant to evolve and we meet people at those stages in our lives

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so stop resenting or hating people for it

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or trying to force a connection

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when the connection is not there anymore it's okay to move on never doubt yourself

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because of other people's opinions see when i started out and

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when i was going viral i saw opinions everywhere i saw

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news articles everyone saying i'm a narcissist everyone saying i'm a bad person blah blah

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but i know i'm a good person i know i have pure intentions

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and i have a good heart

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so i go to bed knowing who i am okay

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so those opinions couldn't influence me because i knew who i was

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and they didn't other people's opinions can make you sad

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if other people's opinions can make you happy then you're just

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their little puppet why would you want to be a puppet

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know thyself know yourself first before you know anyone no one will tell you who you are

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when you know who you are understand

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that in life people will perceive you the same way you perceive yourself

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if you think you're not deserving of certain things other people also think

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that you're not deserving of those things okay i see women

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they're like oh my god why do i never get spoiled

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why does a man never do anything for me blah blah

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blah you don't think you deserve it you don't think you deserve

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that treatment i know women that get spoiled i know women

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that are housewives you know how they think oh they literally think that's a bare minimum.

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He should spoil me.

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They, in their head, it's no other way.

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In their head, this is literally how a relationship works.

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So for them, they get those type of guy

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because they don't settle for anything else it's either this way

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or the highway they don't they don't compromise

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and be like okay you know what you don't spoil me it's fine we'll still be together whatever

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and they'd be unhappy no

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if this guy won't do it another guy will they don't care

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if i look at the women that don't get spoiled

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and i talk to them they literally say like yeah but you know

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it's hard for a man to do all these things

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and then i see they're so frustrated and unhappy

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but i told them you know this is the reality you create for yourself it's your mindset you think

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that it's it's hard for a man to take care of you

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so you should help so that's what you're creating you see yourself as a confident

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and valuable woman yeah you will also not be around everyone be everywhere sit with anyone

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and let them have access to you you will not do

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that you will not behave that way and other people

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when they see the way you behave will also not perceive you as insecure they will also look at you

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and think oh she's confident she has boundaries you know she likes people to respect her

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so we should respect her people treat you the way you perceive yourself i also need you to realize

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that you deserve whatever you desire i find it really weird

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when people say no you know what i feel like i don't deserve that why not are we not on earth

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are we not suffering enough here already by just being alive why is it

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that we're literally just souls in a body yeah

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and we're just living a human experience and then our imagination is

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so limited we think like oh my god like no i

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can never be a millionaire why not money is an energy money is not

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that special why do we think this is only for a certain special kind of people are you not special

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because you're alive you know what i will say this it

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is for special type of people it is just for people

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that think that they deserve it

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and that's it they don't even need to be talented they don't need to have it all just people

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that think that deserve the high life yeah are the ones

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that get it and people that are literally like talented doing everything

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but they feel like they're not good enough those are the ones

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that never get it and you are in control of whatever reality you want to create see

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if right now me right i'm a youtuber i make my

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own money i take care of myself i spoil my family

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if tomorrow i want to quit being a youtuber i want to quit helping people

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and i just want to be married to a wealthy guy i can do

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that and then i will be in the reality of a housewife i can choose whatever i make of this

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if tomorrow i decide you know what I don't want to show my face anymore.

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I just want to be an author.

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I create books and I'll be an author.

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New reality, baby.

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This is how I will jump.

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And whatever I desire, whatever I want to create will happen.

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Also realize that people will try to project their own lack onto you.

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Like they will say like, oh no, you know what?

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No, I don't think you can do it.

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Like when I was starting out my social media, right?

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They're like, you know, you're not that special.

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Like, I don't think you can do it and stuff.

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I had literally friends that would tell me that.

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I don't think you can do it like no you know

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you should just go for a regular job no honey you

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can't do it i can i can do whatever i want

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to do i can be as big as i want to be

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and as i decide to be

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but this is how strong of a character you have to

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have like even though your family your friends they will tell

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you you can do it you have to tell them you know what that's your opinion

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and in yourself you say you can you can do whatever you want

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because i'm telling you baby once they see you going up

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they will be very quick to pull you down back to

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our level back to our level then you have to say

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no i'm creating a new level here you guys rise up

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to mine you guys are not good enough right now rise up i'm not going down for anyone so realize

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that you are an unlimited being you are literally a soul

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in a body having a human experience why do you think

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that things are so hard to get for you huh so

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so god put you on this earth to suffer is

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that what you believe is

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that what you believe to put you on earth to suffer is

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that a loving god for you no god wants you to win.

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Okay.

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He's rooting for you.

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He is rooting for you.

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Now you have to start rooting for yourself.

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Okay.

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You just once you realize that.

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You know what?

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I'm an unlimited being.

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Like literally.

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We're literally flying in the universe.

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Like with gravity.

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That's it.

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Like don't you guys understand how insane this is?

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And then you think like.

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You know what?

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Accomplishing my goals is very hard.

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what are you talking about to stop the

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when i achieve this mentality okay i have this mentality of like you know

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when i get to this goal then i'll be happy when

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when i lose the weight then i'll go out and socialize

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or work on my confidence when i start to look better then i'll i'll do this

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and that listen my love

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if you don't start now with what you have you will soon come to realize

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that you never arrive you think

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that any of this will make you happy no you have

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to be happy already with what you have right now you

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have to start becoming happy with who you are right now

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so when you do evolve that you can stay happy people make the big mistake thinking

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if i have this amount of money i will be happy then they have

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that money and they're not happy they're shocked they think Why am I not happy?

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I thought this was the goal.

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That was never the goal.

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The goal was to find peace and happiness already with who you are.

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And then to evolve.

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When you don't do this right now, you will be in for a rude awakening.

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And you will actually go into a big depression when you arrive.

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Because in life, we never arrive.

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In life, we never stop learning.

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In life, we keep evolving.

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You will realize that, you know what?

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Nothing can make us happy.

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Because we are the ones that can make us happy to celebrate yourself

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when is the last time you looked at yourself

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and said you know what i love you you did start

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a great job today i love you i love you for accomplishing

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that goal i'm grateful for you when is the last time you've ever said

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that to yourself or do you say

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that to yourself at all you know you expect yourself to be a robot

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and a machine

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and you're like oh i don't have any appreciation i don't

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have any love do you give it to yourself huh when when is the last time you've You've given appreciation to yourself.

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When is the last time you thanked yourself for coming here, to coming to this point?

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When is the last time you thanked yourself for even getting up in the morning and trying again? When?

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How do you expect other people to appreciate or love you when you can't even do that for yourself?

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When you can't even look at yourself and say, you know what?

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I'm proud of you.

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You did a great job.

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I love you.

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How do you expect that love from others then?

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I need you to realize

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that you can bounce back from anything you know life has put you through

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so much so many bad situations life has knocked you down

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but who's still here you and me are still here we're still here baby and

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that is literally what you need to realize we can come back from anything you know anything there is nothing

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that will ever stop us I saw this quote and it said You can strip me of everything I have.

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I will smile and go get it again.

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And that is so true.

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That is literally my mentality.

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I might, you know what?

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I'm very grateful for what I have today.

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But if I don't have it tomorrow, I will go get it again.

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And maybe even bigger.

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I'm a hustler.

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I've always been a hustler.

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I'm always going to be a hustler.

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For whatever it is that I want.

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I will not stop until I get it.

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hey guys this is the end of the video i hope

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you guys enjoyed the video i hope you guys learned something

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and always remember never ever make your value go down for anyone

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or anything they don't think you're valuable you go find someone else

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or somewhere else where they do and

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when your value comes from inside of you

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and self-belief you don't even care you will not even care who thinks

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or who doesn't think you're valuable because you already know you are.

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I love you guys so much and yeah I see you in the next video.

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Bye!

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.

Shadowing Practice: Understand how valuable you are - Learn English Speaking with Video

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