Shadowing Practice: Watch this to believe in yourself - Learn English Speaking with Video

What if believing in yourself is all that you have left right now?

When I hit rock bottom, that's when I started believing in myself the most because I had nothing left to lose.

When you have nothing left to lose, then what's the harm in believing in yourself fully?

We believe day in, day out negative things about ourselves.

We always have limiting beliefs about how we are not good enough.

But what if we change the narrative and start telling ourselves how we are?

Start telling ourselves how we can make it

and how we will make it no matter what no matter what Ever anyone has ever told you what

if you tell yourself day in day out?

You're gonna make it you're gonna make it I didn't grow up in a childhood where my parents told me.

Oh my god, you should believe in yourself You should be confident.

No, I was told the opposite I looked at my parents

and everyone around me

and I thought I don't want to live like you guys I don't have a future like you guys.

So what did I have to do?

I have to do things differently I had no choice but to believe in myself.

I had no choice but to be delusional and think that somehow everything that I've ever went through was not in vain.

Everything that you're going through right now is not in vain.

Anything that you're going through is growing you.

So if you're in this position, I'm telling you one day you will look back at this time

and you'll think I'm so grateful that this happened

because now i have the knowledge

that i needed back then now i'm a bigger person than i was back then

but you have to make that decision to take all of that knowledge

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Hi guys, my name is Liz and welcome back to my channel.

Okay, let's get right into it first things first get rid

of the limiting beliefs from your environment see how do our thoughts get created it's

when we are born as babies as children we look at

our parents we look at the way they think we look at the way they behave

and we start adapting those beliefs and behaviors

if your parents have a limiting belief about money you will have a limiting belief about money

because you grew up that way you know i really imagine a world

if i grew up in a way where my parents never put fear onto me of other people

or oh don't do this because

that will ruin the reputation oh don't do this isn't

that i would never have felt insecure embarrassed

or anything i would just be myself authentically

and i would have never felt like i had to dim myself

but because from a child age parents they put

that into you you act in a way subconsciously

that is always dimming your light

but honey dimming your light will not get you anywhere dimming your life hasn't gotten your parents anywhere

so you have to look at what will get me the

furthest in 2013 there was a study conducted where they made male mice smell cherry blossom

and anytime they would smell it they would zap

and electrocute their feet so anytime they did

that the male mice started to learn

that cherry blossom smell is associated with pain

and they had fear of the smell of cherry blossom then they took the male mices

and they made them breed with female mices that never had electrocution

that didn't have that issue so they made children together and

when they had the children these children would immediately fear

or get nervous when they smelled cherry blossom they knew it

because it was in their gene and in their biology to not do

that now you have to imagine how much of your limiting beliefs

or how much of your insecurities are just from your parents

that you inherited through gene and dna maybe it's not you

so start really asking yourself do i believe this about myself

or is this something that i got from my mother got from my father from my ancestors

and you can rewire those beliefs you know at what advantage you are

if you just believe in yourself

because 99 of people do not believe in themselves 99 of

people are afraid of others opinions are are afraid to look embarrassed and they don't think that they can do that thing.

But you have that 1% that just believes in themselves

that doesn't care they make it so if you become of

that one percent you don't have a lot of competition you

really really don't another thing is the law of conformity this basically means

that no matter how hard you try to do something your

environment will always dictate who you are this is very very true

if you are trying to love yourself constantly or believe in yourself

that you can do something

but you have someone around you constantly in your ear telling you you will not achieve

that you cannot do that at some point you're going to start to believe

that person over yourself because this is the environment you have

if you live in a household where this is the case

then try to minimize contact with these people try to stay

at work as much as you can try to stay away from them as much as you can

or in your room don't engage with them

if this is your relationship for you or your boss at work your colleagues

or these are your friends then try to change your environment for me the environment

that I grew up in the country

that I grew up in I never felt like it was open-minded enough for me to create

so I moved immediately when I met my ex partner I moved immediately where he was living

and she my career started exploding after that immediately in the country

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that I was growing up social media was really looked down

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upon they would like kind of laugh at you it was like

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that kind of mindset

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so i moved to a country where you have a lot of entrepreneurs where they're doing social media

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and then i just felt like i could expand so much faster

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so if you are not changing maybe you need to change your environment start believing

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that you deserve to take up space my sister showed me

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this tiktok video of this beautiful woman she has an autoimmune disease which made her extremely extremely skinny

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and someone had commented on her stuff like oh you're

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so ugly and she responded to that

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and she was like even though you think i'm ugly i

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deserve to take a space i deserve to put my content out there

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and i deserve to be seen even though i'm not what

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you like i deserve to be here i just think that's

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so beautiful and powerful it's just realizing that no matter what anyone tells you

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no matter that you think that you're not good enough.

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Just being here means that you're a miracle and means that you're allowed to take up space.

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God didn't put you on earth to not take up space.

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There was space for you and that's why you came to this earth.

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That's why you have a mission on this earth

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and you have a purpose but the purpose cannot be fulfilled because your lack of self-belief is blocking the purpose.

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No one is holding you back.

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You are holding yourself back.

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Don't give anyone power over you to think

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that they can take something from you

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or make you feel something they can't make you feel anything

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if you don't allow yourself to feel it also resistance is

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what lowers the vibration for example i get a comment like oh i think she's

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so ugly now

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if i will resist like oh i'm not ugly no no

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i'm not ugly i do really look at all these things then i'm lowering my vibration

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because i'm putting so much energy into something that at the end of the day doesn't matter.

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It doesn't matter whether you think I'm good looking or whether you think I'm not good looking.

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It matters how I show up for myself day in, day out.

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It matters how I feel about myself.

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You really have to ask yourself,

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why should I feel any less about myself because someone else cannot see me the way I see myself?

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Why would you give someone power like that?

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If you just accept like i am ugly to you and

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that is okay it can just pass through the more you

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try to resist being angry the more you try to resist

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being sad the more you try to resist all these emotions is the more you feel worse and worse

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and your energy goes into resisting it instead of letting it

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pass through i'm gonna be sad i'm gonna even cry for

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a month let me cry i'm gonna be angry i'm gonna yell i'm going to shout let me do

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that it doesn't matter but when it's done it's done

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and i can move on from

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that another part of believing in yourself is becoming okay with not being chosen

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and not being liked a lot of people will not like you in life

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and that is just the harsh truth especially

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if you're trying to do something on social media you'll get

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a lot of backlash even the more you grow you'll have

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to accept it you'll have to come to a point where these people will not like me

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or these people will not choose me you guys all go

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oh i'm crying guy didn't want me all these things

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but what about it what about it does that determine your worth just

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because someone said i don't like you you know how many times i've heard i don't like you

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and i don't care why should i care about what they think in their world about me i cannot allow

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that in liz is the owner of her world and And if Liz likes herself, if I go day in day out thinking,

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you know, I'm the greatest thing

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that has walked this earth that's what i'm going to create for myself

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if you go and you walk around like you know what this world has not seen magic yet

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and i'm the magic great that's how what you're going to create a magical world

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but if you go around like oh my god this person rejected me

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so now i'm worth nothing that is what you will create a person

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that is worth nothing because you gave all that power to

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that one person and other things you have to believe

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that happy you exist you have to believe

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that a version of you exists that is living the life

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that you want that has accomplished what they want and

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that is living the purpose that they want it exists you would not want it

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if it wasn't inside of you the more you start to

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visualizing it for yourself like this is who i really want to be

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and then you put in the work guys this is the big mistake

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that everyone makes like oh i should just believe myself

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and sit down no you put in the work what do

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you want to accomplish what do you want to do

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and then you do it

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if you fail at it you try again maybe you try with something else

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but at least you tried you're already 50 in front of other people

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because they never tried become okay with redirection

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and letting go i was talking to this friend of mine

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and she was telling me how she had prayed to god after having

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so many bad relationships she had prayed to god she was

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like god please like give me a good relationship finally i'm ready to love

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and i'm really in a good position she said after

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that she attracted one of probably the worst partners she ever had

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but this person taught her to love herself and

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that was her lesson her lesson wasn't to seek love in

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a partner her lesson was to love herself first her lesson was to come home to herself first

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so that she would stop attracting partners that couldn't give her what she wants.

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If you're whole and if you believe that you deserve the best thing in life, anything you want you can get,

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there is no way that someone can come into your life that doesn't have that same vibration.

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But when we say we're ready for a new partner, we're ready, we're finally healed, God will test you one last time

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and be like are you have to take those lessons

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and you have to move on and see them as redirection I've

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so many times thought that oh I want this

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or I want this guy or I want this relationship

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and then it didn't work out

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and then I was like oh god like why is this

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but then I got something so much better

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when I let go of it when I let go of it I got something

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that I could never even have imagined for myself.

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But your higher self and God has bigger plans for you.

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You cannot see it.

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You only see the bad things right now.

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You only see the suffering right now.

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You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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God would not let you suffer for no reason.

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It is for you to grow.

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You need to grow into the person that is your higher self.

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And how do you grow into that person?

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It's through relationships.

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It's through loss.

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It's through all these lessons because that's how we learn.

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Maybe right now it's just time for you to find yourself again.

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It's just time for you to find out what do I like?

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Who do I want to be?

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How do I want to be perceived?

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What clothes do I like?

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What do I think suits me the best?

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How can I take care of myself the way I wish my parents have taken care of me?

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How can I love myself the way I wish my parents had loved me?

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Maybe it's time to come home to yourself.

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another way of believing in yourself is by moving on for you doing things for you you have to let

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that go you have to let that past go not

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because i'm telling you to suffer it's not like you won't

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miss it you will many times want to go back to

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that past because that's where your comfort zone lies

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but you have to move on because the future you does not deserve this

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the future you does not deserve something where you're not fulfilled

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the future you does not deserve something where it's uncertain

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and where you're not respected you deserve better than

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that future you deserves peace give yourself grace give yourself kindness right now give yourself the ability to feel

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that peace it doesn't always have to be bad you don't

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have to recreate your childhood again for yourself you don't have to recreate

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that childhood in partners again for yourself it's not necessary you can live drama free now

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because it has ended

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but honey trust me there is something waiting for you just to come in

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when you release of the past when you take your power back from

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that situation anything you're clinging onto is draining energy from you And because it's raining energy,

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nothing else can come in because you're occupied.

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Take a situation where you feel like you were done badly and turn it around.

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Instead of saying, oh my god, I was so stupid, how could I not notice that they were cheating on me?

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Made me realize like, whoa, I'm a person that can love deeply and I'm a very loyal person.

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Wow, I deserve a person like that.

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Instead of saying, oh my god, I have such bad friends.

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They were doing all these things to me behind my back.

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Say, I'm grateful that I'm not like that.

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I'm grateful that I didn't do people dirty like that.

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Start commanding yourself for the things that you cannot understand in other people.

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Also trust in who you are becoming.

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You are becoming such a powerful person.

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You're such a good powerful person that will accomplish anything that you set your mind to.

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But right now you're going through trials and tribulations and you're trying things out.

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It's okay.

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You're learning.

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You're growing.

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But just trust that that person

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that you're gonna be at the end of the day is a person

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that will look back and that will laugh at these situations

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and be like you know what i'm grateful for these situations

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and i'm grateful for the way i handled it i'm proud

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of myself that's the person you will be that's the person

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you will become god will not fail you you will not fail yourself even if i look at myself today

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I get such a shocked feeling because I am who I needed when I was younger.

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I wish I had someone that was like me

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when I was younger that I could look at because that would have motivated me so much.

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That would have made me believe in myself so much and I would have seen that there was another way out.

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I know that my inner child can feel safe with me now because I fought for myself.

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I really fought hard for myself through everything

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and I know you're fighting every single day for yourself

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and you're gonna get there your inner child is gonna feel

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so safe with you one day and you're gonna thank yourself

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that you didn't give up on you

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if anyone gives up on you no matter who leaves no

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matter who goes you have to stay with yourself honey day

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in day out the one person you cannot escape is you why be mean to

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that one person why belittle

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that one person you're the only one you got don't compare

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your journey is very personal whatever you're looking at all these other people think oh my god they're already

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so far oh my god this and that like maybe

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if you were in their shoes you wouldn't be happy

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because you don't know what they're going through behind the scenes they portray an image to you

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and you think i would want that image but

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if you really switch shoes you would be miserable this is your journey

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and your journey is going to be whatever you make of it

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when you decide you know this is what i want in life

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and this is what i have to do to achieve it

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and you believe in yourself fully to achieve

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that thing no matter what you will achieve it

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and you will create a beautiful journey for yourself don't look at other people

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and think i should have been there no you're exactly where you're supposed to be right now

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and you have to trust

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that whatever you're going through it's gonna end up on the better side it's hard

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but at least you're trying you know how many people are not trying anymore

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or they have completely given up on life

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if you wake up every day

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and you still think you know i have this goal for

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myself i'm gonna accomplish this you know what baby steps

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but i'm gonna get there

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and i'm gonna do this thing you're still breathing trying every day

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that means your mission is not done yet you have something

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to accomplish you have a purpose here you need to start believing in

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that you know how many times I struggle with believing in myself

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or even sometimes I think like you know what I don't want this YouTube thing anymore I get ideas like

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that but then I'm like no let's overcome these limiting beliefs let's overcome this avoidant attachment lifestyle

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that I've created for myself where I would just constantly run away from things

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or go and try to hide myself let's be okay

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with shining right now and that I need to shine and

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that people need to see me because somehow I'm benefiting them you have to believe

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that for yourself too I'm still showing up for myself every day even

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if it's hard even if I don't want to

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so many times I've thought like you know what I don't

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want this life anymore I don't want any life anymore does

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that mean that I have to give up on myself no

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because I've never given up on myself and I believe

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that I'm meant for great things I believe

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that i'm meant for even bigger things than this and i believe

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that you can do anything like

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that you can do anything you set your mind to

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and you can be the biggest best thing in this world

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but you need to start saying i am i am the

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best thing this world will ever see i am the greatest this world will ever walk

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and when you have that believe in yourself honey watch how the world will start acting in accordance to what you believe.

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I love you guys so much.

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I hope this video helped you guys.

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And yeah, I'll see you in the next video.

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Bye-bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 328 sentences and 3852 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:21. The speaker talks fast, about 189 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.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
belief noun	/bɪˈliːf/	Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
lesson noun	/ˈlɛs.ən/	A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
ugly adjective	/ˈʌɡli/	Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
grateful adjective	/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/	Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.
resist verb	/ɹɪˈzɪst/	To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
accomplish verb	/əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/	To finish successfully.
therapist noun	/ˈθɛɹəpɪst/	Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
honey noun	/ˈhʌni/	A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
cherry noun	/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/	A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
blossom verb	/ˈblɑ.səm/	To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
suffer verb	/ˈsʌfɚ/	To undergo hardship.
dim adjective	/dɪm/	Not bright or colorful.
vibration noun	/vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/	The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
comfort noun	/ˈkʌm.fət/	Contentment, ease.
pray verb	/pɹeɪ/	To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
take up verb		To pick up.
grow up verb		To mature and become an adult.
pass through verb		To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.
fill out verb	/fɪl ˈaʊt/	To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get off verb		To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
go around verb		To move or spread from person to person.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 152 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, breathe /bɹiːð/, furthest /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ðɪst/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, vibration /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shine /ʃaɪn/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, biology /baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/

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 belief, lesson, ugly.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you really switch shoes you would be
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have left · has ever told · have felt
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was told · are born · is associated

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

Grammar in this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?