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time you really waste for real how much time do you have left
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when you stop thinking about
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that we don't know right now we have the most valuable asset on earth on our side time
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but it's running out and to make
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that first step towards greatness is the hardest step
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and you will have to fight and fight and fight
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and fight and most of you won't be successful not because you can't do it
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But you can't outlast your old you long enough to get to your new you
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Because let's face it when the alarm goes off you got your head on that soft pillow
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It's all nice and cozy and warm in there.
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You do not feel like getting up
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You should not that snooze alarm is the dream killer when you press that snooze button
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You're killing your dreams every single day when you wake up you got two options
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You can look at the clock and hit the snooze
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You can look at that snooze button boom
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You can hit the snooze button and go back to bed
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and dream about what you want to have or You can look at that sneeze button,
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kick that clock and get up and go pursue your dreams. So easy.
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So easy to put things off.
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So easy to say, you're going to do it tomorrow.
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Well, I want you to reprogram your brain and tell yourself that tomorrow is not a viable option.
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Tomorrow doesn't work.
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You do it today.
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You get it done today.
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That's what you do.
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If you can get through to doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness.
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No more excuses.
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No more hesitation.
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No more procrastination.
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No more negotiation.
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No more go on the attack.
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You don't stop until it's done.
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Don't expect front row seats if you're giving those the effort.
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Everybody want to win.
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Everybody want to be on the winning team.
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Everybody want to win, but everybody don't want to work.
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Everybody want the reward, but everybody don't want to work.
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We all gotta work.
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I gotta show up and show up once winner.
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Every time where much is given, much is required, but you're gonna get the rewards.
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Rewards come after you work, not before.
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The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.
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We're not gonna wait.
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We're gonna do work.
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We're gonna put in work.
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Because every time you put in work, you get the same consequences.
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You get paid.
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You get rewarded.
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Discipline is you do it so long and so hard
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and you're so passionate about it that even when you don't feel like it you still operate at the highest level.
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Beast mode is I will not stop when others stop.
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I will not quit when it gets hard.
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I will not complain.
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I will not worry.
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I will not fret.
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I will find a way when there is no way.
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I will make a door when there is no door.
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I will create a window when there is no window.
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I will create finance when there is no finance.
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I will find an opportunity when it doesn't exist.
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I will not be defeated because I know what my desires are and I know what I deserve.
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The reason why you stop and you start and you stop and you start is because the goal is not meaningful enough.
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You don't have enough skin in it.
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You don't have nothing to lose if you don't do it.
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What I'm telling you is you've got to create the type of scenario that if it doesn't work, you lose everything.
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And because you cannot lose everything, you've got to make it happen.
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If you just decide, I'm going to keep my word.
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If I say something, I'm going to do it regardless.
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Being more considerate, more trusting, more disciplined.
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You owe it to yourself to give it your best effort.
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If you get in the habit of being mediocre or doing just enough to get by, you're not hurting anybody but you.
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You're cheating you.
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If you follow it through, if you keep your commitment to the commitment, you'll feel strong and powerful.
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That kind of commitment, that kind of spirit, that kind of personal power, that kind of vision is in you.
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Decide to be better.
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Decide to get better.
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Decide to get after it.
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You got the little voices in your head.
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And you know what they're saying?
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They're saying it's okay.
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You've done enough.
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Take a little rest.
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That's fine.
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You can take the day off.
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you don't need to go hard that's what those little voices are saying
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but you've got another voice in your head that's asking
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you a question it's asking you what could you be what could you be what could you be
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if you worked as hard as you could what could you be
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if you opposed real discipline in your life what could you be I said you crank up the volume on
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that voice crank up the volume on that question max it out
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so easy to put things off
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so easy to say you're gonna do it tomorrow well I want you to reprogram your brain
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and tell yourself that tomorrow is not a viable option.
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Tomorrow doesn't work.
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You do it today.
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You get it done today.
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That's what you do.
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Too tired.
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Too hungry.
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Too sore.
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Too hot.
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Too cold.
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Too whatever.
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Stop rationalizing.
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Stop making excuses.
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Stop downing yourself little water -bound assessments of where you're really at.
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Tell yourself the truth.
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Are you making yourself better?
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Are you making yourself worse?
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Are you moving forward or are you moving back?
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Are you making progress or are you stagnating?
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Make the decision.
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Yes or no. Are you going to work out today?
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Yes or no?
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Are you going to win?
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Yes or no?
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Don't allow for any gray area in there.
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Get rid of the debate.
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and you know the right decision to make so go
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and make it hard work works
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and you know what's great about our culture y 'all the world's lazy it's good thing for you
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and me everybody will talk about it everybody will post about it
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but nobody wants to roll their sleeves and just go get it
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and so what
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that means for me I don't have to be the most qualified
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I don't have to be the most talented all I got to begin to do is to apply myself
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and by default I'm gonna I separate myself from the crowd.
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If you set out and you say you're going to do something, do yourself a favor and don't lie to yourself.
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Because that is the worst thing that an individual can ever do.
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You think you lie to your peers.
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You think you lie to your teacher.
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You think you lie to your coach.
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At the end of the day, when you look in the mirror, you lie to you.
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Because that's your life.
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You make your bed, you got to lay in it.
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You aren't getting any closer to your five -year plan
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or your three -year plan or your seven -year plan or any plan that you've got
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Unless you get up and start getting after it.
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Today!
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If for 10 years, if you didn't avoid doing what you knew you needed to do, what would you be like?
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What would happen if you just stopped wasting the opportunities that are in front of you?
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You'd be, who knows how much more efficient?
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10 times more efficient.
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20 times more efficient.
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You have no idea how efficient, efficient people get.
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It's completely off the charts.
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I need you to confront you.
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I need you to confront you because you're the one holding you up.
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I need you to confront you.
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I need you to look in the mirror and tell you, you are not going to do me like this no more.
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You're not going to keep procrastinating.
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You're not going to keep thinking like that.
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I need you.
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You're not.
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you're not going to continue to sabotage me you're not I get frustrated with humans
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when somebody's late and they upset I get frustrated with humans
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when somebody borrows money for you and you don't pay it back
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and you upset I get upset with humans
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when you go out to eat now bring your food out the way you want your food out
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and you are so upset and you let them have it
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but then you disappoint you
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when you don't let you have it you give you a pass
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you give you a pass you're not where you supposed to be financially
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and you gave yourself a past you know you better than
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that you know you should be further in life
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but you keep letting you slide it's time you punish
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you you need to tell you no more tv no more snacks no more desserts no more no
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we working out now no more alcohol not right now no
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i can't handle it right now you need to tell you
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that you owe you something hold you accountable and don't let you off the hook.
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I want you to challenge you this year to do something you've never done before, to have something you've never had before.
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Any goal that you want to achieve that's worthwhile in your life require all in effort.
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Every moment, every minute, every hour, every day, every week, every month,
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every year for as long as it takes for you to get where you're going, you should be consumed with that path.
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What you do at night matters.
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What you do in the morning matters.
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What you do when your friends are out drinking matters.
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What you do on Saturday matters.
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What you do on Sunday matters.
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The success clock doesn't give a f* what day it is.
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It's gonna run no matter what.
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And you guys pretend like you can work seven, eight, ten hours a day and then spend the rest of your time
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and you think you're gonna be somewhere and you're not.
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You have to dedicate every breath, every ounce of energy,
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and every thought and effort that you possibly have in your heart to becoming what it is you want to be.
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Because nothing great comes from a position of comfort.
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Everything worthwhile, everything
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that is great comes from being a person in a position
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of uncomfortable nothing worthwhile is easy to get everything's gonna make you uncomfortable get used to it
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and if you can get used to being uncomfortable your limits are
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non -existent you know who's gonna bail you out you know who's gonna come in to rescue you
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you know who's gonna come and save the day
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no one no one's coming to tell you to turn the
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tv off no one's coming to tell you to get out the door
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and exercise nobody's coming to write the business plan for you no one's gonna come
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and do it for you you're gonna have to do it all yourself
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and many of you are not where you're supposed to be not
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because you're not gifted you have absolutely no discipline i need you to confront you
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because you're the one holding you up i need you to confront you i need you to look in the
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and tell you, you are not going to do me like this no more.
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You give you a pass.
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You are not where you're supposed to be financially and you gave yourself a pass.
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You know you're better than that.
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You know you should be further in life, but you keep letting you slide.
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It's time you punish you.
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From now on, you're not going to hold any other human more accountable than you hold yourself.
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It's these moments, these decisions we make on a daily basis.
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Do we get up early and go for a run?
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Do we hit the snooze button?
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Do we go to that extra rep in the gym? and our bodies dying, we push past that.
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Those inches you need to be number one then are around us every single day.
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It's that you get up that day and do those little tiny things, the little details, the little nuggets of life.
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That's what adds up to be the difference.
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So I just need to think about three people that you love.
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That person that you think about has to be louder than the snooze button.
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So when you think about Granny,
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you gotta think about, do I hit the snooze button or do I get up and make it happen for Granny?
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Who you doing this for?
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So the days you don't feel like getting up, just think about them.
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And you don't get here by quitting when you tired.
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You get here by quitting when you finish, when you done.
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You don't stop when you tired.
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You stop when you done.
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Execution is worship.
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And so I execute for my mom.
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I execute for my grandma.
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I execute for my sister.
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That's why I can't quit and give up even though I get tired just like everybody else.
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Why?
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Because this is what I do.
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This is my leg.
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This is your way, you gotta murder it.
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If dreams were easy, everybody would make them happy.
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The problem is that most people, they can't get up in the morning.
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They ain't got no energy.
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You just ain't got the stamina.
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You just ain't got the energy.
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You can't smart everything.
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You can't outthink everything.
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Some stuff is just you gotta be powerful.
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It's just some stuff that you gotta have stamina for.
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You just too slow.
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It just take you too long.
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You wake up, take you three weeks to do what it can take 24 hours to do.
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It's gonna make you a bad person, but you're gonna forever be average because to be great you got to keep up
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There is no discount.
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You can't get 50 % off.
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It's sweat, it's blood, it's tears.
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There are no shortcuts to success
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Stop thinking they are and stop wanting people to put you somewhere that you didn't earn
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Y 'all gotta do me a favor.
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Stop being gazelle.
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You're not average.
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There's nothing about you that's average
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You're not good.
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You were born to be great.
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So you go out there and give what's yours.
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Do you have a heart?
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Do you have to perseverance?
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Do you have to commitment?
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Do you have to consistency?
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When I tell you that you got to make sacrifices
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and you got to get up at three o 'clock and four o 'clock and you got to grind, why are you telling me that?
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Why?
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Because people don't need help sleeping in.
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People don't need help gaining weight.
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People don't need help overindulging, making excuses.
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People don't need help hitting the snooze button.
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People need help making sacrifices.
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Yup, it's tough.
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It's hard.
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I'm not telling you it's going to be easy to get up at three o 'clock in the morning.
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I'm not telling you it's gonna be easy to sacrifice.
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I'm not telling you it's gonna be easy to grind.
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I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, but I can tell you this.
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It will be worth the sacrifice if you can grind your way through it.
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No excuses, just adjustments.
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Execute my friend, execute.
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Some of you are in the darkest of darkest valleys.
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I don't know what you're going through but I know what you need hope
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and I want you to know that beautiful things can come from your broken pieces
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when you give your broken pieces a chance it is okay to be scared it is okay to cry
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but giving up is not i just want you to know that it's not the end it matters how you're gonna finish
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i don't care how dark it look for you i don't care what they just said to you
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i don't care what the verdict is i don't care what the haters say
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it ain't over no matter what happens to you it ain't over Ain't no such a thing as over.
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Do you know man that you can actually mess your life completely up?
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You can jack it all the way up and you can turn around and get it right.
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Do you know that you can be divorced multiple times and still be okay?
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Do you understand that you cannot have a degree and still be just fine?
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Now whatever you've been through, whatever that is, guess what?
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you're still here.
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You have a great life in front of you but your great life is in front of you.
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It's not behind you.
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Everything you're going through is preparing you for what you ask God for.
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You just got to quit tripping while you in the process because the process is necessary.
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You may not see it now but
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when he gets you on the other side of it you're gonna see exactly why it went
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that way and you're gonna be okay with it.
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Pull yourself together and quit tripping because you in the process.
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God is processing you.
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He ain't through with you.
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If he was through with you, you would not wake up in the morning.
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When you feel like giving up, don't.
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When you thinking about giving up, don't.
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When it look like you ain't gonna make it keep going
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when they tell you you can't come on man who are they
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when they tell you to put all your stuff back on your desk don't do
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that man don't do that
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when they tell you you're not gonna make it don't believe them man don't believe them you got to be
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relentless and i'm saying to you what if all of us took
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that attitude after we face a rejection and a no one, we have a meeting and no one shows up.
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Or somebody say, you can count on me.
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And they don't come through.
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Nobody believes in you.
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You've lost again and again and again.
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The lights are cut off.
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But you're still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and say to yourself, it's not over until I win.
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The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
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See, what you become in the process is more important than the dream.
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That's far more important.
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The kind of person you become, the character that you built, the courage that you develop, the faith that you're manifesting.
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Oh, it's something that you get up in the morning, you look yourself in the mirror, you're a different kind of person.
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You walk with a different kind of spirit.
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People know that you know what life is, that you have embraced life.
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You know it was hard, but you did it hard.
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Everybody wants to prize but nobody loves the process.
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Everybody wants to be a champion but nobody's willing to put in the work that it takes to be a champion.
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Everybody wants to hold up the trophy and say man I did it
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but nobody's willing to put in the work that it takes to do it.
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I love the process.
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I love the thought of working for what I want.
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And I firmly believe you never supposed to wish for it more than you're willing to work for it
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But a lot of people they wish and they're not willing to work a
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Real man in the dark when nobody's watching he put me in work
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Cuz he lost the process
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Cuz real lions like to hunt they love the process
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Just as much as they love the prize and some of y 'all just want to score you don't like the process
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Championships aren't won in the theater or the arena.
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They're won in the thousands of hours in the training room, in the labs, in the 5am runs, and it's raining, whenever else is sleeping.
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That's when it's won.
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I'm here today.
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I'm an ordinary person.
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But I focused on my craft.
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I had a burning desire to be excellent.
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I love what I do.
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It's my oxygen.
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It's my DNA.
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At 4 in the morning I get up and I'm working on my craft because I love it.
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It's the hidden work.
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Now look at it as like a rock, and that rock is you.
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And every day you fight not wanting to get up, and you do anyway.
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You chip another piece off that rock.
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And every day you go to train, you train harder and harder and harder and harder.
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And you get up earlier, and all these things you do to start forming yourself, you're chipping another piece of that rock off.
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Before you know it, that rock, it becomes the masterpiece in which you created.
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The heart of a champion is a light switch that's always on.
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It doesn't go on and off when someone's watching.
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It's constant.
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It's how you look at something if your name is attached to it, then you do it right.
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The best of your ability every single time.
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Do the job right or don't do it at all.
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That's the same person who has his hand raised on the podium one day.
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Same motherf*.
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It's what I did in the dark that blew me up.
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It is in practicing.
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It is in lifting weights.
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It is in resting.
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It is in eating right.
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It is in making good decisions that you look a certain way.
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It is how you practice.
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It is what you do that makes you look like you look.
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It is the process of the grind that shapes you and forms you.
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The real grind is in the dark when nobody sees you.
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When nobody knows what you're doing, when you're putting in those extra reps, when you're watching those videos and you're getting inspired,
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when you change your music, it's the process that makes you sweet.
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I'm talking about the commitment that says, I am going to stay true to what I said I would do long after the mood
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that I've set it in is left.
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You gotta begin with the end in mind, so whatever your dream or your goal is, you gotta wake up every day to it.
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You gotta go to bed with it.
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You gotta read stuff, the music you listen to, Everything you do gotta pour into that dream.
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I understand it is in the process that you get better.
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I am not phenomenally skilled, but I'm phenomenally willed.
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My IQ may never change, but my will changes.
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Every year I get stronger and stronger and more determined.
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Why?
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Because it's in my DNA.
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When you dedicate your life, you don't care anything about the odds.
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When the dream is big enough, the odds don't matter.
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Giving it all, it can be confusing to mediocre people.
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When they talk sh, you keep grinding.
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Work hard in silence and let your success speak for you.
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You keep talking smack and I'll keep working.
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You keep focusing on everything and everyone else and I'll keep working.
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Instead of killing them with kindness, torture and success.
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Build the kind of life that says I told you so without having to say a fking word.
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While most people stop when they're tired, I stop when I'm done.
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The only thing limiting your horizons is you.
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My glory doesn't happen in front of a crowd.
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It doesn't happen in a stadium or on a stage.
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There are no medals handed out.
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It happens in the darkness of the early morning. In solitude.
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Where I try.
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And I try.
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And I try again.
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with everything I have to be the best
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that I can possibly be better than I was yesterday better than people thought
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I could be better than I thought I could be then claim one victory
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that no one can ever take away from me ever a victory
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that is earned every single day a victory of determination
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and will and discipline a victory achieved
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because I will not stop is the character who you all it's not the title
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that makes you it's not the success
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that makes you the character defines the success defines the theme
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and it starts right there championships aren't won in the theater of the arena.
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They're one in the thousands of hours in the training room, in the labs, in the 5 a .m runs,
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and it's raining, and everyone else is sleeping.
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That's when it's won.
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How you hold yourself in the small things of life, build the character winning blocks of the things that we'll remember for.
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Do the job right or don't do it at all.
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That's the same person who has his hand raised on the podium one day.
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Same motherfuckers.
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It's how you look at something, if your name's attached to it, then you do it right.
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The best of your ability every single time.
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Some of y 'all so caught up on the game that you don't get it.
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It isn't practicing.
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It isn't eating right.
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It isn't making good decisions that you look a certain way.
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It is how you practice.
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It is what you do that makes you look like you look.
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It is the process of the grind that shapes you and forms you.
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It's not the game.
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And that's why most of y 'all get beat in the game or make mistakes in the game because you
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You think grinding is what happens when the sun comes out.
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You think grinding is what happens when the lights come on.
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You think grinding is what happens when people get on the stage.
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That's not grinding.
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The real grind is in the dark when nobody sees you.
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When nobody knows what you're doing.
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When you studying without coach.
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When you putting in those extra reps.
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When you watching those videos and you getting inspired.
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When you change your music.
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It's the process that makes you sweet.
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And the problem with some of y 'all is you want somebody else to support your dream.
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It's yours.
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If you want it to happen, get your butt up and make it happen.
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If you want it to happen, rise and grind.
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Cause this my time.
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Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
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Ain't no such thing as tomorrow.
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We only got today.
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It begins right now with no one looking man.
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How you hold yourself, how you see yourself.
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What do you do when no one's watching?
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If you do it then, I guarantee you, you'll be doing it when everyone's watching.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “WHAT IF... - Motivational Speech”. This video has 457 sentences and 4477 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:43. The speaker talks fast, about 181 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| grind verb | /ˈɡɹaɪnd/ | To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. |
| clock noun | /klɑk/ | A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day. |
| commitment noun | /kəˈmɪtmənt/ | The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review. |
| efficient adjective | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy. |
| discipline noun | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | A controlled behaviour; self-control. |
| execute verb | /ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt/ | To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime. |
| confront verb | /kənˈfɹʌnt/ | To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with. |
| reward noun | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | Something of value given in return for an act. |
| sacrifice noun | /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/ | Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity. |
| mirror noun | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it. |
| uncomfortable adjective | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | Not comfortable; causing discomfort. |
| worthwhile adjective | /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/ | Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on. |
| lab noun | /læːb/ | A Labrador retriever. |
| odd adjective | /ɑd/ | Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. |
| rep noun | /ɹɛp/ | A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| add up to verb | To have a particular effect in combination. | |
| butt up verb | To touch closely, to scrape (against); to press firmly (against). |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Are you making yourself better?
- Are you making yourself worse?
- You'd be, who knows how much more efficient?
- Are you hearing what I'm saying?
- What do you do when no one's watching?
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 dreams were easy, everybody would make |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is given · will not be defeated · should be consumed |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have left · You've done · you've never done |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | man who are · person who has |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 200 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, mediocre /ˌmidiˈoʊkəɹ/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/
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 grind, clock, commitment.
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.