Shadowing Practice: What to do when you feel like doing NOTHING - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

If you are feeling uninspired you do not need to become someone new,

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If you are feeling uninspired you do not need to become someone new,

you need space to hear yourself clearly again.

You don't need more sh** in your life.

So if you're feeling uninspired in your life,

you feel like you're just wearing these heavy dark tinted black glasses.

My advice to you would be To get to my current position I've done more than 10,000 hours Dreamed

that I saw my name on a gravestone Maybe then they

would give me my flowers Mum put three of our boys

in a tub same time Cause we couldn't afford to shower

So going into this year I felt the most uninspired I've ever felt in my entire life

And maybe you can relate So

if you feel anything like I did going into this year

I am going to show you how to rectify it in this video and I want to respect your time.

So I'm going to give you the long story short.

If you feel like that's everything you need,

you can bounce from the video.

But if you resonate with it,

then stick around because I'm going to share some very intimate and personal thoughts.

If you are feeling uninspired,

you do not need to become someone new.

You need space to hear yourself clearly again.

And sometimes what that entails is going away to a place where your identity doesn't follow you.

like here I am no one I am nothing I am unencumbered you know like it's

so funny like when we want to be inspired what we do we go look at Pinterest

or we go look at uh YouTube

or we try to get some reference points what we do is we like we add more noise

when that is the thing

that made us feel uninspired in the first place you don't

need more in your life you don't need more inputs what

you need to do is you need to strip away the noise you need to strip away

or at least seriously reassess maybe some of your identities maybe some of your habits maybe some of your beliefs

and listen i'm not saying you need to go on some

big ayahuasca retreat even though i mean it was something i

did seven years ago i wouldn't say i regret it i wouldn't say it was truly transformative

if i had the opportunity to go on an ayahuasca retreat again

or i had the opportunity to do what i'm doing right now

which is just get away from everything

which is for a brief moment in time be selfish in the moment to be selfless in the long term.

And this is something I really did throughout the years is I allowed myself the time

and the space to take one step back in order to take two steps forward.

And it gets harder and harder as time goes on.

So I'm going to bring this message back to you

and how to help yourself if you feel anything like I did going into this year. But

just to give you a bit of context

and a bit of background for any of those that may not know who I am.

I've been a entrepreneur in one way,

shape, form or fashion for what, 11, 12 years now.

I've actually just crossed 10 years of uploading on YouTube and I'm coming off the back of in 2025,

an absolutely incredible year.

Now you might be sat there going,

OK, well, I don't understand you just came off the back of such an amazing year

but that's the problem like when you

and it's i kind of stopped talking about more intimate financial stuff like three

or four years ago and the reason why is

because i think for a lot of you guys it turns

parts of your brain off now there's certain parts i'll reveal about how some of the businesses are going

and whatnot but You don't understand that going into this year,

like now after really being a decade into,

first of all, sharing my business,

my life, my wins, my losses.

And this is really my way to express myself and share my journey with you.

So not only from as a creative perspective,

I went into this year feeling the most uninspired I have because I'm like,

I've been doing this thing for 10 years.

Coming off the back of such an amazing year,

you sit there and you go,

all right, well, what now?

Where do I go from here?

And that really brings me to the crux of this video.

And I want to bring it back to you now,

which is as time goes on,

we basically have this wooden box and in this wooden box,

we collect certain stones.

And these stones are basically labels that we have for ourselves,

identities that we have for ourselves,

the way that we view ourselves and how we interact with the world,

not understanding and not realizing that as time goes on,

you're allowed to take on a different identity.

And I can tell you,

even for me, in my 10 year journey,

I've taken on many identities and I've ebbed and flowed and I've,

you know, growing up, I was a avid, avid, avid reader.

And one of my favorite books growing up was a book called King, Warrior, Magician, Lover.

And it's about these four different archetypes.

And if you're part of the 20 or 25% of my female watchers,

I'm sure there's, you know,

your own version of this.

But my point is like,

as time goes on, you really have to open up that box and look at all the things.

And as I said, these identities and these labels and these things

that you've assigned to yourself and you have to question all of it.

And the reason I say that is because if you're not fully aligned with this phase of your life,

then of course you're going to be uninspired.

I also want to make it clear,

I would say about for 90% of you watching,

this is not actually the video that you need.

I think it's probably a very interesting and fascinating video for you to watch,

but I truly don't think it's the video that you need.

Now, most people think they need inspiration.

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They don't need inspiration.

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They need discipline.

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So funnily enough, that's the thing I'm much stronger at.

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And, you know, over 10 years or so, I've definitely mastered.

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So if you want me to make another video on what to do,

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if you're lacking discipline, please,

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I'll be more than happy to.

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And I have a lot of very valuable frameworks I feel like to share on that.

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But discipline is what 90% of you guys are facing,

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which is like, you know what you need to do.

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You just need to do it.

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And there's been many times in my life where I know exactly what I need to do

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and I just need to execute on it.

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But you get to a certain point where what got you here won't get you there

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and this is where inspiration kicks in where you you need to readjust your compass

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and you need to ask yourself all right is this the destination like i know exactly

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if i keep walking this road i know where it's going to end up

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but maybe is the time to realign my compass

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and set my sights and set my track on a new destination

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so if you are part of that 10

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or 15 where it's not about knowing what you need to

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do you generally just don't know what direction to go in life

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so in your case that might be do i start

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that business or do i not start that business in your case

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that might be do i go to university

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or do i not go to university in your phase of life

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that might be all right i'm in this relationship for three years

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or five years or however many years is this aligned with where I want to be in the future.

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Maybe for you, that's whatever answers you're searching for,

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you know, whatever inspiration you're trying to find in order to guide you into this next phase of life

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or this next sprint.

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I implore you not to consume more.

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I implore you at this phase to actually consume less.

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And if that means unsubscribing from this YouTube channel,

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I implore you to go for it.

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Once again, you need to remember the life works in season.

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So there'll be a time where looking around you and seeing what other people are doing is helpful to your journey.

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But whether that's for a week,

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a month or a year,

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there comes a point where it's not about adding more,

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it's about adding less.

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And for me personally, whenever I feel uninspired,

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the reason I change my environment is because your environment,

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you really don't realize there's so many trigger points in your environment

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that keep you locked into who it is that you were when you were uninspired.

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It basically just places you in this box where all of your thoughts are looped.

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Your identity is looped.

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And when you change environment,

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you basically get a chance to hit the reset button

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and think in the most purest form and analyze and evaluate in the most purest form.

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And at least for me personally,

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and maybe you've seen this in your life,

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when I look at the people who just kind of gave up on their evolution,

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like we all know those people,

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they just gave up on ever feeling inspired again and ever having the bravery really,

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To kind of shake things up.

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It's because they just got

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so dead set in their environment Like we all know those people who just stay in their hometown

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And quite frankly when you're repeating the same inputs again and again,

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of course the output is going to be the same

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so whether it's that hometown friend or We all have

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that one friend that got into a relationship and they just got comfortable And of course,

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you know relationships are so beautiful when you have the right individual by your side

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But unfortunately a lot of people get into those relationship where as time goes on,

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you know the gears of comfort keep grinding them down

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and down and down and down

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and eventually you get to a point where I said everything turns you lose the color of life

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so if you're feeling uninspired in your life

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and you feel like you're just wearing these heavy dark tinted

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black glasses my advice to you would be just take off the glasses right just take off the glasses

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and the way you do that as you go somewhere new now for me

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that meant physically getting on a plane and coming somewhere new.

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Literally, I'm here in Scotland right now.

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And because I knew for me personally,

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I'm based between Dubai, London,

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we have offices in New York.

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It's just there's too much association and there's too much noise in these cities.

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Like I have too much,

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there's too many ties there where I couldn't truly step away and take off the glasses.

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So whether that means getting on a flight for you,

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whether that means driving for three,

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four hours and going to a new city and going on a hike

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or exploring or going alone and just sitting at a coffee shop and just journal,

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you know, it's you don't always have to do these.

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I really hope that you don't watch this video and think

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that I'm telling you to have your secret life of Walter Mitty moment where,

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you know, you drop everything and you go on the soul searching.

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You know, for me, this isn't soul searching.

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I'm not, you know, I don't want to sit here

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and sound like I'm having a midlife crisis

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and uh you know make this sound all all performative

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and whatnot uh the truth is like there are certain places in the world where it's hard to be inspired

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because you just have so much baggage there

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and by the way baggage could be good baggage

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and bad baggage you know i don't want to say

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that baggage has connotations but of course you know every memory good

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or bad that you have in a place is like um you know another rock

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that you're attached to your ankle

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and then of course it becomes very difficult to swim in these places and bask and think and ideate unencumbered.

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And the best people I know,

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they carve out time to do exactly this.

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You know, wherever you live in the world,

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it doesn't cost you a crazy amount of money to just get away for a couple days in the nature,

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in the woods, and really just,

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as I said, give yourself just some breathing room, you know.

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And for a couple of days,

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just take off the ankle weights,

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let yourself swim a bit,

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and let the inspiration come back to you, not by adding more.

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Trust me, like,

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that is the last thing on earth you want to do

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right now is add more watch more consume more more more

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more more everything's about more no you want to hit the reset button just give yourself some space for stillness and peace

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and um i guarantee the inspiration is going to come back

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to you i think the funny thing with inspiration is we think it's like some lightning bolt

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that just strikes you

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and then now you're the inspiration's back like that's that's not

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how it works the inspiration comes back to you in quiet moments of solace and peace

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and quiet that's why these moments of inspiration feel like a

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gift from the universe you know as i said whatever it is

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that you might prescribe to my point is yes i'm sure there's a large component to

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that but a lot of it is just like you have inside of your ideas concepts abstract thoughts

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that truly could change the world you just have choked

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that part of yourself out by by simply having too much static

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and noise in your life

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so whatever your situation is in life please get in your car

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and find that place an hour and a half away book

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that flight or you know i stay in your city

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but find that park that you've never been to you have no association no identity,

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no nothing around it.

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And go take your journal, pen, paper.

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You don't need more inputs.

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You need less.

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And it's absolutely crazy how quickly the inspiration comes back.

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I can tell you even for me,

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literally within 24 hours of changing the environments and getting to listen to my own thoughts in an unencumbered way,

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my inspiration is back.

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And I am more excited for 2026 than I think I've ever been for any new year.

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And I think for me,

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the love of the game has just come back.

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It's not about the results or the harvest.

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It's just a love for the game.

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So Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart,

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I hope you took something away from this video.

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It's crazy.

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I've been like an older brother or uncle on here for 10 years at this point.

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And honestly, after giving myself a bit of room to breathe,

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I'm looking forward to another 20 or 30 years.

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So with all that being said,

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as always, I'm watching from afar and I'm rooting for you.

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