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Success really just boils down to this.

You've got to want it more than you hate what it takes to get it.

If you're willing to suck at anything for 100 days in a row, you can beat most people at most things.

Clean your room.

Organize your life.

Like, get a routine.

Get up every day at the same time.

Go to bed at the same time.

Establish disciplined habits.

That will help a lot.

Schedule.

Here's how to use a schedule.

Sit down and open the calendar and think, okay, well, here's what I'm going to do i'm going to design a week of days

that i would really like to have so what

that would mean then is that you would schedule things

that you would consider meaningful and productive you know on a daily basis

so that you feel that your life is justified by having a day like

that and also to schedule enough of your responsibilities so

that you make progress day by day instead of falling farther behind don't start things

and not finish them you don't quit there's nothing

that comes out of quitting besides knowing

that you didn't finish we finish everything you start it finish it

if you're gonna do it do it to try

and be the best know what your intent as the commander of your life know what your intent is

and then fight with everything you've got to win

toughness is not about how many push -ups you can do

or what you can put bench press

or how far you can run um toughness is in the mind

and your body can be the most perfect the most conditioned specimen

but if you don't have a tough mind

if you don't have a toughness of the mind

if you don't have a tough will you're not tough

but i'm gonna try my best to stay consistent yes

because i believe when i'm consistent i can build on consistency not just in my life

but in several areas and aspects of my life

that are tied to different people and

so I believe in the power of consistency not saying

that one has to just stay going at whatever it is

that they doing because you might need a break

and it's all good but just speaking to me and my purpose

and how I operate I believe in staying consistent

and sometimes just changing my aim and my focus and altering it on certain days when different situations and circumstances pop up.

One day in the gym is basically imperceivable two days in

the gym you don't recognize any change whatsoever a hundred days in the gym

and you're almost a new person you're not having a bad year

you've had a few bad days that you're thinking about for the rest of the year

i've found it helpful

when i'm in a bad season like i'm in right now

to just focus on having a good day a good day

in a bad season is a bite -sized victory string a few of those in a row

and a bad season feels less hard.

I'm pretty sure the difference between a happy life

and an unhappy one doesn't come down to how many good or bad days you have, but which days you think about over and over again.

In some seasons of life, maintaining is winning.

Why not believe in it?

What's the other option?

There is no other option.

It's a life forgotten, man.

In the acting world, if I go to the audition, I have a chance of getting a part.

If I don't go to the audition.

I'm out of the game.

I know the outcome.

Nothing.

Show up.

If you get knocked on your ass, show up.

At least you have a possibility.

You have a chance.

You have a voice of doing something with your life.

No matter how big your dreams, you're going to die.

Everyone will move on.

Do what you want.

It sucks to not be liked, but it sucks more to not be yourself.

mind you see the underdog story is the realest story there is because when you come from nothing

you appreciate everything you hustle different you love different and you lead different no matter how bad it is going to be

when there is a challenge

and by a challenge i mean anything in life any any challenge anything

that you're facing the only way to overcome the challenges that you face is to start walking

take that step if you aren't naturally tired at night

and excited in the morning then you probably haven't found something

meaningful to work on you are not stressed from doing too

much you are stressed from doing too little of what you care about i said we have more what you got

You'll be happy.

Me, I want what's coming to me.

Oh, what's coming to you, Tom?

The world, Chico. And everything in it.

He said, I want what all other men want.

He said, I guarantee you, when I line up and they line up, I want what all other men want.

I guarantee you, when you line up in your one -on -one battles, you want what all other men want.

The same way you want the victory, they want the victory.

I want what all other men want.

He said, but when the pressure hits, when the opposition hits, when the challenge hits, when the pain creeps in, when the uncertainty creeps in,

when the cuts, when the scars, when the bruises come, I want what all other men want.

He said, but when the opposition and adversity shows up, I just want a little bit more than they wanted.

And so that's how I conquer, and that's how nobody has ever beaten me yet.

I just want one thing from you.

as great as you are, as skilled as you are, as talented as you are, I just want one thing from you.

Never allow life to make you forget why you do what you do.

People don't burn out, people don't quit, people don't underachieve, people don't settle because of what they do.

People burn out, people quit, people underachieve, and people settle because life makes them forget why they do it.

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Stay humble.

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Never forget where you came from.

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Stay hungry.

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Keep that fire in your soul and stay true always be real with yourself

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and the world because the world don't need no more copies it need originals

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and trust me ain't nobody else that can do what you do like you do

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and you're gonna fail and you're gonna fail and you're gonna fail

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and you're gonna fail

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and then you're gonna win a lot of people wait for perfect conditions to start don't realize

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that starting is the perfect condition tired don't mean nothing tired is only in the mind

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you tell yourself you're tired you're gonna be tired i don't get tired it doesn't matter how hard you work

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that i'm willing to work harder than you rest at the

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end not in the middle you have one life don't settle for mediocrity life without those challenges it's existence don't just exist.

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Go live.

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We're not on this stage just because of talent or ability.

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We're up here because of 4 a .m.

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We're up here because of two a days or five a days.

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We're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way.

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There's no excuse not to be the hardest mother worker in the room.

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Everyone is jealous of what you've got.

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No one is jealous of how you got it.

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The only true test of intelligence is

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if you get what you want out of life

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and there are two parts to that one is getting what you want

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so you know how to get it

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and the second is wanting the right things knowing what to

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want in the first place whenever i get to a low point where i think why do i even bother

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i just remind myself this is where most people stop

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and this is why they don't win and this relates to another one

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which is a reminder for the gladiators in the arena who feel beat up

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and scarred with no hope in sight building a business is

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hard hard feels shitty this is what hard feels like

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and this is why most people can't do it

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but you can two forms of pain pain that breaks you

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and the pain

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that changes you that's the pain of the change right there that's the pain of progress the pain

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that destroys you isn't this it's later in life knowing you could have been more

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and all that's left is you and the mirror and tears of a possibility left

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and all your endeavors schoolwork the gym your career your relationship

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your needs attached to it it's got to mean more than anything definition of success is win

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or lose giving everything you've got and growing

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or learning along the way then you're setting yourself up for

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success I really think the biggest cheat code in life is just going after it

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and not being concerned of whether

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or not you fail at one specific task instead understanding the big picture what your long -term goal is

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and knowing if you keep driving forward

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and never quit in the end you will succeed we must

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constantly look at things in a different way boys you must strive to find your own voice

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because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you

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are to find it at all thoreau said most men lead lives of quiet desperation don't be resigned to

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that never try to be better than someone else always learn from others

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and never cease trying to be the best you could be that's under your control

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and if you get too engrossed and involved

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and concerned in regard to things over

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which you have no control it will adversely affect the things over

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which you have control

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if you make the effort do the best of what you're capable trying to improve the situation

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that exists for you I think that's success

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and I don't think others can judge that

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and I think it's like character and reputation losers let it happen winners make it happen Losers see thunderstorms.

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Winners see rainbows.

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Losers see icy streets.

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Winners put on their ice skates.

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Losers take chances.

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Winners make choices.

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It's all in the way you choose to think.

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Use your imagination.

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See yourself already in possession of the good you desire.

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That will flip your mind onto a specific frequency, and you do think on frequencies.

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It's on that frequency that good you desire is going to start coming toward you, and you will start moving toward it

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if you want to attract what you actually want you've got to see yourself now already with it

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and know it's only a period of time until you're moving toward it

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and it moving toward you

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and you become one with it the truly philosophical man is

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the man who is entirely in control of his own soul who takes utter

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and complete moral responsibility for his actions and is indifferent to everything else not

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because he doesn't care about other people not

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because he doesn't care about the felicity of the entire human species

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but because it's not under his control there's no use wondering

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or worrying about what tomorrow will bring since tomorrow isn't under your control do what's right today

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and let tomorrow take care of itself

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and i tell people this all the time there's no future

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in cool that's a trend that's a fad it comes

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and it goes just like dope money dope money comes quick

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and leaves quicker okay we're here for a slow but a foresaw.

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This is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Paso corto, vista larga, which is short steps, long vision.

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There's a saying that if you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life.

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At Apple, I learned that is a total crock.

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You will work harder than you ever thought possible, but the tools will feel light in your hands.

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Having a clue is overrated.

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There's this funny myth that people actually know what they're doing.

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I've spent time around some of the richest, smartest, highest status people on the planet, and let me tell you, it's idiots all the way up.

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Normalize saying, I don't have a clue.

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I'm going to work out how to do it anyway.

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There are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the universe.

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No one could possibly predict them all, even you.

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Which means that that first move can be terrifying.

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It's the furthest point from the end of the game.

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There's a virtually infinite sea of possibilities between you

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and the other side but it also means that if you make a mistake

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there's a nearly infinite amount of ways to fix it so you should simply relax

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and play you don't set them a bar that's so high

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that it's impossible for them to attain it you take a look at the kid

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and you think okay this kid's got this range of skill here's a challenge we can throw at him

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or her that exceeds their current level of skill

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but gives them a reasonable probability of success and

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so like I'm saying it tongue -in -cheek to some degree you know it's like

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but if you're

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but I'm doing it as an aid to humility it's like

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well I don't know how to start improving my life someone might say

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that and I would say well you're not aiming low enough

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there's something you could do that you are regarding as trivial

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that that you could do that you would do

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that would result in an actual improvement

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but it's not a big enough improvement for you

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so you won't lower yourself enough to take the opportunity set

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out to do something went through it along the way face adversity

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face the pain right in the eyes kept going past it

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our lives what we create are made from the decisions we

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make on the moment to moment basis champions are never woken up

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and born into success they're created they're matured they're struggled

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and whether through that effort of hard work and dedication and sacrifice to achieve that championship status.

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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 that extra rep in the gym and our bodies dying?

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Do we push past that?

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All these little things are the inches that add up to be the measure of difference between first place and forever forgotten.

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Second place.

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Huge margins.

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But if you look about your day

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and all these little moments of life all these little opportunities are in your wheel house you create them

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and later in life when you're crying because you came up short stop being

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so selfish look back on your day examine it put it under the microscope

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and have responsibility for your actions those inches you need to be number one then

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which is now in the past are around us every single

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day it's not a bad break it's not the ref making a bad call it's

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that you get up that day

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and do those little tiny things the little details the little

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nuggets of life that's what adds up to be the difference

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if you're gonna sit here and complain why you came up short

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Without taking responsibility and looking at yourself internally first on all the opportunities you decide to pass on for comfort, then you're a shallow person, guys.

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The magic you're looking for in life is in the work you're avoiding.

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There's something that you know you should be doing.

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Whether it be working on yourself, losing weight, writing something, working on your career.

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The magic you're looking for in life is in the work you're avoiding.

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Come on, guys.

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Think about that.

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Everybody wants to be a star.

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Everybody wants success everybody wants to be have money um you know it's you got to work at it

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if you really want to be successful you have to work at it nothing is achieved without some perspiration nothing

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anything

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that is worth anything you have to work out the magic you're looking for in life is in the work

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that you're avoiding you know you know what to do

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but it's hard sometimes look do I know I know sometimes

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I just I want to put on a Netflix Hulu Amazon

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watch a great movie go into my screening watch something I go oh oh god I gotta do this

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but I go back

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and i start to write and after about 10 minutes the flow comes and i feel wow i feel great

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and and that stays with you when you watch a movie instead of doing your work

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that's called instant gratification now you know what giving your all is

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and you will not succeed in business or any endeavor in life

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until that fight you just went through is applied to the same endeavor.

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Whatever reasons that we usually give ourselves in the beginning for why we can't achieve something, you can almost always find not only just someone,

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but someone who's achieved world -class levels of success with worse conditions than you currently have,

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which then means it's absolutely possible and then the only thing that it takes to get there is work.

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Be the now of what you want to be later.

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It starts right now.

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And if you're not doing the now, don't ever expect it later to be the person you want to look in the mirror.

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We should not criticize ourselves.

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We should not say the things that we could have done better.

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But I believe that that voice isn't an insecurity.

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I think it's a version that wants you to chase your potential.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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your all's a lot more than you know you got more inside of you to give stop selling yourself

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so short unwavering confidence is a lie the fears never go away completely they just don't linger as long there's

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so much opportunity on the other side of being willing to

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persist for an extended period of time on the correct path without getting positive reinforcement from your environment

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and the longer you can stick with something without

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that positive feedback loop in terms the big external thing the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them.

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I've found greater fulfillment in the journey of pursuing my goals than in the moment of achieving them.

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It won't get harder like this is the hardest part and so if you can just make it through this

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everything else is downhill it's not that the things

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that you're the dragons are going to slay aren't going to get bigger they are

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but you become so much more equipped to slay them back

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and you have

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so many more allies you have people in the stands cheering

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for you you have the audience you have all of these other things

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that are behind you

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but at the beginning it's just you with a stick against

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a bear no one ever tells stories about the hero who made it all happen immediately

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and had no hardships no one cares everyone loves the story

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because we can see ourselves in the character

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and how much we hope to be like them

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and it's the being like them not the having what they have

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that we usually like

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so tell yourself you're gonna do something you don't think you

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really can do you're creating this gap between your beliefs in your reality

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and it just creates more stress in yourself

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and an inability to perform in my opinion

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if my life was a movie

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and someone were to watch it i hope they'd be inspired to take risks not just risks to achieve success

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but embrace feeling both pride and shame fear and excitement

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personally i want to experience as much life as possible and

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that only happens when you embrace the highs and the lows

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if you don't have a high if you don't have lows it doesn't come

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if you numb the bad you're numb the good when you learn to embrace them they're way more fleeting than you realize.

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What have you learned about how to deal with and overcome fear?

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Go.

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When all that fear that's in your head, all the what -ifs and the scenarios that you create inside your own mind

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that are way worse than anything that is actually going to happen, they all disappear when you go.

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So just take action and start moving forward.

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That is the moment that can last a million years, is waiting to go.

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You're upside down financially you relationship went back went south you

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got whatever those things are your credit card debt is up

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you you got fired from your job okay you're in a terrible situation what are your options

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what you have to do is well you kind of have to prioritize

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and execute right like okay i got all these bad things

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going on in my life what is my biggest problem right now

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and you got to say okay I got to start with solving

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that problem and you got to start to going back to I think was the initial thing

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that we talked about take take action in a year from now it's gonna happen like that

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and who is your future self one year from now who

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is it just like everyone's out of here go party Saturday

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night they're not want to sacrifice I'm like the lone survivor in here you know tonight we'll with too.

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Tomorrow I'll be stronger for it.

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Another day will go by.

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365 of them happen so fast.

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Who are you gonna be in a year from now?

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And in a year from now is that future person hold regret or pride?

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “You Need To Reset, Restart And Refocus”. This video has 331 sentences and 3747 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:36. The speaker talks at a natural 174 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
loser noun	/luzɚ/	A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
toughness noun		Resistance to fracture when stressed, or the degree of such resistance.
endeavor noun	/ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/	A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
embrace verb	/ɛmˈbɹes/	To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
adversity noun	/ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/	The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
slay verb	/sleɪ/	To kill; to murder.
underachieve verb	/ˌʌndə(ɹ)əˈt͡ʃiːv/	To achieve less than expected; to fail to fulfil one's potential.
numb adjective	/nʌm/	Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.
scar noun	/skɑɹ/	A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
audition noun	/ɑˈdɪʃən/	A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
creep verb	/kɹiːp/	To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
dope noun	[doʊp]	Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
consistency noun	/kənˈsɪs.tən.si/	Local coherence.
meaningful adjective	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/	Having meaning, significant.
infinite adjective	/ˈɪnfɪnɪt/	Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
show up verb		To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
add up to verb		To have a particular effect in combination.
burn out verb		To destroy by fire.
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
line up verb	/laɪnˈʌp/	To align; to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

If I don't go to the audition.
I'm out of the game.
Me, I want what's coming to me.
Do we hit the snooze button?
Do we push past that?

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 don't have a tough will you
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is justified · be liked · are not stressed
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've had · i've found · haven't found
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	man who is · larga, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 131 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: furthest /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ðɪst/, myth /mɪθ/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, perspiration /ˌpɝspəˈɹeɪʃən/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
Long words — get the stress right: adversity /ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/, underachieve /ˌʌndə(ɹ)əˈt͡ʃiːv/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, felicity /fəˈlɪsəti/, gladiator /ˈɡlædiˌeɪ̯tə/

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 loser, toughness, endeavor.

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