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Many of you will not be successful because you've got this giant goal and no steps to go with it.
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You're just in your mind like, girl, this is my year.
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How many steps?
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I don't know.
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Like, what is it going to take for you to do it?
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I don't know.
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I just know this is my year.
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All of us in life have things we want.
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We don't get what we want.
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We get what we have to have.
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We all get what we tolerate in ourselves and other people
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But when you're no longer willing to tolerate something, that's when your life changes
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The difference in people is their standards, period Everyone in the world
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Has a list of things they think they should do I should lose weight.
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I should work out.
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I should work harder I should make more calls.
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I should I should I should I should
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And then you know what people don't do their shoulds and they get mad at themselves
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And they what I call should all over themselves.
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They beat themselves up about it
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What changes people is when your should becomes a must
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When suddenly the thing you said should happen has to happen
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That's when human beings change
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It's like if you want to take the island
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Burn the boats.
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Because if there's no way to go back, it's amazing what happens when it's a must to do something versus a should.
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The number one thing that's going to change your life, the only thing that will change your life, change your business, change your money,
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change your relationship, is you must raise your standard.
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If you can't stick to something for five fy life.
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You deserve to get your ass kicked.
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You deserve to be miserable.
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We're talking about five f*ing days.
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We're not talking about 50 years.
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We're not talking about the five years it probably takes to build something worthwhile.
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We're not talking about the five months it could take for you to lose 100 pounds.
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We're talking about five f*ing days.
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And you can't even stick to it for that.
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So what the do you think you deserve you deserve exactly what you get and that's true
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That's the things your friends won't tell you when you're Chan
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and moaning about how your life sucks on Friday night drinking a can brewski with your boys
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When you should be reading or improving or working out or doing something
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If you can't start to tell the choice that you have in your head to sit down and shut up
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You're gonna have a very hard time making any year your year
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What it's always going to come down to is your own actions and your own choices.
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This is your year.
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Your year for change.
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It's time to make that change right now.
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It doesn't matter if it's the first, the second, the third, the first week, the second week.
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It's a new year.
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You have new opportunities.
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There's new doors opening for you every single day.
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You have to just walk through them and be who you were meant to be on this earth.
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How many of you can honestly look yourself in the mirror and say, I am doing my best?
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Because if you can, you're f*ing lying to yourself.
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Your job right now and how you execute
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that job is going to create the success habits that you're going to need down the road.
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How you do one thing is how you do everything.
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If it's making fries, if you ain't making the best motherfucking fries every fucking time, guess what?
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You ain't gonna fucking make it.
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If you can't sweep the warehouse floor better than the next guy, you ain't gonna fucking make it.
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Because here's the truth.
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Losers always talk about how they hate to lose, but they don't do anything about it.
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But you know what winners do?
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Winners will do whatever the fuck it takes.
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Winners will show up and stay late every fucking day until they're winning.
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Winners will talk to anybody that can, that can help them and take the lessons to heart and put them in play.
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That's what winners do.
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Losers talk about hating to lose.
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Losers say they hate to lose.
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Losers talk about how they want to win.
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Winners do what the f*ing takes.
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And that means beating the next guy.
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If you aren't going to work at your job every day and looking at all the other motherf*ers and thinking,
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Dude, I'm going to beat the s* out of all of you, you don't have what it takes.
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Winners want to be the best.
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Winners have pride in being the best.
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Winners have pride in being dominant amongst their teammates.
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All men are created equal.
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Some just work harder.
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You want to know what it takes to succeed as bad as you want to breathe.
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It's what goes on when the cameras go on.
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Hard work, determination, and grit.
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You will not outwork me.
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I will get up earlier than you.
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I will go to sleep later than you.
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I will put in more hours to you.
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I will read more to you.
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I will grow.
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I will do whatever it takes I do things to separate myself from everybody the passion that I have when I speak
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The grind that I have when I do what I do.
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What are you going to do to separate yourself?
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If you ain't got more heart than me, if you ain't been working harder than me, if you ain't sacrificed more than me,
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I'm going to destroy you.
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And I'm not retreating.
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I'm not running.
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I don't care what they say on paper.
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I don't care how many games you won.
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We live by this and we die by this.
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We don't retreat.
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You're not giving 120.
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You're giving 70.
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You're giving 60.
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And you want what these people who've given sweats, who's given blood, who's given tears, you want what they paid for and it ain't free.
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It has everything to do with what time you wake up.
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It has everything to do with how you eat.
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It has everything to do with how you work out, how you prepare.
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It has every single thing to do with how you think.
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And when you want it as bad as you want to breathe, it says, I'm willing to make any sacrifice.
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I'm willing to go through any pain.
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I'm willing to go through any suffering.
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I'm willing to go through whatever it takes.
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So when I get in there, and it's me and him one -on -one, that I guarantee you at the end of it,
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I won't be the one that surrendered.
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And if you're going to be the best, the cream of the crop.
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If you're going to be the apex, you've got to be it.
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It has to consume you.
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You've got to learn how not to give up or how not to give in.
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And you've got to understand that greatness is within you.
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And you've got to pull it out.
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You've got to climb every mountain.
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You've got to climb.
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You've got to.
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But whatever you do, you cannot give up.
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You cannot give in.
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Nobody ever said it would be easy.
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But I know greatness is within you.
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And you've got what it takes.
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Did you know that less than 1 % of people are naturally extraordinarily gifted at something?
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Think genius, think savant.
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Do you know what that means for us the other 99 plus percent of people?
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If we're going to do anything great in this life, it is going to require discipline.
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That's the truth.
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If you are going to accomplish anything extraordinary with the days on this planet,
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it is going to require you pushing through the discomfort and embracing the grind and disciplining yourself.
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If you want to live your best life, your absolutely best life, you got to do a huge favor.
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You got to watch them choices you make.
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People make bad choices.
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They wake up and they make another bad choice.
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They make another bad choice.
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Now they got a habit of bad choices
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and they like how do i get here choices how do i get here
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you trying to get to certain places
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but you ain't making the choices that's gonna get
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you there you all are your feelings the cause of laziness is a craving for comfort
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it's wanting comfort ultimately your problem is not laziness it's the worship of comfort
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which produces laziness it's that i don't want to do anything that I don't want to do.
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It's believing this lie that if it doesn't come completely natural to me,
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if it's not easy, then I shouldn't have to do it or maybe I'm doing the wrong thing.
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You can lie to yourself and then you don't need discipline.
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You can tell yourself everything's okay and then you don't need discipline.
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You can tell yourself, you can lie to yourself and say that you're winning and then you don't need discipline.
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But if you tell yourself truth if you tell yourself the truth
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that you know you could be better you know you could do more
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if you tell yourself the truth you won't have to find discipline discipline will find
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you the greatest version of you is not
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that I can do anything version of you the greatest version
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of you is the disciplined version of you the greatest version of you is the version that has parameters
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No, I don't do that.
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I don't drink that.
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I don't go there with these people.
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I'm focused.
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I have a prize that's in front of me.
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I know what I'm supposed to do, and that ain't it.
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I have to stay right here.
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You can become godly through discipline.
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Not easy, not just because you feel like it, but sometimes you have to honor the grind.
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There's got to be some type of discipline attached to whatever you want deliverance in.
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And what I'm telling you is the battle never changes.
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Every day, you have to get self -control.
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You've got to begin to think about the things you want to materialize in your life on a regular basis
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and think about it repetitiously.
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Literally, the things that we obsess about become the things that we possess in our lives.
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Your mind is a weapon, and you've got to begin to use it and pick that weapon up and control it.
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Most people are out of control with their mind.
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They don't point it at something.
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They let the world point it, and they misfire all the time.
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So today I want you to pick up that weapon
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that is your mind and begin to point it at the things you want.
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Becoming successful is a situation of developing discipline,
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persistence, patience, grit, character traits that you don't just get, you are not f*ing born with.
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come down to you developing the ability to do the things
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that you don't feel like doing because you know that it's the right thing to do.
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So often, we want to blame circumstances for the way things are.
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We want to blame genetics for the reason we're kind of fat.
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We got all these problems.
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But might I suggest, the problem is the pattern of your response.
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But you can't change the product if you don't change the pattern.
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You can't change the way your career is going
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if you don't start changing your work ethic and your work habits and your interrelations.
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You can't change your wisdom unless you change your input.
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Because the problem is the pattern.
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Whatever's going on is your fault.
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It's your fault.
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Accept that.
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Own it.
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And then deal with it.
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Every decision that you make has consequences.
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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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Every little decision you make counts.
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And most people will not be successful, they will not reach whatever they wrote because when there's not anything emotionally attached to it,
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they're gonna quit and give up.
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Most people were closer than they ever thought they were to finishing that big thing,
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but they never finished it because they didn't feel like finishing it.
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Or they were doing it and it was pain.
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And most people quit in the pain because the pain hurt
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so bad that they don't know if they wanna keep going and get to go.
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Because you're gonna wake up most days and not feel like it.
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You gonna wake up most days and not be pumped up.
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You gonna wake up most days and not feel like doing it
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But when you can get to a point that you do it anyway
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Then there's no way you won't reach any of your goals
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You are not where you want to be not because you need any more gifts.
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You don't need nothing else
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You need to discipline yourself
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You need to learn to tell you know you keep talking about everybody else
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You can't tell no you can't tell you know you can't tell you stop
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You can't tell you quit you got to get to a point where you're disciplined.
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It's a muscle
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The mind is a muscle emotion is a muscle.
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I don't negotiate with myself
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Well, maybe we'll do tomorrow.
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I'm gonna do this or oh, let me like two more minutes while I'm ready
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There's no much with me for decades I go I say you I'm not here to discuss this with my mind
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There's mind and there's soul and spirit and soul spirit my soul can knows
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and when I say jump you can jump I'm not here to have a discussion with you,
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but you have to take control and train this brain
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If you don't train this brain, it'll use you instead of you using it
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Everyone wants some life hack that eliminates the need to do the work, but that does not exist.
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You have to do the work.
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You've got to hold the line.
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You've got to make it happen.
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What could you be if you worked as hard as you could?
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What could you be if you imposed real discipline in your life?
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I say you crank up the volume on that question.
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Max it out.
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And then go get some.
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People who win f* You can win
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If you choose
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To learn the things that you need to do
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And then f*ing do them
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That's reality That's the sh nobody wants to admit
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Because admitting so means
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That you have to take responsibility
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For where you are currently
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And you have to say I am where I am currently
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Because I didn't do X, Y, and Z And guess what?
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That f*ing hurts a little bit
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But once you accept
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that truth you are able to then move forward with the actions required to get you to where you want to go
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You have no business being average, but now you justify it
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You come up with these great reasons why you can't get up at 5
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You have these great reasons why you have to do everything, why you don't execute, why you don't finish,
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why you don't follow through Why you say you don't exercise and you do it for about 10 days and you quit
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You've got an excuse for why you're average I guarantee you if you were humble enough, if you were hungry enough,
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if you really wanted what you said, you'd sit down and you'd study what you do and you'd say, I can do this better.
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But I have not exhausted all my time.
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I have not exhausted all my resources.
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There's something missing.
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You're not where you're supposed to be.
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It's not going to take a lot, but it's a small gap and the gap is called execution.
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If you want to execute just a little bit more, you'll be on a holy level.
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You have to master the monotonous.
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It's the boring sh - it's the everyday sh -
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it's the regular sh - It means doing the sh -
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that most people are too f*ing undisciplined to do day in and day out with perfection.
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Doing it better than everybody else.
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Doing it to the best of your ability.
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You have to remind yourself that these little things that you do are going to lead to the big -
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Are you going to do your workout or are you not?
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Are you going to do your cardio or are you not?
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You think things are going to just go your way?
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Well they're not going to just go your way.
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You got to make them go your way.
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You think things are going to just happen for you?
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Well they're not just going to happen for you.
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You got to make them happen.
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Discipline your body.
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Free your mind.
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Get up early and go.
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Get after it and you will become the person you want to be
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and you become that person through one small decision at a time.
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I got tired of losing.
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I got tired of coming up short.
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I got tired.
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I got tired of eating out of trash cans.
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I got tired of watching everybody else graduate.
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I got tired of seeing people ride first class.
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I got to go all the way to the back.
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I got tired.
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I hate it as much as you hate it.
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But the problem is I want it more than you want it.
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I got tired of giving 70 % and 80 % and not living the way I wanted to live.
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I see other people winning and I'm not winning.
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And I want to be a winner.
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And I'm tired.
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And I got tired, y 'all.
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So I did something about it.
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I woke up every day and started grinding.
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I was tired.
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You got to get tired of losing.
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And what I discovered was that you don't have to be born in a certain family, you don't have to have a certain socioeconomic status.
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It only takes one thing to get what you see other people have that you want and it's called effort.
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You are the place.
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You don't belong there.
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You are a royal priesthood.
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You don't belong at the bottom and it's time for you to get your butt from down there.
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It's time for you to stop being comfortable at the bus.
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Get your butt up and get to where you're supposed to be Get your butt up.
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You are a royal priesthood.
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Get where you belong.
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Do what you're supposed to do.
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Live like you're supposed to live
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You are an embarrassment to the kingdom.
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You are a royal priesthood.
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Act like it
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You gotta get this beast mode
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You gotta embody beast mode
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Everything about you has to say, I ain't playing.
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If it's to have, I'm gonna get it.
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And I ain't leaving none of it behind.
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It's mine.
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Stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, coping for some easy way out, and just do.
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How desperate are you for what you want?
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Do you want as bad as breathing?
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Do you want it as bad as anything you ever wanted in your life?
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And if you calibrate it at the highest enough levels, What I found is the people that are the hungriest, they find a way.
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When you're desperate, you find reserves and reservoirs of ideas,
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talents, and a strength that you don't know you have when you find yourself in a desperate situation.
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Even if you get knocked down, you get back up, and you get back up, and you get back up,
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and you continue to throw shit against the wall.
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Because you believe in the purpose.
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You find value in it.
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That was Michael Jordan.
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He said, I failed over and over and over and over again.
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I failed.
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And that's why I succeeded.
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And so I need you to walk out there, no more 50%, no more, no more 50%, no more, no more 70%, no more.
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I want us at 85 and climbing.
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If you're at 80, I want you at 90, and I mean moving rapidly.
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I need you to give me that 120.
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I need you to give me that everything you do.
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I need you to start giving me that 120 and everything you do.
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Bring it all together.
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Bring all the energy, all the passion.
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Bring it all together and dominate.
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Life is going to happen.
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and you're going to set up a plan
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and you're going to have a vision and you're going to hope
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that it's going to turn out perfect but what so often happens in life is that things get burned
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and things go the wrong way and it's in that moment that you're going to have to choose your reaction
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do you have a choice to make?
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do you have the right reaction or do you have the wrong reaction?
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some of us were tempted, I'll just lay here and it will pass over me I'm telling you, you will be in a vicious cycle forever.
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You have to get up.
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Some of you have been knocked out by light and you got up and saw the blood.
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He hit me.
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Sometimes in life, you have to hit back.
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Recycle your pain.
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Get something from it.
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You already in pain.
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Use it.
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Do something with it.
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Allow it to take you to the next level.
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Allow your pain to push you to greatness.
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What's your why?
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You need a why.
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Why do you need a why?
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Because some days you're going to say I don't want to get up
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but that why is going to say I'll push yourself.
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Get up!
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Your mama needs you, your daddy needs you, your children need you.
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Get up!
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Your why is going to push you when you can't push yourself.
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When you want to quit and give up your why is going to give you that edge you need,
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that advantage you need, that lift that you need to get to the next level.
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Your why!
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You better go inside.
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You still looking outside for the stuff that's already inside.
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You still looking for someone to save you when you're already your superhero.
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You're looking for some information from somebody when you already got what you need in your head.
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It's just time for you to get up and be the best version of you.
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As you're going through your go -through, and you're ready to quit, you're ready to give in,
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because it don't look like you think it should look.
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You've been doing it for five years, and it don't look like you think.
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You put all your money in it.
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You put all your time in it.
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People are looking like you crazy.
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Five years you've invested.
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Oh, you have absolutely nothing to do with what happened to you.
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It's not your fault.
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You got knocked on the ground.
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You had absolutely nothing to do with that
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And I'm not blaming you for that.
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But if I come back a week later, you still on the ground
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That's your fault.
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If I come back a year later, you still on the ground
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That's your fault.
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If you get knocked down there's nothing you can do about it
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But getting back up has every single thing to do with you and you will promise me that from this day forward
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You will not be defeated
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Why do you keep crying?
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Why me, God?
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Why did I get MS?
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Why did I get cancer?
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Why did my mama die?
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Why did I get fired?
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Do you understand?
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Listen, you got put through that because what that does, that tension produces greatness.
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Stop running from it and run to it.
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Stop telling me what you're going through.
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The greats, they get to it, they go through it.
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And the harder it is, the better.
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Now listen to me, I don't care if you're sick, I don't care what you're going through.
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If you're not dead, he ain't through with you yet.
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As long as you waking up, you're still in the game.
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As long as you alive, you can still make it happen.
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As long as the breath in your nostrum boot, you're still in the game.
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You still can win.
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Now get your butt up.
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I don't need you thinking about it no more.
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You're doing too much thinking, you're analyzing too much.
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You're talking yourself out of it.
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I just, oh, I don't know if this is going to work.
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I tried and it didn't work.
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I just need you to keep moving.
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I need you to make up in your mind that the only way you can lose is if you quit.
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I just need you to keep going.
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Get emotional if you must.
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Cry if you must.
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Get it out.
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But get your butt back up after you finish crying and put a time limit on the grind.
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You say, coach, I need 30 minutes.
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Don't take it.
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But when you come back after that 31 minutes, you better cry.
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Because if you don't, you'll be stuck at that adversity for the rest of your life.
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And some of you are not successful because every single time you run up against a trial, every time you run up against a tribulation,
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you stop and you cut off beast mode.
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And what I'm here to tell you is, if you kill that thing, I'm here just like you here and I promise you,
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I ain't leaving without the degree.
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I will not leave without that goal.
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I will not leave without that dream.
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I will not leave this university until I'm successful.
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I will not leave this job.
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I will not leave this client.
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I will not leave this opportunity until I get it.
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What will you do with your pain?
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Will you let it break you or will you let it redefine you?
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If you stay in bed, if you stay on the couch, if you stay in your comfort zone,
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if you only do what is easy, your life will be hard.
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But if you do what is hard, if you get up, if you grind,
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if you are relentless, if you work as hard as possible when other people are slacking off, your life will be easy.
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Easy doesn't pay well.
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Choose the hard path.
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The path of responsibility, hard work, and sacrifice that ultimately leads to freedom.
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Too tired.
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Too hungry.
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Too sore.
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Too hot, too cold, too whatever.
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People ask me what I do when I get those little feelings running around.
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Well, let me tell you what I don't do.
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I don't tell everybody.
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As a matter of fact, I don't even let those words run around inside my own brain housing group.
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I take it secure.
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Lock it down.
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It doesn't matter how I'm doing.
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It doesn't matter how I slept last night.
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It doesn't matter how I feel.
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It doesn't matter when the last time I ate.
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It doesn't matter.
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Because I'm gonna go get some 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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Make the binary code decision.
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Yes or no?
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Your mind is your strongest weapon, but you must take control of it
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You have to tell your brain where you want to go when your brain tells you to give in you push forward
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When it tells you to take the day off you go harder
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Don't allow your weak feelings to dictate where you end up in your life
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You've got to activate the thinker in you.
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Don't allow your emotions to control you.
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We are emotional, but you want to begin to discipline your emotion.
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If you don't discipline and contain your emotions, they will use you.
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Prove to yourself today, every day, that you're not going to be able to do it you can
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and will push harder than you wanted to harder than you felt like pushing past the point of fatigue
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and far beyond the point of comfort to
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that outer edge with every ounce of grit
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and tenacity to where you cross that line
492
that threshold through the suffering your body
493
and mind will always adjust to more suffering to more pain your mind quits way before your body does so
494
You have to be willing to go away into that darkness and find more yourself.
495
Regardless of what's in front of you, you still must fly.
496
I feel that most things I do, but still I grind.
497
I don't want to do half the shit I do, but still I grind.
498
And that one day, you see me on a dark alley, when I want to talk in the morning on one thing, I was grinding.
499
We're the warriors that say, I'm going to make a decision and I'm keeping it.
500
And regardless of how you feel about it, it doesn't matter if the world is crumbling down around you.
501
It doesn't matter what's happening.
502
Just do the thing every single day, whether you feel like it or not.
503
Oh, I don't feel so good today.
504
Get your lazy, sick ass up out of bed.
505
Your only commitment is to the activity, not to the grand scheme, not to the big picture,
506
not to the implications of what it is that you're doing.
507
It's to do the thing.
508
It's what you fucking do every single day that matters more than anything.
509
Devote yourself to something bigger.
510
Be decisive about what you're gonna do.
511
And then be disciplined about getting it done every single day whether you feel like it or not.
512
What are you playing this game for?
513
What's your passion?
514
What's your drive?
515
What's your purpose?
516
What's your purpose for playing this game?
517
Why are you doing what you're doing?
518
If y 'all gonna be great on that field, you gotta have a why.
519
You gotta have a reason for why you do what you do.
520
You are phenomenal.
521
You are beyond measure.
522
I need you to act like it.
523
No alarm clock needed.
524
My passion wakes me up.
525
I ain't used the clock in 20 years.
526
My passion wakes me up.
527
My drive wakes me up.
528
My determination wakes me up.
529
My ability to be, do and ask whatever I want, it wakes me up.
530
What wakes you up?
531
What drives you?
532
Why are you playing this game?
533
Is it just a game?
534
Or do you eat it?
535
Do you sleep it?
536
Do you drink it?
537
Have you possessed the game?
538
I ain't about to miss this opportunity.
539
I'm about to give everything I've got.
540
And I will know if I don't get another gig,
541
it won't have nothing to do with the fact that I didn't put everything on the field.
542
You have to want to work.
543
You never get better if you're not willing to put in the time.
544
Most people think, well, I'll be successful if something happens.
545
I'll be successful if I win the lottery ticket.
546
Look, you're not going to be successful if you don't demand it.
547
If you literally don't stake a claim to it and say, this is mine it's important you're not gonna have it people need to know
548
you for one major thing first he works he produces the guys there every day the guys pushing
549
and shoving because the truth is no matter how good your ideas are how good your art is
550
or how good your skill set is if you're not working man
551
if you're not vibrate at a frequency that people said my god how does
552
that guy do all that 10x levels massive action tremendous work ethic that's just a muscle now
553
and it's just a discipline in your life and it's a normal way, you're not going to get in that top 10%.
554
Success is your duty.
555
It is your obligation and your responsibility.
556
A person with passion always stands out.
557
The world is so full of average that once you have passion and a sense of energy in your life, it distinguishes you.
558
When you're passionate about something, it isn't reasonable, but you do it anyway.
559
Passion will take you where nothing else will ever take you.
560
It'll give you that decided.
561
It'll help you to stand out.
562
You gotta love it.
563
It's gotta be what you are supposed to do.
564
You wanna sing it even though they wanna invite you to Carnegie Hall,
565
you gonna sing to anybody that listens to you and couldn't sing it to yourself.
566
You gotta write even if no one published your book, right because that was given to you to do.
567
You do what it is you're supposed to.
568
You're supposed to build something.
569
You're supposed to create something.
570
I don't know how to do it.
571
Learn!
572
Do whatever is required.
573
It's you, it's on you, you gotta make that happen.
574
Nobody's gonna bring it to you on a silver platter and say, Here's your dream manifesto.
575
No, it's hard.
576
Yes, it's hard.
577
It's difficult.
578
Yes, right.
579
And it's worth it.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “YOU VS YOU - Motivational Speech”. This video has 579 sentences and 5567 words to shadow. The speech runs for 29:33. The speaker talks fast, about 188 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 |
|---|---|---|
| discipline noun | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | A controlled behaviour; self-control. |
| grind verb | /ˈɡɹaɪnd/ | To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. |
| passion noun | /ˈpæʃən/ | A true desire sustained or prolonged. |
| comfort noun | /ˈkʌm.fət/ | Contentment, ease. |
| butt noun | /bʌt/ | Body; self. |
| muscle noun | /ˈmʌs.əl/ | A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement. |
| knock verb | /nɑk/ | To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| loser noun | /luzɚ/ | A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. |
| greatness noun | /ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/ | The state, condition, or quality of being great |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| belong verb | /bɪˈlɒŋ/ | To have its proper place. |
| desperate adjective | /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/ | In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire. |
| beast noun | /biːst/ | Any four-footed land mammal. |
| 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. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| butt up verb | To touch closely, to scrape (against); to press firmly (against). | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What are you going to do to separate yourself?
- Are you making yourself better?
- Are you making yourself worse?
- What's your purpose for playing this game?
- Why are you doing what you're doing?
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 train this brain, it'll use · if you don't, you'll be |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were meant · are created · be pumped |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | who've given · have not exhausted · have been knocked |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 262 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, ethic /ˈɛθ.ɪk/, threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: passion /ˈpæʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/, trash /tɹæʃ/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
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 discipline, grind, passion.
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.