Your fears are your worst enemy, they will always steer you away from your dreams.
Listen to this amazing motivational speech by Eric Thomas & Les Brown .
Les Brown & Eric Thomas | FEAR vs DREAMS! ᴴᴰ | Motivational Speech
Transcripts of the Video:
one of the things that you’ve got to do
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is you’ve got to watch your inner
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conversation and discipline your
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thinking and your imagination because if
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you don’t your mind will take you on a
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wild trip talking to you telling you
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what you can’t do part of what you’ve
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got to do is be your own motivator
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you’ve got to talk to yourself and you
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build yourself up and you’ll feel your
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energy level coming up and people will
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feel that around you see now if you go
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through life being afraid people can
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sense that they can pick up that fear
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not try to disturb anything not trying
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to shake anything up not trying to make
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any waves there are some people who come
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through the universe and their level of
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contribution and the level of energy
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they manifest is so small so
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inconspicuous that’s when they go you
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won’t even know they left there are some
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people because of their personality
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because of their contribution because of
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their the investment of their time and
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their energy and the impact they have
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there that when they go everybody will
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miss them
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so another Teresa checks out everybody
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will know when Rosa Parks everybody will
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know nothing Mandela everybody will know
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why because of their contribution see
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but there’s some people because their
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contribution is so small no one will
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care something before you are boxed and
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buried decide that you’re going to box
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and bear your fears decide that you’re
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going to begin to live life on a new
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level seeking out new horizons God said
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something I love this he says everything
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a man does for himself guess what he
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takes whiffy
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but everything he does for others he
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leaves behind so when you begin to say
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what is it that I want to leave what
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contribution that I want to begin to
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make what difference do I want to make
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in life what is it that I want to do
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with the rest of the life that I have
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left what what chances I need to take
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what risk do I need to begin to embrace
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what fears do I need to step on what
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areas of my life am i dead right now
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what dream
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you can even live your dreams or live
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your fears
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you have got to get to a point where you
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say I’m sick and tired of living like
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this there’s got to be more let’s see
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that’s when people go out and strike out
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on their dreams that’s when people get
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out of relationships where they’re dying
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together rather than growing together
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deciding as you look at your life as you
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look into the future and say what fears
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am i holding on to what fears that I’m
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allowing to imprison me
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the impulse to dream has been slowly
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beaten out of me
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through the experience of life and most
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people ladies and gentlemen and stop
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living their dreams because of the
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lessons they’ve learned from lying for
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things it picked up because we’ve only
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been born with two fears a fear of a
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loud sound of a fear falling all the
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other fears of fears we learn beers we
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pick up whatever you scan out the light
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the value you brought to the planet or
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more employ whatever you feed up you’re
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stronger so as we begin to look toward
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the future and look at what will it take
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for us to break through those fears one
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acknowledging the fear knowing it’s all
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right some fears help beginning to know
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that your dreams your passions your
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drive to achieve whatever it is you want
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as it has more power and meaning it will
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move you past your fears as you begin to
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feel that you deserve it your passion
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and goal is so strong the fears won’t
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matter
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if you believe in the song and you
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constantly remind yourself after every
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defeat after every setback every time
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you get knocked down I’ve got a saying
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it’s life knocks you down try and land
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on your back because if you can look up
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you can get up see a lot of people
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because of failure they stop they stop
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believing let me share something with
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you you will fail your way to success
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yes eight out of ten millionaires have
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been financially bankrupt you will fail
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your way to success it doesn’t matter
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how many times you fail it doesn’t
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matter how many times people tell you
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that you can’t do it it doesn’t matter
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if you don’t have a dime in that bake
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you will fail your way to success the
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greatest thing is love when we feel like
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we don’t have enough love and we don’t
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have enough hope we start losing
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strength to live for me in my life as a
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child I had a big role I was surrounded
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by four walls and a low ceiling of
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opportunity I was set free in so many
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different ways and especially surviving
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from day to day with my parents who
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loved me who encouraged me who told me
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that I was beautiful the way that I was
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and not to worry about what other people
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said about me
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the world is a hurting place in the
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world needs hope and the world needs
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love without hope we feel like why are
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we here
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today I still have no arms and legs but
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everything’s chambers everything for me
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I was looking for hope and happiness and
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I couldn’t see it for many years in fact
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if this side of the table represents my
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hope truth encourages me to become all
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that I can be but then we have lives
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every day coming in our mind
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people with discourages you know the
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people that you have in your life proof
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no matter how good of a day you’re
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having they’ll bring you down or and no
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matter how bad of a day you’re having
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they’ll bring you even lower
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not my brother he constantly reminded me
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that I I couldn’t do what I’m doing now
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and but that really wasn’t that hard
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the real bad part was I convinced myself
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that I couldn’t leave not only because
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of those things that he pointed out
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being practical and realistic but also
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that within myself I didn’t believe what
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Mike Williams my mentor said was
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possible for me have you ever had
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somebody who believed and saw something
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for you that you didn’t see for yourself
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and here’s how I escaped that I
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discovered sometimes you have to believe
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in somebody’s belief in you until your
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belief kicks in
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Nick you’re not good enough Nick just
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give up Nick you’re never going to get a
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job you won’t get married you can’t even
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hold your wife’s hand what kind of a
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father are you going to be if you can’t
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even pick up your kids when they’re
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crying you’re alone sure your parents
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hug but their hugs can’t kill you just
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give up just give up just give up just
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give up just click on at age eight I
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thought that I should commit suicide why
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I didn’t have hope I thought I don’t
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have today you can see that I have
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what’s the word believing in something
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you do not see thing
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when you lose your job when you lose
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your retirement when you go to the
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doctor and they look at you and say you
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have cancer cancer it’s a ghost feared
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word in seven different languages that’s
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when it’s tough to have faith bit and
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that’s when you need to call all your
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faith bit
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it’s at faith as the oil that that takes
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the friction out of living that’s when
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you need to believe in yourself then and
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just not according to appearances and
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say to yourself it’s possible it’s
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possible I can make it it’s possible I’m
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going to get through this it’s possible
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I’m not going to allow this to get the
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best of me yeah I don’t know what you’re
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up against I don’t know what you are
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facing but here’s what I do know you’ve
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got something special you’ve got
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greatness in you and I know it’s
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possible that you can live your dream
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if you could become world-class at any
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skill in the next six months
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particularly if it’s something that you
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dreamed of and dream haven’t put up on a
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shelf and gave up on what would amazing
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look like for you what would amazing
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look like if you were amazing if you
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know what amazing looks like then what
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haven’t you gotten here yet I want you
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to say the reason I’m not as amazing yet
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because I hit the snooze but that’s why
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I’m not amazing right now the reason why
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I’m not amazing right now because I
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couldn’t get up early enough cuz I told
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myself I’m not an early bird I don’t get
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on Twitter every blue moon I don’t get
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on my app every blue moon the reason why
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some of you will never be successful
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because you’re not in versed in it and
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we wake up in the morning look at your
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goal your goals will tell you what time
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to get up are you hearing your goals
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won’t tell you who you should be hanging
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out with I can’t tell you what your
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goals won’t tell you how much sleep do
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you need you might not need to get up at
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3 o’clock in the morning for your votes
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but your goal are going to define what
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time you get up how you live your life
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how you move when you say yes when you
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say nope think like the person you
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intend to become I want your dream to be
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so clear so vivid right that when you
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wake up in the morning all you got to do
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is step in your dream the difference
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between people who talk about is people
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who do it it’s one simple word
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application and hearing and they don’t
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just hear they digest it when a digested
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food they do something with if you are
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alive I know you’re in reach your best
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get right
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you got more you can do more you can see
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more you can be more I know that all
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your energy all your strength all your
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skills all your capabilities but do not
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operate on a thousand percent I know
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there’s still some things you can do
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some limits that you can push some
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buttons you could push some
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opportunities that you have and explore
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and the second thing I know is this I
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don’t know that you are not experiencing
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life to its fullest like life itself is
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a process of becoming a part of man’s
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ongoing historical drive to manifest his
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consciousness
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outside of his mind
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in front of his eyes greatness is when
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we overcome our own boundaries when we
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surprised ourselves when mapped out when
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we get the long view when we get the big
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picture
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that’s greatness ask not what the world
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needs ask instead of what makes you come
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alive because what the world needs is
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more people who have come alive what
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makes you come alive what gives you the
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goosebumps what gives you the chills
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what makes you well up somewhere deep
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inside you know what kind of person you
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were designed to be ask yourself how
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would the person I’d like to be do the
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things I’m about to do greatness is upon
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you it’s time for you to bring that
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being out there’s power and consistency
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there’s power doing something over and
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over and over and over again there’s
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power and practice don’t rush the
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process ya feel me
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some of you are trying to rush the
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21-day it takes 21 years to be 21 years
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old don’t rush the process trust the
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process it’s a matter of life and death
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yes it’s a job you don’t want but that
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job is going to propel you and position
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is for the next guy it’s not just a flag
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it’s the rest of your life are you here
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is not just working out it’s an extra
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year on your life it’s not just eating
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right it’s another seven years on your
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life it’s a matter of life and death and
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so your life is in your hand your dream
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is in your hand your finger is in your
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hand so so so so what would amazing look
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like
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the major key to your leaking your dream
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you’re living up to your greatness
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you’re making your contribution is you
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listen to me there’s a direct
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correlation between time and success or
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one of the blueprint to success guys is
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you got to have a sense of urgency
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I told you to phenomenal powerful beyond
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measure
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[Music]
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let’s look at where we want to go what
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is it that we want to produce what is it
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that we want to create for our young
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people and as we think about that start
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experimenting with different methods and
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techniques to create and to produce that
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and begin to believe that it’s possible
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through our commitment through our
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vision through our determination our
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relentlessness
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you have access to you and I just need
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you to get started right once you get
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that momentum going once that momentum
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gets going boom there’s no telling where
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you can go
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and for some of you you stop dreaming
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your dream for we can stop
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for things a while you don’t look good
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first level was all about you all about
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you understand there’s nothing you can’t
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do this nothing you can ask there’s
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nothing you can’t be with that’s over
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now now we gotta build on that you hear
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what I’m telling you
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[Music]
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you dream for a month then you get hit
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in the mouth you quit and you give up
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[Music]
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you are phenomenal yep you are
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phenomenal beyond that yep you do matter
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that’s just the start that’s just that’s
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phase one that’s not where we’re ending
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that’s just step one now we gotta keep
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climbing we gotta keep moving we got to
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keep going
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[Music]
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you dream for a while and when people
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tell you crazy when people tell you
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stupid when people tell you can never
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get job you stop dreaming and you go
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back to knowledge
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[Music]
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I dare you to use your imagination
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I dare you when you broke to use your
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magic I’ll tell you when you’re rich to
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use your imagination I’ll get you under
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every single circumstance keep dreaming
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keep looking at your dream keep focusing
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on your dream keep going after the dream
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because that’s what you success do
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you’re not where you are because you
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don’t have an opportunity the reason why
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I’ve been telling you don’t be average
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don’t be good try to be great and be
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phenomenal the reason why I told you
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that is because listen to me you got to
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understand
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you have to understand if you stay
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average and you stay good you’ll never
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get to where you trying to get to and
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we’ve all had experiences where we were
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working on something and we knew it was
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possible and we did those things that
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were necessary to bring it into reality
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we took the responsibility to make it
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happen although people couldn’t see it a
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lot of people didn’t believe it you’re
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attacked you were criticized it has
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nothing to do with opportunities you’ve
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been given opportunities the problem is
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you’re not operating in your greatness
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and that opportunity so that’s why you
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stuff on that particular level
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[Music]
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people were opposing you but you kept on
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doing it it was hard it was rough it was
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difficult but to you it was worth it and
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eventually you got to a level you know
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can let me stop me now
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I will not give up I will not surrender
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I will not quit this is war year are you
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hear me
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that when you’re working you have a wall
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to break through let’s say a friend of
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mine walks he runs a marathon he says
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when he’s running the 26-mile marathon
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he said let’s say that hypothetically
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that 80 mile is the law
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it’s unless when you get down you’re
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running she says everything in you is
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telling you to stop to give up every
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muscle is aching and you’re saying to
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yourself I can’t do it I can’t do it and
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you just keep on and you keep on and
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your keeper it seems like you’re moving
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at slow motion and then eventually when
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you break through that 18 mile wall then
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you know it’s like done in your own
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automatic and you glide on in and you
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know it’s there you know you’re going to
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get to the finish line
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you cannot let a fear of failure or a
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fear of comparison or a fear of judgment
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stop you from doing what’s going to make
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you great look as best we know what we
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have one life in it you have to trust
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your own voice your own ideas your
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honesty your vulnerability and through
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this you will find your way you do not
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have to be fearless just don’t that to
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your stop live like this as best you can
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and I guarantee you will look back on a
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life well-lived stay hungry stay young
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at heart take those risks you are going
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to change the world around you in big
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ways and in small you cannot succeed without this risk of
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failure you cannot have a voice without
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the risk of criticism and you cannot
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love without the risk of loss you must
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go out and you must take these risks and
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people will tell you to do what makes
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you happy but a lot of this has been
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hard work and I don’t think you should
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do this what makes you happy I think you
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should do what makes you great do what’s
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uncomfortable and scary and hard but
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pays off in the long run be willing to
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fail
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let yourself fail fail in the way in the
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place where you would want to fail fail
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pick yourself up and fail again because
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without this struggle what is your
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success anyway I need you to reflect are
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you hearing me I need you to think about
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I need you to go back to the first one
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when you’re phenomenal you’re not
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forgotten great is about great
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it’s doctrine if you wanted to have it
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get your butt up and make it happen if
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we wanted to have it rise & grind listen
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I have a life that only goes in one
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direction forward
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you’ve got to believe in yourself you’ve
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got to believe in your abilities you got
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to believe in your service your company
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your I did unquestionably you must have
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faith it’s hard yes it’s all it’s
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difficult yes life and it’s worth it
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you
