SPEAK FLUENT ENGLISH Repeat-After-Me Shadowing

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English Coach Chad


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how you doing how you doing are you ready  let's practice speaking English all right  
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the red text you will repeat after me we'll  take it nice and slow and understand the text  
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and then we'll do shadowing practice  let's jump into it Marcus aurelus you  
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know Marcus aurelus he once wrote in his  personal Journal once wrote in his personal
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journal the impediment to action all right before  we continue what is impediment impediment the  
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impediment to action so an impediment is  a hindrance an obstruction it's a problem  
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an obstacle it's the thing that is stopping  you it is an impediment so the impediment to  
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taking action ADV advances the action advances  that means moves it forward it promotes it it  
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creates the action it causes the action to  happen all right let's say all that together  
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ready here we go Marcus aurelus once wrote in  his personal journal the impediment to action  
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advances the action one more time Marcus  aill I once wrote in his personal journal  
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the impediment to action advances the action  good job what stands in the way becomes the
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way wow that's so true wow that's so true did  you say it all right this profound Insight truly
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resonates okay now there's a lot of  vocabulary here profound profound means  
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wise deep lifechanging Insight that is awareness  and understanding truly genuinely resonates it  
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causes it causes me to agree emotionally  it makes me it makes my heart say yes  
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it resonates it makes my heart say yes all  right let's look at that just the red this  
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profound Insight truly resonates okay I'm going  to say that same thing with the black text this  
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wise deep lifechanging awareness and understanding  genuinely causes me to agree emotionally it makes  
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my heart say Yes red text this profound Insight  truly resonates this wise well never mind I'm not  
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going to read it all again let's move on let me  rephrase that in my own words the challenges and
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obstacles that attempt to stop you
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from achieving something  actually become your pathway
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forward actually become  your pathway forward say it
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again okay that's good let's say all of it ready  the challenges and obstacles that attempt to stop  
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you from achieving something actually become  your pathway forward word again the challenges  
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and obstacles that attempt to stop you from  achieving something actually become your pathway
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forward the obstacle is indeed the
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way the challenges we face can  actually guide our progress
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the obstacle is indeed the way the challenges  we face can actually guide our progress  
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again the obstacle is indeed the way the  challenges we face can actually guide our
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progress often we strive to  eliminate our problems or obstacles
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but what if we learned to
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accept but what if we learned  to accept and embrace them
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instead what if we learn to accept  and embrace them instead what if  
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we what if we what if we learn to  accept and embrace them instead try
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that all right let's do all of it ready here we  go often we strive to eliminate our problems or  
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obstacles but what if we learn to accept and  embrace them instead again often we strive to  
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eliminate our problems or obstacles but  what if we learn to accept and embrace  
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them instead what if we trained ourselves  what if we what if we trained ourselves
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to welcome our problems to welcome our
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problems as
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opportunities what if we trained  ourselves to welcome our problems  
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as opportunities one more what if  we trained ourselves to welcome  
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our problems as opportunities  our obstacles could serve as a
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spark serve as a spark serve provide a spark the  stimulus for the action serve be the thing as a  
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spark to get it started get it started you  know like a spark can start a fire so if if  
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it's a spark it gets something started and  it serves it provides it becomes the thing  
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our obstacles could serve as a
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spark for devising better plans and
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solutions devising come up come up with think  up those are phrasal verbs that mean devise to  
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conceive if you conceive it you devise it you come  up with it you think up better plans and solutions
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they can become the very
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catalysts this one's kind of tricky the very they  can become the very Catalyst what is that the very  
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actually mean it's used to emphasize the exact  ideal perfect actual real Catalyst the thing that  
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provokes or speeds up the change is a catalyst  that's kind of like a um uh like a chemical  
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Catalyst it it speeds it makes something  change so it speeds up the change it's a
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catalyst all right they what's  they obstacles obstacles they can  
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become the very Catalyst the very  thing that speeds up the change
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that Propel us forward oh it's the  Catalyst that propels us forward  
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that Propel us forward catalysts Propel us  forward so what do Propel like a propeller  
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on an airplane push move all right that  last sentence there they can become the  
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very catalysts that Propel us forward all  right let's do all of it ready here we go  
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our obstacles could serve as a spark for  devising better plans and solutions they  
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can become the very catalysts that Propel us  forward one more time our obstacles could serve  
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as a spark for devising better plans and solutions  they can become the very catalysts that Propel us
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forward interestingly a fire grows stronger
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when faced with
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obstacles thriving on the very
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things thriving to do well in a particular  kind of situation is to thrive on the very  
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things there's all there it is again  the very things now that's just use to  
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emphasize the exact things the actual  things the real things that block its
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path all right let's look at it  all together ready interestingly  
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a fire grows stronger when faced with  obstacles thriving on the very things  
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that block its path interestingly a fire  grows stronger when faced with obstacles  
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thriving on the very things that block  its path this brings us to an important
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question what is the biggest  obstacle standing in your way right
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now this brings us to an important question  what is the big biggest obstacle standing  
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in your way right now okay I need to try  that again say it with me this brings us  
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to an important question what is  the biggest obstacle standing in  
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your way right now how can you turn  it into an essential part of your
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journey it's time to use that obstacle
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to fuel the fire yeah make that fire bigger fuel  it give it energy let's say it together how can  
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you turn it into an essential part of your journey  it's time to use that obstacle to fuel the fire  
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how can you turn it into an essential part of your  journey it's time to use that obstacle to fuel  
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the fire all right some powerful words  there thank you Marcus aurelus hey let's  
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say it together now nonstop I want you to  Shadow me let's see how we let's see how  
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we do let's see if we can do do it without  making a mistake all right here we go Marcus  
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aurelus once wrote in his personal journal  the impediment to action advances the action  
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what stands in the way becomes the way wow  that's so true this profound Insight truly
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resonates let me rephrase that in my own words  the challenges and obstacles that attempt to  
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stop you from achieving something actually  become your pathway forward the obstacle  
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is indeed the way the challenges we face  can actually guide our progress often we  
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strive to eliminate our problems or  obstacles but what if we learn to  
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accept and embrace them instead what if we  trained ourselves to welcome our problems as
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opportunities our obstacles could serve  as a spark for devising better plans and  
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solutions they can become the  very catalysts that Propel us
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forward interestingly a fire grows stronger  when faced with obstacles thriving on the  
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very things that block its path this brings us  to an important question what is the biggest  
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obstacle stand standing in your way right now  how can you turn it into an essential part of  
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your journey it's time to use that obstacle  to fuel the fire yes powerful words boom  
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good English speaking workout keep moving  forward and I'll see you in the next step
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