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Become Who You’re Meant to Be | Napoleon Hill Classes
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Jun 15, 2025
Become Who You’re Meant to Be | Napoleon Hill Classes Greatness isn’t an accident. It’s a decision. Every action you take is a vote for the person you’re becoming. This video is a powerful reminder to stop waiting for the perfect moment—and start living in alignment with the future you desire. Disclaimer: This channel and its content are not officially affiliated with Napoleon Hill or his estate. The videos are inspired by Hill's teachings and are created for educational and motivational purposes only. Please note that the voice used in these videos is a synthesized one and does not belong to Napoleon Hill himself. Our goal is to respectfully share his timeless wisdom to inspire and educate, without any intention to mislead.
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greatness isn't a stroke of luck or a
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gift dropped from the sky it's a
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decision every choice you make either
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pulls you toward the person you're
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destined to become or anchors you to the
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comfort of who you've always been if you
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want to rise you must act like the
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person who's already standing on that
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higher ground speak with conviction move
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with purpose show up with the energy of
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your future self your identity isn't
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something you stumble upon it's
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something you demonstrate the moment you
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start acting like your dreams are
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already yours you begin to become the
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person who deserves them cast votes for
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your future every decision you make is a
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vote for the person you're becoming the
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problem most people cast their votes for
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comfort not character you say you want
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success but do your daily actions align
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with that claim if the version of you
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who wins wakes up early learns
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relentlessly and speaks with confidence
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then you must start embodying those
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traits now don't wait to feel ready
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don't wait for permission your mind is
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the engine your habits the wheels start
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steering today as the proverb says as a
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man thinkketh in his heart so is he
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confidence doesn't come from thinking
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about it it comes from showing up even
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when your hands tremble consider
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Florence Nightingale she didn't wait for
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courage to arrive before stepping into
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plagerridden hospitals she walked in and
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became courage you can't wait to feel
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like the person you want to be you must
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act like it first that's how you become
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it so what are your habits voting for
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today are they forging the person you
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dream of becoming or are they chaining
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you to the familiar leadership isn't
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born from watching others lead it's born
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from deciding that your actions will
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echo your aspirations act like your
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future self long enough and one day
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you'll wake up and realize you are that
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person boldness over fear you say you
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want to live boldly but fear often
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speaks louder than faith it doesn't
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always roar sometimes it's a quiet tug
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pulling you back just as you're about to
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step forward every time you hesitate you
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train your nervous system to let fear
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lead your body remembers retreat and
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slowly you become a prisoner of your own
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patterns but the opposite is true too
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every time you step forward despite a
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pounding heart every time you speak
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despite a shaky voice you teach your
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soul that courage is in charge you
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rewire your spirit to chase growth over
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comfort boldness isn't about being loud
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or reckless it's silent deliberate
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anchored in conviction it's choosing to
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rise even when your knees tremble
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elellanar Roosevelt one of the most
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influential women of the 20th century
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once quakd at the thought of public
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speaking yet she stood anyway not
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because fear vanished but because her
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mission was greater her legacy wasn't
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built in the absence of fear but in the
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presence of faith are you waiting for
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fear to leave before you act what if
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that day never comes what if courage
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grows not by fear's absence but by your
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refusal to let it rule the question
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isn't are you afraid it's will you act
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anyway what decision could you make
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today that echoes the boldest version of
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yourself boldness is a muscle it grows
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through tension repetition and
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resistance you don't become bold
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overnight you become bold through small
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decisions in quiet rooms through tough
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conversations through moments when your
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voice shakes but you speak anyway you
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don't need to conquer the mountain today
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just take one step make the call say yes
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say no ask the question begin with every
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bold act no matter how small you vote
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for the version of you that doesn't back
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down so what will you choose today
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comfort or courage safety or stretch
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fear or future your legacy won't be
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written by what you felt but by what you
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did despite the fear live in alignment
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if your future self walked into the room
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right now would they recognize your
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actions would they see their discipline
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focus and integrity mirrored in your day
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or would they be puzzled by your delays
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and distractions you can't wish your way
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into transformation you walk into it
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choice by choice day by day the greatest
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deception is selfdeception claiming you
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want to become something while living in
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contradiction to it as James 1:22 urges
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"Be doers of the word and not hearers
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only deceiving yourselves." You don't
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impress the universe with lofty visions
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you honor it by embodying them benjamin
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Franklin didn't just hope for virtue he
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tracked it he documented 13 virtues
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daily holding himself accountable with
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ink and truth greatness wasn't revealed
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in occasional burst but in consistent
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behaviors what do your habits prophesy
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about your future are you building the
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life you claim to want or rehearsing a
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performance of progress if your future
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self is focused how do you eliminate
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distractions today if they're
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financially free how do you steward
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money now if they're courageous what
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truth must you speak confidence isn't
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built by wishing it's built by keeping
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promises to yourself power doesn't come
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from declarations it comes from
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decisions that reflect your highest self
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even when no one's watching stop waiting
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for the right mood or perfect conditions
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clarity often comes after action not
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before ask not when will I change but
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what would my future self do next then
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do it daily discipline isn't dramatic
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it's quiet repetitive sacred your
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identity is revealed in repetition you
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are what you repeatedly do so if you
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want to become someone new act
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differently consistently your future
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self isn't waiting to appear they're
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waiting to be built today's choices
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habits and mindset are the materials
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will you move toward the life you say
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you want or delay hoping transformation
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arrives on its own it won't but you can
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show up today like your future self is
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watching because they are feed your fire
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most people wait for motivation to
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strike like lightning sudden dazzling
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undeniable but motivation isn't
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lightning it's fire and fire must be fed
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daily not occasionally waiting for
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inspiration is a gamble building it is a
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choice that compounds if you want to act
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like the person you admire start in the
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shadows build their habits in private
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form their mindset in solitude practice
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their discipline in silence the
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spotlight doesn't create greatness it
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reveals what was forged in the dark this
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requires sacrifice say no when others
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indulge not out of fear but out of
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vision choose growth when others choose
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gossip not because you're better but
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because you're becoming teach us to
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number our days that we may gain a heart
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of wisdom time is currency and your
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investment reveals your values what does
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your calendar say about your character
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are you feeding your fire or letting it
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flicker under distraction booker T
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washington born into slavery had no
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privilege or platform yet he taught
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himself to read by candlelight and
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cleaned classrooms to pay for education
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he didn't wait for someone to notice his
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potential he worked until it was
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impossible to ignore his motivation
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wasn't gifted it was grown kindled
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within what are you feeding your fire
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books that challenge you goals that
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stretch you mentors who refine you or
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shallow conversations and mindless
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habits the person you admire isn't
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magical they're intentional they train
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when no one claps study when no one
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cares fire grows when fed but dies when
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ignored start with small twigs a morning
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routine a 30-inute reading session a
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bold move feed your fire quietly
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consistently it becomes your compass
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lighting your path and warming others
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but you must tend it no one else knows
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the dream burning inside you protect it
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nurture it show up for it not because
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you feel like it but because it matters
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release the old you can't become who you
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were meant to be while clinging to who
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you used to be many crave elevation but
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resist evolution wanting new outcomes
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while clutching old identities if you
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want to rise you must release what no
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longer serves the future you're building
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it feels like loss but it's
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transformation the shedding of what was
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so what's meant to be can emerge be
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transformed by the renewing of your mind
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renewal demands unlearning questioning
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beliefs stories and labels you've
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carried for years familiar doesn't mean
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faithful to your future you may be
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holding an identity rooted in pain or
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fear built to survive not to thrive
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purpose lives in the light of who you're
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becoming not the shadows of who you were
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harriet Tubman didn't just escape
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slavery she shed the identity of
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property and became a pathfinder risking
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her life to lead others to freedom she
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didn't let her past define her potential
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what identity must you rewrite to rise
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higher what narrative must die for your
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purpose to live the insecure version the
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doubting version the small version built
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on others opinions let them go your
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freedom isn't in the next achievement
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it's in the next release the cocoon must
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break for the butterfly to fly the shell
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must crack for the seed to grow let
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today be the funeral of false identities
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and the birth of your becoming declare
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it i am no longer who I was i am
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becoming who I was always meant to be
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walk forward with authority not apology
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the life you seek begins with release
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the urgency of now the most dangerous
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lie isn't that you'll fail it's that you
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have time time to begin later to grow
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later to become later but later is where
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potential goes to die every second you
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delay reinforces your current self and
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if you're not growing you're declining
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be very careful then how you live not as
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unwise but as wise making the most of
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every opportunity the moment in front of
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you matters opportunity doesn't wait for
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perfect conditions it favors the
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prepared thomas Holloway didn't wait for
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stable markets to build an empire in
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health and education he moved with
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urgency turning profit into purpose by
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founding Holloway College for women are
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you mistaking fear for wisdom hesitation
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for patience the future doesn't demand
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perfection it demands momentum every
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hour you postpone bold action you lose
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the power of compounding growth one step
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today multiplies tomorrow zero action
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stacks into zero progress what choice
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could you make today that your future
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self would thank you for what
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conversation are you avoiding what habit
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could you begin time is your most
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expensive currency once spent it's gone
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stop protecting limitations with excuses
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stop wrapping procrastination in
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philosophical language if your dream
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matters time is a test not a luxury
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you're not promised someday only this
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day this hour this decision move now
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begin the project have the conversation
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destiny honors the doer win in the
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shadows who are you when no one's
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watching that hidden version of you
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holds the keys to your future public
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victory is merely the echo of private
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discipline above all else guard your
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heart for everything you do flows from
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it what flows from you when the applause
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fades at midnight what are you feeding
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your mind what habits are you repeating
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george Washington Carver transformed the
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peanut into hundreds of innovations not
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on a stage but in hidden laboratories
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his genius was forged in silence his
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character cultivated in solitude success
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doesn't begin on the platform it begins
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on the floor of discipline true
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greatness is slowcooked formed in the
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furnace of consistency in choices no one
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applauds but heaven counts would your
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future self be proud of your midnight
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habits or puzzled by your inconsistency
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every private decision is a seed
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producing fruit over time if you want
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excellence plant integrity if you want
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influence plant service if you want
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impact plant hidden diligence start
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winning in secret speak with excellence
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when no one hears work with excellence
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when no one thanks you when your moment
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comes you won't need to rise to it
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you'll already be there forged one
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private decision at a time reclaim your
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power you were born with power but
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conditioning eroded it voices telling
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you to wait to tone it down to shrink
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you learn to apologize for your presence
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to seek permission for what's already
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yours but the version of you that will
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change the world isn't found hiding
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behind approval am I now trying to win
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the approval of human beings or of God
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you can't serve your future and fear at
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the same time sojourer Truth born into
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slavery could have chosen silence
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instead she stood tall in courtrooms
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thundering truth from pulpit she didn't
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wait to be told she was ready she
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decided she was will you keep waiting to
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be picked or will you act like the
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chosen one you are stop deferring your
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destiny to small minds stop shrinking to
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fit spaces too small for your future you
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weren't born to blend in you were born
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to break through what would it look like
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to take up the space your calling
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requires to walk into rooms with
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authority to speak as if your voice
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matters because it does every moment you
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wait for permission delays your purpose
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power flows to those who claim it let
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today be the day you stop seeking
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permission and start illuminating rise
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not with arrogance but with alignment
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the world isn't ready you are align your
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life most measure progress by results
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numbers followers trophies the wise
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measure by alignment if your life
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doesn't align with your vision every
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step forward is a step sideways can two
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walk together unless they are agreed if
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your lifestyle contradicts your desired
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future one will cancel the other dreams
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need more than belief they need
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alignment consistency proof thomas
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Edison didn't invent the light bulb by
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luck he failed thousands of times but
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every experiment aligned with his vision
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of a world lit by electricity are you
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committed to your dream or just
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interested in it are you consistent when
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no one claps too many speak dreams but
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build distractions craving clarity while
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feeding confusion your life can't walk
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in two directions examine your day
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honestly do your habits echo your
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highest intentions or sabotage them you
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can't fake alignment you live it if
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you're out of alignment adjust if you've
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been distracted return begin now not
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later when your actions mindset and
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rhythms point toward your future
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momentum becomes natural discipline
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becomes easier and results become
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inevitable embrace the forge the person
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you want to be doesn't emerge in ease
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they're revealed in adversity forged in
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pressure trials aren't detours they're
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mirrors reflecting strength you forgot
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you had consider it pure joy whenever
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you face trials because the testing of
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your faith produces perseverance are you
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resenting the hardship meant to shape
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you the fire isn't your enemy it's your
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forge burning away what's brittle to
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reveal what's real andrew Carnegie born
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into poverty didn't become a titan of
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industry despite hardship but because of
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it every setback taught him discipline
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every obstacle refined his resolve what
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trial are you in now are you shrinking
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or rising when pressure hits do you
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complain or construct strength isn't
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gained by skipping the valley it's
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gained by walking through with faith and
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fire what if today's pressure is
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tomorrow's preparation the storm doesn't
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oppose you it shapes you lean in with
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readiness refuse to be broken by what
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was meant to build you act like your
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future self especially when it's hard
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that's when the bold grounded powerful
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version of you is born not after the
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battle but in it clarity through action
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most want clarity before they commit a
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full map before the first step but
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clarity isn't a prerequisite it's a
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reward earned through movement your word
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is a lamp to my feet and a light to my
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path you don't get a flood light just
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enough for the next step many miss their
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moment waiting for signs while ignoring
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the nudge your future doesn't start with
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proof it starts with pursuit the person
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you want to become emerges when you move
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with faith not fear faith isn't theory
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it's motion faith without works is dead
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are you sitting in fear or stepping
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forward trembling but sure you don't
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need to see step 10 just take step one
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trust the ground will meet your feet
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movement creates momentum momentum
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builds confidence and confidence
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attracts clarity start small but start
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the map unfolds as you walk guard your
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integrity every compromise of your
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values betrays your future self a nod to
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fit in a smile that hides truth peace
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that costs integrity is a prison the
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integrity of the upright guides them
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integrity isn't about being flawless
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it's about consistency matching your
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public words with your private walk
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being loyal to your future self's
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character abraham Lincoln leading a
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divided nation could have chosen
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popularity over principle instead he
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stood on truth and his leadership became
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a model when pressure mounts do you hold
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your standard or bend you don't drift
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into respect or stumble into legacy you
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choose it daily when no one sees your
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values are on the ballot with every
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decision vote for your higher self not
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approval act with integrity it's your
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crown giving you authority and trust
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evolve through release growth demands
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release not just of people or places but
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of past versions of yourself the
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achiever you celebrated the mindset that
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helped you survive they may now be
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barriers forget the former things do not
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dwell on the past see I am doing a new
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thing god's next move doesn't fit old
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frameworks releasing the old honors who
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you were while choosing who you're
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becoming charles Darwin didn't cling to
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traditional thought when evidence
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demanded truth his choice to release
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comfort sparked a revolution what
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version of yourself have you outgrown
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the high performer who always says yes
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the overthinker clinging to control
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growth feels like grief because it's the
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shedding of ego validation old armor let
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go without guilt your future is written
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in the blank space of surrender
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structure your vision vision stirs your
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soul but without structure it's fantasy
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the person you admire doesn't just dream
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they plan schedule and invest time with
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precision planning is faith in action
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nicola Tesla's brilliance thrived in
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strict schedules and repeatable
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disciplines does your calendar reflect
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someone pursuing greatness or do you
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wing it unmanaged time leads to
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unmanaged dreams what would it look like
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to organize your day around your highest
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self replace distractions with rituals
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create space for deep work rest learning
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service discipline isn't a prison it's a
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pathway structure isn't limitation it's
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liberation freeing your mind from chaos
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open your calendar and design your day
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to declare who you're becoming
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transformation happens in implementation
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not inspiration master your emotions
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true strength isn't loud it's calm amid
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chaos resilient when others unravel
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emotional discipline is the secret armor
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of leaders it doesn't mean feeling less
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it means governing more better a patient
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person than a warrior one with
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self-control than one who takes a city
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mahatma Gandhi led a revolution with
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peace not provocation channeling emotion
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to purpose when conflict hits do you act
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like your future self or default to old
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reactions emotion isn't the enemy it's
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information but it's meant to inform not
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drive pause breathe ask "How would my
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highest self handle this?" Emotional
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discipline doesn't make you passive it
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makes you powerful sharpening your focus
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keeping you unshakable refuse to let
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chaos dictate your climate be the
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strongest person in the room not by
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shouting but by staying grounded speak a
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new language you can't build a new life
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with an old vocabulary words are seeds
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what you speak you see death and life
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are in the power of the tongue your
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words reflect what your heart believes
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and belief is the foundation of
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transformation if you declare doubt or
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limitation you reinforce who you were
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say "I will." And you unlock power
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winston Churchill facing global war
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didn't echo despair he declared destiny
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his speeches made room for courage are
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you talking like a victim or a visionary
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replace I'm overwhelmed with I'm
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organizing my priorities replace I can't
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with I'm learning speak like someone
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expecting to win your words aren't just
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sound they're spirit seeds forming your
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reality one declaration at a time choose
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your soil you can't grow in toxic soil
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your environment shapes your evolution
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do not be misled bad company corrupts
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good character leonardo da Vinci's
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brilliance flourished among visionaries
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not doubters who's watering your
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potential and who's poisoning it are
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your conversations about problems or
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possibilities comfort isn't always safe
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some environments accept your past but
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reject your future prune what doesn't
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serve uproot from what chokes ambition
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replant where greatness is the standard
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your evolution depends on atmosphere
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surround yourself with people who see
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your wings who speak to your potential
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your future isn't waiting on hustle it's
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waiting on better soil guard your focus
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your energy isn't infinite yet many pour
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it into distractions drama noise your
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future self requires laser-like focus
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where your treasure is there your heart
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will be also your attention reveals your
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values marie Cur's breakthroughs came
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from obsession with discovery not
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applause are you guarding your time or
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donating it to whatever knocks seal
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energy leaks close tabs ignore gossip
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turn off distractions say no not because
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you're selfish but because your vision
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is sacred silence the unnecessary let
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solitude sharpen you before saying yes
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ask "Does this feed my future or
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entertain my present?" Your future self
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isn't scattered they're focused
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faithfully doing what matters become
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that person today identity is a verb
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transformation isn't a moment it's a
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movement built in repetition identity
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isn't found it's formed in the fires of
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routine where character is carved let us
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not grow weary in doing good for at the
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proper time we will reap a harvest if we
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do not give up louis Pastor's
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discoveries weren't born from genius but
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from stubborn repetition returning to
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the lab despite failure are you doing
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who you want to be or just dreaming
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about it confidence isn't shipped
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overnight it's forged one rep at a time
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practice your values your mission your
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courage every choice casts a vote for
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who you're becoming stack those votes
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and identity becomes not something you
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aim for but something you are believe
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it's inevitable the final act of
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becoming is belief not in potential but
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in inevitability faith is the substance
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of things hoped for the evidence of
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things not seen belief isn't waiting for
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proof it's the proof it's walking as if
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it's already done helen Keller silenced
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by the world believed anyway her belief
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drew transformation unlocking a mission
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that shook the world do you question
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what's possible or have you decided it's
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written faith is a decision a
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declaration in the dark what would
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change if you believed your future was
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inevitable how would you speak walk work
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stop tolerating what holds you back
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start what you've delayed your belief
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shapes your momentum fuel it with faith
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you already know who you want to be
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press play shift your energy toward the
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identity that wins stop waiting start
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becoming