December 10, 2024 • 28 mins
Lock in on your dreams with these inner work tips and make your sacrifices WORTH IT. Just imagine one day being able to say that most of the sacrifices you made were worth it!
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squadcaster-be3a_1_12-04-20 (00:05):
hey ladies welcome back to another
video So today we are going tobe talking about locking in and
making your sacrifices worth it.
So is a new year approaching andI'm sure you made so many
sacrifices.
On your entrepreneurial journey.
And at some point you get tiredof making so many sacrifices and
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seeing very incremental resultsor no results at all.
So going into 2025, let'stogether make these sacrifices
worth it.
And so I'm going to recommendthat you lock in and what I mean
by locking in, not just onexternal things, right?
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Like locking in on your timemanagement, Locking in on
hustling, grinding.
I'm not talking about any ofthose.
A lot of the things that I'mgoing to be talking about today
of locking in is the inner workthat you want to lock in on.
These are things that has helpedme thrive in my entrepreneurial
journey And actually made thesacrifices i've made in the past
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worth it.
So Whether you've madesacrifices such as, let's see,
invest in all of your money, andthat's not a bad thing with
taking risks and betting onyourself I definitely want to
point that out or you sacrificesleep, right?
you sacrifice getting a fulleight hours of sleep or seven
hours of sleep and You've beensomeone who was waking up just
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with four hours of sleep yousacrifice that You sacrifice
family time you sacrificerelationships like friendships
and dating I say all of thisbecause I've experienced all of
these.
I've sacrificed all of thesethings.
You sacrifice fun and yousacrifice play things that you
need to To pour into yourbusiness and get back to
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thriving your business.
You sacrifice vacations You'vesacrificed so many things no
matter what it looks like yousacrifice that so What I want to
say is it is not time to Give upit's not time to give up It is
time to lock in.
Lock in on these inner worksthat I'm going to give you
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because if you gave up, guesswhat?
All of those sacrifices you madewill be for nothing.
So let's make it count.
Let's make it for something.
Okay.
So the first thing that I amgoing to tell you to lock in on
is your faith and your mindset.
so maybe what I mean by this,especially let's start with
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faith.
So, You're looking at yourresults, right?
You're looking and you've gottenincremental results.
So maybe you've gotten noresults and you've been praying
and you've been asking God fordirection and you're not
getting, the guidance.
You may not feel like you'regetting that guidance or these
intuitive guides, that you want.
To receive so it is so easy tostart retracting right to start
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saying like, you're not gonnapray anymore you get into
desperation losing that sense ofhope that sense of expectation
You pull away from listening tomotivational things.
You pull away from the thingsthat you actually need because
you're so frustrated.
And then you start somewhatdepending solely on you to make
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things happen.
Or you're just like, forget itat all.
It is so tempting to do that.
However, when you want toretract, I advise you to
actually push forward.
And what I mean by push forward,instead of saying, you know, I'm
not, I'm not praying anymore,like he's not listening to me,
which is things that I havedone.
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I decided to say, you know what?
These are the moments where I'mactually going to pray a little
bit more.
Instead of retracting, let mepray a little bit more.
Instead of saying, you know, I'mgoing to give up on
affirmations.
No, let me give myself moreaffirmations.
You know, listening tomotivational people.
I say, you know, I don't feellike hearing none of this right
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now.
No, instead I'm going to listento it because what this is going
to do, it is going to spark moreinside of you, even when you
don't want it, even when youfeel like you don't want to hear
it, nothing been there, donethat, where you don't want to
hear nothing about you can doit.
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And you got this, never give up,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You don't want to hear that.
However, it is something that weneed to hear, especially in the
moments where we feel like, thesacrifices that we've spent are
not paying off.
And you're asking yourself, whatdid I do all of this for?
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Right.
It's such a sucky feeling,However, I advise you to not
retract.
So also in terms of likemindset, so locking in on your
mindset is really juststrengthening.
How can I set myself up to beconfident to live in a state of
expectation?
To know that is going to happen.
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How can I talk to myself again,going back to speak when things
are not working out?
How can I overcome?
How can I have emotionalmastery?
Over myself when, I'm not makingany money in my business or
you're not, you know, attractingthe audience that you want to
attract when things aren'tworking out and it looks like
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you're failing.
What is the mindset?
How can you lock in on thatmindset of actually believing in
the unseen, believing thatthere's things working out in
your favor?
And that everything is going towork out no matter how it looks
at any given point in time.
So, focusing on locking in onthose things is going to help
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you make sacrifices worth it.
It's helped me in Makesacrifices worth it.
squadcaster-be3a_2_12-04-202 (06:08):
So if you are in a point right now
on your entrepreneurial journeywhere you are ready to level up
your mindset and improve yourconfidence and also gain more
clarity and get guidance thatwill help you make your
sacrifices worth it, then Ihighly encourage you to go to
CleapatraWilliams.com and goahead and sign up for coaching
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or you can just head to the linkbelow in the description box.
squadcaster-be3a_1_12-04-2 (06:35):
okay So the second top thing that you
are going to do to lock in andmake your sacrfices worth it is
to lock in on mining yourbusiness.
So your business exactly right?
Because distraction is literallythe root of all.
All setbacks.
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Distractions can cause so muchfrustration and distractions is
you know, minding other peoplebusiness looking at what they're
doing what they're doing betterthan you it leads to comparison
at least to jealousy it leads toso much Internal discouragement
that you don't need in thisseason.
This is not the season to startlooking at what other people are
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doing, No, it is your season tolock in on just strictly minding
your business.
So one thing I like to do iswhen I Catch myself, maybe
scrolling a little bit.
And you know, one thing, let mepoint this out first.
One thing I want to say that itis key, especially as an
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entrepreneur to look and seewhat other people are doing,
right?
What are they doing better?
What are they doing differently?
It's important to do thosethings as research, this is one
way that you are actually goingto learn.
because success, success leavesclues, right?
So you get to look at that.
these clues, but when you gofrom looking at clues to
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actually being a little bitenvious, to actually beating up
on yourself because you're notwhere they are or wishing that
you were where they are.
it's so easy to get youdistracted from focusing on your
business when you want to makeyour sacrifices worth it.
Focus is the name of the game.
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Focus and one of the main thingsthat can break focus is
Emotions, so negative emotionsunhelpful emotions I don't like
to say negative emotionsanymore, but unhelpful emotions
Unhelpful thoughts right becauseyou are busy looking at what
other people doing.
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Those are really justdistractions it is so important
to be able to lock in and notallow these unhelpful emotions
and, and these unhelpful, youknow, thoughts to get you off of
your game, This is a cause ofwhy sometimes it takes so long
to create something, so long tobuild something, because of the
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distractions.
And the distractions is normallythe internal distractions that
happens.
Not just because what someoneelse is doing differently, no.
It's because of what's going oninside.
So that is the second way of, tome, most important thing to be
able to lock in and make yoursacrifices worth it.
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So the third thing to lock in.
On is taking care of yourself,taking care of your body.
So what this looks like isfueling your body with good
foods.
Fueling your body with, youknow, healthy drinks working
out.
This also looks like dancing,you know, releasing unhelpful
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emotions releasing blockedemotions getting yourself into
play and pleasure.
So, why this is important isbecause.
You are the business at the endof the day.
You are the business.
So you are the entrepreneur.
You are the business andeverything that is externally
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that you want to see flourish,it always starts with you.
So.
The energy that you desire tohave right that you desire to
have to build this, you know,successful business that you
want to build.
We need to have the energy.
We don't want to be tired.
I know what it feels like to beso tired, to be so burnt out, to
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literally be feeling just sofatigued because I'm not taking
care of myself, not having timeto properly use the bathroom.
So gut health is so important.
Because when you are not able tosit down properly and use the
bathroom, that is a clear signthat you are too much on the go,
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that you are in survival mode,that is a clear sign that you
are not allowing your body.
To just relax.
Relaxing, refueling yourself,giving yourself energy.
And that's another thing also,all the, all the gunk, all the,
poo and all this stuff that wehold in our bodies, that is also
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slowing us down that is alsoblocking our creativity, our
ability to think clearly, ourmood, our excitement to be able
to pour into our business, like.
We want to.
When you're feeling nauseous,when you're feeling fatigued,
when you're feeling bloated,bloated is a clear sign.
When you're feeling all ofthese, you don't feel as good.
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You don't feel as sexy assensual.
And honestly, as women, this isgoing to be so important.
And being able to really nourishand thrive as entrepreneur is
being able to tap into thatability to turn yourself on and
to, feel sexy and to feelsensual.
Because it's going to help takeyou as an entrepreneur yourself
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to the next level Okay.
So working out pouring into selffeeling good feeling good within
your body you at the end of dayYou are your business and if you
are not Good, if you don't feelgood in your body then Your
business is just gonna be areflection of what's going on
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And so taking care of your bodyis going to be so key to locking
in on that.
Locking in on learning that youat the end of the day, you are a
priority as an entrepreneur.
You are the priority because ifyou want to serve, If you want,
because entrepreneurship is allabout serving, is all about
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taking what we, our creativity,what we feel inside our passion,
our purpose, and being able toshare that with the world and to
serve others with that.
And so.
We have to be in order to dothat at the fullest capacity is
being able to feel good, feelgood internally and taking care
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of your body is really going tohelp taking care of your body is
really going to help you.
It's going to heighten yourmood.
Give you more feel goodhormones.
It's just gonna make you feel sogood to Get you to pursue in
your business and you knowcontinuous to thrive and not
give up on your business becauseyou feel so good that you're
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like Like I feel good.
I want to create I want to pourinto something.
When you feel good There isreally not a time when you don't
want to create you want to beable to show how?
You You want to be able to takethat feel good out of you and
pour it into something else thatyou can serve.
And so another part of that likeI mentioned is releasing those
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unhelpful Emotions so releasingthose blocky motions.
Again, because these thingsblock creativity, so that is
getting up and, you know,shaking.
and dancing.
This also looks like if you'refrustrated, you know, screaming
into a pillow, getting all ofthat built up unhelpful things
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out of your body.
If you want to cry something,you know what a feel good cry,
right?
When you're mad, but you cry,you feel so much better to be
able to keep going.
When you cry, when you screamand you say, F this business and
you want to throw everything,just throw it away.
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You cry.
And then you're like, okay.
Let's do this, right?
So releasing those unhelpfulemotions, just get it out.
Is there for a reason?
Because you care sopassionately, you care so much.
This is so important to you.
You know why you want to be anentrepreneur, no matter what
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reason it is, right?
We all have different reasons.
And so you care so much.
So, especially with makingsacrifices that again, whether
that is sacrificing yourrelationships, your friendships.
You know, maybe you lost apartner because you wanted to
bet on yourself.
You wanted to build yourbusiness.
Maybe you're a mom like me whosacrificed time.
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Maybe maybe sacrificing yourmoney and, investing in yourself
and doing so many things.
But you're frustrated, cry.
Those are good signs because youcare so much, you care so much,
but don't leave it inside,right?
Get it out.
Take care of your body.
Because it just is so important.
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You gotta make your sacrificesworth it by getting out those
unblocked emotions.
Get rid of those, sorry, blockedemotions and unhelpful, you
know, tensions that were holdinginside of us because we're
frustrated.
Okay, the next inner work lockin that I recommend you do that
has helped me thrive as anentrepreneur for is changing my
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mindset from believing that mybusiness is the boss of me
versus I'm the boss of mybusiness.
Why is this an internal shift?
Because it's a mindset shift.
We've been built to believethat, If we have this business
if we're entrepreneurs Then wehave to you know, do what
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everyone else is doing.
However When you are the boss ofyour business You get to decide
the type of sacrifices That youAre going to make.
Like I said before, We've allmade sacrifices.
as entrepreneurs sacrifices areNecessary sometimes it's things
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that happen is things that we doto grow we sacrifice, Comfort To
get uncomfortable, right?
That is a necessary sacrifice.
Sometimes we sacrifice goingout, right?
So instead of going out, we stayand we work on a business.
We sacrifice.
TV and actually read a book,right?
Some sacrifices are necessarysacrifices.
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However, you as the boss of yourbusiness, not what everybody
else is telling you to do, youget to decide what sacrifices
you are willing to take.
What sacrifices you are willingto take what sacrifices are non
negotiable for you.
So let me give you some examplesfor me.
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So what I stopped sacrificingbecause I used to sacrifice this
a lot is sacrificing a lot oftime with my daughter.
Something that I did years ago,I left my daughter for about two
months to travel to Californiato help build this office.
And it was two of the hardestmonths of my life.
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And I felt so bad because like,she's three and I left her.
I, let her go to my mom's house.
For the summer, but it was sohard.
I was crying every time somebodymentioned my daughter was
crying.
I was crying I was crying Andthen when I came back to new
york I stayed in the businessand I will work from like I
would leave the house aroundeight I believe and I will work
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from then and I would not gethome until like 11 p.
m at night And I used to do thatbecause the people like the
leaders, A lot of them were menand some of them were women, but
they learned from the guys Waslike, you know going back to
that mentality, sleep whenyou're dead, your priority is
this business, building yourbusiness.
you're going to sacrifice timewith your family, time with your
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kids so that you can build thisbusiness.
And I believe that was a case.
I believe that has to be true.
There was so much turmoil insideof me, it was hurting my
relationship, not just with mydaughter, but my, romantic
relationship and I always feelguilty, always feel guilty.
When I left.
And I started my business ofreselling.
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I kept doing the same thing alittle bit, even though I was
home, I was still doing it,sacrificing time, however.
It got to a point when I saidabsolutely Not no longer done
And I do not do that anymore.
That is a non negotiable for me.
So yes, you can absolutely placenon negotiables for yourself.
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You are the boss of yourbusiness.
What is a non negotiable foryou?
Is it, I'm not waking, I'm notsleeping less than six hours.
I'm not sleeping less than sevenhours.
I'm not sacrificing myrelationships for this business.
I'm not sacrificing my healthfor this business.
You get to decide.
What you are willing tosacrifice and what you are not
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sacrificing because again Youare your business at the end of
the day.
Your business is arepresentation of you.
It is an inner work shift thatyou have to be able to make for
yourself and decide based onyour values, based on your
desires, based on your needs,your wants, what you're willing
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to sacrifice.
What have you sacrificed in thepast that hasn't felt very good,
right?
Because not all sacrifices arethe same.
you don't wanna resent thosesacrifices.
And again, go back to askingyourself, what was all of this
for?
Why did I make all thesesacrifices?
So, yes, we made it already.
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We made a lot of sacrifices.
But starting today, hopefullyyou, hopefully this encourages
you to actually stop to listenand say, what am I no longer
going to do?
What are some sacrifices thatI'm no longer going to take?
And so lock in on that.
Lock in on being a boss of yourbusiness.
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And as a daily step by step bystep, you make the decision, but
as a daily step by step a dailything to do Consciously and
realizing, okay, is, is my, ismy business running me right now
or am I running my business?
Right?
If I feel this pressure, thisanxiety to do something to do
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something because everybody saidyou should do it.
that this is the thing you'resupposed to do.
Again, going back to, is mybusiness running me or am I
running my business?
They tell you Work when you evenwhen you don't feel good
Sometimes that can be true youyou sometimes you do Even if
you're not feeling in the moodYou It depends on that mood,
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right?
It depends.
And so being able to listen toyou, that inner work, what are
you willing to sacrifice yourmental health?
Non negotiable, right?
Not sacrificing my mental healthanymore for this business.
You are the boss of yourbusiness.
Your business is not the boss ofyou.
So that is a inner work thingthat you just, That I recommend
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locking in on and that hashelped me so much with deciding
that no Some sacrifices areworth it and some sacrifices are
not but going into 2025 Now thatyou, hopefully, you accept this
and actually want to put intopractice and so one day because
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it will happen one day you'regoing to be able to say these
sacrifices were worth it.
Okay, the last inner work, thingthat that I recommend locking in
on is to actually be.
The successful entrepreneur thatyou want to be now, taking on
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her mindset, taking on heractions.
What does that look like foryou?
It talking like she wants totalk?
Is it showing up how she How sheshows up.
Is that putting out the productbecause she already knows that
is going to sell?
Is it creating the coursebecause you already know someone
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is going to buy?
If even if they don't buy now,they're going to buy eventually.
Is it starting the clothingline?
Even if you don't have any, youknow audience or followers,
because at the end of the day,you know, that is going to pay
off.
Is going to happen.
What would she do?
What is she doing right now?
So Again, going back to the lastvideo I make, a lot of times
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when we are working harder weare operating out of the
mindset, the, the person that weare today.
And we're disconnected from thatfuture self.
But what if you locked in on, onactually not acting from the
place you are right now, you'reacting from.
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That future version of you, thatfuture successful entrepreneur
version, boss woman that youknow, that you are going to be,
what have you started operatingas her right now?
Because this is going to get youcloser to being as her, even if
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it's not externally showing upright now for you internally, it
is happening internally becauseyou are.
Embodying who she is, andeverything is happening even
when we can't see it, right?
These are ways how you're goingto quantum leap.
These are things of how you'regoing to truly manifest.
You don't manifest.
You don't quantum leap.
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You don't quantum leap from theversion of where you are right
now.
You do that by being theversion, that future version of
you now.
So, how can you lock in on beingher now?
How can you lock in on that andtry to get out of you, you,
where you are right now?
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Lock in on that, lock in onbeing that person and eventually
your sacrifices that you madewill be so worth it.
Lock in on being that person.
Because the faster you getcloser to her, the faster, the
business of your dreams can cometo life.
It happens.
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The faster you get to her, thefaster things happen.
The faster you manifest.
The faster, You quantum leap andthen you're gonna instead of
saying uh, All these sacrificesworth it and you're gonna be
saying yes They are so worth itbecause it's not taking as long
sometime.
Is that the time that is takingthat's making you stress these
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sacrifices that you're makingEspecially if it was necessary
sacrifices.
What I like to do every singleday if you know, you know what I
have is a list of, my top threepriorities on different pages in
my journal.
And under those top threepriorities, I write out what she
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is doing, right?
What is she doing right now?
how is she acting?
How does she do blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, And so I look
at that every single day.
Almost every day, Sometimes Idon't look at it, but almost
every single day and it's soimportant The reason why this is
so important is because out ofsight out of mind when it's out
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of sight you forget The personthat you are working to become
and you're and you stayoperating Out of this current
place that you you stayoperating in the the current
state Of which you are rightnow.
So When you look at it andyou're like, Oh, okay, well, my
most successful entrepreneurself, or depending on your
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priority, depending on yourgoal, she does this every single
day.
And it reminds you, let me dosome of these today.
When you do that, again, you getcloser and closer to her.
So that's something that worksfor me.
I recommend doing that as well.
Again, because out of sight, outof mind.
And this is going to help youlock in.
So lock in on that.
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This is going to help you makeyour sacrifices so worth it.
So before I let you go,
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So that is it for today'sepisode.
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Let me know.
What you think, let me know whatsacrifices you are no longer
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making, right?
What sacrifices that you've madein the past, or you're like,
Nope, I'm done.
Drop that in the comments.
All right guys, so that is itfor today's episode and until
next time Bye
hey ladies welcome back to another
video So today we are going tobe talking about locking in and
making your sacrifices worth it.
So is a new year approaching andI'm sure you made so many
sacrifices.
On your entrepreneurial journey.
And at some point you get tiredof making so many sacrifices and
(00:27):
seeing very incremental resultsor no results at all.
So going into 2025, let'stogether make these sacrifices
worth it.
And so I'm going to recommendthat you lock in and what I mean
by locking in, not just onexternal things, right?
(00:50):
Like locking in on your timemanagement, Locking in on
hustling, grinding.
I'm not talking about any ofthose.
A lot of the things that I'mgoing to be talking about today
of locking in is the inner workthat you want to lock in on.
These are things that has helpedme thrive in my entrepreneurial
journey And actually made thesacrifices i've made in the past
(01:14):
worth it.
So Whether you've madesacrifices such as, let's see,
invest in all of your money, andthat's not a bad thing with
taking risks and betting onyourself I definitely want to
point that out or you sacrificesleep, right?
you sacrifice getting a fulleight hours of sleep or seven
hours of sleep and You've beensomeone who was waking up just
(01:37):
with four hours of sleep yousacrifice that You sacrifice
family time you sacrificerelationships like friendships
and dating I say all of thisbecause I've experienced all of
these.
I've sacrificed all of thesethings.
You sacrifice fun and yousacrifice play things that you
need to To pour into yourbusiness and get back to
(02:00):
thriving your business.
You sacrifice vacations You'vesacrificed so many things no
matter what it looks like yousacrifice that so What I want to
say is it is not time to Give upit's not time to give up It is
time to lock in.
Lock in on these inner worksthat I'm going to give you
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because if you gave up, guesswhat?
All of those sacrifices you madewill be for nothing.
So let's make it count.
Let's make it for something.
Okay.
So the first thing that I amgoing to tell you to lock in on
is your faith and your mindset.
so maybe what I mean by this,especially let's start with
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faith.
So, You're looking at yourresults, right?
You're looking and you've gottenincremental results.
So maybe you've gotten noresults and you've been praying
and you've been asking God fordirection and you're not
getting, the guidance.
You may not feel like you'regetting that guidance or these
intuitive guides, that you want.
To receive so it is so easy tostart retracting right to start
(03:08):
saying like, you're not gonnapray anymore you get into
desperation losing that sense ofhope that sense of expectation
You pull away from listening tomotivational things.
You pull away from the thingsthat you actually need because
you're so frustrated.
And then you start somewhatdepending solely on you to make
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things happen.
Or you're just like, forget itat all.
It is so tempting to do that.
However, when you want toretract, I advise you to
actually push forward.
And what I mean by push forward,instead of saying, you know, I'm
not, I'm not praying anymore,like he's not listening to me,
which is things that I havedone.
(03:53):
I decided to say, you know what?
These are the moments where I'mactually going to pray a little
bit more.
Instead of retracting, let mepray a little bit more.
Instead of saying, you know, I'mgoing to give up on
affirmations.
No, let me give myself moreaffirmations.
You know, listening tomotivational people.
I say, you know, I don't feellike hearing none of this right
(04:15):
now.
No, instead I'm going to listento it because what this is going
to do, it is going to spark moreinside of you, even when you
don't want it, even when youfeel like you don't want to hear
it, nothing been there, donethat, where you don't want to
hear nothing about you can doit.
(04:35):
And you got this, never give up,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You don't want to hear that.
However, it is something that weneed to hear, especially in the
moments where we feel like, thesacrifices that we've spent are
not paying off.
And you're asking yourself, whatdid I do all of this for?
(04:56):
Right.
It's such a sucky feeling,However, I advise you to not
retract.
So also in terms of likemindset, so locking in on your
mindset is really juststrengthening.
How can I set myself up to beconfident to live in a state of
expectation?
To know that is going to happen.
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How can I talk to myself again,going back to speak when things
are not working out?
How can I overcome?
How can I have emotionalmastery?
Over myself when, I'm not makingany money in my business or
you're not, you know, attractingthe audience that you want to
attract when things aren'tworking out and it looks like
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you're failing.
What is the mindset?
How can you lock in on thatmindset of actually believing in
the unseen, believing thatthere's things working out in
your favor?
And that everything is going towork out no matter how it looks
at any given point in time.
So, focusing on locking in onthose things is going to help
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you make sacrifices worth it.
It's helped me in Makesacrifices worth it.
squadcaster-be3a_2_12-04-202 (06:08):
So if you are in a point right now
on your entrepreneurial journeywhere you are ready to level up
your mindset and improve yourconfidence and also gain more
clarity and get guidance thatwill help you make your
sacrifices worth it, then Ihighly encourage you to go to
CleapatraWilliams.com and goahead and sign up for coaching
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or you can just head to the linkbelow in the description box.
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okay So the second top thing that you
are going to do to lock in andmake your sacrfices worth it is
to lock in on mining yourbusiness.
So your business exactly right?
Because distraction is literallythe root of all.
All setbacks.
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Distractions can cause so muchfrustration and distractions is
you know, minding other peoplebusiness looking at what they're
doing what they're doing betterthan you it leads to comparison
at least to jealousy it leads toso much Internal discouragement
that you don't need in thisseason.
This is not the season to startlooking at what other people are
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doing, No, it is your season tolock in on just strictly minding
your business.
So one thing I like to do iswhen I Catch myself, maybe
scrolling a little bit.
And you know, one thing, let mepoint this out first.
One thing I want to say that itis key, especially as an
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entrepreneur to look and seewhat other people are doing,
right?
What are they doing better?
What are they doing differently?
It's important to do thosethings as research, this is one
way that you are actually goingto learn.
because success, success leavesclues, right?
So you get to look at that.
these clues, but when you gofrom looking at clues to
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actually being a little bitenvious, to actually beating up
on yourself because you're notwhere they are or wishing that
you were where they are.
it's so easy to get youdistracted from focusing on your
business when you want to makeyour sacrifices worth it.
Focus is the name of the game.
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Focus and one of the main thingsthat can break focus is
Emotions, so negative emotionsunhelpful emotions I don't like
to say negative emotionsanymore, but unhelpful emotions
Unhelpful thoughts right becauseyou are busy looking at what
other people doing.
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Those are really justdistractions it is so important
to be able to lock in and notallow these unhelpful emotions
and, and these unhelpful, youknow, thoughts to get you off of
your game, This is a cause ofwhy sometimes it takes so long
to create something, so long tobuild something, because of the
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distractions.
And the distractions is normallythe internal distractions that
happens.
Not just because what someoneelse is doing differently, no.
It's because of what's going oninside.
So that is the second way of, tome, most important thing to be
able to lock in and make yoursacrifices worth it.
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So the third thing to lock in.
On is taking care of yourself,taking care of your body.
So what this looks like isfueling your body with good
foods.
Fueling your body with, youknow, healthy drinks working
out.
This also looks like dancing,you know, releasing unhelpful
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emotions releasing blockedemotions getting yourself into
play and pleasure.
So, why this is important isbecause.
You are the business at the endof the day.
You are the business.
So you are the entrepreneur.
You are the business andeverything that is externally
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that you want to see flourish,it always starts with you.
So.
The energy that you desire tohave right that you desire to
have to build this, you know,successful business that you
want to build.
We need to have the energy.
We don't want to be tired.
I know what it feels like to beso tired, to be so burnt out, to
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literally be feeling just sofatigued because I'm not taking
care of myself, not having timeto properly use the bathroom.
So gut health is so important.
Because when you are not able tosit down properly and use the
bathroom, that is a clear signthat you are too much on the go,
(10:58):
that you are in survival mode,that is a clear sign that you
are not allowing your body.
To just relax.
Relaxing, refueling yourself,giving yourself energy.
And that's another thing also,all the, all the gunk, all the,
poo and all this stuff that wehold in our bodies, that is also
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slowing us down that is alsoblocking our creativity, our
ability to think clearly, ourmood, our excitement to be able
to pour into our business, like.
We want to.
When you're feeling nauseous,when you're feeling fatigued,
when you're feeling bloated,bloated is a clear sign.
When you're feeling all ofthese, you don't feel as good.
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You don't feel as sexy assensual.
And honestly, as women, this isgoing to be so important.
And being able to really nourishand thrive as entrepreneur is
being able to tap into thatability to turn yourself on and
to, feel sexy and to feelsensual.
Because it's going to help takeyou as an entrepreneur yourself
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to the next level Okay.
So working out pouring into selffeeling good feeling good within
your body you at the end of dayYou are your business and if you
are not Good, if you don't feelgood in your body then Your
business is just gonna be areflection of what's going on
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And so taking care of your bodyis going to be so key to locking
in on that.
Locking in on learning that youat the end of the day, you are a
priority as an entrepreneur.
You are the priority because ifyou want to serve, If you want,
because entrepreneurship is allabout serving, is all about
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taking what we, our creativity,what we feel inside our passion,
our purpose, and being able toshare that with the world and to
serve others with that.
And so.
We have to be in order to dothat at the fullest capacity is
being able to feel good, feelgood internally and taking care
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of your body is really going tohelp taking care of your body is
really going to help you.
It's going to heighten yourmood.
Give you more feel goodhormones.
It's just gonna make you feel sogood to Get you to pursue in
your business and you knowcontinuous to thrive and not
give up on your business becauseyou feel so good that you're
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like Like I feel good.
I want to create I want to pourinto something.
When you feel good There isreally not a time when you don't
want to create you want to beable to show how?
You You want to be able to takethat feel good out of you and
pour it into something else thatyou can serve.
And so another part of that likeI mentioned is releasing those
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unhelpful Emotions so releasingthose blocky motions.
Again, because these thingsblock creativity, so that is
getting up and, you know,shaking.
and dancing.
This also looks like if you'refrustrated, you know, screaming
into a pillow, getting all ofthat built up unhelpful things
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out of your body.
If you want to cry something,you know what a feel good cry,
right?
When you're mad, but you cry,you feel so much better to be
able to keep going.
When you cry, when you screamand you say, F this business and
you want to throw everything,just throw it away.
(14:35):
You cry.
And then you're like, okay.
Let's do this, right?
So releasing those unhelpfulemotions, just get it out.
Is there for a reason?
Because you care sopassionately, you care so much.
This is so important to you.
You know why you want to be anentrepreneur, no matter what
(14:56):
reason it is, right?
We all have different reasons.
And so you care so much.
So, especially with makingsacrifices that again, whether
that is sacrificing yourrelationships, your friendships.
You know, maybe you lost apartner because you wanted to
bet on yourself.
You wanted to build yourbusiness.
Maybe you're a mom like me whosacrificed time.
(15:18):
Maybe maybe sacrificing yourmoney and, investing in yourself
and doing so many things.
But you're frustrated, cry.
Those are good signs because youcare so much, you care so much,
but don't leave it inside,right?
Get it out.
Take care of your body.
Because it just is so important.
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You gotta make your sacrificesworth it by getting out those
unblocked emotions.
Get rid of those, sorry, blockedemotions and unhelpful, you
know, tensions that were holdinginside of us because we're
frustrated.
Okay, the next inner work lockin that I recommend you do that
has helped me thrive as anentrepreneur for is changing my
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mindset from believing that mybusiness is the boss of me
versus I'm the boss of mybusiness.
Why is this an internal shift?
Because it's a mindset shift.
We've been built to believethat, If we have this business
if we're entrepreneurs Then wehave to you know, do what
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everyone else is doing.
However When you are the boss ofyour business You get to decide
the type of sacrifices That youAre going to make.
Like I said before, We've allmade sacrifices.
as entrepreneurs sacrifices areNecessary sometimes it's things
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that happen is things that we doto grow we sacrifice, Comfort To
get uncomfortable, right?
That is a necessary sacrifice.
Sometimes we sacrifice goingout, right?
So instead of going out, we stayand we work on a business.
We sacrifice.
TV and actually read a book,right?
Some sacrifices are necessarysacrifices.
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However, you as the boss of yourbusiness, not what everybody
else is telling you to do, youget to decide what sacrifices
you are willing to take.
What sacrifices you are willingto take what sacrifices are non
negotiable for you.
So let me give you some examplesfor me.
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So what I stopped sacrificingbecause I used to sacrifice this
a lot is sacrificing a lot oftime with my daughter.
Something that I did years ago,I left my daughter for about two
months to travel to Californiato help build this office.
And it was two of the hardestmonths of my life.
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And I felt so bad because like,she's three and I left her.
I, let her go to my mom's house.
For the summer, but it was sohard.
I was crying every time somebodymentioned my daughter was
crying.
I was crying I was crying Andthen when I came back to new
york I stayed in the businessand I will work from like I
would leave the house aroundeight I believe and I will work
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from then and I would not gethome until like 11 p.
m at night And I used to do thatbecause the people like the
leaders, A lot of them were menand some of them were women, but
they learned from the guys Waslike, you know going back to
that mentality, sleep whenyou're dead, your priority is
this business, building yourbusiness.
you're going to sacrifice timewith your family, time with your
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kids so that you can build thisbusiness.
And I believe that was a case.
I believe that has to be true.
There was so much turmoil insideof me, it was hurting my
relationship, not just with mydaughter, but my, romantic
relationship and I always feelguilty, always feel guilty.
When I left.
And I started my business ofreselling.
(18:55):
I kept doing the same thing alittle bit, even though I was
home, I was still doing it,sacrificing time, however.
It got to a point when I saidabsolutely Not no longer done
And I do not do that anymore.
That is a non negotiable for me.
So yes, you can absolutely placenon negotiables for yourself.
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You are the boss of yourbusiness.
What is a non negotiable foryou?
Is it, I'm not waking, I'm notsleeping less than six hours.
I'm not sleeping less than sevenhours.
I'm not sacrificing myrelationships for this business.
I'm not sacrificing my healthfor this business.
You get to decide.
What you are willing tosacrifice and what you are not
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sacrificing because again Youare your business at the end of
the day.
Your business is arepresentation of you.
It is an inner work shift thatyou have to be able to make for
yourself and decide based onyour values, based on your
desires, based on your needs,your wants, what you're willing
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to sacrifice.
What have you sacrificed in thepast that hasn't felt very good,
right?
Because not all sacrifices arethe same.
you don't wanna resent thosesacrifices.
And again, go back to askingyourself, what was all of this
for?
Why did I make all thesesacrifices?
So, yes, we made it already.
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We made a lot of sacrifices.
But starting today, hopefullyyou, hopefully this encourages
you to actually stop to listenand say, what am I no longer
going to do?
What are some sacrifices thatI'm no longer going to take?
And so lock in on that.
Lock in on being a boss of yourbusiness.
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And as a daily step by step bystep, you make the decision, but
as a daily step by step a dailything to do Consciously and
realizing, okay, is, is my, ismy business running me right now
or am I running my business?
Right?
If I feel this pressure, thisanxiety to do something to do
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something because everybody saidyou should do it.
that this is the thing you'resupposed to do.
Again, going back to, is mybusiness running me or am I
running my business?
They tell you Work when you evenwhen you don't feel good
Sometimes that can be true youyou sometimes you do Even if
you're not feeling in the moodYou It depends on that mood,
(21:29):
right?
It depends.
And so being able to listen toyou, that inner work, what are
you willing to sacrifice yourmental health?
Non negotiable, right?
Not sacrificing my mental healthanymore for this business.
You are the boss of yourbusiness.
Your business is not the boss ofyou.
So that is a inner work thingthat you just, That I recommend
(21:50):
locking in on and that hashelped me so much with deciding
that no Some sacrifices areworth it and some sacrifices are
not but going into 2025 Now thatyou, hopefully, you accept this
and actually want to put intopractice and so one day because
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it will happen one day you'regoing to be able to say these
sacrifices were worth it.
Okay, the last inner work, thingthat that I recommend locking in
on is to actually be.
The successful entrepreneur thatyou want to be now, taking on
(22:35):
her mindset, taking on heractions.
What does that look like foryou?
It talking like she wants totalk?
Is it showing up how she How sheshows up.
Is that putting out the productbecause she already knows that
is going to sell?
Is it creating the coursebecause you already know someone
(22:57):
is going to buy?
If even if they don't buy now,they're going to buy eventually.
Is it starting the clothingline?
Even if you don't have any, youknow audience or followers,
because at the end of the day,you know, that is going to pay
off.
Is going to happen.
What would she do?
What is she doing right now?
So Again, going back to the lastvideo I make, a lot of times
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when we are working harder weare operating out of the
mindset, the, the person that weare today.
And we're disconnected from thatfuture self.
But what if you locked in on, onactually not acting from the
place you are right now, you'reacting from.
(23:40):
That future version of you, thatfuture successful entrepreneur
version, boss woman that youknow, that you are going to be,
what have you started operatingas her right now?
Because this is going to get youcloser to being as her, even if
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it's not externally showing upright now for you internally, it
is happening internally becauseyou are.
Embodying who she is, andeverything is happening even
when we can't see it, right?
These are ways how you're goingto quantum leap.
These are things of how you'regoing to truly manifest.
You don't manifest.
You don't quantum leap.
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You don't quantum leap from theversion of where you are right
now.
You do that by being theversion, that future version of
you now.
So, how can you lock in on beingher now?
How can you lock in on that andtry to get out of you, you,
where you are right now?
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Lock in on that, lock in onbeing that person and eventually
your sacrifices that you madewill be so worth it.
Lock in on being that person.
Because the faster you getcloser to her, the faster, the
business of your dreams can cometo life.
It happens.
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The faster you get to her, thefaster things happen.
The faster you manifest.
The faster, You quantum leap andthen you're gonna instead of
saying uh, All these sacrificesworth it and you're gonna be
saying yes They are so worth itbecause it's not taking as long
sometime.
Is that the time that is takingthat's making you stress these
(25:26):
sacrifices that you're makingEspecially if it was necessary
sacrifices.
What I like to do every singleday if you know, you know what I
have is a list of, my top threepriorities on different pages in
my journal.
And under those top threepriorities, I write out what she
(25:47):
is doing, right?
What is she doing right now?
how is she acting?
How does she do blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, And so I look
at that every single day.
Almost every day, Sometimes Idon't look at it, but almost
every single day and it's soimportant The reason why this is
so important is because out ofsight out of mind when it's out
(26:07):
of sight you forget The personthat you are working to become
and you're and you stayoperating Out of this current
place that you you stayoperating in the the current
state Of which you are rightnow.
So When you look at it andyou're like, Oh, okay, well, my
most successful entrepreneurself, or depending on your
(26:30):
priority, depending on yourgoal, she does this every single
day.
And it reminds you, let me dosome of these today.
When you do that, again, you getcloser and closer to her.
So that's something that worksfor me.
I recommend doing that as well.
Again, because out of sight, outof mind.
And this is going to help youlock in.
So lock in on that.
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This is going to help you makeyour sacrifices so worth it.
So before I let you go,
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All right.
So that is it for today'sepisode.
If you like content like this,make sure you leave a thumbs up.
Make sure you hit subscribe ifyou would like to, I would
really appreciate it.
And also leave a comment.
Let me know.
What you think, let me know whatsacrifices you are no longer
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making, right?
What sacrifices that you've madein the past, or you're like,
Nope, I'm done.
Drop that in the comments.
All right guys, so that is itfor today's episode and until
next time Bye
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