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Speaker 1: in this video, I will share a very powerful three
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Speaker 1: step framework to achieve any goals you set.
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Speaker 1: I will explain it in the context of fitness goals,
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Speaker 1: mascara and welcome to the Stronger Men project. If you
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Speaker 1: want to be a better man, become a stronger fitter
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Speaker 1: and a better looking version of yourself and fulfil your
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Speaker 1: fullest potential in all areas of your life. You have
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Speaker 1: come to the right place. I'm also on the same journey.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, a Desai, a mechanical engineer turned fitness
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Speaker 1: coach and a gym owner. And here I'm going to
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Speaker 1: share my knowledge, experience and lessons and also bring on
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Speaker 1: experts and achievers who can help us all win together.
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Speaker 1: Get ready and let's dive into today's topic.
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Speaker 1: You might have had many unmet wishes and desires. These
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Speaker 1: wishes and desires can be fulfilled only if you make
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Speaker 1: them your goals and work towards achieving them. And I'm
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Speaker 1: about to share how you can do it in the
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Speaker 1: next few minutes. For simplicity, I will take an example
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Speaker 1: of my fitness goal when I started into my fitness journey.
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Speaker 1: The framework I'm about to share is something I used
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Speaker 1: in my transformation. But at that time I got it
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Speaker 1: in different versions from different people and sources. I could
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Speaker 1: make clear sense of it. Only when I read about
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Speaker 1: it in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. And
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Speaker 1: also when I watched a YouTube video by Ali Abdul,
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Speaker 1: a Productivity youtuber and author of the book, Feeling Good Productivity,
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Speaker 1: I will add a little bit of my own twist
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Speaker 1: to it and make it very, very powerful.
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Speaker 1: So here it goes. There are three steps to it.
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Speaker 1: The step number one is setting of the goal itself.
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Speaker 1: Whenever you have some wishes or desires, it is very
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Speaker 1: vague in your mind. It is just a thought, but
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Speaker 1: when you make it as a goal, you have to
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Speaker 1: put it on paper. Or let's say you have to
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Speaker 1: make it more clear what goal you want to achieve.
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Speaker 1: And the goal should be such that
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Speaker 1: it has to be very, very big. It is always
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Speaker 1: better to go big rather than going small. You might
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Speaker 1: have heard about the smart goals, which is the corporatized
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Speaker 1: version of setting goals. Smart is nothing but specific, measurable, attainable,
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Speaker 1: realistic and time bound. But This is something which is very,
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Speaker 1: very corporatized and you might not be
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Speaker 1: able to apply this goal in every area of your
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Speaker 1: life and especially when it comes to fitness, it is
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Speaker 1: very hard to actually follow this framework. This is what
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Speaker 1: I have found with my own experience and serving more
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Speaker 1: than 800 people through my fitness, training and coaching. So
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Speaker 1: the way to go here is to set as big
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Speaker 1: of a goal as possible. Think of something which you really,
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Speaker 1: really desire when there are no limits by limits. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there are
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Speaker 1: some mental limits you have put on yourself because the
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Speaker 1: goal you're trying to achieve is something which you have
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Speaker 1: not achieved in your life or something which you have
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Speaker 1: never tried. So it is better to always go big
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Speaker 1: and make it as exciting as possible.
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Speaker 1: Lot of people when they start into their fitness journey,
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Speaker 1: they start off with a very vague and not so
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Speaker 1: exciting goal. Like I want to be fit or let's
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Speaker 1: say I want to lose weight
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Speaker 1: rather than setting a goal like that. You have to
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Speaker 1: set something which is the ultimate goal. You want to
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Speaker 1: achieve in your fitness. In my case, when I started,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to have a flat tummy. It was a
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Speaker 1: very big goal for me because all my life I
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Speaker 1: had never seen a flat tummy. That was something which
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Speaker 1: I have never achieved.
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Speaker 1: But for some reason, due to the situation on that day,
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Speaker 1: something made me to set that as a goal. And immediately,
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Speaker 1: as I set that goal, I could sense a surge
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Speaker 1: of energy and excitement. My body started shaking, and I
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Speaker 1: was for some reason, very, very happy and thrilled to
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Speaker 1: have set this goal. Why? It is important, because whenever
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Speaker 1: there is excitement
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Speaker 1: and whenever there is thrill, you will have immense surge
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Speaker 1: of energy which will help you to take immediate action.
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Speaker 1: And this is what works when you set out to
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Speaker 1: achieve your goals. That is, you have to take actions,
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Speaker 1: and if it is exciting, it energises you and it
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Speaker 1: will help you take action
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Speaker 1: and the step number two becomes very crucial at this
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Speaker 1: point of time. This is where you have to replace
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Speaker 1: your goal with two kinds of goal. One goal is
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Speaker 1: something called a systems goal.
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Speaker 1: and the other goal is something called as progress. Goal systems.
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Speaker 1: Goal is nothing, but what are the changes you're going
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Speaker 1: to make in your lifestyle? Or let's say what are
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Speaker 1: the things you will start doing to achieve your goal?
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Speaker 1: In my case, when I wanted to have a flat tummy,
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Speaker 1: immediate thing that came to mind was I wanted to
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Speaker 1: lose weight. That is when I decided I'll make changes
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Speaker 1: to my diet and I'll start exercising.
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Speaker 1: These were the systems I adopted. I started working out
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Speaker 1: at home. I stopped eating high calorie food items which
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Speaker 1: I was eating regularly, and it was something which I
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Speaker 1: could start doing immediately. This is a very, very important point.
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Speaker 1: You have to keep in mind. You have to adopt
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Speaker 1: a system which you can start doing immediately, and the
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Speaker 1: second kind of goal is progress goals.
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Speaker 1: In my case, what I started doing was I started
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Speaker 1: recording my weight because I thought in order to have
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Speaker 1: a flat tummy, I have to lose a lot of
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Speaker 1: weight and that is when I started monitoring my weight.
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Speaker 1: One more thing I did which proved to be very,
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Speaker 1: very powerful, was to take a picture and I started
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Speaker 1: taking progress. Picture every now and then
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Speaker 1: because when you see your body changing, it will be very,
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Speaker 1: very motivating and it will again energise you to continue
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Speaker 1: what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: And the step number three is to review and make adjustments.
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Speaker 1: This is because whenever you set a very, very big goal,
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Speaker 1: it will take more things than what you started with.
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Speaker 1: In my case, I started with doing home workouts and
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Speaker 1: making changes to my diet,
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Speaker 1: something which definitely helped me to lose weight and also
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Speaker 1: lose some inches in my tummy. But over a period
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Speaker 1: of time since I kept on tracking my progress, I
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Speaker 1: realised that what I was doing would not help me
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Speaker 1: to achieve my ultimate goal of having a flat tummy.
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Speaker 1: So I kept on doing research. What would get me
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Speaker 1: close to my goals? And then, after so many trial
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Speaker 1: and error, I arrived at a solution that is to
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Speaker 1: adopt strength training as my training approach
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Speaker 1: and tracking my calories and protein intake so that I
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Speaker 1: have a clear idea how many calories I'm taking and
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Speaker 1: how it is resulting in my weight loss I also
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Speaker 1: started taking my measurements. That is how I could actually
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Speaker 1: track if I was losing inches in my tummy. This
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Speaker 1: proved to be very, very fruitful for me, and I
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Speaker 1: stumbled upon strength, training and something which I had always liked.
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Speaker 1: I always liked to go to gym, but then I
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Speaker 1: also found an approach where it made the whole process
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Speaker 1: more interesting and engaging.
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Speaker 1: I started doing strength training and I started tracking progress
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Speaker 1: in my strength. I started logging my workouts and I
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Speaker 1: could see that week by week, my physical ability started
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Speaker 1: going up. I could lift more and more weights, or
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Speaker 1: I could do more repetitions with the same weight. And
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Speaker 1: since my physical ability started growing,
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Speaker 1: it kept me engaged and it motivated me every time
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Speaker 1: I went to the gym. In fact, I used to
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Speaker 1: look forward to going to the gym, and that was
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Speaker 1: the highlight of my day. Almost every day I would
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Speaker 1: finish my work as early as possible, became more efficient
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Speaker 1: with my work so that I could go to the
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Speaker 1: gym and test my strength in that day's workout, and
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Speaker 1: this kept me hooked for a long long period of
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Speaker 1: time and and that is something I still follow even
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Speaker 1: after being in the journey for eight years.
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Speaker 1: And of course, since I was tracking my calories, my
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Speaker 1: body weight, my measurements, I was in full control of
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Speaker 1: the process. And whenever I needed to make changes, reduce
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Speaker 1: my calorie intake or add activity, I could do it
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Speaker 1: because I had track of everything
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Speaker 1: and all along my fitness journey, I was following these
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Speaker 1: three steps. First thing is, I set a very, very
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Speaker 1: big and exciting goal, something which I was interested in,
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Speaker 1: something which I desired
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Speaker 1: and something which was emotionally important to me. Second thing is,
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Speaker 1: I started following a certain system and also started tracking,
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Speaker 1: even though I started with a minimal approach and a
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Speaker 1: crude approach and since I had a clear goal in
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Speaker 1: my mind of having a flat tummy. Whenever I follow
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Speaker 1: the Step three of reviewing and making adjustments, my focus
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Speaker 1: was always to have a flat tummy rather than seeing
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Speaker 1: only my weight going down. And this approach was instrumental
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Speaker 1: in me becoming successful
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Speaker 1: and ultimately played a major role in my own life direction.
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Speaker 1: As I quit my job and become a full time
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Speaker 1: fitness coach.
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