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Hello everyone this is your boy Taban John Emmanuel Malatteri and we are back

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again with another episode of WIC Guardians of Thought. I hope you guys

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have been doing well. I hope you've been chilling. Time flies when you're busy.

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Not when you're having fun. I mean it does when you're having fun. Let's put that to the side.

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So I've got a special episode today. I kind of chose to make a video this time

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around for this week's episode but I have also done what we usually do here

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with Guardians of Thought. I will also release an audio version of the video

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that I made. So I would encourage you guys to head on to our YouTube with

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Guardians of Thought and take some time to watch the video and give us some

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feedback. Comment on the video. Share whatever you feel is in your heart.

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But other than that I hope that everything has been going well on your

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end and if it hasn't been I hope that you find the light within your current

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situations and you are able to overcome and that somehow in some way I hope that

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this episode will touch you in a way and will bring some insight that will be

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useful with regards to you dealing with certain issues. So I'm not gonna waste

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your time today. Let's just get directly into the episode. Take care.

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On today's episode we're gonna be dealing with something I'd like to call the

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period of waiting. Now I think the period of waiting is something that most people

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do not talk about but it is a period that is essential that every individual

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goes through when they have conceived an idea or a vision and they need to

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actually bring forth this vision into the current reality. Now in the lives

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that we live we know that high achievers are usually praised. We always have

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results and certain individuals being put on the spotlight because of a

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certain level of achievement or a certain level of skill that they have.

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Now one thing that we do not usually talk about is the period of waiting and

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the thing is that the period of waiting is kind of a weird period because we

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might call it the period of waiting but the word waiting in itself in this

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context does not mean waiting not doing anything but rather waiting doing a

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certain things or having certain habits within that time but not seeing the

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results of those habits to the extent that you would want to see them. So I

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think with regards to maybe football players or maybe basketball players some

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of these people their period of waiting is kind of described by them waking up

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early in the morning going to the court or to the football pitch at times when

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the team has not actually come for practice yet or maybe times that are

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outside of practice for them to kind of hone in on their craft, hone in on their

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skill and the thing about this period is that it usually is a very challenging

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period because it needs a lot of faith in the conceived idea, a lot of faith in

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the conceived vision that one has as an individual because it has challenges

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that need to be overcome. Now the thing is that with regards to discipline and

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consistency it is not easy for you as an individual to be able to be consistent

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if you do not have a strong reason why you need to be consistent, if you do not

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have this why that we often hear people talk about it is very easy for you to

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give up when challenges arise because you do not own that energy that is

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needed for you to overcome. You need a certain level of hunger, a certain level

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of thirst and this certain level of hunger and thirst is usually given birth

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by you honing in on your vision, honing in on what you have visualized in your

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long time as an individual and this could be with regards to your education

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this could be with regards to small goals in your life or even the major

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goals in your life. Now one thing that I've noticed is that like I said we

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usually look at the people who have achieved the things that we want and we

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often do not take the advice that they give with regards to what needs to be

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done within the time of waiting, within the period of waiting. I think it is

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very it is very important for us as individuals to kind of sit down and

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first of all have a clear vision of where we want to be, what we want to do

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and where we want to see ourselves in the future but then we also need to

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understand the reason behind our ambitions, the reason behind our goals

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and why we are doing certain things. I've seen this lesson being very evident

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within the lives of people like David from the Bible. We meet him at one point

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where we see the Prophet Samuel come over to his father's place and call over

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his sons and we see David being anointed. We see the conception of this calling

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upon his life but then after he is anointed and after Samuel lays hands on

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him we see him going back to be a shepherd and he kind of disappears for

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some time and I kind of got this amazing understanding, this amazing revelation

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while I looked at this period of time of David because it was in this time that

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some of the people around him were probably like wasn't they probably met

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him maybe at the well or something and were like isn't this the same guy who

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was anointed to be King why is he still here tending to his father's flock but

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the thing is that if David did not believe in the vision that was given

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to him if David did not trust the process trust his calling and trust that

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he who called him to do it would give him strength and teach him what he

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needed to learn within the waiting period then it would have been easy for

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someone like David to give up on his calling and I think I believe that he

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didn't rather I believe that in his time of calling he learned a lot he learned

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a lot with regards to being a shepherd and the learning that was kind of

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brought forth in the situation that he was in kind of applied towards the

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future applied towards his calling as a king and often I think that as

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individuals we find ourselves in this period of waiting where sometimes you

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don't have the results that you wanted sometimes you don't physically you don't

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see anything that could possibly you know make you believe that you're on the

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right path or make you believe that you're moving further and further closer

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to that time where you're able to see your vision come to pass but I think it

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is very important for us to take lessons from the lives of the people around us

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from the lives of our forebearers for from the lives of people like Abraham

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because it was Abraham who had one of the craziest time of waiting one of the

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craziest periods of waiting because we see him at that moment of conception

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where God gave him his vision and this amazing promise with regards to him

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having being the father of many many many nations and many many people and

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yet we see him in this period of waiting having to face certain challenges that

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seem to oppose that vision or seem to kind of oppose the realization of that

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vision and I think that we can learn something from him because one thing

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that he had is that he had patience one he had a strong conviction in his why

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that was the second thing and the third thing I think is that his perspective

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was not changed by the circumstances around him he chose to walk by different

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senses rather than the senses that would have kind of led to him believing what

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was happening in the current moment rather than believing what would happen

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in the future and I think this is where by where the Bible kind of talks about

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walking by faith and not by sight and the thing is that with regards to our

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convictions with regards to some of the things that God puts in our hearts he

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puts them there so that we may be able to look towards those things and not

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towards the things that are happening around us it is often the case that I

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have kind of said this I've kind of noticed is that when God kind of reaches

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out in a very very explicit way usually something that opposes or that is

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contrary to what he told you happens after like if he if he if he if he reaches

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out and says I love you and I'm going to do this and this in your life I'm going

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to hold you I care for you I know that usually after that there's probably

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something coming something coming real soon that is going to try to make me

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believe otherwise and he gives us these words sometimes it's his written word

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sometimes it says word that he speaks through our intuition and this word is

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there to give us faith because faith comes by hearing and the thing is that

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if we choose to hear if we choose to listen to the words that encourage us

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to rise above our situations to rise above the current challenges in order to

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get where we need to get we are able to move differently we are able to move

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with vision we're able to move with certainty despite what is happening in

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our lives and I think this is an amazing lesson that we see in the lives of the

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Patriots we see in the lives of people like David we see in the lives of many

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other people I think it is very important even when looking at the lives

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of some of the very successful people in our current days when we look at

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entrepreneurs when we look at internet personalities there are certain people

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who had that periods of waiting where some of them have kind of had to read a

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ton amount of books they had to kind of work on themselves work on their

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character work on learning the things that they feel like they lacked and they

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thought that what these things were kind of acting as barriers to them being what

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they wanted to be at that time so I think it it is very important for us to

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kind of know the different seasons in our lives the different seasons with

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respect to different goals but also know how to react within those seasons

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because if you know that you're in a season of waiting if you know that

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you're pregnant it's going to be easy for you to act right it's going to be

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easy for you to carry out the proper prenatal care for you to make sure that

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you are able to bring forth your vision you're able to deliver at the rightful

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time like I said I think when the Bible says that my people perish because of

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the lack of knowledge we perish in different ways because of lacking

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knowledge in different ways if you do not know what season you're in with

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regards to certain things in your life you're not going to know how to react

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properly to those seasons and that's where you kind of terminate your vision

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you terminate what has been spoken upon your life you terminate the certain

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things that you are so close to bringing forth and usually I think one way we

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terminate all the things that God has put in us and all the things that we

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have planned is by taking on the opinions thoughts and beliefs of other

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people people who are not there when you had initial intimacy with your vision

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the initial intimacy with the revelation that God had given you and it's kind of

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a weird concept also that I that I just can't get my mind around but I fall

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victim to it sometimes I find myself at times taking in the voices of people who

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truly do not know the realist version of me who do not know my capability you do

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not know my full ability who do not know what God has put in me and it's quite

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weird that we take the opinions of these people and allow them to bring us down

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where in actual fact we are supposed to believe to be crazy with regards to our

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faith in who we are and I think one thing is that being believing in yourself

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should be to an extent where you don't believe in yourself because of the

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confidence you have in your ability but rather you believe in yourself because

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of the confidence you have in God's ability in Him choosing you despite your

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weaknesses in Him saying that you are what I made you to be despite where you

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are right now despite who you think you are right now despite your shortcomings

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and I think despite anything that might be a weakness in our lives he says that

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my grace is sufficient in your weaknesses and this is something that we

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often forget but it is something that I feel like we need to hone in on and kind

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of work on because if we are not able to have the right mindset with regards to

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our period of waiting we are not going to be able to do the things that we need

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to do when we're supposed to be waiting we are not going to be able to walk the

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steps of faith that we're supposed to take in that period of waiting so if

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there's something that I would like you to take from this episode I would say

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that waiting is not just waiting but waiting is an active process of

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of being sensitive to the things that you're doing being sensitive to the

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things that you're learning being sensitive of the environment you're in

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being sensitive in it even in the times where you're doing things that you might

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not think are adding to your vision like most people say that like I usually hear

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people say that school is useless in nowadays I think I have a different

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perspective because I have learned that certain things within school have been

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very useful with regards to changing the way I think and changing the way I

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approach things and because I am sensitive towards my vision I am able to

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appreciate the small things in the smallest places even with regards to my

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education I'm like okay I'm doing logical statements right now I'm doing

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statistics I'm doing this and that but how is this actually pushing forward my

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true calling and often because of the sensitivity I found out that I'm able to

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understand certain concepts and apply them to various aspects of my life and

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because of this awareness because of this because of having my eyes

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constantly looking and seeing how everything aligns with regard to getting

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me where I need to be in my time of waiting I feel a certain level of

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appreciation of the things that are around me and I'm also able to hold in

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and work harder on the things that I know I have to do and it makes it a bit

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easier because I can see them working for my good indirectly or directly so I

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feel like it is very important for us to kind of like I said know the seasons

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that we're in but also have a different perspective towards actually approaching

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them this is all that I had planned for today's episode when I post that it's

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probably gonna have all these crazy visuals and stuff I did not record

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myself I do not record video but I hope that you guys really enjoyed this

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episode from your boy it's a bond John Emmanuel Malatadi I hope that you guys

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take care I hope that God continues revealing himself to you take care ciao