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Patience with long-term goals

one example but when we want to achieve any goal we need patience if you want to lose weight that's not going to happen tomorrow right uh you can't just expect that to happen in...

Course: Thoughts and personal growthSection: Being patient in daily lifeSubtitles: en

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goal that's

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one example

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but when we want to achieve any goal we

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need patience if you want to lose weight

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that's not going to happen tomorrow

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right uh you can't just expect that to

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happen in 24 hours you need to stick

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with it for a certain period of time

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before uh you actually see these results

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by the way the phrase stick with it just

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means that you continue doing something

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so you need to stick with it and be

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patient and eventually you'll see

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results but not

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overnight the word overnight refers to

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from one day to the next you're not

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going to see results in just one day you

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need to have a little more patience than

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that or if your goal is to learn some

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new skill maybe you want to learn a

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programming language or something like

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that that's not going to happen

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overnight you need patience you need to

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accept

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