Getting in Gear： A Lesson in Self-Motivation

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[singing] My lord, [music] it's from you my Lord. [music] It's all [singing] good, my Lord. Oh [music] Lord, [singing] >> good evening from the south of Israel. This is Laser Brody with Amuna Hour number 224. Bo Hashem. Thank you, Hashem, that we're together now for way more than 5 years, going on six years. Bashem, tonight's lesson is called Getting in Gear. It's a lesson in self motivation, and this is part four of our series, Reaching for the Stars. So, what are we going to learn tonight? What's what does it mean when a person is a lost person? It means that a person doesn't know where he or she is in life. If they don't know where they are, they're lost. The person doesn't know where they're lost. So in order to find oneself, find ourselves, we have to know where we are. And once we know where we are, now we can establish a goal. We know a direction to take. But if we don't know where we are, we can't establish a goal. No chance of making any progress. A person with no goal or destination life is not going to go anywhere. It's like a somebody treading water and they stay in the same place for years. for years they just stagnate. And you know in in natural science there's no such thing. You either move forward or and stagnation stagnation is

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