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okay welcome back to the channel another
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question I get which I want to shed some
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insight on because at the moment I'm
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just kind of like answering over here
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answering this person answering this
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person which is great but I thought I
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would do a video which addresses this
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right and that question is is it right
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for me to move to Saudi so personally I
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was at a bit of a Crossroads in my life
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right I've done a video on this before
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but I'll give you a a little of a you
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know a bit of a summary and for me I was
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between things right I had just finished
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a job and I was going to move into
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freelance in advertising
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um and then I was also going to do pt on
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the side personal training and so a
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friend introduced me to someone they
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knew who was looking for someone to move
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over here and and run a personal
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training part of this new mix gym and so
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at that point I had pretty much zero
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commitments right I had a mortgage with
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my brother so as long as I took care of
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that that was absolutely fine I had a I
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had a dog which my brother took full
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responsibility and ownership of so there
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was that everything else other than you
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know family friends relationships and
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stuff that was all in London I had
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nothing really tying me to that place so
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for me it was pretty easy to move out so
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when people ask me if it's the right
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decision for them they need to go
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through or you need to go through what
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is important in your life right what are
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those priorities for you what do you
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value because this is the answer I
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always give it all comes down to what
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you want out of life for me at the time
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it was experience I wanted something new
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I wanted something outside the London
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life and this was literally fell it
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literally fell in my lap and two
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was the money the money was very
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attractive a very very attractive
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incentive and anyone who says it isn't
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is obviously just lying and oh my that
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has changed so dramatically in the last
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four years it's literally
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seven days until it's my four year
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anniversary and I look back at the
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decision right and I was thinking
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experience and money and to be honest
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experience has been
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ups and downs of course but experience
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has been a number one and that is why I
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want to stay here the experience the
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opportunity and basically what is
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happening here so what I'm going to do
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is I'm going to give you five five
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reasons for you to consider why you
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should make the move number one it goes
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down to what I was saying earlier right
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you want to experience something new you
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want to experience something different
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for me I was kind of tired of the same
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predictable you know the same path
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that everyone is on in London you kind
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of work your way up the ladder do you
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want to not really maybe do you have a
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choice yeah maybe it's comfortable you
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get your salary it's predictable and you
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face the commute so you know things
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aren't terrible but they're not great
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either you're not
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it doesn't give you that you know
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excitement I can't really explain it but
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it's just like yeah okay this is this is
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my lot this is my lot in life you go to
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the same cafes you go to the same
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restaurants you go to the same clubs you
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see the same friends you talk about the
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same Memories the nice out you've had
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everything is just a bit repetitive
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samey and The Lure of something
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different something new something wildly
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different to you know a life that you
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may already be living is something that
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was so appealing to me and I'm sure you
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know you're either side of this you're
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like well no I actually quite like my
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life as it is or you're like yeah okay
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something needs to change because out
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here you're not just immersed in a new
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culture a new way of life you know
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mingling with new people is so much more
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than that there's so much more to
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explore which is outside of your of your
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bubble that you might be living in or
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may have lived in for the last 10 20 30
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40 years so really like do a little bit
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of research watch the rest of my videos
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and you'll you'll see what I mean by
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that because people come for yes
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something different and the money but
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they stay for the community for the
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friendships for the life that they're
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building here number two this is you
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want growth in your career and there are
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so many Industries here that are booming
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they are like going at a rate of knots
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and you know if you don't jump on quick
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you're gonna miss the boat and the
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amount of investment the amount of money
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coming into the country into companies
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into Industries is staggering and so
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whilst you know you might be sitting in
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meetings going through your financials
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and at the moment complaining how
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clients are cutting budgets and it's the
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economy and it's this and it's that
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I don't think those conversations really
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happen here to some extent you know the
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investment the growth the opportunity
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the potential of everything is so so so
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big and that is where everyone is
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looking everyone is looking forward
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rather than cutting costs and stopping
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that and defunding this so for you in
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terms of your career you know how many
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places are there in the world where
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things are just on the up so the
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opportunity for you in your career
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whatever that might be is
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the sky is the limit obviously you need
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to do your due diligence on the company
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what it is they're doing what they're up
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to what they're promising you know all
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that kind of stuff but that's quite an
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individual thing I'm talking Top Line
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here right for your career it could be a
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move that you wouldn't get anywhere else
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and the amount of people who've said
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that
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is is staggering really now the third
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one is personal growth and a little bit
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of self-exploration so coming here you
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have time unless you're like you know
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working in the pif or something like
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that where you're obviously on it and
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you're working
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um you have time right so there's less
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of a commute unless you're in Riyadh um
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you know if coming from London you might
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be doing an hour hour and a half commute
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every day which is just Savage right for
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me here 15 minutes so you get all this
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time back in your day so that means you
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can prioritize your health you can
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prioritize your Fitness and the amount
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of experts you've reached out to me
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after seeing these videos and said Pete
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let's work together
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um let's do some coaching and this isn't
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this isn't a sell but what I'm trying to
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say is is moving country is a golden
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opportunity for you to take control of
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those things which might have been you
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know on the back burner back home right
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your Fitness your health you can really
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focus on those right there's no there's
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no booze there's no tempting of the the
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piss up at the weekend as it were all of
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those distractions those bad habits can
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fall by the wayside and you can
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prioritize yourself
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and that doesn't just mean your health
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and fitness that can be your hobbies
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right I'm sure there's something you've
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wanted to do for me coming here I
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learned to scuba dive during the week at
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the weekend I can just go diving so
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compare that to somewhere like London
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right where there's other things to do
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yes but you're not like you're not out
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in nature you're not you know
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experiencing these things which are just
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on your weekend you know that's for once
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a year on a holiday but the fact that
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you can do it pretty much whenever you
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want here is is just on your doorstep
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equally you know wakeboarding wake
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surfing you've probably seen the videos
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you can go camping you can do this you
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can visit this place and so on like
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there are so many possibilities and so
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for you to have that time to to
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personally explore more about yourself
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um you know your family what it is they
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like getting them to do different things
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trying different things you know you get
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all this time back and you can really
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really really use it to just
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kind of do all those things you've
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you've never been able to do now number
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four number four I've alluded to it a
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moment ago and that is being part of
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something bigger than you I'm sure if
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you've done a bit of research you've
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heard about the vision 2030 and that is
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this this vision for the whole country
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all the different sectors Industries to
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basically push to be an absolute
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Powerhouse in everything on a global
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scale and so there is this outrageous
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ambition that obviously the country has
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has said itself MBS has set the country
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and so everyone is aiming like Sky High
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think about you know
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um the sort of national
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belonging and pride that came
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I wasn't around at that time but um but
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like in the US when they were going for
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like the moon right everyone was behind
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that and there was this real sense of
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national pride it's not too dissimilar
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like the country in terms of what they
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want to achieve the projects they're
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setting themselves everything like that
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is is creating this Buzz this energy
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this whole lot of positivity within
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within everyone here and so being part
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of something bigger than you is it's
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it's almost like you're feeling a bit
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like a cog in a bigger wheel right
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you're part of this you have a part to
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play whether it is in Fitness whether
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it's in the digital space whether it's
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in finance whether it's in whatever like
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you are working towards your small part
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of this huge National Endeavor and there
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is something super exciting about that
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along with the national pride the
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country has Saudi national day the
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founding day all Argentina losing to
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Saudi in the World Cup all of these
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things evoke this um this real sense of
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Pride which is is really heartwarming to
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see right in the UK for example you see
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someone with a um a Union Jack Flag or a
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sort of a Saint George's cross you kind
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of think they're a racist right you
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think they're uh their sort of white
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power kind of thing you know but but
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here totally different like everyone is
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behind this common goal and it's it's
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it's cool it's really cool to see and
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even to some extent be a part of a
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number five I mean there's probably so
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many more but number five it's a nice
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easy number and that is if you feel you
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have value to add I think a lot of the
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time expats historically as well come
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here thinking okay
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I've got a big paycheck
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um I'm just going to do my time for a
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year and and get out go back home and so
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historically I feel and speaking to
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people anecdotally there's this almost
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like take take take like take as much as
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I can from the company from here from
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the people and then I'm just gonna leave
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and go back and do another job back home
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you have a real opportunity to add value
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to to the people you work with to the
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company you work with to the society you
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are in and whereas you know back home
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back in the UK you might be doing
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something and it's a thankless task and
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yeah it's kind of like does anyone
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really care is anyone really benefiting
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from this here you can add value you can
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help your co-workers you can upskill
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them you can educate them you can raise
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the standards of the industry you're
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working in so it's not really just doing
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your job but the lasting impact you can
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have on others here which to be honest
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is absolutely incred credible there's
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this real Drive amongst expats amongst
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locals to really do better at what
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they're doing right the bar has been set
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Vision 2030 there's a bit of a bit of a
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sort of difference between the two at
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the moment but what are we 2023 so over
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each year standards are going to get
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higher competence is going to get higher
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efficiencies and so on and you can be a
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part of helping to drive that so in
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short and you might have seen us in some
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of my other videos right you have an
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abundance of time and with that time you
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can do so many different things you can
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focus on yourself your family your
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career and so on equally there's
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opportunity right you never know what is
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just around the corner here everything
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works on on networks okay it's all who
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you know and then those relationships
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can help these relationships to help
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these relationships so you never know
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where you're gonna fall or where you're
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gonna be so you might come here with a
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job in mind five years down the line you
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might be doing something totally
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different and you could never even
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imagine that your life would have taken
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that turn for me personally speaking you
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know I think I'm I'm Testament to that
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to some extent you know I came across as
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a PT and now four years later working on
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Saudi radio and and sort of this is home
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this is what I want to call home also
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learning Arabic which is uh I'll do
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another video on that maybe and butcher
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what I'm learning but anyway and there's
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one more one more I'm going to share
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with you it's a uh it's a bonus okay the
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bonus is you get some like 24 7. you get
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blue skies most of the time you get sun
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and you get Blues Guys now how many
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people are just sick of the glue the
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gray the rain and so on back home here
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even if you're just looking outside it's
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blue and it's sunny it might be horrible
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when you go outside in terms of humidity
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and heat and all that kind of stuff but
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at least you know your mood's picked up
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because you get to see some blue sky you
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get light you get sun uh so yeah there's
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a little bonus one if you needed it I
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would love to hear what you think of
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this obviously everything's going to be
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a little bit different depending what
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your job description is your industry is
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if you're coming over single versus a
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wife versus a family or a husband or
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whatever so things change but I really
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wanted to give it a sort of a Top Line
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overview as to what are five things you
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can really consider when you're making
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or thinking about making the move over
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here so I hope that was helpful please
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remember to like share and subscribe and
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also ping me on Instagram I love it when
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people message me and share their
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thoughts ask questions whatever it might
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be so I'm looking forward to that thank
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you
