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English like a native. Today,

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four habits, four habits to change

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your future with English.

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And honestly, you can adapt,

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you can use these habits for

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any important goal you have

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English fluently, to speak English powerfully,

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speak English effortlessly.

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Okay our topics are four habits these

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are four simple habits a lot of times

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people they

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struggle with motivation okay

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so you know

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that effortless English is a great system you

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know you have a goal to speak English confidently

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maybe you need to pass the OET maybe

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you need to pass you know the

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GMAT maybe you need to pass

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IELTS TOEFL maybe

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you have a job interview coming right

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and you need to do well in the

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job interview and it's going to be in English

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because you have a job opportunity a job

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opportunity with English

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these are all important goals important

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situations but also a bit stressful and

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sometimes people get stressed and

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they lose their motivation they don't know what to do

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they don't know where to start they try to do too

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much everything

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suddenly try to be perfect and

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then what happens is they fail right

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because it's too hard and then

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they just quit they give up they get discouraged

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right they lose hope oh they lose

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their energy so I think sometimes it's

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easier to focus on just doing some simple

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things a few simple things

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every day every day every day little

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improvement little improvement

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little improvement they add up they

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become big these little small

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improvements become big they're less

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stressful you need less

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motivation to do this and it's very

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effective I use this in my life all

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the time I'm using it right now in fact

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these four habits the reason I'm going

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to talk to you about these four habits is I'm doing something similar

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in my own life, not with English but with something

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else. Okay so habit

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number one I have talked about before but it's

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so important. All

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my VIP members know this habit. It's

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the first thing I teach you exactly

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how to do in my VIP program. That's

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a morning routine, a morning power routine.

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We'll call it a morning power routine. Let

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me try to fix my microphone. One second

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guys, sorry. There we go. Mm-hmm,

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little microphone down there.

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I think we got a microphone out. There we go, better microphone.

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Alright so a morning routine

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is our first habit, right? Why?

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Why is this so important? Why is this so important? Why

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do I focus on this so much especially with my VIP

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members and when I teach you as well? Because

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you need to start the day strong. If you start

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the day badly then

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it's hard to

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improve the rest of the day. Your whole

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day can be lost, right? You wake

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up, you feel tired, you're depressed,

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you've got low energy, you didn't get enough

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sleep, whatever. Many

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reasons we wake up and have kind

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of a bad start to the

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day. And

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then this, what this does is it can kind of create

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a habit and then the rest of the day

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is bad. You lose the whole day just because

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you woke up badly. That's not

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good. You want to start the day strong

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because this of course creates a

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positive cycle, right? The

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opposite. If you start the day strong feeling great,

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well then it's easier to continue feeling

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great and to be motivated and to be energetic

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and to do good work and to

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focus on your goals. It's much easier when you

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start strong. So you

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don't want to just depend

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on how you feel because you never know. You might feel

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tired, you might feel good. So you need

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a habit, a habit every morning to

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energize yourself and feel positive. positive

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and good.

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Okay.

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So of course my VIP program might go into a lot

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of detail about this, but a simple thing you can do

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is just play some happy, energetic

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music every morning and

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jump and dance around. Okay,

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that's it. It sounds silly, it sounds funny, it

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sounds crazy, but you know what, it'll put you in

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a better mood. It'll start you in a better mood. You

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might wake up feeling, uh, like I'm not a good morning

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person. I don't like mornings, early mornings.

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I'm a slow starter in

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the day, okay? I'm slow

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to wake up, I'm slow to get energized

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in the morning, I'm a night person, I

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prefer nights. But,

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you know, I have young children now, so it's not a,

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they wake up really early and I have to get up

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early now. So, I just,

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every morning I have a little routine. It lasts

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almost like an hour of things

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I do to get myself

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energized and feeling positive. So the rest of the

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day I'm not in a bad mood, I'm not tired, I'm

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in a good mood. And I'm focused

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and energized, okay? So do

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that. You could do some exercise in the

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morning, but just create a habit in

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the morning, simple to

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energize yourself and be positive. Like

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I said, the easiest way is play happy music

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and just jump around and dance for 10 minutes. That'll

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start your day in a good way. That's habit number

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one. Habit number two is specific

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to your learning, your goal. Let's

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talk about English. One hour a day

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listening to English lessons.

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One hour a day. That's all.

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If you do more, great. But your goal,

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your goal for success

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every day is just one

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hour a day listening, okay? If you have

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one of my courses, it might be Power English. Okay,

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you listen to your Power English lessons one

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hour a day. If you're a VIP member,

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great. You listen to those lessons one hour a day. Or

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if you have my business English course or my

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pronunciation course. Doesn't matter, whichever

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one, listen one hour per day.

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That's your goal. You might get motivated

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and excited and do more. Great,

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awesome. Just don't do less.

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One hour a day is your standard,

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is your level of success. That's it.

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Just one hour. So you don't get stressed out.

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Some people, you know, they

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have a good motivation in the beginning. And

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they say, I'm gonna do eight hours

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a day. Intense. That's

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great. Obviously,

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that's fantastic. The problem is,

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can you sustain that? Can you

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do that every day? Or what's,

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if what happens is you say, I'm gonna do eight hours,

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that's my goal. And you

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do eight hours the first day. And

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then the second day, you only do six hours.

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Six hours is still fantastic. But how will you

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feel? You're gonna feel like you failed.

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Because you said your goal was eight, and you only did

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six. Right?

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So then, this starts to, the damage

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is, it hurts your motivation. You feel like, I failed.

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And failure makes

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us feel less motivated, usually. Especially

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if we fail a lot. And maybe they say, day number

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three, you do seven hours. Which

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is of course still fantastic. But again, you feel,

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oh I failed. I didn't do eight. My goal

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is eight, and I didn't do it. Right?

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So you might do seven hours, you

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know, five, six, seven, eight

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days in a row. But

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then you feel like, oh I failed. Eight days in a row.

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And then what happens is your motivation can really drop,

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and then you just, then you don't want to do it at all.

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You just quit completely. This happens so

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often. People try to do too much. They

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really say, make the goal too big in the beginning.

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They try to get this amazing habit. Right?

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I'm gonna eat perfectly. Right?

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If you're trying to lose weight. I'm gonna do ten

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hours a day of English every day. I'm gonna,

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whatever it is. But

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that's great. But what often

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happens is that you don't reach

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that goal. And then it actually kills

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your motivation. having that giant

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goal in the beginning is actually not so

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good. It's actually better to have a small

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goal in the beginning. And then if you do more, you feel

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fantastic. So let's say the same

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situation. Your goal is one hour a day,

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but you do six hours tomorrow. How

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will you feel? You're gonna feel, oh

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my God, wow, what a big win.

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My goal was one and I did six, I did six

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times more. Oh, awesome, fantastic,

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I'm doing great. And the next day you do seven

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hours. Wow, my goal is one

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hour and I did seven hours. Fantastic,

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you're gonna feel super successful

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and motivated. It's

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the same amount of time. But

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by having the goal a little bit smaller and easier,

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it's easier to achieve that goal every

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day, which makes you feel good, and

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then you wanna keep going. And it's easier

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to exceed the goal, right? To go past your

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goal, and then you feel really, really good. You feel fantastic.

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And then maybe one day you get busy and you only

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do one hour, right?

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But that's okay. You

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still got your goal, you still did it. You'll feel fine.

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It won't hurt your motivation, right? So this is

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why a simple kind of low goal

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every day is actually quite good for

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motivation. It's a great habit and

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it will build success. So

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just one hour a day is your goal. Do more

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if you can, but one hour a day. Habit

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number three. Habit number three is super

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important. In the evening, in

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the evening, you know, later

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in your day, you

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need to assess. What

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does that mean? To assess. To

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assess means to evaluate, is

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another word we use, to evaluate. It means

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you look at your day and you give yourself kind of a grade.

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You decide, did I do it

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or not? Was I successful today

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or not? And it's just day

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to day. You're not looking at the whole week. You're

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not looking at the month. You're not looking at your whole life.

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Just that one day. day. So you get

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to the end of your day and you're like

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did I succeed? How did I do today? How

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was today? Did I listen one

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hour at least? Yes

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or no? Did I

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have a nice strong morning routine?

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Did I start my morning feeling energetic?

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Did I make myself feel

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good and energetic in the morning? Yes

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or no? This

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habit is so important to look

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at your day every day and decide what was

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good, what was bad. Did I succeed

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with my small goals for the day or did

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I not succeed? Some days you'll fail.

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I'm doing this now. I've made this a kind of a

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strong habit lately at the last few

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weeks, last couple of weeks and I'm even writing

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it on my calendar and I just for me it's win

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or lose. That's how I do it.

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So I have my goals. My goals are focused

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on being a dad,

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trying to be a better father. I have some specific

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things I'm trying to do. So at

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the end of the day in the evening the kids go to bed.

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I will sit down

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and I think about my day and I decide

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did I do what I wanted to

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do? Did I achieve my goals for the

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day? Those little small goals for the day or

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did I not? If I did I'll write

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on my calendar. I'm pointing at my wall

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calendar right now. It's behind my computer and

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I'll put a W. Win. I won

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the day. I did what I needed to do

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and if I did not I'll put an L for a

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lose right. It's kind of like a like I'm playing a game.

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Win-lose and what's my overall

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goal is to have of course more and more

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wins less and less losses.

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I want to win every day. Seize

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the day and

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some days I win big. I feel like

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I was a great dad the day. I was fantastic.

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I was energetic. I was so wonderful with my

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kids. Great. But you know

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what some days I just barely win. I'm

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tired. I wake up

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tired, I try my best, and

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it's kinda like I'm fighting the whole day, fighting,

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fighting, fighting, and struggling,

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cause I'm not really feeling so good, I'm

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just maybe in a bad mood, I'm maybe

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physically tired, I didn't get enough sleep, whatever,

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but I keep fighting, keep fighting, and maybe I still win

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that day, I do what I needed to do,

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I reach my little goals for the day.

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Wasn't a great day, but I still did

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it. And so, you know what, then I feel good,

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I feel motivated, then, so all right, tomorrow

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I can do even better. It really helps

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motivation. See,

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I was having a problem, the reason I started doing

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this, is I was having a problem where I had this idea

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in my mind of like the perfect dad,

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right? Perfect, super

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perfect dad, super dad, right?

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That I would wake up feeling fantastic,

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and I would be, you know, super

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enthusiastic, and loving

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and affectionate all the time, all

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day long with my kids, from when

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I woke up until when they went to sleep. And

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then I was not doing it, right?

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Because, oh, sometimes I got busy, sometimes I got

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tired, the kids get grumpy, they're not

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behaving well, I lose my patience, and

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then I just feel like a failure, ah, I wasn't

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perfect today, and so I just

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started losing my motivation to even try, right,

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I was not getting better, I was

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not becoming a better dad. And we're like, okay,

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this isn't working, trying to be perfect dad,

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this is, it's too much to

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try to change suddenly. So

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this is when I decided that this little system,

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of I just made little small changes, little, there's

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just a few small things I wanna do every day with my

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kids, and a few small things I don't

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wanna do, bad behavior, right, like

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lose my patience and yell, raise

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my voice. So, I just,

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at the end of the day, I have like a little scorecard,

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and I just decide, did I win or lose today? Small

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goals, okay? So finally, the

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fourth one is to have a evening routine,

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some kind of meditation. Just

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before you go to bed. So you

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go to bed again in a

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positive mood. You start your day in a positive

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way and you finish

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your day in a positive way. You can

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find lots of guided meditations

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on YouTube, online, on podcasts.

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You can find lots of them. You could

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use a religious one. Your

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night time routine might involve praying,

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meditating, again listening to

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calming music. Visualizing,

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imagining positive things.

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You might focus on gratitude. What am

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I grateful for today? There's

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many ways to do this. You can decide. Again,

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I teach my VIP members a specific

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one. But you can do really anything. So

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then you end the day and you go to sleep again

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in that positive mindset.

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So those are the four. They're very simple and

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that's important. They should be simple and they should be easy.

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If they're simple and easy, then you get motivated. You think,

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I can do this. I can do this. I am doing it. And

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then you get more motivated. Every day you succeed,

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you feel more confident and even

17:06

more motivated. It gets better and better

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and better. A positive spiral, an upward

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spiral we call that. So

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wake up morning routine to get energized.

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Number two, one hour a day of

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English listening to lessons. If

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you have another goal, then one hour a day might be one

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hour a day of exercise where you walk one

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hour every day, one hour a day focused on your

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goal.

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Habit number three, assess in the

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evening assess, right? It means give

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yourself a grade. Did I win today? Did I lose today?

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Did I do my little goals? Did I accomplish

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them or did I not? And

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then number four, late

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night, you know, go

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to bed routine that makes

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you feel strong

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and positive and good. Some

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kind of meditation, prayer, music,

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something. That's it. Four

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habits, these will change your life. Will

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they change your life in one day? No, but I

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think you'll notice a change even after

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just one month. You're gonna notice this

18:09

feeling of momentum. You're gonna feel more confident,

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more energy, more motivation. When

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you do it just for 30 days, and you

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do it for three months, you will notice

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quite big changes happening. I'm

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already noticing this in my life as a dad. I

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feel like, wow, the last few weeks, last

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couple weeks, I'm doing much

18:28

better. I have improved significantly

18:31

just because of these four little habits. So

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you'll notice this with your English. You'll notice this with

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any other goals you have. It's actually

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quite powerful. Anytime it's these

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little simple small things that are so

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powerful. And why they're powerful is

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because we do them every day. See,

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the big things, we think, ah,

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just do something huge and big. And

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that's fine, but the problem is those

18:55

things are hard to do every day. So

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we do them for a few days. We do them

18:59

for a week, maybe two, and then

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we get too tired or distracted

19:03

or busy, and then we stop. So

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we kinda go up and then we crash. We go up and

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then we crash. This is better. Small

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things every day, every day, every day. And you'll

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notice, three months after six months, you'll notice big,

19:14

big improvements doing this. Just these

19:16

small things. All right,

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let's get into our live comments

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and questions as usual. Um,

19:26

yeah, like SciCoach Clefie

19:28

says, hey, Clefie says, without

19:31

enough sleep, sometimes my mood becomes terrible

19:33

and miserable. Yes,

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that's all of us. Believe

19:39

me, I understand. With

19:42

small kids, with twins, there

19:45

were times, especially when there were babies where I was

19:48

just getting almost no sleep for several

19:50

nights in a row. And it's

19:53

very difficult to stay

19:55

positive and motivated and energized

19:58

when your sleep is done. terrible. You

20:01

can do it after like at least for me. I'm okay

20:03

one night bad sleep. Now

20:06

I'm so used to it. Two nights bad

20:08

sleep. I can still be pretty good. But

20:11

if I get a if there's three nights in a row

20:13

where I get bad sleep, it becomes

20:16

very, very difficult for me to be positive

20:18

or to do anything good. So you

20:20

got so you got to find a way. You got

20:24

to find a way to get good sleep, you

20:26

know, maybe change the way you eat,

20:28

change your sleep routine that meditation can

20:31

help calm you down. Sometimes people they

20:33

lie in bed and they're just thinking thingy thingy. It's hard

20:35

to get to sleep. They got a lot of stress in their mind.

20:38

You might try taking some vitamins or supplements,

20:41

do some research about that. But

20:44

yeah, good sleep is important. It's

20:47

another good habit. Honestly, that

20:50

we could make that habit number five.

20:53

Slow and steady wins the races again from

20:55

Cleefy. Yes, exactly. Cleefy. That's right. Okay.

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John says I go to bed at early morning

21:20

and not late night. What doesn't matter? It's the same idea.

21:23

You know, some people work night shifts and

21:25

sleep in the day, but you know, you get the idea. All

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right. Let's see. I

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see this is great. See Abu

21:45

Bakr says I listen to you

21:47

eight hours a day at my job Monday to Thursday.

21:50

And this is a nice way to

21:52

to build in the habits for listening

21:54

to English. And

21:57

this is what's great about especially

21:59

audio. and audio lessons

22:02

is that you can often put them in the background while you do something

22:04

else. So some of you

22:06

don't have jobs where you can do this but if you do have

22:08

a job like this you can just play

22:10

English all day long while you're at work.

22:12

So you're doing work, making money, great. You're

22:15

also improving your English. You

22:17

might not be totally focused on the English

22:20

listening at that point. Of course you happen to do

22:22

your job but it'll still help having it

22:24

in the background. You know you can do this

22:26

at home when you're cooking and cleaning and

22:29

you know walk. You do it when you're out exercising

22:32

so you can get a lot of extra hours of listening

22:36

while you do other things. Driving, sitting

22:39

in a bus or a car

22:42

or a train.

22:44

Something like that. Right? Very good. Okay

22:56

let's see. Oh second mirror of life. Good to see

22:58

you. Good morning AJ. Get

23:00

emotionally involved with what you want to do in

23:02

life whether it's English or something else.

23:07

Yeah I agree. You

23:13

know this is kind of what that morning routine is

23:15

about is generating emotion

23:17

because emotion is energy. Right? Emotion is energy

23:19

and we need energy to do anything.

23:22

Right? And certainly when you're

23:25

trying to accomplish a goal.

23:28

You want to improve your English. You want to get

23:31

you know healthier. You want to exercise more. We

23:33

need energy for these things and you and not

23:35

only physical energy but you know that mental

23:38

emotional energy. That's where the motivation

23:40

comes from. That's why it's so important

23:43

to do things like listen to exciting music and

23:45

just jump around. It seems crazy but

23:47

it actually will make you feel better. It's going to improve

23:49

your mood. It's going to give you better more

23:52

positive emotions. It's going to increase

23:54

your physical energy as well.

23:57

Those of you have my power English course you know you know the

24:00

this because before every lesson I tell

24:02

you to jump around and smile and you know so

24:05

very important. Okay

24:08

let's take a look at our any more

24:10

questions. Okay

24:24

yeah see like William Brissola says I used

24:26

to listen to you in traffic while driving

24:29

to my job. I listen to you on Spotify.

24:32

Exactly. Any extra

24:34

time you have you can listen this. So this is a great thing

24:36

about like I said audios.

24:39

You don't have to look at them so you

24:41

can just listen while you do other things. Sala

24:54

says I've been living in the USA

24:56

for three months. I'm 31 years old. Can

24:59

you advise me how to study

25:01

for 10 hours without submitting

25:04

my thesis? I'm not sure. I don't understand

25:06

this is via Google Translate. Submitting

25:09

my... I'm not sure. You mean are you are

25:11

you in grad school? Yeah

25:16

I'm a little confused by your question honestly.

25:19

I'm not sure what you're asking me exactly. Cool.

25:26

Emmanuel Pakwan says my name

25:28

is Emmanuel from South Sudan

25:30

streaming from Egypt. I'm

25:33

a big fan of your channel. I have all your videos

25:35

downloaded on my mobile phone. They

25:37

have helped me a lot in general.

25:40

Awesome.

25:42

Good luck to you. Anna

25:45

great to see you as always. I'm a bit

25:47

late today she says while washing the dishes while

25:49

driving a car while doing my chores I

25:51

always listen to your podcast. It

25:54

really helps me. Yep it

25:56

can just become kind of the background soundtrack.

25:59

I do think that one hour a day, right,

26:02

you're that habit of one hour a day, you

26:04

should at least one hour a day try to be focused, right,

26:07

where you're totally focused

26:10

on English, whatever you're listening

26:12

to, especially the lessons, the

26:14

courses. So that's

26:17

your one hour really focused. The

26:20

rest of the day you can be doing other

26:22

things, still listening and it's in the background,

26:24

but maybe not a hundred percent focused,

26:27

right, you might be cooking,

26:29

cleaning, driving, all these other things. Do

26:34

I teach private lessons? I do not, sorry. IrockJohn

26:42

says, you're right when you said that meditation

26:45

is good for those who have schizophrenia.

26:48

Oh good, I tried it and now I'm feeling

26:50

more calm. Awesome, awesome.

26:54

Yeah, that's great. You know, I don't know, you

26:57

know, I'm not an expert on

26:59

schizophrenia, you know, as far as I know, you know, it

27:01

can be like hearing voices and seeing things. I know that's

27:03

one kind of schizophrenia,

27:06

but the experience, like what does it feel like to be schizophrenic?

27:08

I don't really know. But one thing

27:10

I do know is that meditation, one thing

27:12

it teaches you is that you are not

27:14

your thoughts. So because a thought

27:17

pops in your head, oh, it might be a voice

27:20

talking, you might hear it or it's just,

27:23

you know, a thought. It

27:25

might be an image, something you see in your mind,

27:27

right? We all do this. That what

27:31

you learn from meditation is that that's not you.

27:33

These things come and go, come and go. So you

27:36

don't need to attach to them, you don't need to believe them,

27:38

you don't need to follow them, you

27:40

don't need to get upset by them, right?

27:43

Because we all have crazy thoughts coming to our head.

27:45

That's the truth. You don't have to be schizophrenic.

27:47

We all do. Anyone who has meditated for

27:49

a while can tell you all kinds of

27:51

crazy stuff, even if you haven't meditated,

27:54

right? You just notice that during the day, crazy

27:56

stuff comes into your head and it can, bad

27:59

thoughts good thoughts, random thoughts,

28:02

who knows where they come from, right?

28:04

They might come from your

28:06

past, who knows? I

28:08

don't know. But

28:11

it's not you. That's not you. Who

28:13

are you really? Is a

28:16

spiritual religious question, Atman's soul,

28:19

spirit. You're the one, to put

28:22

it in practical terms, you're the one who's

28:24

watching the thoughts, right?

28:27

The thoughts are not you. So just because you

28:29

have a weird thought, a

28:31

bad thought, a good thought, you can

28:35

just let it go. It can come and go. It's

28:37

just like waves on the ocean and they just

28:40

come and go, come and go. That's not you.

28:54

Okay. Zoku

29:03

Kamdai says, Good morning with Dhammas.

29:06

Thank you. Blessings to Professor Ajahn,

29:08

Ajay, Hogue, and

29:10

your whole family from Mandalay, Myanmar.

29:13

Oh, thank you very much. Thank you.

29:18

Ajahn, that's the same in Thai. Ajay,

29:24

I mean, it says, Ajay, how many hours do you study

29:27

in a day? I mean, learning anything. Um,

29:37

it's a good question. I'm not really right now. I'm not

29:39

focused on concentrated

29:42

study of anything. So what I

29:44

tend to do is just follow my interests.

29:47

And when

29:50

I get interested in something, I just I'll

29:52

just read and read and read and read and read

29:54

on that topic for quite a long

29:56

time. And some topics, of course, they're

29:58

important like business.

30:00

marketing, sales,

30:03

online things, this is part of my business. I

30:05

do that all the time. It's

30:08

not every single day though, but it goes up

30:10

and down, up and down, so there might be sometimes where

30:12

I do it, you know, all

30:15

night long, four or five hours, and then other nights

30:17

where I don't. Jijitsu maybe, jijitsu

30:20

is a sport, so many of you know about. That's

30:22

where, you know, probably recently

30:25

not so much, but in

30:28

general probably would watch an hour a day of

30:30

jijitsu videos. So

30:34

that's study, and then I also would go to class,

30:36

right, and practice. Yeah,

30:41

so for me, I don't

30:43

have like one thing I'm trying to do,

30:45

so I just let my interest, right.

30:49

I'm much more focused, I mean, to be honest, I'm not

30:51

really focused on studying things,

30:53

studying a subject. My focuses

30:55

are more internal, so

30:58

I'm trying to just be a better person. I'm trying to be a better

31:00

father. That's my number one goal right now, be

31:02

a better dad. So I'm focused on more emotional

31:05

mastery and

31:07

being a better father. So actually I do,

31:09

I watch a lot of videos and read books on this

31:11

topic, and just

31:14

general topics of spirituality,

31:16

religion, virtue.

31:18

So it's not

31:21

quite the same as, you know, learning chemistry

31:24

or a language, right, but that's

31:27

my focus all day long right now.

31:33

But you know, I'm 55 years old and

31:36

right now there's no topic I'm super

31:39

interested in, besides maybe

31:41

jujitsu. Coder

31:48

says, I remember you talking about having a positive mindset

31:51

before learning one of your videos. Thanks so

31:53

much. Yes, very important. AJ,

31:56

how do you read so many books? Again,

32:02

you know, it's just because I love reading and I get interested

32:04

in things. So it goes up and down, like

32:06

for me, reading books, I don't know, I get the feeling,

32:09

some people reading books is like something

32:12

they force themselves to do,

32:14

so it's not so enjoyable. But

32:16

for me, I just, when I get interested and I get excited

32:18

about something, I naturally want

32:21

to read about it and learn

32:23

more. And

32:26

so this is what most of my reading is about. Like I'll

32:29

say I'm interested in child education.

32:32

That's a topic actually. So my

32:34

kids, I homeschool my kids. So I'll

32:36

read a whole lot of books about education,

32:39

homeschooling, teaching children, teaching young

32:41

children. So I'll just, I'm

32:43

just excited. So I just read through them. I

32:46

have my nights in the evening and I'll just, I

32:49

get ebooks because

32:51

I can download them right immediately and they're also cheaper.

32:54

And I just read through

32:56

them very, I'm pretty quick. But reader

32:58

at this point, especially

33:01

nonfiction, is pretty easy

33:03

to read fast. So

33:06

that's what it is, is just I get interested

33:08

in something and then just

33:10

I'm excited about it. So it's easy to

33:13

read a lot of books on that topic. And if I'm

33:15

not excited about something, then I don't force myself

33:17

to read. Like I must read this. I

33:20

don't do that. So maybe that's why. Because

33:23

I, in my mind, reading is

33:25

always something that's very pleasant and interesting.

33:29

So it's not,

33:31

I'm not doing it as a performance.

33:37

Yes, he was great. Jose Carlos says,

33:39

I'm a truck driver here in Brazil.

33:41

Listen to the podcast a lot. I

33:43

listened to three per day and

33:46

I went to move to Canada. Yeah,

33:48

a truck driver, you know, it's a tough job,

33:50

I know. But it does

33:52

give you the opportunity to listen to lots and lots of

33:54

audios. You can really work on English

33:58

as a truck driver. That's great. It's great

34:01

you're using it in a positive way. Second

34:07

Mirror of Life says AJ is one of the best teachers in the world because

34:10

he can understand the feeling

34:13

of who wants to speak English fluently. Yeah,

34:16

exactly. Thank you.

34:30

Okay. Saban

34:33

Afaren says, Thanks

34:37

for the brilliant livestream.

34:39

Any ideas for learning English through lyrics

34:42

and music videos? Just

34:45

be careful with it. Especially

34:50

pop songs. Sometimes

34:52

the lyrics are very

34:56

hard to understand the meaning. Or

34:59

there really is no clear meaning. It

35:03

can sometimes help you with pronunciation, I guess.

35:11

It's okay. Music's not my favorite thing

35:13

for learning. I think kids' songs

35:15

actually can be much better because they tend to

35:17

be more direct in meaning. So

35:20

children's songs. But

35:24

I'm sure a lot of adults don't want to sing children's

35:26

songs in English, so just enjoy it. But I

35:29

think movies are much better. If you want to do media,

35:32

movies are a better way to learn language.

35:37

Yeah, PsychoKlippy says, One or two hours

35:40

of deliberate practice is so beneficial

35:42

to get more advanced. Yes, indeed.

35:46

Halle Kinshi says, Greetings from Turkey.

35:49

Thank you.

35:52

Kamal B., How can one improve his or her

35:54

accent? Well, I have a pronunciation course,

35:56

so... Go

35:58

to my website. It's on the screen. there effortlessenglishclub.com

36:02

and you can get my pronunciation course there.

36:05

That's my only website effortlessenglishclub.com.

36:08

We have one for the courses but in terms

36:11

of official sites where you can buy my courses it's only

36:13

this one. Anything else is a fake and

36:16

you will get cheated. People just will take your money

36:18

and then you won't get the course so be

36:20

careful. effortlessenglishclub.com

36:36

What sort of books do you prefer to repeat more

36:38

than one time? Well you

36:40

know like there are some books I will read

36:43

again sometimes

36:45

many many times. These tend to

36:47

be either just a really

36:49

like a favorite favorite books like Lord of

36:51

the Rings. I've read that so many times I

36:54

don't even know how many times

36:56

I can't count Hobbit and Lord of the

36:58

Rings. I'm looking forward to reading those

37:01

with my kids. We read two my kids

37:03

and then those stories. Certainly

37:08

something like that. That's probably the only fiction

37:11

actually. The

37:13

rest that I read again and again and again tend

37:15

to be philosophical or spiritual

37:18

or religious because you know they're very deep

37:20

deep deep ideas in there and

37:23

I find that I read them again and

37:25

I understand a little

37:27

more. This might

37:29

be something like Walden by Thoreau.

37:31

I've read that many many many times

37:35

or of course something like Bagavad Gita. Again

37:38

I've read many many times but still

37:42

still learning. Oh, punny shots. This

37:50

is a good question. Do you think listening to audio with

37:52

theta waves works? This

37:55

is called binaural beats and they have like it's

37:58

so the idea is that there's some beat Usually

38:01

it's different in each ear, you have to use headphones.

38:04

And they'll have like alpha waves,

38:06

theta waves, delt- these are like different

38:09

frequencies of your brain, the idea

38:11

is that your brain will

38:14

have when you're meditating, when you're resting,

38:16

when you're sleeping. And the idea

38:18

is that these audios will help your brain relax

38:21

and get to that level. I

38:24

honestly don't know. I have tried

38:26

them and I have them and I've used

38:28

them quite a lot. I do find they're relaxing

38:30

now. So in general

38:32

they're quite nice for relaxing, they're

38:34

nice as background for some

38:36

kind of guided meditation. So

38:39

in that way they work. But

38:42

do they have like a real ability to

38:44

put you in that, like

38:46

make your mind in a meditation level

38:48

state or deep sleep

38:50

state? I don't know. I

38:55

don't know. Maybe. Maybe

38:58

not. I'm not sure about that. Yeah,

39:08

I mean it says there are lots of types of meditation.

39:11

Exactly. Focus breathing, mindfulness

39:15

and doing nothing, nature

39:17

inspired, mantra meditation.

39:20

Yes, precisely. There's many, many ways to

39:22

do this meditation. Akko,

39:27

good to see you again. I'm happy to listen to your

39:29

live show right now. I'll go to KL

39:32

tomorrow, Kuala Lumpur, on a business

39:34

trip. Great. I can mean thanks to

39:36

you. I can communicate with people

39:39

easily in English. I really appreciate you.

39:41

Oh great, Akko. Akko's from Japan. So

39:44

great, Akko. Have a good time in KL. KL's

39:48

a great place to speak English. A lot of English

39:50

speakers there. So yeah,

39:52

enjoy KL. It's a nice city. I like it.

39:58

Good, Jose.

39:59

Martin says I'm so grateful to find

40:02

you today online. I love your class.

40:04

I'm from Rio de Janeiro

40:09

Alright a couple more times. I

40:11

have 40 minutes of technical. Okay, good Amaro

40:16

Arif says you're the best teacher I have ever

40:18

seen I have a question Can I take two

40:21

or three courses from from you and

40:23

learn them at this at the same time? Yeah, you

40:25

can for sure I think that some

40:28

of them are combined together More

40:31

easily like the pronunciation course

40:33

is a good one to add to

40:37

another course Because it's quite different

40:39

and so you can use the pronunciation course

40:41

with power English with VIP with

40:43

business whatever It works very well

40:45

with that. Yes, so that would be good. Also,

40:48

you could do business English plus power

40:50

English for example So yes,

40:52

you could do two or three and many people do

40:54

this if you have time, right? You just need

40:56

the time each Day

41:00

to do the lessons, but if you

41:02

have the time sure It's kind of interesting

41:04

because each course is a little different has

41:06

different kinds of lessons so can

41:08

help your motivation

41:10

So you don't get bored with just doing one kind of thing. So

41:13

for sure enjoy How

41:19

awesome Emmanuel Paquon says I'm asking

41:21

if you have any recommendations for me I'm

41:24

planning to join jujitsu classes Hmm.

41:29

All right. My second passion other than teaching

41:31

English is Jujitsu

41:35

So it's always a danger for I could turn

41:37

this into a jujitsu podcast But uh, I

41:40

love to talk about it because it's so much fun. So

41:43

okay manual Depends on how

41:45

old you are and what your goals are with

41:48

jujitsu really really depends because

41:52

My main advice is with jujitsu

41:54

gyms or schools or academies

41:58

is that they

42:00

can be very different. So

42:03

you if you go to one that's

42:05

kind of wrong for you that doesn't fit you,

42:08

you might have a bad experience. Okay,

42:11

this is common. So it really depends

42:13

what are you wanting? How old are

42:15

you? How much time do you have for jujitsu?

42:18

And what do you want to do? Do you want to compete in tournaments?

42:21

Right? You want to be like a serious competitor

42:24

doing tournaments trying to win trophies? You

42:26

want to do mixed martial arts? Right? Like

42:29

fight in the cage? Right? You

42:32

know, you got to be young to do these things because

42:35

you're not going to be doing MMA

42:37

if you're over 30. If you're starting on your

42:39

over 30, it's probably too late. You

42:42

could do it for fun but not

42:46

gonna be seriously competing. Or

42:49

are you interested in just more relaxed?

42:51

Like more like self-defense and

42:54

you're not, you don't care about tournaments? Right?

42:57

Which that's what I, that's me. I'm 55 years

43:00

old. I don't care about tournaments. I'm

43:03

not trying to be any kind of serious competitor.

43:06

So I have a very different mindset,

43:08

right? So some

43:10

gyms, you know, they're competition gyms and

43:12

they're just gonna, they're really aggressive

43:15

and serious and if

43:18

that's not what you want, you're gonna go there and they're gonna smash

43:21

you and it's gonna be a very difficult situation

43:23

and you might hate it. On

43:27

the other hand, if you really want that, if you want

43:29

aggression and you want serious hard training

43:31

all the time, if you go to a relaxed gym

43:34

like where I go, you might feel like,

43:36

oh this is not enough, right? You might

43:38

feel like, oh these guys are too easy,

43:40

they're too soft. So you

43:43

got to just find a gym that fits you.

43:45

So if you have some choices

43:48

in your town, hopefully, visit

43:50

them and you just be

43:52

clear in your mind like what do you want and

43:55

find a gym that fits you. Like

43:58

I am very happy with great Gracie jiu jitsu

44:03

and because I'm just you know like

44:05

I said I'm just interested in self-defense

44:08

and as a hobby I'm not trying

44:10

to compete I'm not trying to win trophies

44:13

not trying to do MMA so

44:16

Gracie jiu jitsu is perfect for regular

44:19

people like me I you know I can't train

44:21

all the time so yeah cool

44:29

Anna says I'm in a maternity

44:31

leave right now and I'm listening to children's songs in

44:33

English every day for example

44:36

the wheels on the bus old McDonald's baby

44:38

shark yeah that's great perfect

44:41

perfect okay

44:51

so life is being more clear I'm living in Texas

44:53

for three months I'm a beginner

44:56

level can you advise me I study English

44:58

for 10 hours I feel lost okay yes

45:00

a leg so look you're in Texas it's

45:03

not I'm gonna guess what's happening you're

45:06

in Texas you want to talk to people right

45:09

you need real English right you want to go out

45:11

and have conversations and chat with people right

45:13

not a bunch of academic English I guess so

45:17

studying English like studying

45:19

grammar studying textbooks

45:23

probably not what you need right now my

45:25

guess is you need what you're doing right now is

45:27

tons of listening listening listening

45:30

listening the first thing you need to do is listening

45:32

to podcasts I recommend get one of

45:34

my courses get the power English course that's

45:36

a good one to start with get power English

45:39

and do it if you've got 10 hours a day

45:41

great do power English 10 hours a day or

45:44

get power English plus

45:47

VIP and do

45:49

those you want general conversational English

45:51

first okay so you can

45:53

go out and just talk to everybody and start meeting people

45:55

and chatting and have strong

45:58

conversational every day day

46:00

English. Then

46:02

later you can focus

46:04

on more business level, academic,

46:07

whatever your goals are for work or

46:09

something like that. But I

46:11

would say Power English VIP, do that 10

46:13

hours every single day. If

46:15

that's too much, you know, you can also sometimes

46:18

just read books, read

46:20

simple novels, children's books, things

46:23

like that. Graded readers

46:25

are very good. So you can mix up and

46:27

you get time for if you're listening or you find

46:29

your need a break from listening do

46:32

some reading. Okay,

46:34

but just focus on that reading and listening, reading and

46:37

listening, forget the textbooks, forget

46:39

the grammar study. Don't worry about any of that

46:41

right now. You got to get your listening

46:43

and then of course speaking, but your vocab

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and your listening has got to get up higher

46:48

so you can get out there and really interact

46:51

with people. Talk

46:53

to people. Okay,

46:55

this will be the last one guys and then I got to go. Okay,

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let's see Zabana for an all go answer.

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This one is a good one. And DP

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from Morocco. Hello and thank you. Okay,

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last question is up on African says thanks for the

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answer. Could you please recommend one or

47:27

some English movies or

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serials series

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suitable for learning? Sure, I can. Yes.

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And do you recommend subtitles or just distracting?

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Okay, ones that I like. I love.

47:41

You guys will know Jerry McGuire about

47:46

a boy British but it's great.

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I did I have a course called red

47:52

pill English course. That's a course that teaches

47:54

you all the vocab

47:57

in the movie The Matrix.

47:59

So The Matrix. Was

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it Along Came Polly,

48:06

Hitch.

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Kind of romantic comedies tend

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to be quite good because they're light

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and positive generally and kind

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of funny but they also have

48:17

a lot of normal conversation

48:19

in them, right? So they're

48:21

quite good. The comedies in general

48:24

are a good kind

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of movie that you could do. I

48:30

know some people do friends and some sitcoms

48:33

but honestly they can be difficult

48:35

because they got so many jokes in them and jokes

48:37

are cultural. So many

48:41

times the jokes depends

48:43

on the series, right? But many times

48:45

in those sitcoms, situational comedies,

48:48

TV shows like Friends, many

48:50

times those jokes can be hard to understand

48:53

if you're not from the culture, right?

48:55

So Friends is American so if you're not American you

48:59

might understand the language, you might use the subtitles

49:01

for example but you're

49:03

still like I don't understand why is it funny because

49:06

maybe you don't know the culture. So that's

49:08

why I don't often

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recommend those

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kind of comedies. romantic comedies I find

49:16

tend to be, they're

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not really so much jokes. If

49:23

there's something funny it's more like a situation,

49:25

it's more physical and I find people

49:27

usually understand why it's funny, right?

49:31

Meet the parents, that would be a good one. That

49:34

could be a good one too. Things like that. The

49:37

question about subtitles, yes you can use subtitles,

49:39

use the English subtitles as

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I recommend. So you might watch one

49:43

scene, I have a video on YouTube

49:45

about how to do the movie technique

49:48

so find that video on my YouTube channel

49:51

and it's a lot of detail about

49:53

how to use movies to learn but in

49:55

general you can use the English subtitles

49:58

and then you can Watch it you

50:01

know watch a scene or watch part of the movie with the

50:03

English subtitles you can take notes you

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can pause and Take notes you can look

50:07

up new words if you need to And

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then you can later listen again to the

50:12

same part without the subtitles you

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can do that ten times twenty times Fifty

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times if you need to and really learn

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that movie well, and if you want to

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get my red pill English course Actually,

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I don't know it's not for sale You

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50:33

buy that red pill Course I think for non

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members you can't do it so Yeah

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50:53

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