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Today, four habits, four habits to change your future with English, and honestly you can adapt, you can use these habits for any important goal you have in life, but today of course we'll focus on English to speak English fluently, to speak English powerfully, to speak English confidently, to speak
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Okay, our topic, so four habits, these are four simple habits, a lot of times people, they struggle with motivation, okay, so you know that EffortlessEnglish is a great system, you know you have a goal to speak English confidently, maybe you need to pass the OET, maybe you need to pass the GMAT, maybe
you need to pass IELTS, TOEFL, maybe you have a job interview coming, right, and you need to do well in the job interview and it's going to be in English, because you have a job opportunity, a job opportunity with English, these are all important goals, important situations, but also a bit stressful,
and sometimes people get stressed and they lose their motivation, they don't know what to do, they don't know where to start, they try to do too much, everything suddenly try to be perfect, and then what happens is they fail, right, because it's too hard, and then they just quit, they give up, they
get discouraged, right, they lose hope, they lose their energy.
So I think sometimes it's easier to focus on just doing some simple things, a few simple things every day, every day, every day, little improvement, little improvement, little improvement, they add up, they become big, these little small improvements become big, they're less stressful, you need less
motivation to do this, and it's very effective, I use this in my life all the time, I'm using it right now, in fact, these four habits, the reason I'm going to talk to you about these four habits is I'm doing something similar in my own life, not with English, but with something else.
Okay, so habit number one, I have talked about before, but it's so important.
All my VIP members know this habit, it's the first thing I teach you exactly how to do in my VIP program, that's a morning routine, a morning power routine, we'll call it a morning power routine.
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All right. So a morning routine is our first habit, right?
Why? Why is this so important?
Why is this so important?
Why do I focus on this so much, especially with my VIP members, and when I teach you as well, because you need to start the day strong.
If you start the day badly, then it's hard to improve the rest of the day, your whole day can be lost, right?
You wake up, you feel tired, you're depressed, you've got low energy, you didn't get enough sleep, whatever, many reasons we wake up and have kind of a bad start to the day.
And then what this does is it can kind of create a habit, and then the rest of the day just is bad.
Like you lose the whole day just because you woke up badly.
That's not good. You want to start the day strong, because this of course creates a positive cycle, right?
The opposite. If you start the day strong feeling great, well then it's easier to continue, right?
Feeling great, and to be motivated, and to be energetic, and to do good work, and to focus on your goals.
It's much easier when you start strong.
So you don't want to just depend on how you feel, because you never know.
You might feel tired, you might feel good.
So you need a habit, a habit every morning to energize yourself and feel positive and good.
Okay, so of course my VIP program might go in a lot of detail about this, but a simple thing you can do is just play some happy, energetic music every morning, and jump and dance around.
Okay, that's it. It sounds silly, it sounds funny, sounds crazy, but you know what?
It'll put you in a better mood.
It'll start you in a better mood.
You might wake up feeling like, I'm not a good morning person.
I don't like mornings, early mornings.
I'm a slow starter in the day.
Okay, I'm slow to wake up.
I'm slow to get energized in the morning.
I'm a night person, I prefer nights.
But you know, I have young children now, so it's not a, they wake up really early, and I have to get up early now.
So I just every morning, I have a little routine.
It lasts almost like an hour of things I do to get myself energized and feeling positive.
So the rest of the day, I'm not in a bad mood.
I'm not tired. I'm in a good mood, and I'm focused and energized.
Okay, so do that. You could do some exercise in the morning, but just create a habit in the morning, simple, to energize yourself and be positive.
Like I said, the easiest way is play happy music and just jump around and dance for 10 minutes.
That'll start your day in a good way.
That's habit number one.
Habit number two is specific to your learning, your goal.
Let's talk about English.
One hour a day listening to English lessons.
One hour a day. That's all.
If you do more, great.
But your goal, your goal for success every day is just one hour a day listening.
Okay, if you have one of my courses, it might be Power English.
Okay, you listen to your Power English lessons one hour a day.
If you're a VIP member, great.
You got to have my Business English course or a pronunciation course.
It doesn't matter, whichever one, listen one hour per day.
That's your goal. You might get motivated and excited and do more.
Great. Awesome. Just don't do less.
Okay, one hour a day is your standard, is your level of success.
That's it. Just one hour so you don't get stressed out.
Some people, you know, they, they have a good motivation in the beginning.
And they say, I'm going to do eight hours a day.
Intense. That's great.
Obviously, that's fantastic.
The problem is, can you sustain that?
Can you do that every day?
Or what's if, if what happens is you say, I'm going to do eight hours, that's my goal.
And you do eight hours the first day.
And then the second day, you only do six hours.
Six hours is still fantastic.
But how will you feel?
You're going to feel like you failed, because you said your goal was eight, and you only did six.
Right? So then this starts to, the damages, it hurts your motivation, you feel like I failed, and failure makes us feel less motivated, usually, especially if we fail a lot.
And maybe they say day number three, you do seven hours, which is, of course, still fantastic.
But again, you feel, oh, I failed, I didn't do eight, my goal is eight, and I didn't do it.
Right? So you might do seven hours, you know, five, six, seven, eight days in a row.
But then you feel like, oh, I failed eight days in a row.
And then what happens is your motivation can really drop.
And then you just, then you don't want to do it at all.
You just quit completely.
This happens so often.
People try to do too much, at least they make the goal too big in the beginning.
They try to get this amazing habit, right?
I'm going to eat perfectly.
Right? If you're trying to lose weight, I'm going to do 10 hours a day of English every day, I'm going to whatever it is.
But that's great. But what often happens is that you don't reach that goal.
And then it actually kills your motivation, your goal having that giant goal in the beginning is actually not so good.
It's actually better to have a small goal in the beginning.
And then if you do more, you feel fantastic.
So let's say the same situation, your goal is one hour a day.
But you do six hours tomorrow.
How will you feel? You're going to feel Oh my god, wow, I what a big win.
My goal was one and I did six, I did six times more.
Oh, awesome. Fantastic.
I'm doing great. And the next day you do seven hours.
Wow, my goal is one hour and I did seven hours.
Fantastic. You're going to feel super successful and motivated.
It's the same amount of time.
But by having the goal a little bit smaller and easier, it's easier to achieve that goal every day, which makes you feel good.
And then you want to keep going.
And it's easier to exceed the goal, right to go past your goal, and then you feel really, really good.
You feel fantastic.
And then maybe one day you get busy and you only do one hour.
Right? But that's okay.
You still do still got your goal, you still did it, you'll feel fine, it won't hurt your motivation.
Right? So this is why a simple kind of low goal every day is actually quite good for motivation.
It's a great habit, and it will build success.
So just one hour a day is your goal.
Do more if you can, but one hour a day.
Habit number three.
Habit number three is super important.
In the evening, in the evening, kind of, you know, later in your day, you need to assess.
What does that mean?
To assess. To assess means to evaluate is another word we use to evaluate.
It means you look at your day and you give yourself kind of a grade, you decide, did I do it or not?
Was I successful today or not?
And it's just day to day.
You're not looking at the whole week.
You're not looking at the month.
You're not looking at your whole life.
Just that one day. So you get to the end of your day and you're like, did I succeed?
How did I do today?
How was today? Did I listen one hour at least?
Yes or no? Did I have a nice strong morning routine?
Did I start my morning feeling energetic?
Did I make myself feel good and energetic in the morning?
Yes or no? This habit is so important to look at your day every day and decide what was good, what was bad.
Did I succeed with my small goals for the day or did I not succeed?
Some days you'll fail.
I'm doing this now.
I've made this a kind of a strong habit lately, the last few weeks, last couple of weeks, and I'm even writing it on my calendar.
And I just, for me, it's win or lose.
That's how I do it.
So I have my goals.
My goals are focused on being a dad, trying to be a better father.
I have some specific things I'm trying to do.
So at the end of the day, in the evening, the kids go to bed, I will sit down and I think about my day and I decide, did I do what I wanted to do?
Did I achieve my goals for the day?
Those little small goals for the day?
Or did I not? If I did, I'll write on my calendar.
I'm pointing at my wall calendar right now.
It's behind my computer and I'll put a W.
Win. I won the day.
I did what I needed to do.
And if I did not, I'll put an L for a lose.
It's kind of like I'm playing a game.
Win, lose. And what's my overall goal is to have, of course, more and more wins, less and less losses.
I want to win every day.
Seize the day. And some days I win big.
I feel like, oh, I was a great dad the day.
I was fantastic. I was energetic.
I was so wonderful with my kids.
Great. But you know what?
Some days, I just barely win.
I'm tired. I wake up tired.
I try my best. And it's kind of like I'm fighting the whole day, fighting, fighting, fighting and struggling because I'm not really feeling so good.
I'm just, I'm maybe in a bad mood.
I'm maybe physically tired.
I didn't get enough sleep, whatever.
But I keep fighting, keep fighting.
And maybe I still win that day.
I do what I needed to do.
I reach my little goals for the day.
Wasn't great day, but I still did it.
And so, you know what?
Then I feel good. I feel motivated.
Then, all right, tomorrow I can do even better.
It really helps motivation.
See, I was having a problem.
The reason I started doing this is I was having a problem where I had this idea in my mind of like the perfect dad, right?
Perfect, super perfect dad, super dad, right?
That I would wake up feeling fantastic.
And I would be, you know, super enthusiastic and loving and affectionate all the time, all day long with my kids from when I woke up until when they went to sleep.
And then I was not doing it.
Right? Because, oh, sometimes I got busy.
Sometimes I got tired.
The kids get grumpy.
They're not behaving well.
I lose my patience.
And then I just feel like a failure.
I wasn't perfect today.
And so I just started losing my motivation to even try, right?
I was not getting better.
I was not becoming a better dad.
All right, okay, this isn't working trying to be perfect dad.
This is, it's too much to try to change suddenly.
So this is what I decided that this little system of I just made a little small changes, little I just there's a just a few small things I want to do every day with my kids.
And a few small things I don't want to do bad behavior, right?
Like lose my patience and yell, raise my voice.
So I just at the end of the day, I have like a little scorecard and I just decide did I win or lose today?
Small goals. Okay, so finally, the fourth one is to have a evening routine, some kind of meditation just before you go to bed.
And you want to go so you go to bed in again, in a positive mood, you start your day in a positive way.
And you finish your day in a positive way.
You can find lots of guided meditations on YouTube, online, on podcast, you can find lots of them.
You could use a religious one, you could have a your nighttime routine might involve praying, meditating, again, listening to calming music, you know, visualizing imagining positive things, you might focus on gratitude, what am I what am I grateful for for today?
There's many ways to do this, okay, you can decide.
Again, I teach my VIP members a specific one, but you can do really anything.
So then you end the day and you go to sleep, again, in that positive mindset.
So those are the four, they're very simple.
And that's important, they should be simple, and they should be easy.
Because if they're simple and easy, then you get motivated, you think I can do this, I can do this, I am doing it.
And then you get more motivated every day, you succeed, you feel more confident, and even more motivated, gets better and better and better positive spiral and upward spiral we call that.
Okay, so wake up morning routine to get energized.
Number two, one hour a day of English listening to lessons.
If you have another goal, then one hour a day might be one hour a day of exercise where you walk one hour every day, one hour a day focused on your goal.
Habit number three, assess in the evening assess, right?
It means give yourself a grade.
Did I win today? Did I lose today?
Did I do my little goals?
Did I accomplish them?
Or did I not? And then number four, late night, you know, a go to bed routine that makes you feel strong and positive and good.
Some kind of meditation, prayer, music, something.
And that's it. Four habits, these will change your life.
Will they change your life in one day?
No, but I think you'll notice a change even after just one month, you're going to notice this feeling of momentum, you're going to feel more confident, more energy, more motivation.
When you do it just for 30 days, and you do it for three months, you will notice quite big changes happening.
I'm already noticing this in my life as a dad, I feel like, wow, the last few weeks, last couple weeks, I'm doing much better.
I have improved significantly just because of these four little habits.
So you'll notice this with your English, you'll notice this with any other goals you have.
It's actually quite powerful.
Many times it's these little simple small things that are so powerful.
And why they're powerful is because we do them every day.
See the big things we think I'll just do something huge and big.
And that's fine. But the problem is, those things are hard to do every day.
So we do them for a few days, we do them for a week, maybe two, and then we get too tired or distracted or busy.
And then we stop. So we kind of go up and then we crash, we go up and then we crash.
This is better. Small things every day, every day, every day.
And you'll notice three months after six months, you'll notice big, big improvements doing this, just these small things.
All right, let's get into our live comments and questions as usual.
Yeah, like Sci Coach Cleefy says, hey, Cleefy says, without enough sleep, sometimes my mood becomes terrible and miserable.
Yes, that's all of us.
Believe me, I understand.
With small kids, with twins, you know, there were times, especially when there were babies where, you know, I was just getting almost no sleep for several nights in a row.
And it's very difficult to stay positive and motivated and energized.
When your sleep is terrible.
You can do it after like, at least for me, I'm okay one night, bad sleep.
Now I'm so used to it.
Two nights bad sleep, I can still be pretty good.
But if I get if there's three nights in a row where I get bad sleep, it becomes very, very difficult for me to be positive or to do anything good.
So you got so you got to find a way.
You got to find a way to get good sleep, you know, maybe change the way you eat, change your sleep routine, that meditation can help calm you down.
Sometimes people, they lie in bed and they're just thinking thinking thinking it's hard to get to sleep, they got a lot of stress in their mind.
You might try taking some vitamins or supplements, do some research about that.
But yeah, good sleep is important.
It's another good habit, honestly.
We could make that habit number five.
Slow and steady wins the race says again from Cleefy.
Yes, exactly. Cleefy, that's right.
Okay, John says I go to bed at early morning and not late night.
What doesn't matter?
It's the same idea.
You know, some people work night shifts and sleep in the day, but you know, you get the idea.
All right, let's see.
I see this is great.
See Abu Bakr says I listen to you eight hours a day at my job, Monday to Thursday.
And this is a nice way to to build in habits for listening to English.
And this is what's great about especially audios and audio lessons is that you can often put them in the background while you do something else.
So some of you don't have jobs where you can do this.
But if you do have a job like this, you can just play English all day long while you're at work.
So you're doing work, making money.
Great. You're also improving your English.
You might not be totally focused on the English listening at that point.
Of course, you have to do your job, but it'll still help having in the background.
You know, you can do this at home when you're cooking and cleaning and, you know, walk, you do it when you're exercising so you can get a lot of extra hours of listening while you do other things, driving, sitting in a bus or a car or a train, something like that.
Right. Very good. Okay, let's see.
Oh, second mirror of life.
Good to see you. Good morning, AJ.
Get emotionally involved with what you want to do in life, whether it's English or something else.
Yeah, I agree. You know, this is kind of what that morning routine is about is generating emotion because emotion is energy, right?
Emotion is energy and we need energy to do anything, right?
And certainly when you're trying to accomplish a goal and you want to improve your English, you want to get, you know, healthier, you want to exercise more.
We need energy for these things and you and not only physical energy, but you know, that mental, emotional energy.
That's where the motivation comes from.
So that's why it's so important to do things like listen to exciting music and just jump around.
It seems crazy, but it actually will make you feel better.
It's going to improve your mood.
It's going to give you better, more positive emotions.
It's going to increase your physical energy as well.
Those of you who have my power English course, you know, you know this because before every lesson I tell you to jump around and smile and you know, so very important.
Okay, let's take a look at any more questions.
Okay. Yeah, see, like William Brissola says, I used to listen to you in traffic while driving to my job.
I listened to you on Spotify.
Exactly. Any extra time you have, you can listen.
So this is a great thing about, like I said, audios.
You don't have to look at them so you can just listen while you do other things.
Salé says, I've been living in the USA for three months.
I'm 31 years old. Can you advise me how to study for 10 hours without submitting my thesis?
I'm not sure. I don't understand.
This is via Google translate.
Submitting my, I'm not sure.
You mean, are you in grad school?
Yeah, I'm a little confused by your question, honestly.
I'm not sure what you're asking me from South Sudan, streaming from Egypt.
I'm a big fan of your channel.
I have all your videos downloaded on my mobile phone.
They have helped me a lot in general.
Awesome. And good luck to you.
Anna, great to see you as always.
I'm a bit late today.
She says while washing the dishes, while driving a car, while doing my chores, I always listen to your podcasts.
It really helps me.
Yep, it can just become kind of the background soundtrack.
I do think that one hour a day, right, you're that habit of one hour a day, you should at least one hour a day try to be focused, right, where you're, you're totally focused on English, whatever you're listening to, especially the lessons, the courses.
So that's your one hour really focused.
The rest of the day, you can be doing other things, still listening, and it's in the background, but maybe not 100 % focused, right?
You might be cooking, cleaning, driving, all these other things.
Do I teach private lessons?
I do not. Sorry. I rock.
John says you're right when you said that meditation is good for those who have schizophrenia.
Oh, good. I tried it.
And now I'm feeling more calm.
Awesome. Awesome. Yeah, that's great.
You know, I don't know.
You know, I'm not an expert on schizophrenia.
You know, as far as I know, you know, it can be like hearing voices and seeing things.
I know that's one kind of schizophrenia.
But the experience like what does it feel like to be schizophrenic?
I don't really know.
But one thing I do know is that meditation, one thing it teaches you is that you are not your thoughts.
So because a thought pops in your head, oh, it might be a voice talking, you might hear it, or it's just, you know, a thought, it might be an image, something you see in your mind, right?
We all do this, that what you learn from meditation is that that's not you.
These things come and go come and go.
So you don't need to attach to them.
You don't need to believe them.
You don't need to follow them.
You don't need to get upset by them.
Right? Because we all have crazy thoughts come into our head.
That's the truth. You don't have to be schizophrenic.
We all do. Anyone who's meditated for a while can tell you all kinds of crazy stuff, even if you haven't meditated, right?
You just notice that during the day, crazy stuff comes into your head.
And it can bad thoughts, good thoughts, every random thoughts, who knows where they come from?
Right? They might come from your past.
They could, who knows?
I don't know. But uh, but it's not you.
That's not you. Who are you really?
Is a spiritual religious question.
Atman soul spirit. You're the one to put it in practical terms.
You're the one who's watching the thoughts.
Right? The thoughts are not you.
So just because you have a weird thought, a bad thought, a good thought, you can just let it go.
It can come and go.
It's just like waves on the ocean and they just come and go, come and go.
That's not you. Okay.
Uh, Zoku Kamdai says, good morning with dhammas.
Thank you. Blessings to professor Ajahn, A .J.
Hoog, and your whole family from Mandalay, Myanmar.
Oh, thank you very much.
Thank you. Ajahn, that's the same in Thai.
A .J., Amina says, A .J., how many hours do you study in a day?
I mean, learning anything.
Um, that's a good question.
I'm not really right now.
I'm not focused on concentrated study of anything.
So what I tend to do is just follow my interests.
And, uh, when I get interested in something, I just, I'll just read and read and read and read on that topic for quite a long time.
And some topics, of course, they're important like business, uh, marketing, sales, online things.
This is part of my business.
I do that all the time.
It's not every single day though, but it goes up and down, up and down.
So there might be sometimes where I'll do it, you know, all night long, four or five hours, and then other nights where I don't jujitsu, maybe jujitsu is a sport.
So many of you know about, that's where, you know, probably recently not so much, but, uh, in general, probably would watch an hour a day of jujitsu videos.
So that study. And then I also would go to class, right?
And practice. Um, yeah.
So for me, I'm not, I don't have like a, like one thing I'm trying to do.
So I just let my interest, right?
I'm much more focused.
I mean, to be honest, I'm not really focused on learning, studying things right now, studying a subject.
My focuses are more internal.
So I'm trying to just be a better person.
I'm trying to be a better father.
That's my number one goal right now.
Be a better dad. So I'm focused on more emotional mastery and being a better father.
So I actually, I do, I watch a lot of videos and read books on this topic and just general topics of spirituality, religion, virtue.
So it's not quite the same as, you know, learning chemistry or a language, right?
But that's my focus all day long right now.
But, you know, I'm 55 years old and there's, right now there's no topic I'm super interested in besides maybe jujitsu.
Coder says, I remember you talking about having a positive mindset before learning one of your videos.
Thanks so much. Yes, very important.
AJ, how do you read so many books?
Again, you know, it's just because I love reading and I get interested in things.
So it goes up and down.
Like for me, reading books, I don't know, I get the feeling some people reading books is like something they force themselves to do.
So it's not so enjoyable.
But for me, I just, when I get interested and I get excited about something, I naturally want to read about it and learn more.
And so this is what most of my reading is about.
Like all, let's say I'm interested in child education.
That's a topic actually.
So my kids, I homeschool my kids.
So I'll read a whole lot of books about education, homeschooling, teaching children, teaching young children.
So I'll just, I'm just excited.
So I just read through them.
I have my nights in the evening and I'll just, I get ebooks because I can download them right immediately.
And they're also cheaper.
And I just read through them very, I'm pretty quick reader at this point, especially nonfiction is pretty easy to read fast.
So that's what it is, is just I get, I get interested in something and then just, I'm excited about it.
So it's easy to read a lot of books on that topic.
And if I'm not excited about something, then I don't force myself to read.
Like, I must read this.
I don't do that. So maybe that's why, because I, in my mind, reading is always something that's very pleasant and interesting.
So it's not, I'm not doing it to as a performance.
Yes, he was great. Jose Carlos says I'm a truck driver here in Brazil, listen to the podcasts a lot.
I listened to three per day.
And I went to move to Canada.
Yeah, that truck driver, you know, it's tough job, I know, but, but it does give you the opportunity to listen to lots and lots of audios.
You can really work on English as a truck driver.
That's great. It's great.
You're so you're using it in a positive way.
Second Mirror of Life says AJ is one of the best teachers in the world because he can understand the feeling of who wants to speak English fluently.
Yeah, exactly. Thank you.
Excuse me. Okay. So Bon Afferen says thanks for the brilliant live stream.
Any ideas for learning English through lyrics and music videos?
Just be careful with it.
Especially pop songs.
Sometimes the lyrics are very hard to understand the meaning or there really is no clear meaning.
So it can sometimes help you with pronunciation, I guess.
But you know, it's okay.
Music's not my favorite thing for learning.
I think kids songs actually can be much better because they tend to be more direct in meaning.
So children's songs.
But a lot of I'm sure a lot of adults don't want to sing children's songs in English.
So, you know, just enjoy it.
But I think movies are much better if you want to do media.
Movies are a better way to learn language.
Yeah, Psycho Cliffy says one or two hours of deliberate practice is so beneficial to get more advanced.
Yes, indeed. Halle Kinshi says greetings from Turkey.
Thank you. Kamal B, how can one improve his or her accent?
Well, I have a pronunciation course.
So go to my website, it's on the screen there effortlessenglishclub .com.
And you can get my pronunciation course there.
That's my only website effortlessenglishclub .com.
We have one for the courses.
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Cliffy asks, what sort of books do you prefer to repeat more than one time?
Well, you know, like there are some books I will read again.
Sometimes many, many times.
These tend to be either just a really like a favorite, favorite books like Lord of the Rings.
I've read that so many times.
I don't even know how many times I can't count Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
I'll, I'm looking forward to reading those with my kids, you know, read to my kids and then those stories.
So certainly something like that.
That's probably the only fiction actually.
And then the rest that I read again and again and again tend to be philosophical or spiritual or religious because, you know, they're very deep, deep, deep ideas in there.
And I find that I read them again and I understand a little more.
So this might be something like Walden by Thoreau.
I've read that many, many, many times.
Or of course, something like Bhagavad Gita.
Again, I've read many, many times, but still, still learning.
Upanishads. This is a good question.
Do you think listening to audio with theta waves works?
This is called binaural beats and they have like, it's the idea is that there's some beat.
Usually it's different in each ear.
You have to use headphones and they'll have like, you know, alpha waves, theta waves.
These are like different frequencies of your brain.
The idea is that your brain will have when you're meditating, when you're resting, when you're sleeping.
And the idea is that these audios will help your brain relax and get to that level.
I honestly don't know.
I have tried them and I have them and I have used them quite a lot.
I do find they're relaxing though.
So in general, they're quite nice for relaxing.
They're nice as background for some kind of guided meditation.
So in that way, they work.
But do they have like a real ability to put you in that, like make your mind in a meditation level state or deep sleep state?
I don't know. I don't know.
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe not.
I'm not sure about that.
Yeah, I mean, it says there are lots of types of meditation.
Exactly. Focus breathing, mindfulness, and doing nothing.
Nature inspired, mantra meditation.
Yes, precisely. There's many, many ways to do this.
Meditation. Akko, good to see you again.
I'm happy to listen to your live show right now.
I'll go to KL tomorrow, Kuala Lumpur, on a business trip.
Great. I can mean thanks to you.
I can communicate with people easily in English.
I really appreciate you.
Oh, great. Akko, Akko's from Japan.
So great, Akko. Have a good time in KL.
KL is a great place to speak English.
A lot of English speakers there.
So yeah, enjoy KL. It's a nice city.
I like it. Good, Jose.
Martin says, I'm so grateful to find you today online.
I love your class. I'm from Rio de Janeiro.
Awesome. All right, a couple more times.
I have 40 minutes. Okay, good.
Amuro Arif says, you're the best teacher I have ever seen.
I have a question. Can I take two or three courses from you and learn them at the same time?
Yeah, you can for sure.
I think that some of them are combined together more easily.
The pronunciation course is a good one to add to another course because it's quite different.
And so you can use the pronunciation course with Power English, with VIP, with business, whatever.
It works very well with that.
Yes, so that would be good.
Also, you could do Business English plus Power English, for example.
So yes, you could do two or three and many people do this if you have time, right?
You just need the time each day to do the lessons.
But if you have the time, sure, it's kind of interesting because each course is a little different, has different kinds of lessons, so it can help your motivation.
So you don't get it.
Oh, awesome. Emmanuel Paquon says, I'm asking if you have any recommendations from me.
I'm planning to join jujitsu classes.
All right, my second passion other than teaching English is jujitsu.
So it's always a danger for I could turn this into a jujitsu podcast, but I love to talk about it because it's so much fun.
So okay, Emmanuel, it depends on how old you are and what your goals are with jujitsu.
Really, really depends because my main advice is with jujitsu gyms or schools or academies is that they they can be very different.
So you if you go to one that's kind of wrong for you, that doesn't fit you, you might have a bad experience.
Okay, this is common.
So it really depends what are you wanting?
How old are you? How much time do you have for jujitsu?
And what do you want to do?
Do you want to compete in tournaments, right?
You want to be like a serious competitor, doing tournaments, trying to win trophies?
Do you want to do mixed martial arts, right?
Like fight in the cage, right?
You know, you got to be young to do these things, because you're not going to be doing MMA if you're over 30.
If you're starting when you're over 30, it's probably too late.
You can do it for fun, but not gonna be seriously competing.
Or are you interested in just more relaxed, like more like self defense, and you're not you don't care about tournaments?
Right? Which that's what I that's me.
I'm 55 years old. I don't care about tournaments.
I'm not trying to be any kind of serious competitor.
So I have a very different mindset, right?
So some gyms, you know, they're competition gyms, and they're just gonna, they're really aggressive and serious.
And if that's not what you want, you're going to go there and they're going to smash you and it's going to be a very difficult situation.
And you might hate it.
On the other hand, if you really want that, if you want aggression, and you want serious, hard training all the time, if you go to a relaxed gym, like where I go, you might feel like, oh, this is not enough, right?
You might feel like these guys are too easy, they're too soft.
So you got to just find a gym that fits you.
So if you have some choices in your town, hopefully, visit them.
And you're just be clear in your mind, like, what do you want?
And find a gym that fits you.
Like I am very happy with Gracie jujitsu.
And because I'm just, you know, like I said, I'm just interested in self defense.
And as a hobby, I'm not trying to compete.
I'm not trying to win trophies, not trying to do MMA.
So Gracie jujitsu is perfect for regular people like me.
I you know, I can't train all the time.
So yeah. Cool. Anna says I'm in a maternity leave right now.
And I'm listening to children's songs in English every day.
For example, the wheels on the bus, old McDonald, baby shark.
Yeah, that's great.
Perfect. Perfect. Okay, Soleil is being more clear.
I'm living in Texas for three months.
I'm a beginner level.
Can you advise me? I study English for 10 hours.
I feel lost. Okay, yes, Soleil.
So look, you're in Texas.
I'm gonna guess what's happening.
You're in Texas, you want to talk to people, right?
You want to go out and have conversations and chat with people, right?
Not a bunch of academic English, I guess.
So studying English, like studying grammar, studying textbooks, probably not what you need right now.
My guess is you need what you're doing right now is tons of listening, listening, listening, listening.
The first thing you need to do is listening to podcasts.
I recommend get one of my courses, get the Power English course.
That's a good one to start with.
Get Power English and do it.
If you've got 10 hours a day, great, do Power English 10 hours a day, or get Power English plus VIP and do those.
You want general conversational English first.
Okay, so you can go out and just talk to everybody and start meeting people and chatting and have strong conversational everyday English.
Then later, you can focus on more business level, academic, whatever your goals are for work or something like that.
But I would say Power English VIP, do that 10 hours every single day.
If that's too much, you know, you can also sometimes just read books, read simple novels, children's books, things like that.
Graded readers are very good.
So you can mix up and you get time for if you're listening or you find you need a break from listening, do some reading.
Okay, but just focus on that reading and listening, reading and listening.
Forget the textbooks.
Forget the grammar study.
Don't worry about any of that right now.
You got to get your listening and and of course speaking, but your vocab and your listening has got to get up higher so you can get out there and really interact with people.
Talk to people. Okay, this will be the last one guys.
And then I got to go.
Okay, let's see Zabon Afrin.
I'll answer this one.
It's a good one. And DP from Morocco.
Hello. And thank you.
Okay. Last question.
Zabon Afrin says thanks for the answer.
Could you please recommend one or some English movies or serials series suitable for learning?
Sure, I can. Yes. And do you recommend subtitles or just distracting?
Okay, ones that I like.
I love. So you guys will know Jerry McGuire about a boy.
It's British, but it's great.
I did I have a course called red pill English course.
That's a course that teaches you all the vocab in the movie The Matrix.
So The Matrix was it along came Polly hitch kind of romantic comedies are tend to be quite good because they're light and positive generally and kind of funny.
But they also have a lot of normal conversation in them.
Right. So they're quite good romantic comedies in general are a good good kind of movie that you could do.
So I know some people do friends and some sitcoms.
But honestly, they can be difficult because they got so many jokes in them and jokes are cultural.
So many times the jokes depends on the series, right.
But many times in those sitcoms situational comedies, TV shows like friends, many times those jokes can be hard to understand if you're not from the culture, right?
So friends is American.
So if you're not American, you might know you might understand the language, you might use the subtitles, for example.
And but you still like I don't understand why is it funny?
Because maybe you don't know the culture.
So that's why I don't often recommend like those kind of comedies romantic comedies, I find tend to be they're not so they're not really so much jokes.
This if it's if there's something funny, it's more like a situation, it's more physical.
And I find, you know, people usually understand why it's funny, right?
Meet the parents, that would be a good one.
Right, that could be a good one, things like that.
The question about subtitles.
Yes, you can use subtitles, use the English subtitles, as I recommend.
So you might watch one scene, I have a video on YouTube about how to do the movie technique.
So find that video on my YouTube channel.
And it's a lot of detail about how to use movies to learn.
But in general, you can use the English subtitles.
And then you can watch it, you know, watch a scene or watch part of the movie with the English subtitles, you can take notes, you can pause and take notes, you can look up new words if you need to.
And then you can later listen again, to the same part, without the subtitles, you can do that 10 times 20 times 50 times if you need to, and really learn that movie well.
And if you want to get my red pill English course, actually, I don't know, it's not for sale.
You can find it. You have to buy another course first, and then you can buy it.
So if you're already a member, you can buy that red pill course, I think for non members, you can do it.
So yeah. All right, so I taught you the four habits, go back, watch the video review, use these habits, okay, the main idea of this video is that make your goals each day, these habits simple and easy to do, so that you feel motivated every day, you feel successful, because you can do it, you have your
morning routine, right, you do listen to English one hour a day, at least, right, but not you don't have to set a super goal one hour a day, like you at the end of the day, you look back and you decide did I was I successful or not.
And then finally, before you go to bed, you have some kind of routine, maybe a meditation something that puts you in a positive mindset right before bed.
Those are the four habits.
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