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More energy now. That's our topic today.
more energy now, how can you have more energy?
You need energy. You need energy for anything, to do anything, to accomplish anything, to reach any goals.
You need energy. So for example, learning English, studying English, you need energy every day, every day, right?
You gotta get up and put in the time, listening to the audio lessons, reading, reviewing, speaking, You know, all that takes energy.
If you're tired all the time, then it's very difficult to do this every single day.
Right. Sometimes that's why we need more motivation.
We think, oh, I'm not motivated.
I'm not motivated. But really, you're just tired.
You just don't have enough energy.
If you have low energy, then you need a lot of motivation to do something.
Right. Make yourself move.
It takes a lot of motivation.
to exercise or to study English or to work on your business or anything you want to do, right?
Requires a lot of energy.
So if you don't have energy, if you're tired all the time, physically tired, meaning your body's tired, and also mentally, we can just be mentally tired sometimes, and emotionally tired, right?
Our emotions are down.
Sometimes people just feel tired and depressed a lot.
maybe their body's okay but their mind and emotions are but then it's very hard to do anything it's very difficult to succeed at anything when your energy is low i see this as a parent i'm pointing back to my house uh with my kids you know i am a much much much better parent a much better father when i
have higher energy when i'm tired when i've gotten you know very bad sleep several days in a row and not eating well.
And I'm physically tired.
Then I'm not such a good dad.
You know, I don't do things with my kids as much.
I just want to lay around and rest.
I'm not patient with them.
You know, I get irritated.
I get upset more quickly.
All these things when my energy's low.
And on the other hand, when my energy's high, when I'm feeling great, then I'm a much better father, right?
I'm much more patient, I'm much more enjoyable and happy and fun, and I do more things with my kids, like, you know, my energy this year is much better already.
I've really been focusing on this topic of energy this year, meaning since, let's say, in the last month, starting December, it's January now, new year now.
So, we're about a month and I'm already feeling great effects.
So very quickly, I have improved my energy a lot.
And I'm almost 57 years old.
So if I can do it, you can do it.
Someone in the last show asked me to do a show about this topic.
So it's a perfect topic.
We need energy. This time of year, the beginning of the year, January, new year starting 2025.
We all have new goals or old goals we want to try again.
Maybe you want to really master English or make big improvements with English this year, to speak English fluently and powerfully, and you want to speak effortlessly.
Maybe you want to do, you know, physical exercise and get in shape, succeed in your business, make more money, be a better father, be a better mother.
All these things, they all require energy, and some of them require a lot of energy, a lot of energy.
Right? you know if you're going to study english and learn focus on english in two hours a day or more that takes a lot of energy mental concentration because if you're just lying around doing it you're not learning very well so you really got to stay focused and that does require quite a bit of mental
and emotional energy and to be a good father or mother requires a huge amount of energy and to do well in your career your business if you're trying to build your own business again requires you need huge amounts of energy.
So today I'm going to go through a lot of things, all the little tricks and tips that I personally have tried and used.
And for many years over my life, I have tried lots of different things to help improve my energy and to keep my energy high.
It's one thing a lot of people comment on my show that my energy is usually quite high.
last year i had quite low energy i had a very stressful year in 2024 and my energy dropped quite a bit and so i'm back again this year it was one of my top goals which i immediately took action took action last month actually in december before the year even ended and i'm doing much much much better
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So. Alright, let's talk about it.
This is kind of a deep topic.
So I have a lot of things to teach you today.
And I have notes for this one because there's so many different ways to improve your energy.
And here's the truth.
What I found is you need to do a lot of things.
Okay. If you're, especially if you're feeling tired, if you're, if your health is not great, if you're just emotionally kind of down and feeling a little depressed, then, you know, there's not like one thing.
Yesterday, I told you, you know, one thing to do to improve your English very quickly.
Sometimes in life, and this is great, there is one thing that will solve your problems.
There's one thing that will make a big change.
But other times in life, and I think this is a topic where one thing, there's not one thing.
You actually have to do lots of things.
And I I think to really improve your energy deeply so that you feel energetic every single day, most of the day, and that you can, not just for a short time, but all day long, you've got to do a lot of things.
Okay. There's, you have to do things with your body, like movement.
Okay. We're going to talk about that exercise, moving your body.
You have to do things mentally, right?
The way you think, your emotions.
And you have to do things in terms of nutrition and eating.
And you really have to do all of these things.
And then you can add some supplements and some other things that will give you a little extra boost sometimes.
Okay? But just doing one of these things is usually not enough.
It might help a little.
But if you really want tons of energy all day long, then you really need to do a lot of things.
Okay? So let's start with the simplest and then the most complicated, the most difficult.
The most difficult is the nutrition part, okay?
And nobody agrees about everything in nutrition, so it's a topic that people argue about endlessly.
But I'm going to give you today my nutrition tips, my eating and supplement tips that work for me, that I have used.
Like I said, I'm about 57 years old, almost.
And these things have worked for me.
There might be other things that work, too.
You got to kind of try things with nutrition.
Everybody's body's not the same.
David, let's start with what works for everybody.
And that is number one.
This is basic NLP, basic Tony Robbins.
And that is using your body.
When you get my Power English course, I talk about this in every single lesson.
Okay, because this is a way to instantly, immediately improve your energy.
and that is just the way you stand the way you use your face and the way you move your body it starts with your posture and when i do live seminars this is the first thing i teach okay if you just hunch your shoulders down and you look down and if you're watching me on video you can see and just kind
of have this kind of posture you know where your body is just kind of it just looks low energy doesn't it you know you kind of you're looking at the ground, your shoulders are kind of forward and down a little bit, everything looks like it's dropping, you will feel less energetic if you do this, especially
a long time. And especially if you do it sitting in a chair.
So you can sit in a chair and then hunch over, which so many of us do, right?
You're sitting in a chair and then you're kind of hunched over, your shoulders are down, you're looking down, your body's all crunched up.
we do this all the time.
And you do that for about 10 minutes and you will physically feel less energetic.
You start getting tired.
This is why I recommend never do this when you're learning English, when you're studying, when you're listening to my courses.
You don't sit in your chair and like kind of slump.
We call slumping when your body kind of just drops down, Because very quickly, your mental and physical energy will drop, drop, drop.
And that's when you start feeling kind of sleepy.
Oh, it's hard to concentrate.
Oh, I'm getting a little tired.
I'm feeling sleepy.
I'm not motivated anymore.
A lot of it's just your physical energy is dropping.
And a very simple solution is to roll your shoulders back.
Put your chest up. Put your chin up so you're looking forward, not down.
You can put a smile on your face.
right? And just doing that will give you a little bit of extra energy.
You actually will feel better by that, those small changes.
If you're sitting, stand up, stand up.
That's another one you can do, stand up instead of sitting.
Instantly will give you a bit more energy.
Okay. And then finally moving, moving instead of just being still movement creates energy.
We sometimes, when we're tired, we don't want to move, but then we, that makes us actually feel more tired.
Usually when we're tired, unless you've been exercising hard, like at the gym or something, usually when you're tired, you don't need more rest.
You don't need to just sit more.
What you actually need to do is get up and move.
Okay. So then you want to get up, keep those shoulders back, keep your head up, and then you start moving your body around, right?
Simple would just be go for a walk.
Better is to start actually jumping, putting your hands in the air.
You do that for about three minutes.
It looks funny. It looks like you're celebrating, right?
You have your hands above your head.
you're looking up at the sky and you're jumping up and down okay and smiling while you do it yes it looks funny do it by yourself in your house but you'll be surprised do that for three minutes and you will feel so much better so much more energetic physically your body because you're exercising a bit
and also mentally and emotionally you'll feel less sad you'll feel less tired.
You'll have better concentration.
Just doing that. You want to make it more powerful, play some exciting high energy music that you like while you do it.
Right. So you could, you know, whatever song, there's a million of them out there, you know, just, you know, back in black, ACDC or something, but just jump while you're doing it.
And you can sing along if you want to or not, just shout, putting your hands up in the air, jumping around your room, looking like a crazy person in a good way.
Okay. All of that is going to energize you.
And this is instant, instant.
You can do this. It takes five minutes.
You're tired. You're depressed.
You're fatigued. You're unmotivated.
Five minutes later, you're feeling a thousand times better.
are so much better so energized as i said in my courses especially power english and the vip program i tell you to do this every time before you listen to my lessons so i have you doing this constantly constantly every time and this is why okay and this is called peak posture or peak emotion you're
actually creating strong powerful fun energetic emotions awesome this works quickly and immediately.
And just pick. I've got a bunch of favorite songs that I do, but you can do anything you want.
Pick something you love.
Jump around, act crazy.
Instantly energizes you.
So that's instant. That's our first group of things.
The first thing to do is you can do this every day.
You can do it in the mornings.
Again, my VIP program, I teach you to do this as a morning routine, as a habit.
This is kind of part of your waking up in the morning.
So you start your day with great energy.
Awesome. However, this is not enough for long -term all -day energy.
Why? Because if you're unhealthy, if you're eating badly, you're not exercising, or you have a bunch of emotional problems, you know, this is gonna help you, and you will feel better after five minutes, you'll feel much better, but then what happens?
Then you start gradually feeling worse again.
And then you have to try to do that again.
And then you get a down, down, down.
And okay, you can do that, but it's hard to do that all day long, okay?
So it's good to work on a deeper level also.
The next level we'll talk about, which is also fairly simple is exercise.
And we all know we need to exercise.
but there's uh you know different different exercises have uh different uh strengths or strong points or benefits right so you go to the gym and you lift heavy weights like really hard burn out your muscles right just exhaust your muscles okay that's one kind of workout that's great do it if you like
that it's fantastic but the thing is the problem with that kind of exercise is you will feel more tired afterwards and probably the next day you might actually feel exhausted the next day because you really burned out your body.
You burned out your muscles.
That's good for building bigger muscles.
That's fine. You know, especially if you eat enough protein, but for energy, then what happens is you kind of can go up and down, up and down.
You're like really high energy the day before you work out, while you're working out, even maybe right after, But then the next day, especially if you're older, the next day you might feel completely exhausted.
You burned out your body, your body's sore, your muscles hurt, you just want to lie around.
Do nothing, okay? So, if you're really young and strong and tons of energy already, that kind of exercise is okay.
You can probably recover fairly quickly.
But I'll tell you, as you get older, it becomes harder and harder.
that recovery is the hard part.
And so I don't like that kind of exercise anymore because it means like half every other day, every second day, I feel tired and terrible and I don't want to be, uh, tired and exhausted every two days.
It's no good. So I recommend actually much more moderate exercise so you're doing enough each day to energize yourself and to get stronger but more slowly you'll get stronger but just a little more slowly but you're not exhausting yourself you actually this kind of exercise makes you feel more energetic
every single day and there's two simple things i recommend for that very easy number one is rucking that's r -u -c -k it's just walking with a backpack you don't have to use the backpack you can just walk if you want to it's the most simple thing just walk but if you add a backpack and you put some weight
in it like some uh maybe some big heavy water bottles in there it just makes it a little more difficult adult but still not too much so you go for a ruck you do it for an hour a day maybe if you have more time do two hours a day it would be great you can do this quite a lot of time and it will not exhaust your
body okay it's going to build up your energy you'll be burning fat while you do it um and you're going to really feel energized you can look around you can listen to music you can just talk to people you can do it in a city you can do it in the country you can do it anywhere.
So this is, I love this.
I love rucking. Uh, some people might just call it hiking.
Uh, what else do they call it?
You know, just walking with the backpack is what it really is.
Okay. So it's, it's so simple.
Anybody can do this.
Anybody can do this as if you can walk, you can do it.
So I highly recommend this.
And especially as you get older, because it's super easy to recover, it will not make you feel more tired.
It'll make you feel energized.
And as you get stronger, of course, you can make it more difficult.
Maybe a heavier and heavier backpack.
Maybe more go walking in more hills if you have hills or mountains around.
Maybe walking a little faster.
Or just going longer.
Okay, it's easy to do.
And this way, it's even better than running, I think.
Because running, again, if you run too fast, it will make you feel tired the next day.
Your body gets a bit exhausted, and then you've got to recover.
So for energy, I'm just talking about energy.
There are other benefits to those exercises.
I'm not saying it's wrong, but just for energy all day, every day, don't do too much.
A second kind of exercise to do for all day energy, this is for strength now, is I recommend a program called Simple and Sinister.
Simple and Sinister is the name.
You can Google it, search it.
it's by a guy named pavel setzalin i can't i can't spell his last name he's russian uh but it is the simplest strength program you're going to find it's only two exercises okay there's and you do it every day okay so it's it's it's different than like a a lot of gym programs where you work out very
hard one day and then the next day you have to rest it's instead you're doing it every day.
It uses kettlebells.
So it's super cheap.
You buy one kettlebell and you just do it at home.
You can do it at home and you do it every day.
It only takes like 15, 20 minutes to do.
It's an everyday program.
And again, you will not be exhausted.
It's going to energize you.
You will build some muscle, probably not become a bodybuilder.
Okay. You're not going to be a bodybuilder or a power lifter with this, but just for normal people who just want to keep their muscle and gain some strength this is a great program that will keep you feeling high energy won't exhaust you great one for older people again but any age is fine all right
final thing for high energy and now this is the complicated topic i'm going to make it as simple as i can i have tried so many things in this area of nutrition and eating okay you have to experiment you have to try things for your own body okay because some people maybe do well with like a more of a vegetarian type
of diet some people do better with you know more close to carnivore where they're eating lots of meat okay so you have to adjust i'm going to give you some general ideas that have worked very well for me okay number one this is very simple you probably know already eat high quality real foods as much
as you can what does real mean it means not stuff from a box or a bottle or a can as much as you can get the whole real foods in some countries this is easy places like america it's less easy but you can still do it okay so you're avoiding why the boxes and cans are bad because they add tons of chemicals
they add unhealthy kinds of sugars they add unhealthy kinds of oils and fats it's all crap it's all garbage it will make you feel tired and sick so whole real foods vegetables fruits meats fish especially those milk dairy if you can handle dairy all those are great this is old school old kind of nutrition okay
uh part of this avoid seed oils what does that mean avoid vegetable oils avoid soybean oil no canola oil no uh peanut oil no all those kinds of oils in my experience will make you feel terrible okay over time they just kill your energy they're not good for you so if when you're cooking again our ancestors
all those really old people hundreds and of years ago they did they did it better use butter use ghee it's kind of butter coconut oil eating olive oil is okay um but all other kind of veggie oils i would just say avoid avoid avoid don't do them number two so and what kinds of diets work well with this so this is kind
of like some people call it a mediterranean diet uh primal diets these kind of things okay the main thing is you're eating you're not eating that processed uh garbage food all right protein you need protein you need protein to just to keep your body going it doesn't have to be like a bodybuilder but eat quality
protein you can get that from meats you can get it from dairy or i think the animal proteins are probably better so i'm not a vegan i don't recommend veganism um if you're vegetarian go with cheeses and raw milk if you can get it very good quality um if you're not vegetarian then organ meats are very
good you want to eat some organs sometimes liver and maybe like kidney other parts of the animal not just the muscles and of course you know you can eat beef lamb fish eggs all that stuff's good fats we mentioned already but you want to uh you know saturated fats fine the fats from animals fine um olive
oil that's called mono unsaturated you don't need to know all this stuff but just you know olive oil and avocados are good macadamia nuts but most of the other kinds of oils and fats you will avoid okay carbs carbs this is a topic where people will um people will argue about this carbs carbs how much
carbs do you need and carbs you know carbs are like sugars basically and uh or pastas breads grains that kind of thing basically how many carbs you need or want just depends how active you are if you just sit on a couch and watch tv all day and do nothing you don't need many carbs but if you're out
walking hiking rucking kind of active more carbs generally speaking uh you can one source of carbs it's absolutely fantastic fruit eat as much fruit as you like yummy yum yum fruit fruit juices are good Vegetables, veggie juices, potatoes, sweet potatoes, all that stuff is great.
Just don't do too much, okay, where you can start getting fat.
But as long as you're feeling good, great.
So that's all the very basic advice I have for eating.
You've got to find your own way in this.
There's a lot of people out there who have a lot of different opinions about it.
So you have to try different things.
But all this has worked for me very, very well.
Finally, supplements.
Again, you're going to get people arguing about this.
So I'll give you the ones that work for me.
Okay? I call it Decam, D -E -K -M, are the main ones.
Okay, some vitamin D.
That's only if you don't go outside.
A lot of people just sit indoors all day and they don't get sun.
But the best vitamin D, you just get outside.
I get outside a lot, even in the winter.
so uh if you're getting out in the sunlight a lot you don't need to take extra vitamin d probably but if you work in an office and you sit indoors all day maybe so you could take a vitamin d supplement vitamin e you want to get something called gamma e or full spectrum e so there's actually like eight,
seven or eight different forms or kinds of vitamin E.
And you want to get, if you get a supplement, you want to get one that has all of them.
You can look up gamma E as a, if you do a search on that or full spectrum E that's important because the other, the kind, a lot of the supplements, they only have one kind and that's not so healthy you want to get the full amount the full real deal vitamin k and k2 k2 depends if you japanese people
get this a lot because they eat something called natto which is very high in k2 k2 is great for your bones great for your brain your blood everything but if you're not getting that you could get again a vitamin uh either k2 or get one that has k1 and k2 like it's there's one called super K.
I think it's called, um, this helps with your blood and brain or eat natto if you're Japanese.
Uh, and then finally magnesium, the M stands for magnesium.
You can get that from green veggies, or again, if you're not getting enough green veggies, you could take a supplement.
Okay. So those are the basics.
That's it. I just gave it to you.
How to move your body and use your body.
How kinds of exercise that will create energy.
And then this is the basic nutrition.
The final thing, I'll give you a few supplements.
The final thing are just a couple little tricks.
These are not enough.
Okay. These are little hacks.
If you need a little extra energy every day, or you want to start with some extra energy each day.
Okay. It's a little, little extras.
Number one, I take a little, um, when I wake up in the morning, I take a little energy shot.
This is my little mix, my formula, okay?
It has water, warm water, like hot water.
And then I put in a little baking soda, a little baking soda.
Not too much, because it'll make your stomach...
You'll be going to the bathroom a lot if you do too much.
So, a little, like a couple pinches of baking soda.
And then I put some magnesium powder in there, magnesium malate I use, because it, it also gives, it gives you more energy.
And, and then I put some gelatin, like broth, you know, gelatin.
And I mix them together.
I add a little lemon juice to that, mix it up, let it cool, drink it.
That's the first thing I drink in the morning.
Gives me a shot of energy.
Very nice. the next thing i drink after maybe another 30 minutes is a is coffee i know people it's coffee is good coffee's bad i like coffee i love it i so what i do is i take coffee and i add a little bit of uh coconut oil or mct oil and mix it with the coffee coconut oil or mct oil comes from coconut
oil okay i mix it now again not too much so you don't upset your stomach just a little i like a little milk in my coffee and then i also take like a baby aspirin with that chew it up coffee coconut or mct oil and a baby aspirin that's my second shot those two things the water drink and then the coffee
drink i am very energized all morning and that keeps me energized actually most of the day, those two things.
And then I eat breakfast, of course.
I just eat, I'll follow the food recommendations I already told you.
So I'll eat a nice breakfast in the morning and that's it.
That's it. The final thing.
Yeah, magic drinks, we could call them.
They're not necessary, but they do help.
The final thing I'd say is just mentally is to keep learning things, stay curious about things, because this is going to help you be energized to have a feeling that you have some purpose in your life, something that you want to do, that you need to do.
I think having a family helps this because you have to take care of your children.
That's going to energize you.
It forces you to do things and to be more energetic.
And also keep learning.
It doesn't matter how old you are.
If you're 57 like me, then it doesn't matter.
Try something new. Keep learning new things.
Keep exploring. This also keeps your brain more energized.
Okay? All right. Let's get into our questions and comments now.
So that's it. Those are all my tips for high energy.
Okay. I'm going to run back here.
I'm just going to go back and look through the comments quickly.
Lots of people saying hi.
okay let's see so i'm gonna kind of go backwards start at the bottom here i love coffee too says yasmin yes i do i love it you know some people will say there's some things that aren't good about it but Actually, I feel very good.
I just don't do too much, but I think it's fine.
I think it has actually a lot of good benefits.
I've changed my mind about coffee.
A long time ago, I used to think, I thought, oh, maybe coffee's not good, but I think it's actually great.
Am I in Japan now? Asked Shogi.
No, I'm in America, in Indiana.
Okay, Magalida Lan says, my dear professor, I hadn't seen you.
Are you still in the USA?
How about your child?
Did he have his surgery?
Yes. I talked about this yesterday.
He had his surgery.
Everything went very, very well.
He is almost fully recovered from the surgery.
He's doing fantastically well.
and yes we're still in America for now don't eat fast food says Waleed yeah I agree yeah Danny Fitness says I think the toilet sitting position is important do it by squatting not sitting like eastern countries yeah you know I think there may be something to that that it does help so using those like
in Japan they have those still those squat toilets good for your legs too teaches you to squat oh Alexei Plotnikov says that Pavel Sutsalin is Belarusian born fitness instructor okay so Belarus didn't know that thought he was from Russia palm oil no says write the truth yes exactly don't eat palm oil
meditate now zabi mentions another good one meditation is a is the best way to feel lots of energy if you do it properly yes meditation can help as well um and also is a good way to to get a nice rest for your brain is to meditate.
There are a lot of methods of meditation out there.
Just do some research about it.
Okay, Zaman says, how to use your Power English course in a day?
Can you explain step by step?
Like first I would do this, then I would do that.
Okay, yeah, all right, sure.
Okay, first thing is I would listen to the mini story.
so get up and then get up in the morning take your little magic drinks i just talked about and then jump around get high energy as i tell you to do and then i would say first listen to the mini story that's the kind of the the central the main lesson okay listen to it one time answer the questions out
loud next listen to the vocabulary lesson the audio go.
Next, listen to the mini story again.
All right. Next, listen to the main lesson.
Next, listen to the point of view lesson.
And next, listen to the commentary lesson.
You can take little breaks in there if you need to, to get energized.
After listening to all those, read get the text out and read any of those that you had trouble with if you they're certain if you're not sure if you understand everything so go back and read them just look at the text you can do it quickly if you need to you can circle words that are new or unknown
to you or phrases you can even write them down in a notebook and take notes if you want and then later in the day do all that same stuff again and you could change the order a little bit if you want to okay that's not this is not like a super hard rule if you want to do the vocabulary lesson first it's
okay if you want to do the main lesson as the first one it's fine okay so this is just an example what you could do and you would do that in the day and you just keep repeating that at different times of the day as much as you can bd says hello from austin texas well hello to you um humdan says do you
have zoom sessions i do sometimes do zoom sessions with vip members and sometimes uh there's a like a super vip group but that I do talks with that they have their own book club.
Maybe I'll do another one soon with my VIP members, do a Zoom session.
MR says, health food gives you lots of energy.
Eat twice a day, avoiding sugar and white bread.
Yeah, I avoid that too as much as I can.
You'll get so much energy.
You'll be stuck wondering how to spend it.
That's a good problem to have, right?
I think, you know, the best source of sugar is probably fruit.
Maybe potatoes and sweet potatoes, that kind of thing, too.
James Smith says, Hi, AJ, I've been missing you.
Thank you. Hello to you.
Do I have a podcast?
Yes. Effortless English podcast.
Just do a search on any podcast app.
what to do to improve mental health ask bia meditation's a good one i would say go back and watch my uh show where i talked about prayer praying prayer meditation i think this is this will help you at the deepest level of mental health and i think the other thing you can do for mental health is improve
your body with everything I just talked about today.
Uh, when your body feels great, when you have high energy and you're feeling great, um, I think you usually feel better mentally too.
Those are two simple things you could do.
Sarah says, I love your acting when you jump and do some exercise.
Yep. Joseph says, are you still doing jujitsu?
Not right now, taking a break uh while i'm in america my back was i hurt my back when i came here and went to a gym here and uh so i just took a break i decided to just stop for a while i was my body was hurting me a lot it was just too much i was feeling tired was not recovering after jujitsu so i
switched to doing what i'm telling you today and uh now i just feel good every single day so that's why i'm taking and a break from jujitsu.
Okay. Is it L -V -I -N, living?
What are your tips for students who have exams these days?
We need to spend most of our time studying.
It's a bit hard to be energetic while studying.
Yeah, right. Okay. So everything I just talked about today, do it.
And what you probably need to do if you're studying all day, right?
You've got big exams and you have to just do really long periods of time studying, you're going to have to take breaks.
Okay. So you're going to have to, uh, uh, like, you know, do that kind of little funny energetic dance with music and everything jumping around.
And then you're going to have to, uh, you know, do some studying, do what you need to do.
And then you'll, um, probably eventually start feeling tired again.
so then what are you gonna do do it again okay like maybe every hour maybe every 30 minutes you got to do that music think put up the music jump around go crazy yeah right maybe do want a couple of those magic drinks I just said maybe you need more than one every day you might need to do it two times
a day three times a day don't do it too late because then you won't be able to sleep but you're gonna have to kind of keep jumping your energy up because what will happen is as you if you're studying hours and hours every day you just can't keep your energy super high the whole time so you'll jump around
play music maybe do a little shot of energy a little coffee or something um and your energy will jump up really high you play that music jump around and then it'll gradually come down come down come down come down come down and then you have to do it again take a break jump around get some energy maybe
go for a walk do some exercise and then your energy be high but then it'll start dropping again and then right Don't try to just study, you know, for seven hours with no breaks because then your energy will drop, drop, drop.
And the quality of your studying will go down, down, down.
Take a break every hour at least and do something that energizes you, especially something physical.
Another thing you can do while you're studying, if you can, study while you, you know, do some of your studying standing up.
put your, put your book or notebook up high, on something high and stand up and, and maybe just even just move around, look like what I'm doing now, right?
Cause I'm cold. So you can just move around and wiggle around and, and, uh, do that while you study instead of just sitting in a chair.
So these are little tricks you can do to keep that energy higher, better concentration, better focus while you are studying a long time.
Some people are listening to English or You're studying English for hours and hours every day.
Or other topics. Oh, as Jean says, you know we have a class which has 14 people, my teacher watches you every time.
He says that AJ is, oh, so, AJ's his teacher, so my teacher and I, we love your methods.
you are my teacher's teacher well please say hello to your teacher someone said hi from right now from indiana and in the united states okay hi to your kurdish fans uh s is the profile name is language say how to your kurdish fans they love you a lot hello kurdish fans all right if i study your lessons
can i speak fluently yes if you follow my method use the course the way i tell you to do it it's important zamir sharifi says uh hi j from afghanistan i started learning english language with your videos i can easily understand the joe rogan podcast and i am i almost understand 80 of them that's fantastic
that's great see that's great because once you do my courses and then you get your level up high you can understand me very very well you understand all the courses and then yeah that's what you do next is you start listening to other stuff real stuff for native speakers like the joe rogan podcast is great he's
got different um he's got different guests on so lots of different topics kind of interesting there's other podcasts too you can listen to there's lots of them so very good excellent congratulations to you Thamar Yaldir says it's summer here in Australia I feel cold when I see that snow behind you yes
indeed what's your opinion on studying English as a first language like kids ask Bilal the Khrashen hypothesis yeah I'm a fan I like Khrashen and I like Khrashen's general ideas definitely I was strongly influenced by him oh arson says welcome to base welcome to basic thanks for joining arson that's
great thank you so much cold or ice shower technique is so beneficial for help says fatima i know but i really don't enjoy it i've i've done it at times uh not uh i've done cold baths and i've done uh not ice I've done cold baths and I've done cold showers at different times, but, um, I'm not very tough
with the cold. Uh, so I just can't keep doing it.
I'll do it, but, Oh, it just don't enjoy it.
I'm much more like heat.
I like saunas. I like saunas, but, uh, yeah, but if you can do it, great.
You know, like you see people in Russia, uh, or, or other really cold countries and they're swimming in the ice you know they they break the ice open and they jump in the ice cold water like oh my god wow that's so tough it's amazing but i can't do it yeah that's a great way to start the day shriek
says i start by hearing a prayer call and i take uh absolution and ablution and saying morning prayers get into nature all fantastic yes starting off your morning with prayer and meditation, reading scriptures, these kind of things.
Also, fantastic, especially for that mental energy and mental health.
Awesome. Yosef says, I really want to eat healthy food.
My problem is I don't have time to cook.
Yeah, I understand that because of spending my whole day at work.
I think a lot of people have same problem what to do okay yeah you got to find like super fast super convenient easy things you can do okay so number one fruit just raw fruit is super easy right and dried fruit these things you can take them in a bag you know bananas apples it depends on your country
or every country has different kinds you know figs dates you know on and on and on there's so many so those that's the healthy form of sugar.
So those are good little treats that you can carry.
You can eat those. And then, you know, simple things that things you can make really fast.
Like if, if you eat meat like steak, you can broil it.
If you have like an, you know, it depends again, different countries cook things in different ways, but broiling B R O I L broiling.
I've been doing that lately because it's a fast, fast way to cook things like steaks, for example.
You can cook them in 10 minutes.
And it's good. It's simple, really easy.
You can get a little small toaster oven.
You can do it. So, you know, eggs, you can do that too.
Those are super easy to make.
You can make them really fast.
So just keep things very, very basic and simple and find again there's so many recipes online and depending what kind of food you like just find things are super simple and very very very fast and you know you need some variety but you can kind of eat you know maybe you have like eight meals you can make
and you just make that eat those all the time and you make them really quick it's still way better than eating fast food or something now this is a cool idea berries says i drink a cup of warm milk with cinnamon ginger and turmeric yeah that's awesome it's good for your liver and your skin and your
stomach exactly and ginger is also an energizer so ginger will provide some energy great for your stomach and your digestion and turmeric is great for uh inflammation just great for your body in general liver and cinnamon is great for blood sugar so that's a great drink right there that's an awesome
drink that's another like little magic drink so you can make your own you can figure out what works for you these little but i like these kind of things also uh for people who don't have much time these these little magic drinks or something, you can juice veggies and fruits, fruit and veggie juices
and then you can add little things like different herbs like this or you can use like, you know, milk or so these kind of little quick drinks or quick snacks that are healthy I like goji berries for example blueberries, berries are have great nutrition and you don't need to cook them and you can get
them dried too so you can carry around with you so again fast but healthy alexi says people who swim in ice holes are called walruses here in russia yeah funny they have them in like some places in in america too up and then the obviously the really cold countries okay emil by ramoff says i started
listening to your podcast 10 years ago wow you're not only best english coach you're a good person i have learned a lot of things from you about life in the world thank you emil thank you so much i've learned a lot too from doing the show and meeting communicating with you all okay cool Chris says I
finished all the mini stories last year my English has improved a lot awesome I gotta start jumping because I'm getting cold out here I've been standing here in the cold getting a little chilly especially in my legs zamir sharifi says does a good relationship with god increase your increase our energy
i would say yes yes yes tremendously and also you can if you have health problems if you're feeling down if you have low energy you can just pray about it and ask for help ask for guidance right if you're lost That's a great thing to do.
I did a show about this a couple weeks ago, so check it out.
Can you pronounce my brother's name?
Wesker asks, what happened with your son?
My son's doing fantastically well.
He had surgery. He's recovered.
It went very, very, very well.
better than I could have hoped.
It's really fantastic.
So he's doing great.
He's doing very, very well.
All right, a few more before I have to go in because of the cold.
Whew, I'm going... Okay, Azik says, Hey, AJ, I've been wanting to thank you for a long time.
Guess what? Today is the day three years ago that YouTube recommended your channel.
I've become fluent.
I succeeded in English due to your methods.
Thank you. Congratulations.
That's fantastic. Rahim says, how can I use your course to improve my English?
get the Power English course at VIP if you can and just do it every day and do it in a way that's high energy like I just described that's the best thing to do and I would say two hours a day is the best if you can do more, great if you can't, just do your best is it still snowing?
it's still snowing a little a little snow still coming okay a couple more questions then i gotta go oh emile says my biggest dream is to one day see you uh in person a lot live i missed you in the book club podcast do you think making them again yes definitely Akdam says I learned a lot of useful advice
to improve my English skill, especially in your book, Effortless English.
Get my book. It's got a lot of good tips.
Effortless English is the name of the book.
You can get it on Amazon, other booksellers online also.
okay alexi says yeah the best way to stay warm in winter is to remove snow we were doing that earlier kind of shoveling the snow maybe i'll go back out and do it some more good point also pushing my kids in the sled kept me warm too oh cool abdullah amed altashi says AJ, I started your effortless English pronunciation course.
Copying is easy. I enjoy it a lot.
But when I try to focus between my thinking in English and my speaking, I struggle.
Keep doing it. Keep doing the shadowing every day, every day, every day.
It'll start to click, meaning it'll start becoming automatic.
First, you have to do it.
You're going to have to focus.
And it feels kind of difficult.
And then when you do like a normal conversation, you forget.
It's all normal. But keep doing it.
After a few more weeks, what will happen is it will start to become automatic and you will not need to think about it.
I got a dog barking at me now.
Let's see if I can get out in the snow a bit.
Okay. Wait, wait. Alright.
Let's see. Yeah, this works.
Alright. It's not snowing too hard.
I think this will block.
There's snow coming onto my computer.
Okay, a couple more.
Okay, yeah, Gustavo Molina says, there's a method, I don't remember the name, it says that you should study and stop every 45 minutes, take a 15 -minute break.
It's better because you stay more focused.
I agree, right? Absolutely.
That the general idea, you could do 45 minutes and then a 15 minute break.
You know, you could do 30 minutes, then a 10 minute break and, you know, whatever.
Just play around with it, whatever break works for you.
But in general, you need like a decent break to rest your brain, reset your brain, energize your brain and your body again, and then go back to studying.
Don't just try to keep going, going, going, going.
I know it seems like the best thing to do, but taking those little breaks really helped.
And be sure during your break to get energized.
All right. Okay, I think this is the end.
Yeah, MR says start your day with a glass of warm water that has lemon juice in it.
That's part of my first thing when I wake up.
Warm water, lemon juice.
I also add some, what did I say?
gelatin and uh some magnesium malate all right i think that's it okay guys i'm gonna go for now because i am cold and uh i gotta get in and get inside and warm up okay lots of love to you from snowy indiana effortless english club .com is my website the only official website be careful there are some
pirates out there we're going to get them taken down it takes a while but I've hired lawyers and a team and we're going to take down the pirates but be careful because they cheat a lot of people they steal money and they don't give you anything so EffortlessEnglishClub .com right there on the screen if you're watching on video that's my official site start with PowerEnglish,
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See you next time. Bye for now.
Thank you.
