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DVD 6 : VIP Global Leadership Program

 VIP Welcome

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 Comfort Zone

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VIP Lesson Video

Hi, it’s A.J., welcome to the VIP Program, the VIP Global Leadership Program Now this

is the first lesson set that everyone gets when they join the VIP Program Of course in the future I will send you a new set of lessons every month Once a month you will get

an email from me and the email will be a link to the new lesson page for that month, so every month you will get something new from me, so welcome

And what are we going to learn about? Number one, you’re going to learn English speaking confidence So you’ll see that there’s a mini-story, a point-of-view story and

an audio commentary in every set Every month you get that, of course you do So, no worries, you’re going to improve your fluency, your speaking, quickly, easily and

automatically That’s number one

I want you to feel confident when you speak English So right now, in fact, you need to put your shoulders back and I want to see a smile on your face and I want your chest to

be up and I want you to breathe deeply Remember, we have to change our body that’s the first step It’s not the only thing, but it’s the first step to getting more confidence When our chin is up, our shoulders are back, chest is up, we’re smiling we have more of

a feeling of confidence, of strength and relaxation So be sure to do that every time you listen to English, speak English, and watch my videos always, very, very, very important

So that’s the first step

Now you’re going to learn confidence, you’re going to get, you know, new English of course from these lessons, but also we’re going to learn leadership Every single month I’m going to send you audio commentaries and a little video about the topic of

leadership And sometimes I’ll use that movie technique, I’ll pause and explain

Sometimes I will just talk myself about a leadership topic

Today with our first one here I’m going to show you a Tony Robbins’ video I’ll pause and explain to help you understand, so we can all become better leaders in our life, with our family, with our friends, at our jobs and in general

One note real quick All of these Tony Robbins’ videos I use are public I do not use Tony Robbins’ products I respect Tony Robbins so much I have bought so many of his products I pay to go to his seminars I would never use or copy his products So these are public speeches You can find them on YouTube or the Internet or his website publically And I want to help you learn and understand Tony’s ideas, because I think he

is a great leader, someone we can learn a lot from

So, let me start This is a speech he gave at the TED Conference I think that means technology, education and development, I’m not sure about that It’s a speech from

2006 I will show you just a small part of it, help you understand it and then I’ll talk about the topic Let’s go

[Plays video]

Okay, so he said I look at life and I believe there are two master lessons, two big things

we must all learn in life

[Plays video]

Number one is the science of achievement What’s that? Well that means how to be successful in your life and it’s a science, right, in your career or job, with money, with relationships, with health, whatever your goals are, what you want in life It’s kind of a science, right? If you want to be a great golf player, well, basically, you have to study other great golf players You learn exactly what they do and how to do the grip and, you know, how to do your swing It’s a science You can study it There are principles for this that you can learn very rationally, very logically So there’s the science of

achievement, the science of success

So he’s saying the science of achievement That’s how you take the invisible and make

it visible What’s he talking about? He means you start with an idea, some great idea then you make it real You have a dream to have a big company and then you create the company, really, you make it or you have a dream to have a great, wonderful family It’s just invisible, it’s in your head, it’s an idea, but then you actually do it The invisible, the idea, becomes something real in the world That’s the science of achievement

[Plays video]

So he’s saying how you take your goal, your idea, the invisible, and make it happen in the world You make it real, whether it be your contribution in the world, your business, your finances and money, your family, whatever

fulfillment What is fulfillment? Fulfillment really means happiness, right? Happiness is what he’s talking about, the art of being happy, right?

We know that a lot of successful people are not happy We see famous people all the time, they have tons of money, they’re rich, everybody loves them, they’re super, super successful, they have great bodies, they’re super handsome or beautiful, they have a perfect life we think, but they’re not happy They have the art of achievement They do not have the art of happiness, the art of fulfillment We need both

[Plays video]

So he’s saying science is easy The science of achievement is easy We know the rules The rules are more clear Like in business, you know, we basically know what we need to do to make more money Cut our expenses and market well It’s very clear, much more clear We know the rules We know the code

[Plays video]

So he’s saying that’s a science Achievement, success, that’s a science There are clear rules, but happiness, fulfillment, that’s an art It’s less clear what we need to do

But happiness, fulfillment, that’s about being happy and grateful for what you have already now I’m so happy for my wife I’m so happy for my children I’m happy that I have this body and that I can breathe and smile and feel good I’m so happy for my parents, for whatever you have

And then number two, the other part of the art of fulfillment is contribution Contribution means helping other people, giving to other people, being generous It’s not with

money so much, but really generous with your heart, generous with your feelings Giving and helping and teaching other people, that’s the other part of fulfillment, of happiness

[Plays video]

Ah, right? He’s saying you can only feel so much It means there’s a limited amount you can feel alone If you’re alone you can feel a little bit happy, sure you can feel happy, but when you share with other people, help other people, oh you’re happiness grows much bigger It’s an important point

[Plays video]

Woo, he talks fast, ha? He said so I’ve had an interesting laboratory in which to look at You know, what’s the difference in somebody’s life? He’s talking about different people

So what is he talking about interesting laboratory? Well, he’s talking about his business

In his business he always meets people He meets a lot of people with problems,

successful people, people who are not successful, happy people, people who are not happy

So this is kind of like a laboratory, right? It means he can go and he can compare and experiment and try different things and find out what is the difference What’s the

difference between a very happy person and someone who’s depressed? What’s the difference between a very successful person and someone who’s not? Tony Robbins is always looking to find out what is the difference between these kinds of people

[Plays video]

So he’s saying, for example, those people you give everything to, they have the

resources Resources means things you need So he’s talking about, for example, somebody who is famous, super rich They had wonderful, loving parents Their

husband or wife is wonderful and loving and great and fantastic Everything externally,

on the outside, seems to be perfect

So he’s saying they become drug addicts They need to go to a program, a center, a rehabilitation center for drug addicts to try to quit drugs We see this with famous

people all the time Everybody loves them, they’re rich, they’re beautiful, they had great parents, everything seems to be perfect, yet they become drug addicts They have to

go to these hospitals, these rehabilitation centers to try to quit They quit for a short time then they go back again So he’s thinking why, right?

Most people think oh, if I had more money, if I had more success, if more people love

me, if my body was better, then I would be happy That’s not true necessarily

[Plays video]

So he’s saying not always, but often those people that had so much pain, later they become the people who contribute the most to society, who help society the most, who help other people the most They become the best, most wonderful, most loving

people, most happy people in the world Now not immediately, right? It takes a long time for them sometimes, but often those become the very best people, the people who had the most pain, why?

[Plays video]

And here’s the big thing, this is the most important idea right here There’s a mindset, a mindset, a belief, a deep belief in most of the world that we are our past The past equals now, the past equals our future So many people believe this, right? My past was terrible; therefore, I am terrible now My life is terrible now; therefore, in the future

my life will be terrible always So many people have this belief It’s not true, not true

I’m going to stop here with Tony and just talk to you a little bit about this idea, so, so important This idea that the past causes what’s happening now and the past causes the future, it does not! This is one of the beliefs you must change in your life, if you have it To be a great leader, to contribute, to be happy, to help your family, to help your friends, to help the world, to be a better person, everything depends on this changing

The past does not equal the future This is a basic Tony Robbins’ idea It’s a basic idea for happiness and success We know it’s not true We know people who had terrible, horrible, things in the past They were abused They had physical problems, emotional problems No money, poor, terrible, terrible lives in the past and yet now they’re so happy They’re rich They’re helping other people They’re wonderful, great, incredible leaders

We also know people in the past who had everything, rich, so much money They grew

up rich Their parents were rich They got love all the time Their parents gave them love constantly, everybody always giving them love Maybe they’re famous Everybody knows them and loves them Physically they’re strong and healthy They look beautiful

or very handsome They seem to have everything in the past and yet now unhappy They have terrible lives They don’t love anybody They’re not helping anyone They are terrible, terrible leaders

So this is important We must always think about this It’s so easy to blame now on the past It’s so easy to focus on the past Oh, I’m not good at English, because in the past

my teachers were bad In the past my school was bad Maybe that is true It doesn’t matter Forget the past

Right now you have a better method Right now you have Effortless English lessons Right now you know the seven rules You know a better way Forget the past Your present and your future can be totally different You can be a confident English speaker You can feel relaxed when you speak English You can speak fluently, easily and

automatically You can communicate powerfully The past is not important Now is important and the future

It’s also about our emotions If you’re not happy now that’s okay In my life many times

I was not happy, but right now I am very happy Why? Because I don’t blame the past,

I don’t focus on the past I focus on now What can I do now to be happy? What can I

do now to be healthy? How can I help other people now? How can I teach other

people now? How can I give more to other people now?

How can I appreciate what I already have now, my beautiful, wonderful wife Tamoa who

I love dearly? Yes, we have disagreements and problems and different views about things, but I still appreciate her so much

I appreciate past girlfriends or people I dated We broke up and we’re not together anymore and our lives are totally different, but I still appreciate them I’m thankful I’ve learned something from them They were still good people

I appreciate other people in my past Maybe they didn’t like me Maybe we had

problems and we argued, but I learned something from them I can choose to still appreciate them Maybe I don’t like them, maybe I don’t want to be their friend, but I can still be thankful, because I learned something from them Because of them I

learned and I became a better person I can still appreciate that

I can appreciate the problems in my life in the past, because they taught me something They made me stronger, they made me better In the past I was very unhappy about it, but now I can look back and I see ah, that was a chance to learn, that was a change to grow That’s how you need to change

If you want to be a global leader and you want to confident and you want to be happier it’s very important to appreciate your problems and appreciate your past, even if it was bad and terrible, especially the bad and terrible parts That’s the difference between people who are unhappy and they are terrible leaders and people who become great, happy, wonderful leaders

The great ones look at the terrible things in the past, the pain and they learn something from it They appreciate it They say it was terrible, it was horrible, but I’m thankful because I learned to care more about other people It helped me to be more sensitive

to other people It taught me to be a better person Or I decided I would never do that

to another person I was hurt I decided I would never hurt other people this way You learned something from it It made you a better person

You need to learn to appreciate that The experience was bad, yes, but the learning was wonderful for you It can make you help other people so much, because of that pain in the past We all have pain from the past, but we have a choice Do we blame the pain and focus on it and become negative and terrible or do we learn from it and appreciate the lesson we learned and then use that lesson to help other people It can

be something small or it can be big, but that’s the point that Tony is talking about It’s a very important point for leadership

So that’s my point for you today with this first lesson for VIP and I will be talking about leadership ideas in every lesson set every month And, also, I want you to listen to the

audio commentary, because I will talk about some of these ideas more in the audio commentary.

Also, of course, listen to the mini-story lesson and the point-of-view lesson For your English listening and speaking those are the most powerful lessons Listen to those every day Shout your answers with your shoulders back, smiling and your chest up Strong shouts and answers, strong body, confident Teach yourself to be confident every time you listen to English, use English and speak English Okay?

So I look forward to teaching you and helping you every single month Thank you for joining the VIP Program Together we are going to help so many people We can start with our family and friends, we can start with other members in the Effortless English Club, especially the new members, but then we can continue in all of our life

Thank you so much It’s my honor to serve you and to help you Thank you so much Have a wonderful day and I’ll see you again soon, bye-bye

VIP Welcome Commentary

Hi, how are you? This is A.J and this is the audio commentary for our first lesson set for the VIP Program Welcome to the VIP Program, by the way I know I already said that in the video, but I’ll say it again Welcome, I’m so happy to teach you I am just so excited about you, about this program And why is that? Why am I so excited about this? Well, because this whole program is about contribution This whole program is about not only English, but using English, using our confidence to help other people, to contribute to other people

That’s true leadership in my mind and with English we can be global leaders That’s the connection between English and leadership Because, sure, we can be leaders with our families, with our friends, with our jobs and inside our local communities and we should

be But with English, which is the current global language, at least right now, we can also connect with people in other countries with English and through the Internet and through, you know, travel We can connect with people all over the world and so we can have a global impact with our actions And we want to have positive impacts, right?

We want to be positive, so let me talk about this

So this is why I’m excited about the VIP Program, because it’s more than just an English program Of course it’s an English program Of course I’m going to help you improve your English speaking to speak English quickly, easily and more automatically Yes, yes, yes, of course, definitely That’s why I’m including the mini-stories and the point-of-view stories, new ones every single month

And of course you’re going to get some extra vocabulary and pronunciation All that stuff, just by listening to this commentary, by listening to the videos So, yes, all of that, but the deeper thing is how are we going to use English I mean even as a native

speaker, how do I want to use English to be a global leader Meaning how do I want to use English to make the world better, to help people through teaching, through giving, through helping other people help themselves, through helping other people, including you, feel more confident with English and in general

In fact, before we start let’s do something here Put your shoulders back, lift your chest

up, take a deep breath and smile, a big, big, stupid smile on your face This is so

important My Power English members know this already, that changing your body, changing your physiology it means just your body movement, your body position by changing that, changing that physiology, changing your body, you change your emotion and that even changes your thoughts

So we can start with our bodies, so let’s always start with our bodies Whenever you’re listening to me, even during the day, try to keep your shoulders back, your head and chin up, big smile and chest up and deep breathing Okay? So do that now as you listen to this commentary Okay, let’s start with the official topic of the commentary Are you ready? Alright

So you’ve already watched the video with Tony Robbins and I want to talk more about some of those ideas and about my definition of leadership It’s important as we start the VIP Program, which is both an English speaking program and a global leadership

program It’s important that we all agree and understand and know what I mean when I say leadership There are a lot of ideas out there in the world, in business, in politics, in relationships about the meaning of leadership What is it?

Well, you know the old idea about leadership was really about being a boss, right? The leader was the boss and the leader told the people under him and it was usually him, a man, what to do, right? I’m the leader, you do this I’m the leader, you do that If you’re bad the leader punishes you If you’re good maybe the leader rewards you And that’s really the very kind of old mentality, attitude, idea about leadership

And, of course, it’s a very old idea It’s still common, though I mean it’s an old idea, but you still find it in a lot of companies I know in a lot of jobs that I had I had managers

or even the company leaders that had this mentality and it was terrible I hated it And usually when you find an organization, a group, even a family with that kind of leader, usually there’s a lot of unhappiness, a lot of problems and, really, the group does not perform at its best ability and it’s not contributing

So that is not what I mean when I say leadership It’s not about being a boss It’s not about telling people you must do this, if you don’t I’ll punish you No, forget that The kind of leadership I want to talk about and I believe in and what we are going to learn in this VIP Program every month is called Service Leadership I believe it’s the highest level of leadership

The most powerful kind of leadership is service leadership and service leadership is really about those two important things that Tony Robbins talked about when he talked about the art of fulfillment, remember? He talked about the art of fulfillment and he said there are two keys to feeling happy, to being fulfilled: gratitude and contribution

Gratitude: it means being thankful and grateful for what you have, even if you have a lot

of problems now

We all have problems, but there are also always are good things in our life, always, if

we look If we look carefully we will find good things Maybe we are healthy Maybe we can be thankful Wow, my body it’s good I’m feeling good And a lot of people don’t

have that Many people are in the hospital right now, possibly going to die, so we can feel grateful that we are not in that position and that our bodies are relatively healthy and strong

We can feel grateful for people in our lives We might have some bad people in our lives Maybe we do have one of those terrible bosses, you know, but some family or friends in our life are very good They’re very generous, they’re loving, they’re kind and

we should not forget that We should remember them, even when we’re having a lot of problems in our life We can improve our own confidence, just by remembering all these good people, remembering and being thankful for our body and our good health

We have a lot of opportunities If you are listening to this it means you are paying for this every month and that means you have more money than a lot of people in the world There are a lot of very, very, very poor people who are suffering, who don’t have enough to eat right now I know your mom always said this to you, right? My mom always said, you know, oh, there are people starving that can’t have food, you know, in Africa or wherever, you know, in some poor place in America

But you know it’s true, there are people like that, lots of them, millions of them, millions

of them living in countries where there is war where people are being killed every day

So if you have enough money to pay for this program be grateful It’s something to be grateful for You can see by just focusing on gratitude you will find more and more and more good things in your life And, hey, if you’re happy already now, if you do feel happy, well guess what? By focusing on these things you’ll feel even more happy! You’ll start to get super excited

And that’s kind of what’s happening in my life now I’ve had very tough times in the past when I was not happy Right now I’m quite happy and my life is doing very well and yet

I can get busy and I’m thinking about the business, thinking about teaching So much to

do and I forget about this gratitude sometimes and it’s so powerful to stop and just think about it Oh, I’m so grateful I’m so happy My wife is so wonderful and such a good person with such a good heart I have such good friends and my family and my parents were, you know, so good to me I was so lucky

I’m so lucky that my business is growing and I’m lucky that I feel so healthy and most of all maybe I’m so lucky to have such great teachers, to have found them, great people who have written amazing books that change my life, people like Tony Robbins or Keith Cunningham who’s a business teacher or Thich Nhat Hanh who’s a Buddhist Monk You know all of these people have changed my life so much with their teaching They are great leaders They contributed to me and I am very grateful for that So we need

to do that You need to do that and it’s great if you can do it every day, even when you

have problems or even if you’re very busy, whatever the situation, but just remember and be grateful That’s step one of Service Leadership.

And it’s also true if you’re leading a group let’s say in your company if you have a team you’re working with You might not be the official boss, but you can still be a leader and the first way to start being a leader is just to appreciate and be grateful to other people Show them you care, right?

Remember we have a code in Effortless English, right? Remember our code of three, our three codes? Do you remember it? This is something that’s important that we must share with our new members all the time As VIP members you’re the leaders of

Effortless English now, so be sure that you remember that code and you always share it with our other members

I won’t go over all the code right now, but I will talk about the third part of that code, which is the most important for me and that is we show other people that we care We show them we care about them We care about the other members in Effortless

English We care about our family and friends So that’s the first part of service

leadership is just show people you care and that starts with gratitude Just be grateful for them, because they’re good people Even if they have problems, even if they make you crazy sometimes, show them you care Show them you’re grateful If they do something nice tell them, thank them, just say thank you It’s so, so easy and yet so many leaders forget this Just say thank you

You can go on the forums every day Every day you will find people, other VIP

members and leaders, new members, other people who are helping, who are saying something nice You can just say thank you It’s so simple It’s the first step, though Just go on the forums every day, say thank you to someone If you want to be ever more powerful, even a better leader, be specific Say thank you for doing this Tell them exactly what they did that you appreciate

Ken Blanchard, he’s a management person, he wrote The One Minute Manager, he has

a phrase He says “Catch people doing something right.” That’s what leaders do Great managers, great leaders, they catch people doing something right Usually

bosses, they try to catch people doing something wrong Parents do this sometimes, right? They’re always looking and they’re just waiting and then when you make a

mistake they jump and they say oh, you made a mistake! A lot of teachers do this, unfortunately, which is why I never correct mistakes It doesn’t work anyway A lot of research shows it’s not effective for most people

But we can do the opposite, instead of waiting until someone makes a mistake and then saying you made a mistake They often know it You can instead wait until they do

something nice, wait until they do something right and then say good job That was great! Thank you or congratulations! That’s service leadership It’s the first step It’s just easy People are always doing great things all the time

We can do it with each other as VIP members on our VIP social site When another VIP member compliments someone or helps someone, you know, congratulate them You can go on the forums and say hey, Inca, you’re so great Thank you for being so helpful, for example Or hey, Jan, wow, you’re always helping people I notice that you’re always so friendly and you’re always saying nice things to people Or hey,

Charlie, you know, I notice you’re always giving, you know, great, interesting information

to people and you’re always writing about such interesting ideas and sharing them and sharing these cool links with us Thank you, thank you for doing that

I mean that’s easy, right? Anybody can do that You don’t need to be a big boss to do that But that’s leadership, that’s service leadership It’s the first part of service

leadership It’s the easiest, it’s the most important You can do this with your children, with your wife, with your husband, with your friends, at your job You can do this in every part of your life every day and certainly I hope you’ll do this on the Effortless English forums, in our VIP social site Every chance you get just notice what people do right Congratulate them, thank them, be grateful to them

Alright, so let’s all agree to do this I need to do this too, because I forget too You know I also get busy and crazy with my life I’m running around doing stuff all the time and sometimes I forget this, so you can help me remember this When you do it more I’ll remember oh, I should do that too, oh You know? And together we’ll all grow

together and help each other be better leaders, right, true service leadership

Now then there’s the next step It’s kind of the next level, it’s a more active level of service leadership and that’s contribution So gratitude is more, you know, you’re sitting and you’re just noticing what’s happening now and contribution is more active That means you actively try to help people

We see this on our forums all the time Our VIP members are doing this all the time, our all stars That’s my nickname for you guys, by the way, you fantastic members who are always helping people It’s not an official title, but I just call you my all stars The all stars of Effortless English, because you’re doing so much more than most people will do

And that’s contribution What does contribution mean? It means you help other people

It means someone on the forums has a question, oh, I don’t understand this, and you answer it for them I mean that’s so great It seems like a small thing to some people, but it’s a big thing, because most people don’t do it

Or maybe you don’t want to do that Maybe you don’t have time to answer lots of

questions or maybe you don’t know the answer What else can you do? Well you can just give interesting information on the forums, right? Some oh, I found this cool video and it’s very positive and it will make people feel happier Well put a link on the forums

to the YouTube video That’s contribution It’s making other people happier That’s what contribution is about

Now, for me, what I see my job with contribution is teaching Helping other people feel more confident when they speak English, certainly, that’s my first job, but then I also want people to feel more confident in all of their life I want people to feel good about themselves, strong and relaxed

When people feel bad, when they feel depressed, when they feel shy, I feel bad I don’t like to see it It gives me pain to see that and so I feel…I mean I want people to feel good about themselves I want them to feel confident and happy all the time I know it’s impossible for it to happen all the time, but that’s kind of my feeling and my goal

And so that’s why I’m making all these lessons about these topics You know I’m

secretly teaching you English, of course, with all the mini-stories and the point-of-view stories and I’m teaching vocabulary and grammar, but, you know, I want to teach more than that You know vocabulary and grammar you can eventually, slowly, learn it from textbooks, but confidence is more important Confidence requires fluency, but it also requires a belief in yourself, strong beliefs, strong physiology, strong body

There are a lot of parts to that and that is my way of contributing That’s why I’m always doing all these videos, webinars and lessons and podcasts and a lot of them are free I have to have a business to keep reaching a lot of people and so this VIP Program, for example, you guys are paying for it I know that But, you know, still, I like to do a lot of free stuff, too, articles, all those seven rules emails

You know, yes, it helps my business, but if no one buys from me, they listen to the

seven rules and they don’t buy ever again from me, that’s okay I still hope they learned something and I hope they’ll use those rules to maybe find a tutor or to change the way they study and I hope they’ll become very successful, confident, fluent, automatic,

English speakers Even if they never buy from me, I don’t care I just put it out there I know that some people will buy if I just contribute enough, so…

The other thing like with Power English is I want to teach people how to have

confidence and happiness and success in their life and that is my deeper mission, which

is more than just English So that’s how I choose to contribute Everybody is different

You are different All of us in the VIP Program are different, so we all have different ways we can contribute or want to contribute

Some of us will answer questions on the forums Some of us might make little lessons Some of us might make other people laugh and just feel happier Some of us might share useful information Sometimes someone feels sad or depressed or discouraged

on the forums and we can encourage them and say hey, you can do it, it’s okay

Everybody feels discouraged I’ve felt discouraged in the past, but you know what? You can still do it

There are so many ways we can contribute within the Effortless English Club and then beyond in our families, in our companies, in our jobs There are just so many things we can do So, do you believe me? Okay? Are you going to do it? I certainly hope so That’s what this is about, service leadership

So this VIP Program and the Effortless English Club is about service leadership Not about being a boss, not about being the big, super expert, it’s about service leadership and that has two parts Part number one is gratitude, appreciating people Showing people we care, right? The third part of our code is show people you care Say thank you Hey, thank you for doing that or I appreciate you doing that or I notice you’re always doing this Just notice people doing things that are right and that are good Compliment them, thank them

That’s the first part of service leadership and the second part of service leadership is contribution It means giving something Now that can mean kind words or information

or teaching or answering questions or giving encouragement and support There are so many ways to do it

So that’s it That is our leadership model, our leadership system, our leadership belief here in the VIP Global Leadership Program That’s what I call it That’s the full name the VIP Global Leadership Program It’s an English program, yes, but it’s about much more It’s about becoming a leader and having an impact, touching all of the world; your local community, absolutely, yes; your family, definitely, but the whole world, too.And remember, it’s about service leadership, which has two parts: gratitude; showing people we care and number two: contribution; giving something back, helping people some how

So I hope you’ll do that I hope you’ll do that on our forums, the Effortless English Club forums with all our general members There’s so much you can do there We have so many new members every day and they want some contact They want someone to say hello They want to make friends They want some help They want to be

encouraged You can always do that, it’s such an easy way You can go to the forums

and say nice things to people Notice when other people are helping And you can go

to our VIP social site and also compliment people, notice people, encourage people And then you can do it in your life and you can do it so many other ways So go forward and practice service leadership That’s what we’re about

Now of course you will be getting new commentaries, new lessons, new mini-stories, new point-of-view stories, new videos from me every month Once a month I will send you an email with the link to the new lessons and commentaries and programs for you the VIP member and I’ll do that once a month every month Sometimes I might even give you some free bonuses, some little surprises We’ll see But definitely once a month every month you’re going to get something new, so use it

First of all, listen to those lessons every day so that you get the English That’s our first step You must improve your English speaking and be a confident English speaker, but then, number two, also practice the ideas so that you grow and grow and grow more successful in your personal life and also more successful as a service leader

Alright, I’ll see you again next time, next month Bye-bye and have a wonderful day Thank you so much for joining me in this program This program is so important to me You are so important to me Together we can help all of the world and we can make the world a better place and we can help individuals, groups, countries We can have a big, big impact I’ll see you again, bye-bye

VIP Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is A.J., welcome to the first mini-story for the VIP Global Leadership Program Shall we start? Okay

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There is…no, let’s do the past tense There was a rich, successful and handsome man.

What kind of man was there?

A rich, successful and handsome man.

Who was the rich, successful, handsome man?

Well the rich, successful, handsome man was…Brad Pitt Brad Pitt was the rich,

successful, handsome man

But Brad Pitt had a problem.

What was his problem?

Well his problem was that he was unhappy Brad Pitt was rich, successful and

handsome…he was rich, successful and handsome, but he was not happy.

Who wasn’t happy?

Brad Pitt Brad Pitt wasn’t happy.

Was he happy or was he unhappy?

Of course, he was unhappy

In fact, Brad Pitt was miserable Miserable means super unhappy; very, very unhappy.

Who was totally miserable?

Brad Pitt, of course Brad Pitt was totally and completely miserable.

Was he super happy?

No, he was not super happy He was miserable.

Was Brad Pitt rich?

Yes, he was rich He was super rich.

Was Brad Pitt successful?

Yes, he was super successful!

Was he handsome?

Oh yeah, he was super handsome He was super successful He was super rich.

So what was his problem?

Well, he was miserable He was super unhappy.

Brad Pitt had everything in his life externally Externally means outside himself

He had a beautiful wife.

Did he have an ugly wife or a beautiful wife?

He had a beautiful wife, Angelina Jolie His wife was beautiful.

What kind of wife was she?

She was a beautiful wife and he had lots of money He was rich and he was famous and successful, but he was unhappy He was miserable.

Why was he miserable?

Well, he didn’t know He didn’t know why he was miserable He thought and he

thought and he asked himself, why am I so unhappy? Why am I so miserable?

What did he think about?

Well, he thought about the question: why am I so unhappy? Why am I so miserable?

Every day he asked himself this question.

How often did he ask himself this question?

Every day he asked himself this question.

Who asked himself, why am I so miserable?

Well, Brad Pitt, of course.

Was Brad Pitt handsome?

Yes, he was.

But how did he feel?

He felt totally miserable.

Why did he feel totally miserable?

We don’t know.

Did Brad Pitt know why he felt totally miserable?

No, he didn’t Brad Pitt didn’t know.

So, he was living in L.A.; so at that time, maybe one year ago.

At that time, one year ago, where was he living at that time?

Well, at that time, when he was totally miserable, he was living in Los Angeles, in L.A.

At that time, when he was totally miserable, where was Brad Pitt living?

Well, he was living at that time in L.A.

Was he living in New York at that time or was he living in L.A at that time?

Well, at that time, when he was totally miserable, he was living in L.A.

Who was living in L.A at that time?

Brad Pitt Brad Pitt was living in L.A at that time.

When was he living in L.A.?

When he was totally miserable When he was feeling totally miserable When he was feeling totally miserable, well, about a year ago, he was living in L.A.

So he was living in L.A and he thought why am I miserable? Why am I

miserable? Why am I miserable? Why am I so totally miserable? And then he thought maybe it’s because I live in L.A., hum.

So what reason did he think of?

Well, he thought of this reason Hum, maybe it’s because I’m living in L.A or maybe it’s because I live in L.A.

Why did he think he was miserable?

Well, he thought, maybe, that he was miserable because he was living in L.A.

Who thought this?

Brad Pitt Brad Pitt thought maybe I’m miserable because I am living in L.A.

So, what did Brad Pitt decide to do?

Well, obviously, he decided to move He decided to leave L.A.

Where did he decide to go? Did he decide to go to México, to Mexico?

No, he didn’t decide to go to Mexico.

Did he decide to go to Europe?

No, he didn’t decide to go to Europe

Why not?

Well, he wanted to go to a beautiful, colorful place with mountains.

What kind of place did he want to go to?

He wanted to go to a beautiful, colorful place with mountains.

When did he want to go to a beautiful, colorful place with mountains?

Well, immediately, as soon as possible As soon as possible Brad Pitt wanted to leave L.A and go to a beautiful, colorful place with mountains.

And who wanted to go to a beautiful, colorful place with mountains?

Brad Pitt, of course

And so he decided to go to Nepal, to Nepal.

Which country did Brad Pitt decide to go to?

Well, Brad Pitt decided to go to Nepal

Ah, Brad Pitt decided to go to Nepal Now did Tomoe, my wife, did she decide to go to Nepal?

No, no, no, Tomoe did not decide to go to Nepal.

So where was Tomoe living at that time, about a year ago?

Well, at that time she was living in Osaka, Japan.

So about a year ago who was living in Osaka, Japan?

Tomoe Tomoe was living in Osaka, Japan, about a year ago.

And at that same time who was living in L.A.?

Well, Brad Pitt Brad Pitt was living in L.A at that time, about a year ago.

Where was Tomoe living?

In Osaka, Japan.

And where was Brad Pitt living at that time?

Well, at that time, Brad Pitt was living in L.A.

Where did Brad Pitt decide to go?