Simply Your Life For Success

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Commit. Don't quit. Today, simplifying your life. Simplifying your life. In many ways, to have a happier life, to have a more successful life, whatever that means.

It means achieving your goals. It means improving your As a person, growing, simplifying is very important because when our lives become too complicated, then it's hard to focus on growing, on becoming a better person, on being happier. It gets so busy and distracted.

We talked about this a bit in yesterday's show, in fact, after when we were talking about Brave New Worlds. We had a great comment and some great comments and questions. And we talked about this a little bit, how people get so, their lives become so complicated, it actually makes them slaves and it makes them unhappy. So simplifying is actually a way to have more freedom and more happiness in your life.

Now say hi, we're live on YouTube today. No computer problems, just live on YouTube because I realized that some people only watch on YouTube live and they don't have Facebook accounts, which is good.

But of course, Google and Facebook are both quite evil. But anyway, I thought I'd alternate sometimes, sometimes do live on YouTube, sometimes do live on Facebook. Today, live on YouTube. So quick, just going to say a quick hi to people checking in.

Lots of people saying hi. Hello, hello, hello. Hello. Lots of people saying hi. Okay, hi to everybody. All right, good. Kurdistan, as usual. Kurdistan says hello.

There are a lot of Kurdish fans of effortless English. It's interesting. Very interesting. Afghanistan. A few people joining live for the first time. It makes sense on YouTube since I usually do Facebook.

Doing well, Cardo. Good to see you here on YouTube. Also, it's good seeing some familiar names, which is great. Glad that you're over here as well. All right, guys.

Let's just talk. I'm going to chat with you a little as usual and come back and do comments and questions, okay? So I'll ignore your comments for a little while while I chat so I don't get distracted.

And then I'll come back. So, simplifying your life. I actually, in my own life, I use a really easy little system. I just divide. I have identified. Let's say this.

I have identified. I have chosen four main areas of my life. The four most important areas of my life to me. So, instead of trying to have like a million things I'm trying to do, I just have four.

Always just four. I only worry about four things. I only focus on four things. Always. So this makes my life much more simple. Whenever I, if I start feeling stressed or distracted or busy, I just think, okay, I'm just going to focus just on these four things.

Everything else, I'll let it go. I don't care. So the four things for me, I call it, for me, they all start with F because it's easy to remember. The four Fs.

So it's faith, family, finance, and fitness. Faith, family, finance, and fitness. These are the four, what I believe are the four most important parts of life, at least for me.

You could choose something different. But I recommend four or less. Four or less. More than four, you have too much to do. And what I do is that in each area, in each of these four areas, I will have like a big goal.

a big goal, something I want to improve, in some way that I want to improve that area, each of these areas of my life. And I kind of focus on, for me, I like the method of constant, never-ending improvement. In Japanese, they call it kaizen, which is just constantly making little improvements, little improvements. So constantly in each area,

Day by day, every day I think about this. I'll review each day these four areas of my life, and I'll think, okay, today, what can I do to improve a little in each area, each of these four? So for faith, for example, faith meaning religion, but I wanted everything to start with an F.

because it's easier to remember so I just use the word faith but you could call it religion you could call it spirituality whatever but so for example like how could I improve that well like for me I might say well I want to meditate every day make sure I meditate every day and if I met when I'm meditating every day I have a good habit okay now I want to meditate twice a day right just try to make little improvements read from you know the great books and then Maybe, you know, develop my own virtues as becoming a better person.

And I'll identify, you know, each day, I'll try to identify some way to improve in this area of faith. Likewise, family. Likewise, family, right? So I want my family life to improve.

So I'll, you know, now I have two babies and I'm married, of course. So I'll try to think, you know, how can I improve our family? What can I do to make our family happier, closer together, more love, more connection, all of this. And again, reviewing, it just reminds me each day, don't forget about it, right?

Because a lot of people, they will, you know, some people will get really busy with school. And then they forget about the other areas of their life. Or they get really busy with work, working, working, working. And they forget about the other areas of their life.

Their life becomes unbalanced. It becomes too complicated and too busy in one area. And then the other areas suffer. So by having some little... some little categories like this, easy way to remember them, and reviewing every day, every day, every day, each category, it reminds you and it keeps your life a bit more balanced.

At least it has for me. And then finance, of course, finance means money. Again, it started with an F, so easy to remember, finance. But basically business and money.

And, you know, the big goal for this area is financial freedom, financial independence or financial freedom. But each day I'll think, you know, what can I do to improve the business a little bit? What can I do to improve our family money situation, finances, right? Maybe, you know...

Maybe there's some area we can cut our spending or save a little more or whatever. And I'll just review it again every day, every day, every day. And finally, fitness is the fourth one. Fitness really means health and fitness.

But it started with an F, so fitness. So this is health and exercise. Right now, I'm focusing on fasting. So fasting, I'm doing lots of fasting. Basically right now, pretty much now I'm doing two days fasting, eat one time, two days fasting, eat one time.

So lots of 48-hour fasts I'm doing. And I also do a little bit of exercise as well, doing some exercise, especially on the days that I eat, I'll exercise.

So that's it. It's a really easy little system, and I just recommend to you to do the same. Simplify your life. Identify the three or four major areas of your life, the most important ones, the top priorities, the most important.

And then, you know, write down maybe some very large, large purpose in each area. A large, big purpose, you know, so like faith, you know, to be closer to God or to be a much, much better person, a much more virtuous person. Something, you know, very large in general as your big purpose or major goal.

And do this for each area. Then, daily, just review each area and try to think, what's a small step I can do today? What can I do today to improve this area, to improve my faith, to improve my family, to improve my fitness, to improve my finances?

That's all. Simple. Simple, simple, simple, simple, simple. That's it. It makes life a lot less complicated. You're not trying to have 10 goals in all these different areas of your life.

You have three or four, the top ones, the most important to you. You have a big purpose in each category. And then each day you just try to improve. A little bit.

A tiny little bit. You just try to do things each day in each category. And this will give you a nice balanced life. It's simple. And it works. It really works.

I mean, this is something I do all the time every single day. And it has helped me a lot. And it keeps... Because it's simple, too, there's no stress about it. I'm never stressed.

All right. Well, that's it. What about you? I'm curious about you. So maybe in the comments right now for those of you live... You can tell me what are the three or four most important categories for you.

What are your big goals, big purposes in those areas of life? And then what kind of small things daily do you do or do you want to do to improve, to grow? All right, I'll go to the comments and questions now.

All right, first of all, let me just kind of scrolling through here. Lots of people just saying hello for the first time. Nice. Dalal says, I'm both Facebook and YouTube.

Fantastic. Good. Yeah, all of you, you know, you can join me on both. I know YouTube is probably easier. Some people don't have Facebook accounts. But like my Facebook page, if you have Facebook, if you don't, I understand completely.

I don't use Facebook really for personal life anymore. Only for business. Okay, let me just get past all the hellos. So hi to everybody. Okay, Cardo summarizing mine.

Now, you know, this is just mine. This is me. These are my top four. You can choose different ones for your own life, of course. But faith, family, finance, and fitness.

I chose them because it's easier to remember. The four F's. They all start with the same letter. Easier to remember. You don't have to do that. It's just something for me.

Every day what I'll do is I'll think just, you know, four F's, four F's, and I'll go through this little quick list. How am I doing in these areas today? What actions can I take today in these areas? Slavika, good to see you.

Slavika says, I'm drinking coffee slowly and enjoying your live show. Wonderful. Of course, she's talking about it recently at a show, talking about appreciating those small beauties, those small pleasures, the small nice moments in life, such as instead of just drinking coffee fast for some quick energy, not even noticing the taste to sit, sip the coffee, look around, be very mindful, be aware.

It's a completely different thing. It's a totally different experience, much more deep. So great, Slavika. That's wonderful. Ah, Cecil with a nice question.

Always improving seems a good way of keeping oneself on the move, but I can't help but asking if it's not another way of enslaving oneself by always wanting better more. Well, exactly right.

It's the mindset, you know, a mindset of improving yourself. I'm not even sure if that's the word, but, you know, but I... developing yourself, growing as a human being, I think is actually very good. So the difference is, you're not chasing things on the outside.

You're not chasing just like buying more things or other people's opinions. It's very different to say, I want to be a better person. You recognize your weaknesses. You recognize your bad qualities, which we all have.

Maybe you are a greedy person. So maybe one of your goals... for self-development, is to be less greedy and have a mindset of more abundance and more appreciation.

That's developing yourself and growing and becoming a better person. So I think that's quite different, actually. Developing your virtues or your virtue is quite different than chasing others.

Outside rewards, chasing other people's opinions, chasing things. So, you know, in each of these areas, again, like a family life. Very important, I think.

If you're a mother or a father, it's very important every day to try to be a better mother and father. Not just, not for yourself, but for your children. If you don't do that, then you're just stuck. You're never growing anymore.

Maybe you just copy what your mom and dad did, and maybe you had good parents, but you can always be a better person. This is a way of, again, of giving and helping your children in this case, and your husband or wife.

So I think it's quite different. You don't get stressed about it, but I think that without this, life starts to feel quite empty if you're not growing.

And by growing, I mean growing emotionally, growing mentally, growing spiritually. Waking up more. Max, good to see you again. Nice comment. Thanks for all you've done for your followers and me personally.

Keep going with your brilliant and lively discussions on great topics such as this one. Have a great day. Thank you. Good to see you here on YouTube as well.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it. William is up late. I'm not going to answer this question because it's kind of way off topic. Can you tell me what is the Protestant Reformation by King Henry VIII?

Basically, he broke from the Catholic Church. You have to do more research then because I'm not an expert on that. Cardo says, all of us need this four F's of inspiration in life. Yeah, it's just a really simple way.

It just reminds you of what's important. This is the point of this. It's not, I mean, obviously, it's very obvious. It's very simple. You know, this is not some super powerful secret idea I'm giving you.

But it's still something that a lot of people forget, I've noticed. A lot of people forget because... People become, you know, they're kind of programmed like we were talking about yesterday. And they just get so busy and so programmed with their daily schedule.

For some people, it's school. For some people, it's work. For some people, it's something else. And they forget about other areas of life that are very, very important.

A lot of people, for example, they're so busy, they forget about their health. They eat bad food. They don't exercise. Their health gets worse and worse.

Maybe they're making more and more money. but they're neglecting their health, right? Some people neglect their families, again, because they're working too much or too busy or too focused on other things, and then the family life suffers.

So it's a reminder... Each day, a little reminder, don't forget these important things. They're all very important. So it's a constant reminder. Don't forget.

Don't forget. Don't forget. Don't forget. Don't forget family. Don't forget faith. Don't forget money. Finances. Don't forget fitness. Maybe you've got something else too for you.

I don't know. Marco with a big goal. My first goal... which isn't a real goal in the usual sense, is to kill my ego. Thanks for all, AJ. Good luck with that.

Lots of meditation, I guess. That's quite a battle. Quite a battle. It's a good goal, though. UAE M says, Lovely show today with a little walking around my area.

Cool, man. Listening while walking around. I like it. Perfect. Prasun says, Prasun Banerjee, hi AJ, how are you? Very well, thanks, doing well. Thinking about the goal on the fly, I can think of these top goals for myself.

Improve my professional skill, improve my communication, improve my fitness. All wonderful, wonderful. Self-development, you know, growing as a person, improving your skills, improving your virtues, wonderful.

Well, Nassar, oh, hey, good. Good to see you again. I recognize your profile. How to cut off and spend less time on the Internet in order to be more productive.

Sometimes we're wasting a lot of time in social media. There you go. You just answered it. Cut social media. Cut all social media. You know, if you want to listen to my podcast or my show, great.

I try to give you good positive content. But Twitter, Facebook, all that stuff, just stop it. Cut it off. You could even delete your account if you want to be super serious about it.

But at the very least, do like fasting. It's like fasting, right? Like fasting from food, you can fast from social media, meaning you avoid it completely. I think cutting it off completely is the best way.

My Cola asks, do we have to rank our most important areas of life? What to do if we don't have enough time to focus on each area? Yeah, ranking them is not a bad idea. Maybe you have four areas.

Which one's number one? Which one's number two, number three, and number four? That's a good point. Yes, it's not a bad idea to rank them. So if you're super busy one day, you always have to at least focus on number one.

Number one, you must always do. Maybe number one and number two. Ideally, you have time each day, even if you do small little things. Maybe you're really busy.

Maybe you have to focus a lot on your family. Like I have two new babies right now. So that's a lot of time focused on family, a lot. But I still have to find a little time for the other areas too, right?

Of course, much more time is for family right now because with two newborn babies, it's a huge amount of time. But I still find a little time to exercise. I just changed my exercise now. I do a very short, very fast little workout just so I keep my muscles, right?

And I'm fasting. See, fasting requires no time. In fact, it saves time. It saves time. I'm not eating. It saves time. It saves money. It's a really easy way to lose weight and to improve my health.

Lots of benefits. And it requires no extra time at all. In fact, I gain extra time. which I can use with the babies. So things like that. Again, my business and money.

Still have to think about little things each day that I can do for that. And maybe have to do a little less and do them really fast, but still every day I try to do something. Same with faith, meditation.

Some days when the babies are really crying all the time, I can't quite meditate, so I at least will pray or at least try to take a quick moment and to do like a very fast meditation, just sitting there with the baby. Something like that. So you can still do little things, even when you're super busy in one area.

Yeah, Surya says a related idiom. Stop and smell the roses. Stop and smell the roses means to... Enjoy life as you are living it. Don't forget. Don't think about the future so much that you forget right now.

Rada says, happy to be you from Paris. We'll be with you from Paris. Nyanvo asks, hey Jay, nice to see you here. Nice to meet you. Can you tell me your schedule of direct talks live?

Thank you very much. About this time, almost every night, this time. I'm a little early today, actually. Actually, I'm a bit early. Usually more like an hour from now, but I'm trying to get earlier because it fits my schedule better for the babies.

And then I'm sometimes Facebook, sometimes YouTube. So how do you know the best? You can follow me both places or just follow me on Gab or Twitter because I announce before I go live. Before my show, I put a message on Gab and on Twitter.

And you follow me. My account is AJHogue. Same account on both sites. Same as my YouTube. AJHogue. So follow me, Gab or Twitter. I announce every night when I'm going live.

Dalal says we cannot be good ideal persons unless we learn from our experiences. Certainly you need experience in life, not just ideas. In fact, I think it's better to get out there and just try things and maybe fail and maybe do stupid things.

Then learn and read about the situation and then you can learn better. Too many people are just focused on learning from books all the time, but you need that real world experience. Absolutely, I agree.

Nice. Anish, I like it. Anish Singh. His three goals. Five goals. Tiny house. Very cool. Tiny houses are interesting, aren't they? I'm very interested in tiny houses myself.

That might be a future goal for my family to have one, to build one. Family, number two. Wonderful. Permaculture. Hey, I hope you watched my recent shows about my interview with David the Good.

Permaculture. That's kind of a gardening, farming thing. Four is fitness and five is small business. Excellent. Five very excellent ones. Anish, good luck to you.

I'm sure you're going to succeed. Just keep trying. Keep moving. Keep working. Igor says, AJ, thanks for your best power English course. You are welcome, Igor.

Thank you. Sital Heya Nepal. Good to see you. Slavika has her list as well. For Slavika, it's health. It's a good one to put at the top. Exercise and healthy food.

Family. Many only for a simple life. Man, that's great. Health and family. Health and family. Wonderful. Okay, I'm going to kind of jokingly answer this question.

I get asked a lot. Serg MCL says, Hi, AJ. There are so many accents in the world. What accent should we imitate? Mine. Mine. Or is this not really important?

It's actually not that important. It's not important. Imitate. My answer I always give is imitate standard accents. Standard. What is a standard accent?

It's the most common accent in a specific country. So America, there's a standard American accent, which is mine, which is what I have. Really, you could say North America because the Canadian accent is... I mean, there's slight differences, but essentially the common Canadian accent is basically the same as the common American accent.

So you could say the common North American accent, the standard North American accent, is the one I use. So if you prefer North American, then copy mine and other people who use that standard accent. If you're more interested in British, again, the standard British accent, the standard, the most common one, which is probably something like the BBC, or the kind that you see most characters speaking in a TV show, that kind of thing.

And the same would be true of Australia or New Zealand. So basically what I'm saying is avoid the regional accents. So you have the standard accent, which is for the whole country.

But then you have regional accents. In the United States, we have a southern accent. We have a New York accent, Boston accent. There is a bit of a California accent.

Louisiana has an accent. So you want to avoid those. You don't want to speak those because they're just less useful. They're less common. Mombatula asks, in your method, there's no place for writing.

Am I right? I don't teach writing. That's right. I mean, I give a little bit of advice about writing, but my course, I don't do writing courses. I'm not focused on it.

It's a little too hard to do with video. I can teach it kind of one-on-one. But teaching to lots of people all at the same time using video or audio for writing is a little tough. My general advice with writing is read, read, read, read, read lots of books.

There's a good amount of research. Check out Dr. Stephen Krashen's research about this. That the number one way to improve your writing is to read, read, read, read, read constantly.

Because then you kind of automatically will start to learn what is good writing. And you'll start to copy it. Really unconsciously, you'll start to copy it.

Are there other things you can do also? Yes, but that's probably the most important one. Super Samurai 1000. Do you still do exercise while fasting? Yes.

Yes. Yes. Cardio, any cardio exercise, I try to do as much as possible while I'm fasting. To fast means to not eat, to not eat for a while, like one day or two days or something.

So yes, definitely I do cardio. For me, it's just walking. Lots of walking. I try to walk at least an hour. Hopefully at least an hour is usually my minimum, and then better is like two hours or more.

When fasting, yes, definitely. The other exercise I do is I will do like push-ups and pull-ups, kind of those body weight exercises. We call calisthenics body weight exercises.

Now, I do those when I'm fasting. I might do those very light. I'll do them lightly, so not super heavy, not too many exercises. I don't want to stress out my muscles when I'm fasting.

Or the other option is for those, the more strength exercise, the other option is that after I eat, so I do two days no eating, I'll eat a meal, then I'll exercise. So eat the meal and immediately, well not immediately, a few hours after the meal, I will then do push-ups and pull-ups and some of those strength exercises. And the day when I'm fasting all day, I don't.

But it just keeps my muscles while I'm fasting. That's mainly what it's doing. Igor asks, is it possible to connect a career and a family? Is it impossible?

It's possible. Yeah, of course. I do it. It's a lot easier to do if you're independent, if you're like a freelancer, if you have control over your hours.

It's harder to do if you're working like a slave at a company that wants you to work huge amounts of hours. But is it possible? Of course it is. Slavika.

The most important person in my life is my daughter forever. Yes. Of course, our children are the most important. Okay, Moaz. How can I take control of my health if it was related about time or other things that make me weak?

How can I control about it? You don't need a lot of time for health. What you need is discipline. Discipline. I'll give you some examples of this. Fasting will help your health tremendously.

If you're fat, it'll help you lose the weight. Even if you're not fat, fasting will help you heal problems. It just makes your body better. It requires no extra time, as I said before.

You just stop eating. Stop eating. Maybe drink salt water. There are different kinds of fast. I'm doing basically like a salt water fast. So I don't eat anything, no calories.

But I do drink salt water during my fast. You could do dry fasting. It's harder. That means you don't drink also. like the Ramadan fast is a dry fast.

But anyway, that requires no extra time. In fact, it will save you time and it will save you money. And it will help your health. Other kinds, you know, in terms of exercise, you don't need money and you don't need much time.

My exercise time is very short. I'm talking about my push-ups, pull-ups. You can do it in 10 minutes. If you focus and don't waste time, you can do a full body workout in 10 minutes.

A nice workout. You do. You do a set of push-ups. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Do your push-ups almost to your max. Do some handstands. Stand on your hands.

Try to do handstand push-ups even if you're strong enough. If not, just do handstands or you can just do an overhead press. You go out, you get a pull-up bar, you do pull-ups.

Boom, boom, boom. One minute. Each of these exercises takes maybe one minute, maybe 90 seconds. You can do lunges for your legs or little squats. There's many different things you can do at home for your legs.

Just look online, look on the internet. There's lots of routines you can do. And you can do them very fast. And, you know, you'll build a little bit of muscle.

You'll build some strength. If you want to build a lot of muscle, you've got to be more aggressive. But the point is, it does not require much time. So that's just an excuse.

That's just an excuse. What you need is discipline. Petras says, Hi, AJ. Usually people are afraid to leave social media. They think they're going to be disconnected from community.

Don't worry. This time will be fueled by real, valuable things. Petras is 100% right. Real community. People you actually meet face to face. Or even people you call on the phone and you hear their voice and they hear yours.

You know, social media friends are not real friends, you know. They might be nice connections, but you've got to meet in person. This is why I like to meet effortless English fans and members when I travel. I like to meet in person, because after we meet in person, then it's a different connection.

Now it becomes like a real friendship, you know, like a real connection. We have a face, we know the voice. So exactly, there's nothing to be afraid of. Social media is, you know, of limited value.

Kion asking, do you have a schedule in Vietnam in the near future? No, not in the near future. Very busy with babies right now when babies still recovering from being sick. So, maybe next year.

Maybe next year. Ta-da! Hello. 24 hours are not enough to do everything I'd like to do. So, my priorities, I choose home exercise. Excellent. French learning, English teaching, marketing study, and housework.

Great. Wonderful. So see, she's identified the things most important in her life now. And then you just make sure you do something, at least something, in each area daily.

Fatih, you are getting old. Fatih Subasi is getting old. He's getting old. I don't know why. He's getting older. Every year he gets older. Hmm. Strange.

Cecil again says, it's three goals for me. Family, health, and purpose. The feeling I'm making a contribution to this world even in a small way. Yes. Excellent.

Excellent. And it makes us happier when we feel we're contributing. Something beyond just ourself. Very important. Robin Singh says, family number one, health number two, profession number three, money number four, and charity number five.

Charity, very nice. Adding in some generosity. Mohammed says, Mohammed Harfosh. Thanks, AJ. You're the best teacher ever. You are my guru. By now, I'm studying German.

Good for you. And I have set my goals, but I can't stop watching your amazing videos because you're always teaching us a life. Yeah, it's not going to help your German listening to English. Good luck to you.

But thank you. It's very nice. Hey, Vladislav. Good to see you here, too. A lot of sirens today. What's going on out there? My friend has taken debt for an apartment.

His salary was cut recently. Now he has little money to live. He's a money slave now. Yes, indeed. And he can't quit because he's paid part of the apartment price.

See? This is what I'm talking about. It makes you a wage slave, a work slave, a money slave. This is why it's better if you live in a cheaper place and you just buy it or the rent is very low, then you have no worries.

If you lose your job or if your job is cut, you have to get a cheaper, a lower paying job, you're not stressed because you're already living in a very inexpensive place. I have no stress about that. Our apartment is super cheap for Japan.

By Japan prices, we live in a very, very cheap apartment. So no stress. I mean, could we afford more? We could afford a huge amount more, but we don't need it.

That's not necessary. It's just be for ego or something. I don't know. I just don't care about it. But because we live in such a simple place, zero stress, zero stress, doesn't matter.

And it gives us lots of extra money, which we can spend on the babies, and we have. We can use that extra money to save, of course. We can use that extra money for travel.

All kinds of great things. Especially, I recommend your housing, housing, accommodation. That is a very important place to cut the cost. In general, I recommend cut your fixed cost first, your expenses.

Fixed. Fixed are the ones you can't change. So like an apartment or a condo or a house. That's the same every month. It's a fixed cost. You have to live somewhere.

So reduce that one as low as possible. If you need a car or transportation, get a cheap one. Reliable but cheap. Those are the main ones. And then when you have your extra money, if maybe you're making a lot of extra money, don't immediately get a more expensive apartment or something.

Because this can happen, just like Vladislav's friend. This can happen very easily. If you increase your fixed costs, you can become a money slave and be in a stressful situation. Instead, if you get extra money, number one, just add more savings, save more money.

That's a good way to use the extra money. And then also... you can increase your, they're called discretionary. It means you choose your optional costs instead of spending money on a more expensive house or apartment because that is more dangerous like this example.

Spend more money on quality food because the nice thing about that is if you lose your job, if you get it lower paying job, you can easily change your food again. That one's easy to change month to month, week to week. You can spend a lot of money, go out eating at restaurants and enjoy.

But then if your budget is low, then boom, you just buy cheaper food at the grocery store and always eat at home. So you can adjust that one very quickly and very easily. Things like travel also. You can go and enjoy travel when you have the extra money.

If you don't have extra money, you stop traveling. So again, it's low stress. But if you have expensive car payment, if you have expensive house payment, those are much harder to change month to month. It's much harder to get those lower quickly.

I think for our next book, after Brave New World, I think we're going to do Your Money or Your Life. I'm pretty sure that's the one I want to do. Because we usually do fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction, right? We're doing fiction right now, Brave New World.

The next non-fiction book, I think, will be about money. Indiana. Fatah, I'm not sure. Fatih, I'm not sure if you're talking about India or Indiana. Because Indiana accent, which is a state in the United States, is pretty close to a standard American accent.

It's very, very close. My parents are... Well, at least my mom is from Indiana. My dad... Lived in Indiana quite a long time. My mom's family are all in Indiana.

My accent is pretty much an Indiana accent, standard American accent. So maybe you're talking about Indian, like from India, which obviously is completely different. Yeah.

Tayyab Shahzad says, in my perception, simplicity makes our life easy. It does. It makes life, the stress of life becomes so much less when you simplify your life. It's one of the great examples of this.

Ah, Edmar with a public speaking question. Edmar Sahib, AJ, how should I convince myself to ignore grammar when talking in front of a large audience? Well, you're right. You should ignore it.

The last thing you want to be thinking about is grammar while you're doing a speech. It will destroy your speech. It will destroy your confidence. And your speech will suck, okay?

Okay. Maybe this will help you get motivated to ignore grammar. Your speech will suck. It will be bad, right? Because if you're giving a speech, you need to focus on the speech, the content, the emotion, the nonverbal, you know, your body movement, all of that to give a great speech.

That's what's important, not your grammar. You make a grammar mistake, nobody cares, okay? Nobody cares. But they do care that you communicate your ideas properly.

Clearly and powerfully. They definitely care about that. They care that there's some emotion, that you make it interesting. You add some kind of emotion to your speech.

That it's entertaining or interesting. that you have a good energy when you're giving your speech. You don't have to be jumping around going crazy, but just a nice strong energy, a strong voice. You're moving around on the stage a little bit.

You're using your hands and your face and your gestures. You have great eye contact with the audience. All of those things are very important. So I think that's the best way to ignore grammar is to focus on these other things instead.

Focus on what's important. What is the deal with these sirens today? Crikey. Right? So focus on what's important and forget the grammar. You can only think of a few things at a time, right?

Really, you can only think of one thing at a time. So focus on these other things and really you won't have any, your brain won't be able to focus on the grammar. The grammar doesn't matter. Nobody cares about it.

Hernan, thank you very much. From Ecuador, thank you. Yeah, this is another good money book, Think and Grow Rich. Shivanegi says, AJ, please start a book club for Think and Grow Rich.

It's also on my list, so we'll get to it. We'll get to it. But I think your money or your life is a better book for financial freedom. I think it's a much better book.

Interesting. Heart Hacker says, I started to understand English when I was six to eight years old. I think because I watched English cartoons, anime, etc. Because my school didn't play a role in helping me understand.

Well, right. You're looking at real English that was interesting to you as a child. It makes sense completely. Amal has four. Improve my English, number one.

Number two, fitness. Number three, work as cabin crew. And number four, travel the world. Cool. That sounds like a fun life. Deepak Nishad asks, there are a lot of accents in the world.

How much accents are sufficient for us? The thing with pronunciation is You need to be understood. Ideally, you are understood by everybody, by all English speakers, at least native speakers.

They understand you easily. I understand the standard Australian, standard New Zealand, standard British accents are very easy to understand for me. No problem. Now, some of the regional accents are difficult even for me, like a strong Scottish accent.

They might not like the idea that they're a region, but, you know, They are. They're a region of Britain. Some of the really more extreme London accents can be very difficult for me.

So, you don't want those. You want a standard accent. You might still have an accent from your own country, but as long as it's not too strong. The problem, if it's strong, the problem is then other people won't understand you.

That's the problem with an accent, okay? It's It's not any kind of judgment against you. It's just being understood by most people. That's all. You want to be understood by Americans, by Canadians, by British people, by Australians, and by people from other countries who also have learned English.

So you want to be understood easily by all of those people. How do you do that? Well, you try to get close to a standard accent. That's how you do it.

Because... That's what most people understand because of TV and movies and all of that. So that's all. That's the reason it's important. All right, I hear baby's moving in the other room, so I have to go soon.

Oh, Ricardo asking about book club. Unfortunately, I missed yesterday's show about Brave New World. So here's my, here's what I wonder. If I read chapter one and listen to the show, the recording, will I catch up for the next show as well?

Yeah, perfect. Exactly. If you missed the live show, it's no problem. That's why I record it. So if you want to do the book club, just, and you missed it, watch my video about chapter one, read chapter one of the book, and next week we do chapter two.

So no worries. It's okay if you miss it. I mean, you can do it even months later if you want to. It's always there, the recordings. Tuan says, when I'm using your Power English course, there's no POV lessons at all.

No, that's not true. Is POV important to Braille grammar while speaking or just using mini-story? There are point-of-view lessons. It's in the later units.

The first few units don't have point-of-view lessons. I only want you to Focus simply on the many stories. Then in the later ones, you get point of view also.

Morgiana. House five. Priorities. Health. Number one. Two. Dreams. Number three. Working hard. Four. Inspiring young people. Five. Spending time for family as much as I can.

A very nice list also. Very good. How are the babies doing tonight? They're okay? All right. All right, a couple more and then time to go. Oksana Zatula says, Thanks, AJ, for your work.

My older friend said you are closer to God for executing such a mission. Well, that's a very high praise. Thank you very much. Thank you for waking us up.

Thank you. Thank you very much. That's wonderful. It's quite a compliment. When we reduce what we want and just take what we need to keep us alive, you will get a simple life and save a lot of money and time.

Yep, and a lot of stress too. Well said. I don't like Justin Bieber. Okay, asking again about Europe, I think is the name. When are we going to do Chapter 2 of Brave New World?

Next weekend, next Saturday. Because I follow your suggestions. I read the chapter in my language before your show. It really helps me understand the deep ideas.

Exactly. I recommend this book. It is not easy. So read it in your language first. And then you can try to read the English. After that, and then you can watch my show where I'll explain the chapter.

Then you can go back, try again to read again in English. And when you do this, you'll kind of learn it, and you'll learn some more vocab, and this will help. It's a good way to do it.

So Europe, you're doing exactly right. Chapter 2, next Saturday. Okay. Anita. That's four. Spiritual calmness. I like that. That's a nice way to say it.

One can take care of worldly things only when they are stronger from within. Nice. Family, health, and money. Well said. I like that. Spiritual calmness.

Nice phrase. Petras. I'm aware of this person. I would like to offer you a person for your next interview. Saad Guru. I've seen Really interesting person.

At least I see him like this. I haven't seen his videos, but they're constantly suggested to me on YouTube. All right. Emmanuel. Oh, hey, Emmanuel. Good to see you.

I've got a question. I recently lost my job. I'm sorry to hear that. That sucks. but I have countless skills such as running my own blog. Do you think it's possible to earn money with your own blog?

Just blogging, very, very, very difficult. But you kind of need a product to sell, a product or a service I recommend. See, some blog, you know, like the old way people would try to blog and make money from advertising, that's dying or dead.

To make enough money, you have to have huge traffic to make money just from ads. And most of the money goes to the company like Google. So I'm better with blogging. What you need to do is blog about, write about a topic you are an expert in or that you love.

And you build your audience that way. But then you sell something to that audience that's useful, that's helpful to them. about that topic. That's a better way.

That's a better way to do it. Don't rely on advertising. Advertising sucks. Even big businesses are dying that are trying to make money from ads. That's why I don't even advertise on YouTube.

I don't do ads. I don't put ads in my videos. Ginto's saying, my hair wasn't gray 10 years ago. Actually, it was a little bit. You might not have noticed, but on the sides, it was a bit gray even 10 years ago.

And, of course, now much more. I've watched and followed your instructions to learn English. I'm watching your video a long time. You have been watching a long time.

Ginto Paul, 10 years. Thank you. That's fantastic. Hair's whiter, but still feel good. Ah, okay, Lisa, asking about fasting. I'm quite passionate about this topic right now.

Hi, Jay. I like to fast, but my self-discipline is not strong enough. How can I develop it? What would you suggest to me? Number one, watch Snake Diet YouTube channel.

That guy's motivating. He's very motivating. That's why I love it. I'm watching all his videos. I'm definitely inviting him for an interview on my show.

I hope he'll do it because I love this guy. Cole Robinson, Snake Diet YouTube channel. Snake Diet, like the animal, Snake Diet. This guy's fantastic, super interesting, very entertaining, but more importantly, he is a super expert on fasting.

This guy is a super, super, super expert on fasting. Now, motivation. I'm actually trying to help my mom, Lisa, with the same problem. Here's what I'm doing with my mom.

She's starting with 24-hour fasts. What does that mean? She eats one meal per day. It doesn't matter. You can eat breakfast or lunch or dinner, but just one meal per day.

Start by doing that and do it for like, you know, a few weeks. One meal a day, one meal a day, one meal a day. The second thing that's important, low carb, meaning don't eat pasta, don't eat bread, no sugary stuff, nothing sweet. You have to cut the carbs because it breaks your food addiction.

It's very important to do. Later, when you're more thin or you're more healthy, you can add more back. But for now, cut the carbs one meal a day. After that, you'll get confidence one meal a day.

You have more discipline. Then you could try two days or three days. That's my suggestion. The other thing is, when you try this, drink the salt water.

He recommends snake diet. Cole Robinson, he has a formula. It has salt and potassium. Two ingredients. Salt and potassium in the water. Very, very important.

Helps your energy. You'll feel much better drinking that. Patricia de Simone says, I'm from Brazil. I love you because you changed my life with your heart.

Thank you. That's very sweet. Thank you. Anya Parada says... I'm a mature woman, but you're my life coach. I'm listening to you. Many thanks. Thank you.

Very nice. Thanks. Slavika is starting the pronunciation course today. Awesome. Thanks. Please tell us how you like it. Ibrahim Ali. I want you to interview Gary Vaynerchuk.

He's an American. Yes, I know who he is. I have followed him on Facebook. I could try Gary V. He's a busy guy, but I could try. I think he's pretty good about

He loves publicity, so I'll add him to my list, Gary V. He's entertaining, speaks really fast. He's kind of a New Yorker. I don't know if he grew up in New York, but he has a New York attitude. He has a New York way of speaking.

Not so much the accent, but the speed. Okay. Oh, I hear babies crying. I've got to go. I've got to go. Baby's crying. All right, I'm looking for one last comment.

All right, Ahmed's got a nice little one, and then I'm going to go. Practicing meditation, sports, your favorite hobby, and listening to AJ helps you enjoy a more comfortable, quieter, and more simple life.

Yeah, that's a nice group of routines every day. Very nice. All right, guys, I've got to go. I have to take care of babies. I hope you're doing well. Again, just think about simplifying your life.

You choose the categories. Everybody who was adding them in the comments, very nice. It just reminds you what's most important to you. It reminds you to each day...

Do at least something, even a small thing, a little thing in those most important areas of your life. Some little thing every single day. It'll make you happier. This will make you happier in life.

You'll feel happier. We feel unhappy when we forget about things that are actually very important to us. the most important things. We get distracted.

So this helps us not be so distracted and remember what really is going to give us a good quality life and happiness. Lots of love to you. Thank you for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow again as usual.

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