Watch this show, it is fantastic. I hope it inspires you. You can do anything– believe in yourself!
If you live in the USA, you can watch this video:
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Jul
21
The topic for next month’s VIP Lesson Set is “Pleasure Point”.
In these lessons, I talk about how pleasure is a very important part of leadership. Too many managers and leaders focus on pain, rules, and punishment. They are the big boss, and they obsess about getting their “underlings” to follow and obey them.
This is a very limited kind of leadership. This old style of leadership eventually destroys morale and makes your team resent you. When they resent you, they will resist your ideas.
But “pleasure point” leadership does exactly the opposite. This kind of leaderships inspires people to work with you, follow you, and join together. Morale rises and people work harder for a common goal.
In this upcoming VIP lesson set, I teach you how to use “pleasure point” leadership. There is a video lesson, and an extra audio commentary too. Of course, there is also a mini-story lesson for next month’s set too. In next month’s VIP Mini-Story lesson, I teach you some fairly advanced grammar. I think you’ll find that the story helps you learn this complex grammar in a much easier way. And of course, there is a Point-of-View Grammar lesson also…. to help you improve your spoken grammar even more.
At the moment, all of these video and audio lessons are finished…. and I have sent them to be transcribed– so that you’ll have the text for all of them.
Look forward to the new VIP lesson coming soon 
Have a great day!
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Apr
26
Here it is– the FREE Lesson Set! Enjoy it!
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Enjoy!
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Mar
31
We had a fantastic time in Malaysia!
Here is our new theme song for our Malaysia Clubs! It’s from our friend Kenny’s band, Benchmarx, and the song is called “Malaysia Boleh!”.
Benchmarx is letting Effortless English fans and members download it for free!
Click here to listen to and download the song!
And if you like it, visit the Benchmarx website and go see them LIVE in KL sometime!
Mar
31
Pictures from the Bangkok “Find Your Voice” Seminar:
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Mar
16
Life is always full of challenging and difficult situations. In business, no matter how much positive thinking you do, you will always have big problems sometimes. There are things you cannot control– such as the global economy– that can cause a lot of problems for your business.
In our personal lives, difficult and complex situations will always happen too. We can get sick… or people we love might get sick. Relationships change. People die. One day, we die.
We cannot avoid all of these situations. And often, we cannot control them.
Sometimes people believe that “the secret” of positive thinking will help them avoid all big problems and have good luck all the time. This is not true. We all know it’s not true, because you only need to look at your own life to see that difficult situations always keep coming, no matter how you think.
The secret is NOT to avoid difficult situations– the secret is HOW you react to difficult situations. Most people face these situations by complaining, or becoming depressed, or quitting, or getting angry. When you do this, of course, you only make the situation worse… and it’s easy to then become a pessimistic defeated person.
We can’t choose all of the events in our lives, but we CAN choose how we handle them.
As many of you know, Tomoe and I recently became divorced. We aren’t going to discuss the details of why… except to say that there was no hurtfulness or anger between us. There were just some things we could not solve, even though we wanted to. That happens in life… in relationships, in business, in all aspects of life.
The question is, what do you do about it? How you face difficult and painful situations is probably more important than what you do when everything is easy and wonderful.
It’s easy to be positive and strong and kind when everything is the way you want it to be. But what about when things don’t happen as you want?
What I have found in my life is this: when painful things happen we always feel bad, of course. But if we can nonetheless stay positive and find learning, growth, and opportunity during these times our lives can become magnificent. In the future, we will often look back to these events and be thankful for the difficulty and pain, because they pushed us to grow.
Here’s a small example from my life: I was teaching at a university in Thailand and I enjoyed my job. The students were great. However, at that time I was trying a lot of new teaching methods. The students LOVED the new methods,… but one day my boss found out that I was not following the standard textbook and methods. He also found out that I was giving a lot of my students good grades. The boss had a meeting with me and he told me I had to use only the textbook… and had to lower my students’ grades.
He said if I didn’t, I would lose my job. I thought about it and then said, “No”. I quit and lost the job. At the time, it seemed like a horrible situation. I was stressed about money. I was stressed about finding another job. I felt really terrible.
BUT, I decided to remain positive and focus on opportunities. This event, in fact, made me realize that I had to start my own company… so I could be free to teach as I wanted. I realized I could never serve my students if I had a boss telling me what to do.
It was painful then, but now I am soooo grateful for that event. That painful event is one reason I eventually started Effortless English. Today, I am much much happier as a teacher. I’m helping so many more students. My teaching methods are much more powerful. Today, I am extremely grateful for that painful event.
If it had not happened, perhaps I would still be teaching at schools… secure but bored. Instead, I am living my dream.
Whenever I face very difficult situations, I remember this story.
I remember that the ultimate meditation or prayer is not to pray for luck or for help,… nor to ask for anything. Rather, the ultimate expression of faith is to simply and always be grateful.. and to find gratitude in all situations.
And so in these times, I focus on my favorite zen saying/meditation/prayer, and I say it often:
“Thank you for everything. I have no complaints whatsoever”
Mar
6
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See you this Saturday, March 13th, in Kuala Lumpur!!
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Feb
23
You have to be a little different to buy Effortless English Lessons. The people who buy them are the creative spirits in this world. They’re the people who don’t just want to pass a test; they want to change the world. We make lessons for those people. Sometimes, people think they’re crazy. But in that craziness, we see genius. And those are the people we’re making lessons for! (Inspired by a Steve Jobs quote)
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There is a big problem in education today– all over the world. All over the world, schools are killing the love of learning. Everywhere it’s the same: schools use boring textbooks, tests, grades, competition, complicated grammar rules, desks, and boring lectures to make students suffer.
Students study English speaking for years, yet still cannot speak confidently. Everywhere, students are bored, stressed and tired. Everywhere, students are frustrated.
Naturally, we are born to learn. Naturally, we love learning. We are curious. But schools kill this natural joy of learning… they make learning boring, stressful and ineffective.
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We must change this. It is time to bring happiness back to learning. It is time to make learning fun, passionate, friendly, social, powerful, successful and cooperative again! This is the mission of The Effortless English Club.
Our dream is simple: create a worldwide network of local Effortless English Clubs. At these Clubs, members will learn how to speak English confidently. They will learn how to enjoy learning again.
Our local Clubs are a place where everyone is a teacher and everyone is a learner. We support each other. We help each other. No bosses. No tests. No textbooks. No stress. No grades. No desks.
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Our mission is to CHANGE THE WORLD! Together, you and I will change education. We will bring success, confidence and happiness back to education. We will show the world a better way to learn.
By doing this, we help our members speak English confidently. With success, some of them (and you) will travel and study abroad. Some will get better jobs because of their English speaking ability. Some will start successful businesses. Some will teach their children a better way to learn. Some will become teachers who truly care about their students success. Some will make new international friends.
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And as we succeed, we share our success. Our members also become leaders– who help other people and change the world.
Together, we are all changing the world, changing education… helping people.
I hope you will join this mission– by creating and growing your own local Effortless English Club.
To learn how to create and grow your local Effortless English Club, simply click the link below and download my Club Leadership Manual:
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The manual will teach you how to create and grow a successful local Effortless English Club. The manual will teach you how to change the world.
Join us and make a difference.
Join us and help yourself and other people.
Join us and change the world!
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Jan
29
Are you ready for Effortless English? Here’s a short fun video from my first Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand this year.
Enjoy the video… and REGISTER for the FIND YOUR VOICE SEMINAR in Bangkok on March 27th and 28th:
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