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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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