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Healthy Heart Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ, welcome to the mini-story for "Healthy Heart." As always, let's take a

deep breath, leť's get our bodies standing up strong or sitting up strong. Lift your

head, big smile on your face. I'm doing it now, so do it with me. Feel good?

Let's move a little bit. Let's move our bodies a little bit. I'm standing up right now I

can't really move, but l'll jump around a little bit and get my body moving. You move

your body, too, and let's start. Now for the mini-story, here we go.

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There was a guy named Zach. Zach loved bright and expensive clothes.

Did Zach love dull clothes?

Oh, no, no, he did not love dull clothes, he loved bright clothes.

Did he love bright clothes or did he love dull clothes?

Well, of course, bright. He loved bright clothes.

What kind of clothes did he like?

He liked bright clothes and expensive clothes.

So did he love black and gray and brown clothes?

No, no, no, those are not bright colors. He loved purple and green and pink clothes.

He loved bright clothes.

Who loved bright clothes?

Well, Zach, Zach loved bright clothes.

He loved bright, cheap clothes, right?

No, no, no, no, wrong. Not bright cheap clothes, bright expensive clothes. Zach loved

bright, expensive clothes.

Hi, this is AJ, welcome to the next lesson. This one is called “Healthy Heart" and l'm

going to talk about, again, a section from Healthy at 100 -- the book Healthy at 100 --

by John Robbins. I've already talked about it a little bit and I'm going to talk about a

different section this time.

And in this section John Robbins talks about another factor that contributes to a long

and healthy life. Now before we talked about diet and what you eat and how that can

really affect your healthy, your longevity, meaning how long you live, how strong you

are, everything.

Well there's another very important factor other than diet. Diet is very important, but

another important factor that John Robbins found when he studied all these people

who were 100 years old or more and they were still strong, still healthy, well he found

something else.

So a kind of vegan diet, that was number one, but the next thing he found was these

people have strong social ties. They have rich social lives. It means they're not alone.

They have friends, they have family. They have communities. They're connected to

other people in many, many ways. And so what he found was that emotion and love

and caring and connection were equally important to diet and exercise. They're both

very important.

So let me read a section from his book -- the same book -- Healthy at 100 and then ll

talk more about it. Here we go.

"We cannot live for ourselves alone,' wrote Herman Melville. 'A thousand fibers

connect us with our fellow men. Perhaps this explains why we are often moved by

people caring deeply for one another.' 'There are also medical implications to whether

we think of others or only of ourselves,' as Larry Scherwitz found when he conducted a

most unusual study. He is now the Director of Research at California Pacific Medical

Center's Institute for Health and Healing in San Francisco.

"Dr. Scherwitz taped the conversations of nearly 600 men. About one-third of these

men were suffering from heart disease, the rest were healthy. Listening to the tapes,

he counted how often each man used the words I, me and mine. Comparing his

results with the frequency of heart disease, he found that the men who used the first

person pronouns the most often had the highest risk of heart trouble.

Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for the "Attractor Factor." Now the

vocabulary lesson is sometimes a little...not so exciting, right? It's probably the least

exciting lesson, so it's even more important that you breathe and you bring your

shoulders back and you move your body during this lesson.

You have to keep your energy high so you'll focus, so you'll concentrate on the

vocabulary lesson. Are you feeling good? Wake up! Let's do it!

v Our first word is activate (verb is to activate).

And Joe said we don't realize that we are activating the attractor force in a negative

way. Activate really means to turn on. That's all it means. It means something was

off before or something was not happening, something was not working and then

suddenly you turn it on, suddenly it is working. Suddenly it is happening.

So if you activate the attraction force, the attraction power, it just means you turned it

on, right? It was off before now you're turning it on. Now you are causing it to start.

v Our second word is manifestation (verb is to manifest)

A manifestation just means a happening. It means something becomes real. It means

to become real if you're using it as a verb, to manifest. To manifest means to become

real. So, you could say my idea manifested. It became real. Before it was only in

your head, it was an idea.

For example, I have this goal, this dream to speak English well. Then, finally, I speak

English well. You can say I manifested my idea. The idea manifested, it became real.

Before it was an idea and now it's real. So a manifestation is a thing that becomes

real.

All right, he's saying if you focus on these positive things with your mind, eventually

they will become real. They will become real manifestations, real things or real

happenings.

V Our next word is springboard.

He says that your dreams are your springboard to miracles. A springboard is

something that begins a process, something that causes a beginning or a start. It

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Hello, welcome to the POV (Point of View) mini-stories for "Attractor Factor." Let's

begin.

Since starting 10 years ago, Eve has felt bad. She has felt tried every day. She has

had no energy. This started 10 years ago. Before 10 years ago she felt great, but

since 10 years ago...you know until now, until recently...she has felt very tried. She

has not had energy. She hasn't had energy.

In fact, starting 10 years ago she has gotten sick all the time. She has frequently

gotten sick, since 10 years ago until recently. And during that time she has tried many

different things. She tired exercise one time, it did not help. She tried various

medicines and drugs, but none of them helped.

So, since 10 years ago, during this time she has been very frustrated. She has been

frustrated because she felt bad. She has been frustrated because she couldn't find a

solution. Until one day she decided to abstain from eating mice. So on that day she

decided “no more mice." She was surprised. After a few days she felt better. And

she felt better, stronger and more healthy, it was amazing.

And so, she forbid her kittens from eating mice, too. And they began to feel healthier

and stronger. She thought "wow!" And this became the springboard for a whole new

healthy life. It was the sudden beginning of a whole new healthy life. Abstaining from

mice was the springboard to a whole new healthy life for Eve and for her kittens.

And so next she abstained from eating fish, too, and she felt even better. So, she

forbid her kittens from eating fish and they felt even better. Wow, she was feeling

great. So finally, she decided to abstain from drinking beer. She stopped drinking

beer, no more beer and she felt outstanding!

Now, of course, she did not forbid her kittens from drinking beer because we all know

that kittens need beer to grow. So her kittens continued to drink beer, but they

abstained from mice and they abstained from fish and they felt great, too. And so, as

a result, Eve and all her kittens became healthy and happy and had lots and lots of

energy.

All right, that's the end of our first story.

Attractor Factor Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Attractor Factor." Let's begin.

There was a cat named Eve.

Was Eve a doggy?

She was not a doggy, she was a cat.

Eve was a cat. She was a cat who decided to abstain from eating mice.

What did she abstain from?

She abstained from eating mice.

Did she abstain from eating chicken or did she abstain from eating mice?

Well, she abstained from eating mice.

Who abstained from eating mice?

Well, Eve. Eve the cat decided to abstain from eating mice.

So did Eve eat mice?

No she didn't, she did not. She abstained from eating mice, she did not eat mice.

What was Eve?

A cat, Eve was a cat.

Did she eat mice?

No she didn't. She abstained from eating mice, she did not eat mice.

Attractor Factor Main Text

Hello, welcome to the next lesson. This is AJ from EffortlessEnglishClub.com. Let's

start our next lesson the "Attractor Factor."

The Attractor Factor is the name of a book by Joe Vitale. Joe Vitale is an interesting

man. He is an Internet marketer and businessman. He's kind of a marketing expert,

especially for Internet marketing. But, he also writes about very general topics,

how to achieve your goals and how to reach your dreams in life.

about

He's a very positive man. He has a lot of energy, a very interesting and creative guy.

I really like him. I use some of his information and skills that he teaches. Tuse it for

my own business, for my own Internet marketing.

He wrote this book The Attractor Factor as a more general book to help everybody get

what they want in life, to help everybody achieve their dreams. The Attractor Factor is

a quite simple book, a very simple idea and yet it's very powerful. Joe believes that

we attract things to our life. And how do we do that? With our thinking and our

emotion.

So for example, if we always think very positive thoughts and we always have very

strong positive emotions, he believes we will attract positive things and positive people

into our life. On the other hand, if we think about negative things, problems all the

time, and we're always feeling negative, frustrated, angry, sad or depressed, than we

will attract more negative stuff into our life. It's the basic idea of The Attractor Factor.

And so, he states very strongly and clearly that we have to be careful what we focus

on, what we think about and which feelings we feel during every day. Because of

course, we want to attract, bring, positive things into our life, things and people and

events. So, I'm going to read a little bit from The Attractor Factor and then l'll talk

more about it. Here we go.

Most people I talk to every day know what they don't want. 1 don't want this

backache. T don't want this headache. T don't want these bills. I don't want to

struggle in my business.' You know the list. You have one of your own.

Unfortunately, that's where most of us stop.

The nature of our conversations, the nature of our newspaper reporting, the

nature of our radio and television shows and our talk shows surround us with

ideas of what we don't want.

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Leaders Make Mistakes Vocabulary Text

Hello, this is AJ, welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Leaders Make Mistakes."

Let's go to the beginning. They have a phrase "they make no bones about it." Tom

Peters says "Leaders make mistakes and they make no bones about it." So that's a

little idiom there, to make no bones about something. When you say "they make no

bones about it", it means they don't apologize for it or they don't try to hide it. They

don't feel bad about it. That's the meaning of this phrase.

It means you do something and you're not worried about it. You don't apologize for it.

You don't feel bad about it. You don't try to hide it. You feel good. So it says they

make mistakes and they make no bones about it. It means they make mistakes and

they don't feel bad about making the mistakes, they feel good. They make mistakes

and they don't apologize. They don't say "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I made a mistake,"

right? They make no bones about it. They do not apologize.

They are direct and honest about it. They don't try to hide it, they don't feel bad about

it and they don't apologize. They make no bones about making mistakes. They don't

apologize for making mistakes. They don't try to hide their mistakes. They don't feel

bad about mistakes. They make no bones about it.

Okay, then a little later he says "In placid times leaders can pretend to have the

answers." Okay, placid. Placid means calm, calm (c-a-l-m), calm. So it means

nothing is changing, right? Everything is calm and slow and relaxed. So during placid

times in the economy, in history, when everything is calm, then the leaders can

pretend they are strong. They can pretend they are perfect. They can pretend they

know everything. So in calm times leaders could, in the past, pretend to know

everything. They could pretend to be perfect.

But he says "In turbulent times leaders must have the best questions, not the best

answers." They can't pretend to know everything. Instead, they have to ask a lot of

questions, always asking questions, asking questions. So that's what happens in

turbulent times, what must happen in turbulent times.

Now turbulent, of course, is the opposite of placid. Turbulent means not calm. It

means rough or changing fast, chaotic, so in chaotic times, in rough, difficult times, in

times when everything is changing quickly, in turbulent times, turbulent. Turbulent is

the opposite of calm, turbulent, not calm.

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Leaders Make Mistakes Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ, welcome to the mini-story for "Leaders Make Mistakes." Let's start.

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There were two penguins; their names were Todd and Louis. Todd and Louis

were penguins, they lived in Antarctica.

Where did Todd and Louis the penguins live?

They lived in Antarctica.

Did they live in Florida or Antarctica?

Well, they lived in Antarctica.

What were Todd and Louis?

Well, they were penguins. Todd and Louis were penguins.

Were they ducks?

No, they weren't. They weren't ducks they were penguins. Todd and Louis were

penguins and they lived in Antarctica.

How is the weather in Antarctica?

Well, it's cold. The weather is always very cold in Antarctica.

Did Todd and Louis like the cold?

Well, they were penguins, but they did not like the cold. Todd and Louis didn't like the

cold, they were strange penguins.

What didn't they like?

Well, they didn't like the cold. Todd and Louis the penguins didn't like the cold.

Leaders Make Mistakes Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ, welcome to the mini-story for "Leaders Make Mistakes." Let's start.

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There were two penguins; their names were Todd and Louis. Todd and Louis

were penguins, they lived in Antarctica.

Where did Todd and Louis the penguins live?

They lived in Antarctica.

Did they live in Florida or Antarctica?

Well, they lived in Antarctica.

What were Todd and Louis?

Well, they were penguins. Todd and Louis were penguins.

Were they ducks?

No, they weren't. They weren't ducks they were penguins. Todd and Louis were

penguins and they lived in Antarctica.

How is the weather in Antarctica?

Well, it's cold. The weather is always very cold in Antarctica.

Did Todd and Louis like the cold?

Well, they were penguins, but they did not like the cold. Todd and Louis didn't like the

cold, they were strange penguins.

What didn't they like?

Well, they didn't like the cold. Todd and Louis the penguins didn't like the cold.

Leaders Make Mistakes Main Text

Hello, this is AJ, welcome to the next lesson. This one is called "Leaders Make

Mistakes" and it comes from a book called Leadership by Tom Peters.

Tom Peters is one of my favorite business writers. The reason I like Tom Peters is

that he's very passionate. He's not a boring businessperson. Most business books

are boring, but not Tom Peters. His books are excellent and they're full of passionate,

emotional language and words and emotional passionate ideas about how to make

business into something more, something special, not just greedy little people trying to

get more money, but really trying to contribute and help people and do great things.

So that's what Tom Peters writes about and it's why I really like him. He's got a great

Website TomPeters.com and he's got a lot of great books. And this book that I'm

talking about today is called Leadership. And there's a little section and the section is

called "Leaders Make Mistakes", so l'm going to read this small section and then l'll

talk about it more. So here we go.

"Leaders make mistakes and they make no bones about it. On the wall of my writing

studio in Vermont hangs a quotation by David Kelly, "Fail faster, succeed sooner."

Next to that quote hangs another by Diane Arbus who told her students “Learn not to

be careful."

In placid times leaders may think they have all the answers. In turbulent times leaders

must have the best questions, questions that encourage others to undertake voyages

of mutual discovery and the essence of that process is letting people screw up. If you

try new stuff you screw up. If you try a lot of new stuff you screw up a lot. In fact, the

best leaders make big mistakes.

Mistakes are not enough, big mistakes are mandatory.

My all-time favorite PowerPoint slide is this 'Reward excellent failures, punish

mediocre successes.' These tumultuous times beg for bold initiatives. While

thoughtless recklessness is not to be applauded, the word reckless must be examined

carefully.

Most people who change the world -- Martin Luther King, Galileo, and Picasso -- they

were indeed reckless, but not thoughtless. The Martin Luther Kings of the world, the

Galileo's, the Picasso's, the Churchill's, the de Gaulle's, they attempted to create an