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In this life we are only given two things that are purely our own
to use: attention and time.
Attention
When we give our attention to something, it helps us realize
through that relationshipsome quality or character within
ourselves of which we were unaware only the moment before.
For instance, give your attention to just how deep runs the starstudded night sky above you, and youre instantly brought into
an awareness of a corresponding timelessness within you. The
depths of an endless night sky serve to reveal you to you; this
is its spiritual purpose.
Here we glimpse the interior meaning of the much-beloved idea
that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The eye and what it
beholds mirror one another, validating yet another ancient
axiom: the observer is the observed. This understanding
explains, in part, why Eastern traditions stress the idea of
polishing the hearts mirror. The purer the heart, the more
perfect its reflection of love.
Time
In this world of passing time, we are carried along in a river of
ceaselessly changing relationships created by ever-converging
forces beyond our control. Yet each and every one of these
relationships holds the promise, the possibility, of a new
revelation; and, as weve seen, each revelation reflects some
aspect of ones immortal Self.
It is through standing in the flow of timeby watching how its
waters wash away all that they touch, including our days on
earththat a true need to know what is timeless appears within
us.
This new and interior longing, along with the revelations that
have helped give birth to its awakening, changes what we
value. Our time on earth takes on new meaning and purpose,
for now we seek a whole new level of self that can never be
taken or stolen from us.
Sadly, most of us squander our gifts of time and attention.
Rather than learning to be in command of our attention, which
is the same as using our time for its highest purposethe
realization of our immortal Selfwe hand it over to almost
anything that floats by in the river of time.
Either we struggle to make things happen or we wait hoping
change will come; regardless of our approach to life, it never
fails to give us something to think about or some event to
stimulate us. Then we call that momentary relationshipand
the passing sense of self it produces in uslife. Yes, of
course: this is one order of life, and we all have it until we
realize, often too late, that it has had us all along.
We have no choice about being born into this world of passing
time, but we do have a choice whether or not we remain a
captive of its inherent fears and sorrow.
Invite the light of your longing for what is everlasting to show
you the futility of serving passing time. You are here on earth to
realize an entirely different purpose to your lifea beautiful,
noble, sacrificial purpose. But theres only way to have this
higher calling revealed to you: you must give your attention to
it moment by precious moment.
Stay awake. Stay in your body. Dont let your mind drag you
around, always talking to you, telling you the meaning of what
you see. Learn to master your attention. It will, in turn, teach
you the real purpose and proper use of your time here on earth.
Master time and attention, and you stand at the doorway to the
Divine. Step through it and behold your immortal Self.
key lesson
We will make detailed preparations for a single day off, lay out
careful plans for an evening meal, and spend untold moments
worrying over what we should wear, but few of us rarely take
the time we need preparing our interior life to receive the
impressions that give our soul its substance and meaning.
head and eyes up. Keep a big smile on your face as you answer
with a loud voice.
8. If you begin to feel tired or bored at any time, pause the
lesson. Play your favorite music again and repeat all of these
steps. Add more energy to your body and your emotions. Then
play the lesson again.
By managing your emotions in this way, you will study longer,
you will remember more, and you will learn 2-4 times faster.
Youll also teach yourself to be strong and confident when you
speak English.
Always be in a peak emotional state when you listen to my
lessons and you will always learn faster.
The question is how well other adult learners can repeat his
success.
80% of success is
Hi, this is AJ Hoge, Director of the Effortless English Club.
Welcome to our new set of lessons, these are called the Power
English Lessons. The reason theyre called Power English is
because in these lessons were going to do two things. Number
one, youre going to learn English, of course. As always, we
have the mini-stories which are our favorite lessons for most of
our members, but the content, the focus, the topics in these
lessons are going to be focused on the psychology of learning
and the psychology of success.
Now these ideas, theyre not just my ideas. In fact, they come
from a lot of other people. They come from people like Tony
Robbins, who is a famous success coach, Robert Anton Wilson,
Joe Vitale, Robert Kiyosaki, Alan Watt, so Ive taken a lot of
ideas from a lot of different people about this topic of the
psychology of success. And the reason that were going to talk
about this in these lessons is that in my experience, most
English students struggle and fail because of psychology, not
because of methods, not because of teachers.
Those things are important, but Tony Robbins talks about the
fact that psychology is 80% of success. And I think hes right,
based on my experience with many, many English students.
Psychology is 80% of success, so 20% are the methods you use
to study. 20% are the schools you go to, the teachers you have,
the books you use.
Those are important, we talk a lot about them. But the other
80% is psychology, your motivation, your emotions, how you
manage your time. All of these things are in fact much, much
more important.
What I saw in my classes were that the enthusiastic students,
the energetic students, the optimistic students always learned
much faster. They succeeded. The ones who failed, the ones
who dropped out and quit, the ones who struggled had the
opposite mentality. They had a very negative mentality. Their
motivation was low. They tended to be pessimistic. They felt
that they werent good at English. They had ideas that English
was very tough, very difficult, they struggled. They didnt have
enthusiasm for English. They didnt love English.
So in these lessons were going to talk about how can you
manage your emotions. How can you develop that strong,
powerful, enthusiastic attitude towards English, how can you
maintain it so that you dont get bored? So that in fact you get
stronger and stronger with English and your psychology gets
stronger and you succeed, you reach your goals. You speak
fluently, effortlessly. So among teachers, English teachers,
language teachers, this topic is called Non-Linguistic Factors.
Non-Linguistic Factors.