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Life Review - VIP AudioHi, this is AJ. Welcome to our next lesson set. Now, this month I have kind of heavy serious topic. Don’t be afraid. It’s nothing to worry about, but I do want you to think deeply this month. It’s a little bit more of a deep topic I guess is how I might describe it. So this is called ‘Life Review’ and it’s an exercise or a thought experiment that you may have read about before. Maybe you’ve done it before, but I want you to do it again.

What we’re gonna do is we gonna kind of think about like our whole life, kind of try to get the big picture. So the whole point this month is really about perspective. You know that phrase ‘point of view’ like our point-of-view stories? ‘Point of view’ just means, literally, where you’re looking at something from. So let’s say I have a bug, like a little ant or something. If it’s down on the ground and I’m standing above it my point of view is above it. I’m looking down onto it from maybe a little bit of a large distance. That’s one point of view.

Now, I could look at that same ant, the same bug, I could be standing on top of a ladder and looking down at it and I’ll see it differently. Or, I could stand on top of a big hill and maybe I might need some telescope or binoculars and look way down on it. Or, I could get on knees or I could pick it up and I could look at it like straight on and very, very close. Or, I could get a microscope and I could look at it really, really, really close. So it’s the same object, an ant or a bug, but it’s a different point of view. I’m changing the point from which I’m observing it or looking at it.

So that’s all point of view means and so that’s all grammar is really. When we tell a story or something we’re just changing the point of view that we’re looking at the event from or that we’re describing it from. So let’s say something happens. Let’s say an apple falls from a tree. If we say the apple fell from the tree, well we’re looking at it from a future point of view, right? We’re looking back to the past. We’re describing it from now as a past event—the apple fell.

Or, if we’re right there now and I’ve got a microphone I’d say and the apple is falling now. It’s happening right as I’m watching it, right as I’m describing it. It’s a different point of view. The same thing is happening, an apple falling from a tree. Then if I, I don’t know, somehow have a time machine or I’m imagining or I’m looking at it and I can see it’s kind of shaking ah, that apple will fall. That apple is gonna fall. It’s going to fall. It’s just a different time point of view.

It’s the same when we’re describing an event. If I describe, I ran to the store or if someone else is describing me AJ ran to the store, he ran to the store, it’s just changing again. Instead of I’m describing it from my own eyes, someone from the outside is


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describing the same thing happening. That’s really what most grammar is and so what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna kind of look at our lives in this way.

See, most of the time we have a certain point of view of our life, which is kind of right now. We maybe look at today and sometimes we maybe look at our life in terms of like one year, last year to next year. Well, we have a certain timeframe that we normally think about our life. With some people it’s different. Some people live right now in this moment so they’re always just focused right now.

I guess if you were perfectly doing that you’d be some kind of monk or something, enlightened, because you’d always be here now all the time aware of everything, which would be great. Most of us don’t do that, but then some of us are more kind of short-term thinkers. Some of us like to look more to the future. I’m more of a future type of person. I’m always thinking about what’s next, what’s next. What do I want to do next? My general point of view is looking forward and then other people are more what we call nostalgic. ‘Nostalgic’ just means that you kind of have a point of view where you enjoy more looking to the past and appreciating the past. So that’s another kind of point of view.

So this month in this kind of life review, kind of like that ant, we’re gonna try to imagine we’re gonna pull way back and look at our entire life. So we’re gonna try to look at many, many years, like decades. A ‘decade’ is 10 years, so we’re gonna look at decades of life. We’re going to imagine, in fact, that we’re at the end of our life already. Hopefully, we live like a really long time. We live to be 100 years old or something and then we’re gonna imagine ourselves already there at the very end. We’re 100 years old and that we’re laying on a bed and we’re about to die. Then we’re gonna imagine we’re at that point and then we’re looking back on everything.

This is actually an activity you participate in, so what I want you to do either right now this time or maybe the second time you listen to this audio or whatever you want to do, I want you to sit down in a quiet place alone and close the door. Maybe even turn of the lights or just close your eyes or whatever and I want you kind of to imagine this. Imagine you’re time traveling a little bit.

So the first thing I want you to do is sit down or lay down and just close your eyes, maybe turn the lights down a little bit and then I want you to imagine. Imagine going forward into the future and imagine yourself at the end of your life, however old that will be for you. So maybe you’re 100 years old, let’s be optimistic. Let’s say you’re 100 years old and you’re on your death bed or if you want to be more optimistic be 200. I don’t care, just imagine you’re there and you’re really old and you’re kind of laying in a bed.




So this is your death scene. Don’t get too sad about it because hopefully you’ve had a great life. I want you to imagine you’re there and you’re looking back. The first step of this is you’re there and you’re kind of laying in that bed and you’re imaging your whole life. You’re reviewing your entire life from your childhood, which has already happened even now and then you know into your young adulthood and then as you got older and into middle age and then into your 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s all the way up to the end when you’re laying there. Just take a moment and think about that.

Think about first the life you have already lived to whatever your age is now. I want you to sort of just review it. So you can pause this if you need to and just think about the major things that have happened. What are the most memorable things in your life good and bad, small or big? Sometimes the small things are the things that actually we remember. Then I want you to imagine from this point now in your life all the way to that end point at 100 years old or whatever and what you hope will happen, the kind of things you hope will occur in the rest of your life, so kind of think about that for a while and then I want you to ask some questions.

Question number one is what is most important? So you’re in that moment. You’re laying there and you’re thinking about your whole life. It’s all over, what’s most important? Really imagine at that moment right before the end, what do you think will be most important to you. At that moment do you think you’re going to say oh, that was great? Maybe it’s more than one thing, but what’s most important. Not just great like some peak experience, but what is most important, the most meaningful to you. What do you think it will be at the end when you look back at everything? You know all the accomplishments, all the jobs, all the money, all the relationships, all the travel, all the learning, all the ups, all the downs, all of it, what do you think will be most important, most meaningful to you. That’s question one.

What I want you to do is you can listen to this a few times, but at some point pause and actually write it down. Think about it and imagine you’re in that moment. It’s really important that you imagine it. If you just sit there normally and you just try to write this down it’s a different kind of emotional state, a different kind of feeling. It’s much better if you can turn the lights down and really put yourself as much as you can into that position of the end of your life. You’re dying. You’re looking back. What is it that’s most important? What was most important in your life? Write it down. What are the best memories, the ones you’ve already had and the ones you hope to create.

The next thing is who was most important, right? So really imagine that. In fact, you could even imagine you’re at your death bed. Who would you want to be standing around you as you’re dying? You can imagine that even people older than you can live longer than you, whatever. So if you hope your parents are there even though they’re still alive now that’s great, put them there. Or, maybe they’re dead, but you want to picture them. Their spirit is there, that’s fine too. The key question is who would you




want there with you at the end? Who are the most important people in your life? Again, go ahead and pause and write down those names and then, finally, think about what you would want to say to each of these people at the end.

So two things, number one, what would you want to say to them individually. You know why are they special? Why are they important to you? Imagine going down that list and write it down again. Pause this and write down you know mom and then write down what you would want to say to you know your wife, your husband, your child, friends, whatever.

The second thing is I would like you to think about what you would want to share with them. What wisdom? What lessons do you hope you can share to them? What do you hope you can tell them about the meaning of your life or what you did or what you accomplished or what you learned. So think about that question also and then write down the answer. Maybe you don’t know now, but what you hope to know or hope to learn or hope to be at the end.

So, obviously, a pretty serious question, pretty serious activity, but think about it deeply and get yourself into that mindset of really it’s the end and imagine what it would be like emotionally and then write your answers, then think about your answers. Then as the final step, which we’ll talk about more in the commentary, this is the key and I’m sure you know this is the key, I want you to compare your life now to your answers.

We’ll talk about that more in the commentary, but the important part right now is to actually go through this activity. So now what I want you to do is maybe rewind this, go back to the beginning, turn the lights off, close your eyes, pause when you need to and really get yourself into that moment and then write those answers.

Okay, that’s all. See you in the commentary and we’ll talk more about it. See you soon, bye.




Life Review - VIP Mini StoryHi, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini story. Let’s get started. This one is about Heva.

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So Heva and Chim-chim, of course, had a salsa company. They built a big salsa empire and they made a lot of money and they became famous and as they became famous they made lots of great friends and one of their friends was Richard Branson, the guy who owns Virgin. So one day they get an invitation from Richard Branson for a party on his yacht.

So where was the party?

It was on Richard Branson’s yacht.

Of course, a ‘yacht’ is like a big expensive boat, a private big expensive boat.

So on whose yacht was the party?

Richard Branson’s. The party was on Richard Branson’s yacht.

And who was invited to the party?

Chim-chim and Heva, of course.

So they went to the party on Richard Branson’s yacht. At the party a journalist took a picture of Heva talking to Paris Hilton.

A ‘journalist’ is a writer, someone who works for a newspaper. It’s a reporter, basically. The common word is reporter. Journalist, I don’t know, means the same thing, basically. So a journalist, a reporter, took a picture of Heva with Paris Hilton.

Who took the picture of Heva with Paris Hilton?

A journalist. A journalist took a picture of Heva with Paris Hilton.

Where were they?

On Richard Branson’s yacht.

They were on Richard Branson’s yacht and then the journalist took a picture of…?




Heva and Paris Hilton.

Did the journalist take a picture of Heva and Chim-chim?

No, the journalist did not take a picture of Heva and Chim-chim. The journalist took a picture of Heva and Paris Hilton.

The next day in the newspaper there was a headline. It said ‘Heva’s New Squeeze.’

So a ‘squeeze’ is like slang for a girlfriend or a boyfriend I guess too. It’s kind of like you’d say this is my main squeeze. It’s kind of an old slang and it’s just one way of saying boyfriend, girlfriend, someone you’re dating, that kind of thing.

So what did the headline say?

It said ‘Heva’s New Squeeze.’

And what does squeeze mean?

It’s slang, kind of an old slang for girlfriend or boyfriend, basically.

And was Paris Hilton Heva’s new girlfriend?

No, no, no, no, no, Heva already had a girlfriend. Paris Hilton was not his new squeeze. Paris Hilton was just a friend.

So was Heva happy about the headline ‘Heva’s New Squeeze’ with their picture, him and Paris Hilton?

No, he was very unhappy about this headline, but even worse, his girlfriend was irate.

‘Irate’ means very, very angry, super angry. We’ve had that word many times I think. ‘Irate’ means super angry.

So who was irate?

Heva’s girlfriend was irate.

What was she irate about?

She was irate about the headline ‘Heva’s New Squeeze’, Heva’s new girlfriend.




And what picture went with the headline?

A picture of Heva with Paris Hilton was attached to the headline.

So Heva’s new girlfriend was irate. She was super, super, super angry and so Heva was super upset and so he decided to sue the newspaper for libel.

So what did Heva do?

He sued the newspaper for libel.

Who did he sue? Whom did he sue?

He sued the newspaper.

He sued them for what?

For libel.

‘Libel’ is a kind of legal term. More or less it means lying. I mean the common use of the word is like something that’s printed that is a lie. The basic idea is the newspaper knew it was not true. They knew it was a lie, but they printed it anyway. So it’s kind of like an official told or officially printed lie and it’s called libel, libel. ‘To sue’ means to go to court, right? It means to go to court and try to get money because someone did something wrong to you.

So Heva sued Paris Hilton?

No, Heva did not sue Paris Hilton. Heva sued the newspaper that published the story.

What did he sue them for?

He sued them for libel.

We usually say ‘sued for’, sued for libel, sued for damages. ‘Damages’ means money that you get from the court because someone did something bad to you. They hurt you in some way.

So Heva sued the newspaper for what?

He sued them for libel. He sued them for lying about him.

Did Paris Hilton sue the newspaper for libel?




Paris Hilton did not sue the newspaper for libel. Heva sued the newspaper for libel.

Did he sue them for injury?

No, he didn’t sue them for physical injury. He was not physically hurt. He sued them for libel. Heva sued the newspaper for libel because they lied. They said Paris Hilton was his new girlfriend and that wasn’t true.

At the trial, Paris Hilton testified for Heva.

So ‘to testify’ for someone, we use this in court, the legal process, something like that. ‘To testify’ really means just to tell your story, to tell your story, but when we say testify for, to testify for someone, it means you’re telling a story that supports that person. So she testified for Heva. It means she’s on Heva’s side. She’s telling a story that supports Heva. If she testified for the newspaper it means she would tell a story that supported the newspaper’s version.

Did Paris Hilton testify for the newspaper or did she testify for Heva?

She testified for Heva. She supported Heva in court. She told a story that supported Heva. She said “I’m not Heva’s girlfriend. I was never his girlfriend.”

Did Heva testify for Paris Hilton?

No, no, no, Heva did not testify for Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton did not go to court against the newspaper. Heva testified for himself. He told a story for himself to support himself in court and Paris Hilton testified for Heva.

All right, do you understand? Good.

So Paris Hilton testified for Heva. She said “No, the newspaper lied. I was never his girlfriend and I’m not his girlfriend now.” Finally in the end the judge awarded $10 million dollars to Heva. So Heva got the judgment from the court. He got the judgment in his favor.

So ‘the judgment’ in a court is the final decision. So if you say I got the judgment that means that the court said I was correct, that I am the winner. So Heva got the judgment in this case. He won the judgment in this case.

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And that is the end of our mini story, nice, simple, straightforward mini story. What I want you to do is listen to this story at least once a day for seven to 10 days, even up to 14 days if you want to. Answer the questions. Pause if you need to. Answer the questions. Just listen again and again and again. Little by little the basic grammar just gets stronger and stronger and stronger every single month. It will become more automatic when you speak.

All right, I’ll see you again for the point of view. Okay, bye-bye.




Life Review - VIP POVHi, this is AJ. Welcome to the point-of-view stories this month. Let’s start. Same story, just different points of view, different perspective. The first one I’m gonna just talk about it as if it’s just generally happening in the present.

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So Heva and Chim-chim become famous. They become rich and famous and then they make a lot of famous friends. One of their famous friends is Richard Branson, the guy who owns Virgin America, Virgin Airlines, and he invites them to a party on his yacht and, of course, they accept his invitation and they go to his party.

Paris Hilton is also at the party and during the party a journalist takes a picture of Heva talking to Paris Hilton. The next day the journalist publishes a story in the newspaper with a headline that says ‘Heva’s New Squeeze’ and it has a picture of Heva and Paris Hilton talking to each other. So Heva’s new girlfriend with the two of them talking.

Heva is upset, but his girlfriend is irate, super upset, super angry, so Heva decides to sue the newspaper for libel. He takes them to court and he sues them libel and Paris Hilton testifies for him at the trial and because of this Heva wins. He wins the judgment and the newspaper has to pay him a whole lot of money and apologize.

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All right, that’s version one of the story. Now, in this next version I’m gonna tell it also from basically the point of view of the present, but this one is going to have a feeling of it being even more in the present, happening like right now. This gives the feeling more like we’re actually right there at the time, like I have a microphone and a camera and I’m watching it and I’m telling you as it happens. So you’ll notice it will be just a slightly different feeling. I’ll be using the present tense some, but I’ll be changing things a little bit too. Just notice how it changes.

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So Heva and Chim-chim are super famous. They’re becoming really famous and they go to a party and we’re gonna go with them. So there we are. We’re on the boat, on the yacht with Heva and Chim-chim and Richard Branson. Richard Branson is talking to everyone and welcoming them onto this yacht and Paris Hilton is also there and she walks up to Heva and they start talking.

They’re there and they’re talking to each other very seriously for a long time. They’re looking in each other’s eyes and having a very, very serious conversation and while




they’re doing this, while they are talking to each other and having this serious conversation, a journalist is watching them too and he is taking pictures of them.

So this journalist is watching them and he’s taking pictures of them click-click, click-click, click-click, click-click, click-click and the next day the journalist publishes these photos with the headline ‘Heva’s New Squeeze.’ Now, of course, Heva gets very upset because this is not true. Heva’s girlfriend becomes irate, super angry because this is not true and so Heva decides to sue the newspaper. He takes them to court and he sues them libel.

And so you can imagine, we go in there and we’re watching and we’re there on the day of the testimony of Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton testifies for Heva. She’s testifying right now for Heva. We’re watching and she’s sitting there in the chair and she’s telling her story and she’s saying “Heva and I never dated. He was never my boyfriend and he never will be.” The crowd is watching very intent and everybody is wondering what’s going to happen and finally the judge makes his decision and he says that Heva wins the case.

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And that’s version number two of the story. Now you can see in some points where I am using ‘ing’. I’m saying she is testifying. That gives the feeling of it’s very immediate, like we’re actually sitting there right as it’s happening. When I say she testifies for him it has a more general feeling. It’s kind of in the present, but it’s just a different feeling. It doesn’t feel like it’s in this exact moment as much.

All right, let’s go again. Let’s do the future because that’s also a very common point of view. So we can imagine in the future.

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Chim-chim and Heva become famous in the future. They become famous and Richard Branson is going to send them an invitation to a party and they’re gonna accept the invitation. They’re going to accept the invitation and they’ll go to the party on his yacht and Paris Hilton will also be at the party. Heva and Paris Hilton they’re gonna have like a really serious conversation. (Of course, ‘gonna’ means going to. I have to remind you every month. Gonna is our casual way of saying going to.)

So they’re gonna have a serious conversation and while they’re having this conversation a journalist will take their picture and the next day he’s gonna publish a headline that says ‘Heva’s New Squeeze’ with a picture of Heva talking to Paris Hilton. Now, Heva’s girlfriend will be irate. She’s going to be furious, very angry and Heva will be very upset too. In fact, he’ll be so upset that he’ll sue the newspaper for libel.




At the trial, Paris Hilton will testify. She’ll testify for Heva and say that she was never his girlfriend and they’re not dating now and they never will and because of this Heva is going to win the case and the judge will award the judgment to him and the newspaper will have to pay him millions of dollars and they have to apologize too.

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And that’s it for our third version, the future version, and that’s the end of our point-of-view stories. As always, just listen to these each day. Don’t think about the grammar. Don’t analyze it, just notice how things change. Notice the change and notice the change in the meaning. That’s it.

All right, I will see you again next time, bye-bye.




Life Review - VIP CommentaryHi, this is AJ. Welcome to the commentary. Let’s talk more about this activity. So I hope you actually did this activity. You may be familiar with another variation of this, which I’ve seen in many different places. I don’t know. It’s a popular one with counselors and social workers, motivational people and all that. It’s like the funeral thing. You imagine you’re at your own funeral watching it and then you imagine what other people will say about you. What do you want them to say about you?

I like this one better because that one is more about other people’s opinions, right? It’s a little more external. This one is more internal. It’s really more about focusing on what is meaningful to you. What’s most meaningful to you in life and so the whole point of this activity is to try to pull that out a little more because, again, remember I talked about point of view. When we’re constantly focused on today and this week and this year we sometimes forget to look at our life from a bigger point of view just because we get busy.

We all do that. We have a lot to do. We’ve got family and work and all kinds of stuff going on and so we tend to focus like maybe on this week, this month, maybe this year and we often do not look at our life from the point of view or the perspective of decades where let’s look at it in 10 years at a time. You know from the past and into the future or a 20-year span and what’s our life like over that kind of a time span or 50 years or if we’re lucky and healthy 100 years, something like that, really looking at the whole thing.

I think we think about things differently when we do that. I do. If I look at this year ah, then I’ve got all this big list of things I want to accomplish and I can get really focused on achieving this and achieving this and doing this and having this big long to-do list and I can get really upset if I don’t accomplish one of them. It’s this kind of short-term perspective, but if I sort of step back more and look at it you know five years or 10 years or 20 years or more then a lot of that stuff just kind of fades away.

It’s like oh, who cares. It’s not really important at all. It doesn’t actually add meaning to my life when I look at it from a wider perspective. It doesn’t mean you know maybe I still need to do some of those things right now, but it lets me look at them in a different way. Like that’s not so important. Just relax. It doesn’t matter. Let me give you an example.

My car needs new tires, okay? So right now that feels like ah, I’ve gotta go and find a place and buy the tires and then I’ve gotta go and wait. It seems like a big hassle, but obviously if I look at my life from a five-year perspective I won’t even remember it. As soon as I get the tires two days later I’ve forgotten about the whole thing. So it’s kind of pointless to really get all worried and upset about it. It’s not a big deal.




So that’s the whole point of this exercise is to help you because sometimes if we only focus on one year then we can end up living like 10 years or 20 years and we miss the really important stuff because we got so caught up in right now, right now, these little things that seem important but aren’t. That’s when you get that feeling and it’s a bad feeling we’ve all had at some point where you realize oh, I’ve neglected something important in my life. ‘To neglect’ means you don’t take care of it. You don’t focus on it.

Relationships – when I did this activity and just kind of imagined it that’s what came to me is that the relationships were the most important. It was my family and my friends, my close friends that I’ve had for a long time, that’s what was obviously to me the most important and the most meaningful. When I imagined who would be around me that’s who it was. When I imagined my past what was meaningful to me was the closeness of those relationships, caring about those people, them caring about me.

When I imagine what I would want to say at the end it was mostly about that. You know gratitude to certain people in my life or an awareness of my connection. It was that kind of stuff, right? It wasn’t a lot of the stuff I think of week to week like with the business or even teaching or even Effortless English. Even though this is a great huge passion of mine doing this, when I really look at it from a big perspective the parts that are important about that are just the people I’ve met. It’s not so much this lesson or that lesson, I don’t even think about that. So it’s important.

It’s not that the little things aren’t important also, but it’s important to see what’s truly deeply meaningful and to remind yourself of that. Then you can adjust maybe the present moment to pay more attention to those things. So that’s the whole point of all this and why I want you to do it. I really hope you’ll do that and then as part of the next step, the thing to do this month, is I want you to really review those answers that you wrote down.

If you struggled with this…you know some people think this is very morbid. ‘Morbid’ means kind of depressing and the more direct meaning is focused on death. So a lot of people are like oh, I don’t want to think about that, push it away, push it away, but it’s not meant to be depressing. It’s meant to be quite the opposite. It’s meant to give you a feeling of appreciation so that you can appreciate what is truly meaningful and important to you and discover what that is and remember it.

So if you had trouble, you thought it was depressing, try again. Try again. Keep trying to get yourself into that emotional state of wow, it really is, this is the end. Oh, what’s important and then write those answers down because you’ll get better answers if you do that and then, again, this month the next step is I want you to really review those answers. Read them. Think about them. Take some time. We don’t do this enough where we just sit and think about sort of bigger things. Instead of watching TV and running around doing stuff, really take time to look at your answers and think about it




and see wow, that is important to me. That’s what I care about. That’s the kind of life I hope I’ll have at the end that I’ll look back upon and see. These are the people that are most important to me.

So do that and then, step three, after you’ve done your answers, you did the activity, you’ve looked at them, reviewed them, thought more about them, now step three what I want you to do is to focus on those big important things this month. Every day I want you to look at those answers again that you wrote down and I want you to do something that is connected to those big answers. What do I mean by that?

I mean let’s say that one thing you imagine or realize is that your parents are really important to you. Yeah, you’re busy. Maybe you live in a different town and you kind of don’t really talk to them that much right now. Well, if you realize that then this month what I’d like you to do is start thinking about your parents. Think about why they are so meaningful to you and then take some action this month. What might that be?

Well, maybe you call them every day this month and maybe even talk to them. Wow, you know I thought about this and I just really appreciate you guys and thank you. Whatever, whatever it is you want to say or do. You don’t have to say anything serious to them. You can just pick up the phone and just chat with them. Just establish that connection this month. Really focus on them if they were one of the really important things that came up for you. Or, you know maybe it’s your child or your children. It could be a friend.

So when I did this I mean there were a lot of different people. Certainly, it was Tamoa my wife and my parents and my family and then it was certain friends too like my friend Kristen who’s my best friend who I’ve known for like ages and ages and ages and her boyfriend Joe who I’ve known now for many, many years. We’ve traveled together. We’ve done all these things together. Shared all these experiences and I really realized wow, they are really important to me so I can make an extra effort to stay in touch with them, to contact them. You can even go beyond just contacting them. You can write a letter to someone if you want to. I don’t know. It’s up to you, but the point is take some action.

Maybe you thought about living a very active, vigorous, adventurous life. Maybe that’s what you really imagined, that you were just out there doing bold amazing things, taking chances, fully living life ever moment. Maybe that’s what you see as the deeper meaning of your life or the deeper happiness of your life. That’s great too. Well, if that is the case then, of course, you would review that. You’d see that and what would you need to do? You need to take action. You’d say well, I haven’t been doing that lately or not as much as I want. So you’d get out there and start doing some adventurous things. Buy a plane ticket, go skydiving, whatever it is for you, get out there and do it more. This month get focused on that again.




I can go on and on. I don’t know what the answer is. You have to do this. Think deeply about it and then, of course, the last step, as always, share this. I think this would be really, really interesting and powerful to share this on our website. I would love to hear about your answers to this and I’d love to hear about the actions you take, how you’re refocusing on the truly important meaningful things in your life. I know the other members would love to hear from you and I’m sure you would love to hear from them. I mean this is a very inspiring topic and the more we share it the more powerful it will be for all of us. We might remind each other of some good answers.

All right, so I’ll be reading about your answers soon on our site. This is a very uplifting topic, a very positive topic if you do it, so do it and I’ll see you on our site. I look forward to hearing your answers, bye-bye.




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