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2 Pure Energy Audio Hi, this is A.J. and welcome VIP member. How are you today? I hope you re having a great day. Now this month I have another video lesson for you. This time I m using a piece of a video from Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins, one of our favorite teachers and coaches. In this video, Tony is talking about the topic of health and energy and he talks about why it s important and how it affects all parts of our life and it does. So let me go ahead and get started and go through the video. I ll pause, play, explain, play, pause, explain and then in the commentary I ll talk more about some of these ideas. We ve already talked about health and fitness in some past VIP lessons and I m going to continually talk about this topic. It will be one of our main topics that we ll visit again and again and again because it s so, so, so important. It affects everything else in your life. You have high energy and you feel great, you perform great in all different parts of your life. If you have low energy and you feel bad, then you typically will perform less well. Job, family, everything, all parts of your life become more difficult. So that s why it s really the engine. The energy that starts everything is our health. So it s an important topic and I will definitely continually talk about this in future months as well and other topics as well, of course, not just this, but it s an important one. So why don t we watch this video and I ll start explaining it. Let me just get the section I want. I have a little campaign for you. I m sure you know that for three decades Okay. So he said I m sure you know that for three decades. For three decades I have been a huge proponent of health. That s what he s going to say. So he said for three decades. Obviously, that means for 30 years. He said I have been a huge proponent of. A proponent is someone who supports something; someone who supports an idea or a person or it could be anything, really. So if you are a huge proponent it means you re a big supporter of something. In this case, he s a big supporter of health; of living a healthy life. Let s continue. I have been a proponent of anything that could give you that huge competitive advantage in terms of strength or fitness or energy

3 Okay. So he said I ve been a huge proponent of anything that can give you that competitive advantage in terms of strength and fitness and energy. So what is he a supporter of, a proponent of? Well, it means he supports anything, it means any way of eating, any way of exercising, any way of living that give you a competitive advantage. If you re maybe in business or sports or whatever in your life, if you have to compete, well then you need an advantage. So he supports anything that will give you that advantage. He also supports anything that gives you better fitness and better energy long term. So he s a supporter or a proponent of anything that gives you better competition competitive ability anything that gives you better fitness, which is kind of strength and endurance and anything which gives you better energy. Of course, Tony talks very, very fast, which is one of the challenges with Tony Robbins. Let s keep going. and I ve come across some of the most amazing experts. So I ve got three that are people that have influenced me the most Okay. It s hard because he talks so fast. He said I ve come across people who ve given me some advantages. Let s watch that little piece again because it s so fast. and I ve come across some of the most amazing experts. So he says and I ve come across some of the most amazing experts. To come across means to find. He means I ve found some of the most amazing experts in this area of health and fitness. So I ve come across them; I ve found them. So I ve got three that are people that have influenced me the most So he says I ve got three, three experts who are people who have influenced me the most. So he s found three special people, who have influenced him a lot; who taught him a lot about health and fitness and energy. and I want to introduce you to them. And he says I want to introduce you to them. These are people I want to introduce you to. He s talking about some videos he s sending out and in each video there ll be a different expert. and hopefully, have you be able to take advantage of some of their resources.

4 So he said and hopefully, have you be able to take advantage of some of their resources. So, to take advantage of, it has a couple meanings. It can have a negative meaning, but here it s a positive meaning and it just means to use, to use. It means to use some potential, use something that s useful, so to take advantage of these experts resources. And, of course, resources means their ideas or things that are useful the noun. So he saying I want you to use the useful ideas from these experts. That s what that sentence means -- to take advantage of, to use some of their resources; some of their useful ideas. If you re coming to, Unleash the Power Within, this year in Los Angeles in Long Beach, I m bringing a very special man Okay. So he said if you re coming to Unleash the Power Within in Long Beach, he s just talking about an event he s having in Long Beach, California and the name of the event is Unleash the Power Within. So, anyway, not important, let s keep going. But he s having a special person, a special guest at this event, so that s why he s talking about it. who has influenced me. His name is Stu Mittleman. He s one of the people who has influenced him and his name is Stu Mittleman. If you have Power English you might know Stu Mittleman s name because I mention Stu Mittleman in the Slow Burn lesson set for Power English. If you don t have Power English, well If you don t know Stu s story, in a nutshell He says if you don t know Stu s story, here it is in a nutshell. Here is his story in a nutshell. In a nutshell is an idiom. In a nutshell means in a very short way. It means like a very short summary. You re summarizing something very quickly, so right before you summarize it you say okay, well, in a nutshell, here s the main idea. You can imagine a nut is very small, right? So it means you can fit the explanation inside a tiny, little shell of a nut. Do you get the idea? It means it would have to be very small to do that, so it means a very short explanation. That s what that phrase means and we say it just before we tell you a quick summary of something. So maybe it s a big, long idea. He could talk about Stu Mittleman a lot. The guy has a lot of ideas. There are so many things, but he wants to just give you the very short, quick version, so he says in a nutshell. It means here s the short, quick version about Stu Mittleman. this is a guy that ran 1,000 miles in 11 days

5 So he s like the nutshell, the main thing you should know about Stu Mittleman. He ran, what d he say, 1,000 miles in a few days. literally, 85 or 84 miles a day, on average. He ran 84 miles per day, on average. That s a lot. What would that be in kilometers? I don t know, 120 kilometers or something like that per day. At the end, he was so ahead of schedule. He was going to be on The Today Show So he ran across the United States. He ran from California to New York. Every single day he ran 84 miles, 120, 130 kilometers every day. So, basically, oh God, that s a lot. That s like three marathons every single day he ran. That s a lot. This guy, Stu Mittleman, is amazing; amazing, super energy guy. and they said you ve gotta slow down. You re going to finish before the Today Show is ready. So as part of his run across America, he was going to appear on a TV show in New York and the TV show is called The Today Show, but Stu Mittleman was going so fast. He was running so much every day he was ahead of schedule. So he was coming and The Today Show said wait, you re coming too early. We want to have you on our TV show when you arrive in New York City, but you re coming before the schedule. You need to slow down. Stu Mittleman said no, I m not going to slow down. I ll just run more. So he just kind of ran a longer route so he would arrive at the right time in New York for The Today Show. Oh, I ll just run further. He says oh, I ll just run further. I ll run more. The man is amazing. At 50 years old He said the man is amazing. At 50 years old, at the age of 50. he ran 52 days in a row... He ran 52 days in a row. In a row, of course, means back to back to back, no break. So at the age of 50, he ran 52 days in a row. and 52 miles a day.

6 And he ran 52 miles a day. Maybe it was his 52 nd birthday. It seems like everything is 52. So, anyway, he ran 52 miles. That s two marathons. So that s two marathons every single day for 52 consecutive days, back to back to back. So it s like you run two marathons today and then tomorrow you run two more and the next day two more. This is what Stu Mittleman did. This is why Tony feels he is a super expert on the topic of energy and health. I mean you must be very fit and healthy and you have to have a lot of energy, well, just to run one marathon. I ve run a few marathons, you know, one at a time and I can t imagine running them back to back to back to back, but Stu Mittleman did. And Stu Mittleman, of course, ran in a very different way than I did, which is how he manages to do it. I mean just over 3,000 miles at the age of 50. At the age of 50, he ran over 3,000 miles in less than two months. That s 5,000 kilometers, I believe, in two months; less than two months, 52 days. So he s just trying to give you all these examples to show you that this Stu Mittleman guy is amazing. This guy is special and he is really an expert on the topic of energy and health. I mean this guy has amazing energy and it s not about age, okay? This is at the age of 50 that he did all of this. Most people at the age of 50 are complaining I m tired. Oh, I m getting older now. And this guy at the age of 50 is running two marathons every single day, amazing. Well, he s a freak of nature, I m not, Tony. What s the point? So Tony is saying okay, maybe you re thinking well, Stu Mittleman is a freak of nature and I m not, so what s the point. To be a freak of nature, that s another little idiom. If you say he s a freak of nature, it means he s special. He has some special genetics. To be a freak means to be very, very different, totally weird and different, not like other people at all. And to be a freak of nature, that s usually a positive phrase freak of nature. Freak can have a negative feeling, but when you have the whole phrase freak of nature, we usually use it to describe an athlete. We usually use it to describe someone who is super good and talented with some kind of physical activity. It could possibly be something even like the guitar, but usually it s more of a sports kind of thing. So you might say, you know, Michael Jordan was a freak of nature, because he could do things with the basketball that no one else could do.

7 So it s the idea that he s super special. He has some special thing in his body or, I don t know, from the universe and his genetics, something that makes him special, which means it s impossible for other people to do what he does. So Tony is saying maybe you are thinking this about Stu Mittleman. You think okay, he ran two marathons every day, but he s a freak of nature. He has some special genetics. He can do that, but I can t, so what s the point, Tony. Why are you telling me this? It doesn t help me. That s what Tony is saying. He s saying maybe you re thinking this. Well, when I wanted to figure out how to increase my energy in my early 20s He s saying well, here s the point. He says when I wanted to figure out how to increase my own energy when I was in my 20s, you know, 21, 22 years old, 25 years old. you know I had a lot of psychological energy, but not a lot of physical energy. So he s saying at that time, even in his 20s, he had a lot of psychological energy, but not a lot of physical energy. Now that s an interesting topic and I want to talk more about it in the commentary. There s a difference, right? You can have psychological energy. It means you have a lot of ideas and you want to do a lot of stuff and you re motivated and yeah, yeah, yeah, but sometimes, a lot of times, we have psychological energy, but then our body, our physical energy is low. So we want to do a lot of cool stuff and we re really motivated, but then we feel kind of tired. We don t have the physical energy to do it or if we do, do it, we have to really force ourselves with our minds, right? I will do it! I will do it! And it s a struggle. So that was his problem in his 20s. Tony said I had a lot of psychological energy, but not much physical energy and I wanted to find somebody to help me. I d gone on diets and tried different things, so I said you know what? So he said I d gone on diets. I dieted and I tried different things, they didn t help. I want to find somebody who s the best endurance athlete in the world, but I want somebody that s not a professional athlete. So, at that time, he said I want to find somebody who s the best endurance athlete in the world. Endurance, of course, means lots of energy for a long, not just really short and quick. Endurance means you can do something a long, long time.

8 He said but I wanted to find someone who was not a professional athlete. So this is what he s saying about Stu Mittleman. Stu Mittleman is not a professional athlete. He didn t want to go find like the top marathon runner in the world from Kenya who maybe does have some great genetics or who at least probably has trained, you know, since they were a small child for hours and hours and hours every single day. So he s like I didn t want that. I wanted to find more of a normal person so that I could copy and model what they were doing. I m not a pro. I can t dedicate my whole life to it. So he s saying I m not a pro. Tony is saying I m not a pro. I can t dedicate my whole life to getting more energy, I have other things I m doing in my life. I wanted to find those shortcuts. Then I found Stu. He s saying I wanted to find those shortcuts and, of course, a shortcut is a shorter way, an easier way to do something; a shorter, easier, faster way to do something. She he says then I found Stu. I found Stu Mittleman and he taught me some of the important shortcuts; the easier ways to get healthier and more energy. I interviewed him. I modeled him. He said I interviewed him and I modeled him. To model someone is kind of to copy them, but not to copy them to steal from them. It means you copy them so that you can also perform well. If you want to be a great speaker, then you model great speakers. You kind of copy them for a while and eventually you develop your own style, but in the beginning you re just kind of copying what they re doing. If you want to be a great golfer, then you try to copy golfers who are better than you. We call that modeling, to model them. So he s saying I modeled Stu. And now I m bringing him back to Long Beach, California for the UPW and you ll have a chance to have a session with him, where he s going to show you So he s saying now I m bringing him back. Now I m bringing him back to UPW. That means Unleash the Power Within, that s his event. That s Tony s event in Long Beach, California. He says if you come to this event, you ll be able to have a session with him. A session is a meeting. You can have a private meeting with Stu Mittleman. You can have a session with him, a meeting with him, and Stu can maybe give you some advice

9 about how to have more energy. Of course, I m not going to this event and you re probably not going to this event, so it doesn t matter. the most efficient ways to workout and to get the greatest level of energy in your life, so the first part is pure energy. Okay. So what Tony is talking about then is pure energy. Pure energy is really the topic of this VIP lesson and this video. What does that mean, pure energy? What are we talking about again? Well, you know, in health and fitness there are really kind of two sides of it, which I m sure all of you know. There s the eating and diet part and then there is the activity exercise part, right? And there are lots of books and ideas and theories and all this stuff about each side of this and people get really confused about it, but I think what Tony is talking about and I think he s absolutely correct, is that our first best measurement of health is our consistent energy level. Consistent energy is really the number one thing we want first. So, for example, the reason there s a lot of confusion is that people have different goals. So, for example, with exercising and working out you re going to hear so many different kinds of advice. Some people will tell you to workout really hard, to exercise really hard for a short time and then take a break and then do it again for a short time and then take a break. That s called interval training. You run really fast for one minute and then you walk for a minute and then you run fast for a minute and then you walk for a minute. I ve done that and I do, do it sometimes. Other people will tell you to do long runs, but run kind of hard. You know, you want to get your heartbeat going quite quickly. Other people will tell you that hard, heavy weightlifting is the best and to use the heaviest weights possible and only do a few repetitions. Other people will tell you that you should lift lighter weights more often, like maybe 10 or 20 times. Other people will say no, don t do that, do something like yoga because yoga gives you a full-body workout. It gives you some strength and flexibility. Other people will say no, no, but yoga doesn t really get your heart rate going enough. And, so, there s a lot of confusion, right? People say oh, my God. Oh, what do I do? Do I go fast or slow, this or that? Oh, my God, ah. Well, the truth is there s not a right or a wrong answer. People act like my way is the best and it s the only way, but that s not the truth. Each of these kinds of exercise, these ways of exercising, are designed to get a different or a specific result. So if you want fast speed and you want to be able to have a

10 lot of power, to suddenly have a lot of strength and power, you re going to workout and exercise in a different way than if you are trying to run a marathon. So it s really easy to get confused and maybe you re thinking well, I don t know what I want. I don t know. I mean it d be nice to have some more muscles. I d like to lose some fat and da- da- da. And then people get focused on these external goals, right? I want to weigh, you know, 150 pounds or 170 pounds or whatever. Or I want to look like, you know, Brad Pitt. I don t know if Brad Pitt still looks good, but, you know, you want to lose three inches or five inches of fat and, again, these sorts of external goals. The problem is that these kind of external goals really are not very motivating. You know they re kind of negative, when you think about it, because what you re saying is I m not happy with my body now and I want to lose, I want to get rid of some of this fat or get rid of something. And, you know, our brains just don t work well when you have a negative goal, like I want to eliminate something, I want to get rid of it. Our brains respond better when we have a positive goal. I want to get something. Getting a positive thing, for us, is usually more motivating than eliminating something negative and it s also, I think, just a better way to live and a better way to think. So what we have to really think about is what is the most basic, the most important part of health? I mean what is the first thing that we all want? When we say I want to be healthy, what does that mean? Now some people say well, I ll live a long time, but, you know, you can t control everything. You can t control exactly how long you re going to live. You know, you might have an accident. Hopefully not, but you know things happen, so it s kind of crazy to have this idea I will live to be 150. You know, maybe you will; maybe you won t. I think, though, if we think about it more like what do I want right now, right? If I think about health right now in my life, why would I want to be healthier? It doesn t matter what your age is. You might be 15, you might be 50, you might be 80, you might be 100 right now, but you ask yourself okay, well, what do I want? I think what Tony is saying here is that energy is really the most basic measurement, the most basic benefit of great health; a consistently high level of energy that is consistent that remains consistent through the whole day and it s every single day. Now most of us don t have that, right? A lot of people are morning people. They wake up, they have great energy, but then later in the day their energy drops and drops and drops. Other people are night people. I m a night person. That means when I wake up my energy is a bit low and it tends to go up in the early afternoon, drop in the late afternoon and then up again at night. That s not consistent energy. It s going up and down, up and down, up and down.

11 Some people just feel tired all the time or most of the time. Some people might have a good day and then the next day feeling really bad and tired. None of that is great health. None of those examples I gave you represents great health. You know you re super healthy when you feel a really high level of physical energy when you wake up through the entire day, evening, and night until you go to bed and you feel that every single day. That is what health is. That s your basic core foundation for health is that high consistent level of physical energy. Now, if you have high mental energy that s even greater. Then you ll be a crazy person, like Tony Robbins, running around and doing tons of stuff, but I m talking about physical energy. Because a lot of us do have the mental energy, we want to do a lot of stuff. We have a lot of dreams. We have a lot of ideas, but then our body kinds of holds us back, right? You re like I would love to do live events and teach classes and go to this and take these classes and learn how to do this, but I feel tired so I m not going to do all of that. So a lot of people are limited by their physical energy; by their bodies, by their health. And a lot of people who think they re healthy are not, because they go to the doctor and they say my cholesterol is low and my blood pressure is good, that means I m healthy. No, it doesn t. That s the mainstream medical idea of health, but it s not. Because a lot of people who do that and they say my blood pressure is low and I have good cholesterol, but they feel tired a lot, which means their body is limiting their life; limiting what they can or will do. A lot of people have dreams to do some, you know, really cool activity or trip or travel or something and they don t do it because physically they don t think they can do it. For example, sometimes I have family visit me in San Francisco and we re limited. We re limited to what we can do. I would love to take them up to the top of Coit Tower, you know, and see the great views of the city and I d love to take them on walking tours through lots of interesting neighborhoods, but they can t do it physically. They re too tired. Oh, they re tired. Oh, my knees hurt. They can t do it. Their physical body is therefore lowering their life quality and that is bad. Now with other people it s more subtle, right? Subtle means just a little bit, not obvious. You know you should really be honest about this in your life and think. Am I doing all the things I would love to do? Am I living my dream life right now? If the answer is no, you

12 can also ask yourself another question. Is my physical energy limiting me? Is my body limiting me? So strength is great. Running tons of marathons, fantastic, whatever maybe athletic goal you might have that s fantastic, but you add that onto the foundation and the foundation of health is pure energy. It s a high level of energy consistently throughout the entire day, every single day. That s the basic thing that we all want in terms of health. Now, after that, if you want to build big muscles or you play basketball and you want to do special exercise for that that s great. That s fine, but I m not going to talk about that in this lesson, I m just talking about the most basic level. In fact, some people who are good athletes, who are lifting weights a lot, for example, and they re very strong, they might not be very healthy. They might be fit -- fit means, really, strength -- but they re not healthy. Meaning, they workout, they lift weights, they re strong, but they feel tired a lot. Their body after working out is like oh, my God and some of that s normal. Of course, you want to feel some tiredness when you workout really hard, but I mean like then the next day they re just really lethargic. Lethargic means really tired; fatigued. And, just in general, throughout the day their energy goes up and down and they have a lot of times when they re just not very energetic. That s not health. You can be strong, but not be healthy. So what I m saying is you want the health first. You want that incredible level of energy first and then you build other things on top; build strength on top, build flexibility on top, build sports on top, whatever it is you also want to do. So in the commentary I m going to talk more about this. I m going to talk more about getting this steady, high level of energy and, of course, I ve already talked about in the Energy Triangle Lesson how to encourage that with eating. Now in this one I m going to tell you how to encourage this with a certain kind of exercising. When you say which one is more important, A.J.? Well, they re both important, but I think that, actually, physical activity is a little bit more powerful than eating. It doesn t mean go eat bad stuff. It s just that I ve met some older people, for example, my two grandmothers. My father s mom is 90 years old and she s still really active and she eats terribly. She eats fried foods. She eats all these terrible foods and sweets and stuff. I m like, how does she do this? Well, the secret is she is active. She line dances. She does county line dancing. She does square dancing. She teaches aerobics classes at her retirement community. So she s always been really, really, really active.

13 And, so, what I ve seen and what I ve observed with some older people is that if you re very, very active sometimes, even if you eat badly, you ll still be fairly healthy, but if you re sedentary, if you just lay around and sit in your chair all the time and have this kind of modern lifestyle where we sit on our butts all the time for hours and hours then, even if you re eating well, you still probably aren t going to have very good energy. Now if you want super energy you re going to eat well and you re going to move a lot, but if you think it s too much for me to do both, A.J., I would say start with the physical activity and the movement. I think you ll get the faster, quicker result by focusing on that first and then start improving your eating. Okay, so, anyway, in the commentary I ll talk more about this. I ll talk about the idea of alkalizing your body and how to exercise in a way that will make your body more alkaline. Alkaline is the opposite of acid, right? You probably know this term acid. When your body is acidic you have lower energy. When your body is alkaline it means the PH is high and you feel a lot of physical energy. There are ways to eat in order to get more alkaline and I talked about that already in the Energy Triangle Lesson. There are also certain ways to exercise and move that will give you a more alkaline body instead of producing acid. So, listen to that commentary because I ll give you some extra information about that. I hope you enjoyed this. I want you to have super, incredible energy so that you can be a great leader, so that you can have energy for your relationships, so that you have more energy for your business, for your job, for your dreams, anything and everything you want. When you have a lot of physical energy it s much easier to accomplish. Okay. I ll see you in the commentary. Have a great day, bye-bye.

14 Pure Energy Mini-Story Text Hello, this is A.J. and welcome to the mini-story for the VIP Lesson Pure Energy. Now in this one we re going to do a little bit of advanced grammar, but don t worry about it too much. Just listen and answer the questions, as usual. Here we go. * * * * * There was a manta. What was there? There was a manta, a manta ray. It s a kind of fish. What was the manta ray s name? Well, the manta s name was Manny, Manny the manta. And where did Manny live? Well, Manny the manta lived in Hawaii. Manny lived in the oceans next to Hawaii, in fact. Who lived in Hawaii? Manny the manta. So where was he from? He was from Hawaii. Now, Manny the manta had a dream. Manny the manta wanted to climb mountains on land. Did Manny the manta want to swim in the ocean all the time? No. In fact, Manny the manta wanted to go onto land and climb mountains. All the other mantas thought that Manny was crazy. They said Manny, you re crazy. You re a fish. You can t get on the mountains. You can t go onto land. Don t do it! But Manny didn t listen to them. And, so, one day, Manny decided to climb Mount Kilauea.

15 Mount Kilauea is a volcano in Hawaii and so, one day, Manny walked out onto the island and he climbed Mount Kilauea the volcano. He got to the top of the volcano and he saw the smoke coming from the top and it was amazing and Manny was really excited and happy. Now, what did Manny do? Manny climbed Mount Kilauea in Hawaii. Now, if, if Manny had gone surfing in Honolulu, he would have gotten injured. To get injured means to get hurt, to get hurt. So if Manny had decided to go surfing instead, he would have gotten injured. He would have gotten hurt, but luckily he did not decide to go surfing, he decided to climb Mount Kilauea. So what would have happened if he had gone surfing? Well, if, if he had gone surfing, he would have gotten injured. Did he get injured when he climbed Mount Kilauea? No, he didn t get injured when he climbed Mount Kilauea. He was very happy when he climbed Mount Kilauea, but if he had gone surfing, he would have gotten injured. Now, did he actually go surfing? Did he go surfing? No, he didn t. He did not go surfing. We re only imagining if, if he had, possibly, if, what would have happened. We can imagine what would have happened if he had gone surfing. Well, if he had gone surfing, he would have gotten injured. He would have gotten hurt. Luckily, he did not decide to go surfing. Luckily, he did not go surfing. What did he actually do? He actually climbed Mount Kilauea. He actually climbed Mount Kilauea. So who actually climbed Mount Kilauea? Manny the manta. Did he, in fact, go surfing? No. No, he didn t. He did not go surfing. We re just imagining if. What would have happened if he had gone surfing?

16 If he had gone surfing, he would have gotten injured. And who would have gotten injured if he had gone surfing? Manny. Manny the manta would have gotten injured if he had gone surfing. Luckily, he decided not to go surfing and instead he climbed Mount Kilauea. So would he have been happy if he had gone surfing? No, he would not have been happy if he had gone surfing. If he had gone surfing, he would have been very unhappy, because if he had gone surfing, he would have gotten injured. And, so, what did he finally decide to do? What was the actual thing he did? What did he really do? He really, actually, climbed Mount Kilauea and he was really happy and he saw the top of the volcano. It was really cool and interesting. Well, after that experience, he decided he wanted to climb more mountains. He decided next to climb Mount Rainier near Seattle, Washington; a big, snowy mountain, Mount Rainier. And, so, first he swam to the mainland. He swam to Washington; swam to Seattle. Washington is the state, Seattle is the city. He swam to Seattle, Washington and then he walked on his little manta fins to Mount Rainier and then he climbed up Mount Rainier. He climbed in the snow and, actually, the snow felt very good. Did he enjoy the snow? Yes, he did. Manny enjoyed the snow. It felt cool and nice against his skin. He loved the snow and he climbed all the way to the top of Mount Rainier and he had a great view all around. It was beautiful, gorgeous. How did Manny feel when he got to the top of Mount Rainier? Well, he felt peaceful, calm and happy. It was a beautiful scene on top of the mountain. Now what if Manny had gone to Death Valley, California? Death Valley is a desert. Very, very hot; flat and hot. What if, instead, he had decided to go to Death Valley? What would have happened?

17 Well, he would have gotten very, very sick. He would have suffered a lot because Death Valley is very dry and he s a fish. The hot sun would have dried his skin and would have made him very, very sick. Would he have been happy in Death Valley? Absolutely not. If he had gone to Death Valley, he would have been very, very unhappy. Would he have been healthy in Death Valley? Well, if he had gone to Death Valley, he would not have been healthy. If he had decided to go to Death Valley, he would have gotten very sick. Would he have suffered in Death Valley? Yes, he would have. If, if he had gone to Death Valley, he would have suffered a lot. He would have gotten sick. He would have suffered in the dry, hot sun. Now where did Manny actually go, really go? Well, Mount Rainier. He actually climbed Mount Rainier. And how did he actually feel, really feel? Well, he actually felt very calm and peaceful and happy, because he loved Mount Rainier. He loved the cold, wet snow. He loved the beautiful view on top of Mount Rainier. That s what he really did. That s what he actually decided to do. But we can imagine the possibility that he might have instead decided to go to Death Valley. And if we imagine that, we can think, if he had gone to Death Valley, he would have gotten sick. If, if, only if. He didn t really do it, but if he had done it, if he had gone to Death Valley, he would have suffered in the hot sun. His skin would have gotten very dry. The sun would have dried his skin and he would have gotten very, very sick. Would A.J. have been very sick in Death Valley? No, not A.J. Not me. I wouldn t have been very sick in Death Valley. So who would have been very sick if he had gone to Death Valley? Manny the manta. Manny the manta would have been very sick, would have gotten very sick if he had gone to Death Valley, but luckily he actually went to Mount Rainier. He

18 actually climbed Mount Rainier and was very happy and calm and peaceful. It was a great experience for him. Well finally, Manny the manta decided on the ultimate challenge. No, not Mount Everest, but rather K2, possibly the most dangerous mountain in the world; tall, dangerous, with terrible storms that come all the time. It was the ultimate mountain climbing challenge and he always dreamed of climbing K2. So, he went to Pakistan and he started the climb to K2, but once again he had tremendously good luck. There were no storms. The weather was perfect. In fact, it was very sunny and warm the entire time he climbed K2. And, in fact, he enjoyed the thin air at the high elevation. Of course at high elevation, when you re up high, the air is thinner, but Manny actually liked that. It made him feel very relaxed and good. And, so, he made it to the top of K2. And when he got to the top of K2 he felt excited. He said woo-hoo! I ve climbed K2! I feel great! Which mountain did Manny climb? Manny climbed K2. And where is K2? K2 is in Pakistan. I believe it is in Pakistan. And how did he feel when he got to the top of K2? He felt excited. He felt thrilled. He felt ecstatic. He felt wonderful. Woo-hoo! I climbed K2! So, where did he go? He went to K2. And how did he feel when he got to the top of K2? He felt ecstatic, wonderful, incredible, excited. Now what if, what if instead he had gone to Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam? What if he had gone to Hanoi, Vietnam instead? He didn t actually go to Hanoi, but if we imagine if, if he had gone to Hanoi, what would have happened? Well, unfortunately, if he had gone to Hanoi, he would have been hit by a motorcycle.

19 What would have happened in Hanoi? He would have been hit by a motorcycle. Why would Manny have been hit by a motorcycle in Hanoi? Because Hanoi has the worst traffic in all of the world. In every part of the world, in all the cities, no other city has worse traffic than Hanoi. So if he had gone to Hanoi, what would have happened? He would have been hit by a motorcycle. Who would have been hit by a motorcycle? Manny. Manny would have been hit by a motorcycle. Where would he have been hit by a motorcycle? In Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam. He would have been hit by a motorcycle in Hanoi, Vietnam, if, if he had decided to go there. Now where did he actually go? Actually, he really went to K2. He actually climbed K2. Did he actually go to Hanoi, Vietnam? No, he didn t. He did not actually go to Hanoi. We re only imaging if. So, if he had gone to Hanoi, would he have been hit by a car? No, no, not a car. He would not have been hit by a car if he had gone to Hanoi. What would he have been hit by? Well, he would have been hit by a motorcycle. And who would have been hit by a motorcycle? Manny.

20 Manny the fish? Well, a kind of fish, a manta ray. Manny the manta ray would have been hit by a motorcycle. Would he have been hit by a motorcycle in Bangkok, Thailand? No, no, no, no, no, we re not talking about Bangkok, Thailand. We re talking about if he had gone to Hanoi, Vietnam. If he had gone to Hanoi, Vietnam, he would have been hit by a motorcycle. Now was he actually hit by a motorcycle? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, because he never went to Hanoi. We re only imaging if. He really did not go to Hanoi. He didn t do it, but if he had gone to Hanoi, he would have been hit by a motorcycle. Would he have been happy? No, he wouldn t have. He wouldn t have been happy at all. He would have been very unhappy because he would have been hit by a motorcycle, but luckily Manny the manta made a good decision. Instead, Manny the manta climbed to the top of K2 and he was super excited when he got to the top of K2. Woo-hoo! Well, finally, after doing all these adventures, Manny returned back to Hawaii and he went back into the ocean. And he told all his friends and all his family about his adventures and they were amazed and excited and Manny was happy to tell his story. And his friends, they were excited and proud of Manny and it was the end of a great and fantastic trip. Now, of course, it would have been a terrible trip if he had gone to Death Valley instead, if he had gone surfing instead, if he had gone to Hanoi instead. If he had done those things, it would have been a really terrible trip. It would have been horrible. Would it have been a horrible trip if he had gone surfing? Yes, it would have been horrible. Would it have been a horrible trip if he had gone to Death Valley? Yes, it would have been horrible.

21 Would it have been a horrible trip if he had gone to Hanoi? Yes, it would have been horrible, but luckily he made better decisions and instead he went to Mount Rainier, he went to Mount Kilauea and he climbed K2 and, in fact, it was a really great trip. It actually was a fantastic, wonderful trip and all his friends and family were very proud of Manny the manta. * * * * * And that s the end of our mini-story. Now the grammar in this one is a little more complex. I don t know, for some of you it might be easy, for you it might not be easy, for you it might be very, very difficult. It doesn t matter. What I want you to do is listen to this mini-story every day for one month and just listen to it and answer the questions. If you feel a little confused sometimes by the grammar that s okay, don t go read a grammar book. Don t try to figure it out mentally, intellectually, that won t help you. What I want you to do instead is just keep repeating the mini-story, listening to it again, the next day again, the next day again and it will become a little easier, a little easier, a little easier each time, until, at the end of the month, you should have a much better feeling for this grammar form. Which, yes, it is a little more complex, it is a little more advanced, but that s okay. It s no different than the past or the simple present or anything like that. You ve just gotta hear it enough and understand the meaning. Of course, the meaning is that we re talking about possibilities in this story; what might have happened if. That s how we use this grammar. So don t think about the grammar terms, don t analyze it, just listen to the story, answer the questions. Listen to the story, answer the questions. If it gets easy make it a game and try to answer the questions even faster or you can pause and try to, you know, copy my pronunciation. You can play a lot of games with the story to make it more interesting and fun if it becomes easy. And if it s difficult again, just relax and listen and listen and listen. If it s very difficult, you don t even need to answer the questions, it s not necessary. You could just listen only. That s also fine if you feel it s difficult and stressful to try to answer. The point is, just get a lot of repetition, hearing the story many, many times and then the grammar will become more intuitive, easier, more natural for you, step-by-step every day. I hope you enjoy it and I ll see you again soon. Thank you my special VIP, bye-bye.

22 Pure Energy POV Text Hello, this is A.J. and welcome to the point-of-view stories for Pure Energy. I m just going to tell the basic story about Manny the manta using a few different points of view. Let s just start with the past. * * * * * Fifteen years ago, there was a manta named Manny. Fifteen years ago, there was a manta named Manny and Manny had a dream. He always dreamed about climbing mountains. Of course, this was a problem because Manny was a manta, a fish. He lived in the ocean, but he wanted to climb mountains. He thought it would be amazing to see the world from the top of a mountain. Of course, all his friends thought he was crazy. All his family members thought he was crazy and they told him Don t do it! Don t do it, Manny! You re crazy! Don t do it! But he decided to do it anyway. And the first mountain he decided to climb was Mount Kilauea in Hawaii and Mount Kilauea is a volcano, of course. And, one day, he climbed up to the top of Mount Kilauea and he saw at the top all the smoke coming out of the top of the mountain and it was amazing, incredible and Manny the manta was very, very happy. Now, of course, next he went to Seattle, Washington. He swam through the Pacific Ocean, got to Seattle, Washington and then he went to Mount Rainier in Washington State and he climbed Mount Rainier. And when he climbed Mount Rainier there was a lot of snow, but Manny really liked the snow, the cold, wet feeling against his skin was really nice. He enjoyed it and, so, he climbed all the way up to the top of Mount Rainier. And when he got to the top it is was very calm and peaceful and a very beautiful view from the top of Mount Rainier. And, once again, Manny was a very happy manta ray. Well, next, he went to Pakistan. And why did he go to Pakistan? He went to Pakistan to climb K2, one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. He was a little nervous, but he had great luck again and he got perfect weather when he climbed K2, perfect, sunny, wonderful weather and he got up to the top of K2. The air was a little thin, but he liked it. It made him feel a little bit euphoric, which means kind of relaxed and happy at the same time. He felt euphoric and happy at the top of K2. It was a wonderful, incredible experience and he was really excited when he got to the top. Yes, I did it! I climbed K2!

23 And, so, after he climbed K2, he finally went home, back to the oceans around Hawaii. And he met his friends and he told his friends the story of all his adventures climbing mountains and they were amazed. It was incredible and they were all very proud of Manny the manta ray and he was still very, very happy. * * * * * All right, now let s imagine we re going along with Manny at the same time that he s doing all these things. * * * * * So, there is a manta ray and his name is Manny and Manny really wants to climb mountains. He really has this incredible dream of climbing mountains. It s a strange dream for a fish to have, for a manta ray to have and all his friends and family tell him this. They say Manny, you re crazy. You re a manta ray. Don t try to climb mountains. But he doesn t listen to them. And, one day, he goes to the big Island of Hawaii and he climbs Mount Kilauea. He climbs up the rocky surface of Mount Kilauea and he gets to the top of Mount Kilauea. And at the top of Mount Kilauea there s smoke coming out, volcanic smoke coming out of this volcanic mountain and it s really incredible. It s an incredible scene and Manny is very happy. He s happy that he decided to follow his dream and he did it. So, what does he do next? Next, he decides to go to Seattle, Washington. So he jumps into the Pacific Ocean and he swims the long swim all the way to Seattle, Washington and then he gets out onto the land and he walks with his little fins all the way to Mount Rainier. And when he gets to Mount Rainier there s a lot of snow on Mount Rainier, but he actually likes the snow. It feels really good against his skin, that cold, wet feeling. He enjoys it. He likes it. And, so, he goes up the side of Mount Rainier. He climbs up Mount Rainier and it s very easy and fun for him. He really enjoys walking on the snow. And he gets to the top and it s a beautiful view, gorgeous and beautiful and calm. He feels calm and peaceful and happy at the top of Mount Rainier. Well, he decides he s not finished still. So, next, he thinks hum, where shall I go next? And, so he goes to Pakistan next. Next he goes to Pakistan and he decides to climb K2. He climbs the Mountain K2, one of the most dangerous mountains in the world, maybe the most dangerous mountain in the world, but he gets lucky again and it s perfect weather when he climbs K2. And when he gets to the top of K2 the air is kind of thin, but it makes him feel euphoric and happy and he feels really excited when he gets to the top. Yes! I did it! I climbed K2! It s another great day for Manny the manta ray.

24 Well, after doing all these incredibly, wonderful, exciting things, he decides to go home and tell everybody about it. So he goes back into the ocean and he swims back to Hawaii and he tells all his friends and family about his incredible adventures. And, of course, they are all very excited and very happy for him and they re all very proud of Manny and Manny is happy to be back home. * * * * * Okay, now let s go into the future. * * * * * In the future, there will be a manta. His name is gonna be Manny, Manny the manta and Manny is gonna have a dream. Manny is gonna have a dream. His dream will be a little strange because he s a fish, of course, and his dream will be to climb mountains. He s gonna want to climb mountains. And, of course, all his friends are gonna tell him You re crazy. You re crazy. Don t do it. Don t do it. But he s gonna ignore them. Until, finally, one day, he ll go to Hawaii, the big island, and he ll climb Mount Kilauea. He ll climb all the way to the top of Mount Kilauea and when he gets to the top he ll feel great. He ll see all the smoke coming out of the volcano and he ll feel very proud of himself, but he s not gonna stop there because next he s gonna jump back into the ocean and he s gonna swim all the way to Seattle, Washington. When he gets there, when he gets to Seattle, he s gonna get out of the water and then he ll walk on his little fins all the way to Mount Rainier. And then he s not gonna stop, he s gonna keep going. He ll get into the snow on Mount Rainier. It will feel great. It will feel wonderful and he ll climb all the way to the top of Mount Rainier. And when he gets to the top of Mount Rainier, he ll feel fantastic. He ll feel calm and peaceful and happy because it ll be a beautiful view at the top, but he s still not gonna stop because after that he s gonna have one more big mountain he wants to climb. He s gonna go to Pakistan and he s gonna climb K2, the Mountain K2. Now, he s gonna be lucky again. When he climbs K2 it will be a perfect, sunny, warm, wonderful day and he ll get all the way up to the top of K2 and the air will be a little bit thin. He ll feel euphoric and happy and then he ll get really excited Yes! I did it! I climbed K2! He ll feel great. He s gonna be on top of the world. Well, after he has all these incredible adventures, of course, he s gonna want to go home and share them with his friends and family. And, so, he ll go back to the ocean and he ll swim back to the oceans around Hawaii. And he ll meet his friends and family

25 and he s gonna tell them all about his adventures climbing mountains and all the incredible things he saw from the top of the mountains. And, of course, they ll be very happy, they ll be very excited and they ll be very proud of Manny the manta for doing this great, incredible adventure. * * * * * Okay, that s the end of our point-of-view stories. So the point-of-views are a little simpler this time because the main mini-story is a little bit more complex with the grammar. So I want you to listen to both, of course. Listen to the main mini-story, you get to work with if, if, if and some of that grammar and then listen to these point-of-views where you can get that practice with these very common, core, most frequent forms of grammar. You really can t listen to these enough. I mean just more and more and more, the more repetition the better. The simple past, the simple future, the simple present, I mean those are the most basic ones and you just need to hear them again and again and again. The problem a lot of students have, a lot of learners have, is they always think oh, I ve already done this. I already know the past, I already know the future and you do know it intellectually. If I gave you a test, you probably would all do very well. The problem is you may not know it deeply and automatically. If you still make mistakes when you use the past or the future or if you still make some mistakes about when to use the present, then that means it s not automatic yet. That means you do need to hear it more and more and more and that these point-of-view stories are, in fact, very important for you. It s not about knowing it intellectually and taking a test, that doesn t help you when you re actually speaking. What you need to do is learn it so deeply, so much repetition, it s effortless and totally automatic. That s how it is for native speakers and that s how you want it to be and that s why these point-of-view lessons are so important. It s also true that the mini-stories are super important. That s where you get that automatic grammar and the faster and faster and easier and easier use of that automatic grammar. Okay. Have a great day. Listen to this and all the lessons in this set all month long. Thank you my special VIP. I love teaching you. You are really my special student because as a VIP I know that you re different. You want more. You are more dedicated, more motivated, more energized, a little more serious and that makes me more energized, more dedicated, more serious about teaching and helping you.