Why did he become a surfing teacher?Because he wanted other people to fully enjoy the happiness of surfing.So did he help other people also?Yes, he helped other people. He became a surfing teacher.And what did he finally find?He finally found his life purpose.* * * * *And that is the end of our mini story.Now we have some different kinds of grammar mixed in. Sometimes you’ll notice that Imight use two kinds of grammar at the same time. I might say he felt lost or he had feltlost. They have a little bit different feeling, a little bit different time feeling, but sometimeswe can use more than one. We have more than one choice when we speak.I don’t want you to think about this too much. The reason I say it is that in school somany of you learned that there’s one right answer and you think there’s one formula --that in this situation I always use the past and in this situation I always use the pastperfect, but that’s not true. That’s not the case. In fact, in many situations we havedifferent choices. We can actually use one kind of grammar or a different kind ofgrammar and both of them are perfectly correct and fine.So you don’t need to worry about it too much, just listen to the story, answer thequestions. Let that grammar get inside you so you can feel it instead of thinking about it.Listen to the mini story every single day. That’s how you do it.All right, I’ll see you again soon, bye-bye.www.<strong>Effortless</strong><strong>English</strong>Club.com
<strong>Life</strong> <strong>Purpose</strong> – Point of ViewHello my VIP. Welcome to the point-of-view stories. I’ll just tell the same story again, butfrom different points of view, different timeframes and, thus, different grammar.Let’s start just start as if it’s all happening right now. We are with Duke the dog as itshappening.* * * * *So there is a dog named Duke and he feels lost. In fact, he has felt lost his entirelife and he’s still feeling lost at the age of five. He feels lost at the age of five,because he doesn’t know what his life purpose is. He has no idea what his lifepurpose is and, at the age of five, this upsets him.Even at the age of five, it upsets him. In fact, he can’t enjoy playing with otherdogs, because he’s always asking himself, what’s my purpose? What’s mypurpose? I don’t know my purpose. What’s my purpose? So, even as a younglittle dog, he’s unhappy, he’s upset, he’s stressed and he’s obsessed with his lifepurpose. That’s all he can think about is his life purpose.Well, he continues feeling stressed and continues feeling upset as he grows up,as he gets older. And, you know, his 12 th birthday comes and his 14 th birthdaycomes and his 16 th birthday comes and then his 20 th birthday comes and he stillfeels upset and stressed.And why?Because he still doesn’t know what his life purpose is. He still doesn’t know.Now he even has a girlfriend at this time, a very nice wonderful girlfriend namedPenelope, Penelope the pig. Penelope is sweet and wonderful, yet, Duke the dogisn’t happy with her. He’s not happy with her at all. It’s not because Penelope’sbad, it’s because he feels stressed and upset still, all the time. And he’s somiserable and unhappy that he breaks up with Penelope and he continues to feelstressed and upset, stressed and upset.He continues to obsess about his life purpose, constantly thinking about it all thetime. And he gets older, he has his 22 nd birthday, his 23 rd birthday, his 25 thbirthday, his 28 th birthday and then finally at the age of 30 something happens. Hehas a breakthrough. Something totally changes inside him and he decides tofinally stop asking that question. What’s my purpose?www.<strong>Effortless</strong><strong>English</strong>Club.com