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Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the point-of-view stories. Let’s jump in right now. First we’ll tell this whole story as if it’s happening now in the present, okay?

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So Heva and Chim-chim are multibillionaires. They have become bankers and now they are multibillionaire bankers. In fact, they’re so rich that they are tight with the Rothschild family and the Rockefeller family and they live in a wonderful, comfortable, safe cocoon always. Everything is easy for them. They have a hoard of bodyguards, assistants, personal chefs, personal masseuses, but one day they’re sitting around talking and Heva says “You know this is great. We’re living the dream. We’re living the dream life that everyone has”, but Chim-chim he doesn’t agree.

Chim-chim said “You know I am bored off my ass. It’s too easy.” Chim-chim has a lot of nostalgia for the good old days when they were struggling, when they were having adventures and he tells Heva, he says, “Oh, no, I miss the good old days. I have a lot of nostalgia for those days.”

Well, Heva doesn’t agree, but Chim-chim decides that he needs to light a fire under their asses. He said, in fact, “Heva, I’m going to light a fire under our asses. We’re going to have an adventure again” and he decides that they are going to buy a sailboat and sail around the world together.

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That’s the end of our first version. Let’s go back again. The second version will start with since. So we’re going to talk a time period in the past, kind of a time period, and then at some point that’s going to change and we’re going to talk about more of a specific time, more immediate and then you’ll notice the change. Don’t think about the grammar terms, just notice it. Here we go.

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So since becoming super rich, Heva and Chim-chim have lived a very comfortable life. I mean since becoming super rich bankers, they have had a super comfortable life. They have become tight with the Rothschilds, the Rothschild family, the banking family. They have become tight with the Rockefeller family, another banking family. They have become super comfortable. They have created a super easy life for themselves. In fact, they have lived in a safe, comfortable cocoon. They have surrounded themselves with a hoard of personal assistants, bodyguards, chefs, private jet pilots, a hoard of people.

So they have been living this incredibly easy, comfortable life, until one day they have a conversation. On that day Heva said “Man, we are living the dream.” They’re sitting by their pool and Heva says “We’re living the dream” and Chim-chim said “No, we’re not living the dream. I’m bored off my ass.” Chim-chim, in fact, said that he had a lot of nostalgia for the good old days. He says “I miss the good old days. I miss the good old days. I miss the days of adventure.”

And so Heva and Chim-chim they had a discussion and Chim-chim decided that he needed to light a fire under their asses. He says “I’m going to light a fire under our asses. I’m going to create adventure for us again” and so he went out and he bought a sailboat and he said to Heva “We are going to sail around the world.”

Okay, that’s our second version. Now you notice a couple of times there I switched between the present, past, the present, past. Again, it’s just because part of me wants to use the present because it feels a little stronger, more emotional. It’s better for storytelling sometimes. Then part of me is trying to use the past because it’s a common way that we speak and I want to help you with your English.

The point is neither one is right and neither one is wrong. You could use the present or the past in that situation. So just listen, that’s all you need to do. Let’s go to the future now. Our third version into the future. We’re predicting this will happen. We’re imagining it will happen in the future.

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In the future, Heva and Chim-chim will become multibillionaire bankers. They will become super rich and they’re gonna become so rich that they’ll be tight with the Rothschild family. They’ll be tight with the Rockefellers. (‘Gonna’ means going to. We use it casually in the future. Not in writing, we do use it in speech. If you’ve been a member a while you’ve heard me say that many times, but for the new members I have to say it each month. So ‘gonna’ means going to.)

So they’re gonna be tight with the Rothschild family, they’re gonna be tight with the Rockefellers and they’re gonna live in this very safe cocoon. They’ll have a very safe, comfortable life. They’ll be surrounded by a hoard of personal assistants. People to give them massages, body guards, chefs, all of these things and one day in the future they’ll have a conversation and during the conversation Heva will say “Oh, this is great. We’re living the dream”, but Chim-chim will say “No, we’re not. I am bored off my ass. I am so bored.”

So they’ll have a discussion and Chim-chim will talk about his nostalgia for the good old days. He’ll say “I miss the good old days of adventure.” Heva won’t have any nostalgia for the good old days of adventure. He’ll enjoy the present. Actually, the future. He’ll enjoy it because it will be comfortable, but Chim-chim will decide no. It’s time to light a fire under our asses. It’s time for us to be motivated again, so he’ll go out and he’ll buy a sailboat and he’ll decide that he and Heva will sail around the world.

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That’s the end of our point-of-view lessons. Just listen to them each month, that’s all you need to do. Just sit back and listen. Notice the changes. Notice how the verbs change a little bit. Notice when I go back and forth sometimes between different verb tenses. Do not get stuck with the idea that there’s one right answer or which one is correct. None of that matters. Just relax and get used to it.

This will go deeper and deeper each month and you will start to use it more correctly, more correctly, more correctly yourself and, more importantly, this will happen automatically. So you’ll start to use English grammar when you speak more correctly and without having to think so much about it. So it can happen more quickly, more effortlessly, more naturally.

Okay, see you again. Have a great day, bye-bye.