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Rich Leadership – Mini Story

Hello and welcome to this month’s mini story lesson. Let’s get started.

Brand the bunny is cute, small and weak. Despite being cute, small and weak, Brand wants to be the MMA champion. MMA means mixed martial arts, so brand wants to be the mixed martial arts champion. However, Brand feels weak and unworthy. Unworthy means not good enough.

So Brand feels weak and how?

Unworthy. Brand feels weak and unworthy.

Does Brand the bunny, the rabbit, does Brand the bunny feel worthy or unworthy?

Unworthy. Brand the bunny feels unworthy of being the mixed martial arts champion, MMA champion.

Why does Brand feel unworthy of being the champion?

Well, because Brand is small and weak. Because Brand is small and weak he feels unworthy of being the MMA champion.

How does Brand feel about himself?

Brand the rabbit, Brand the bunny feels unworthy, not good enough to be the champion.

So Brand never tries, until one day Brand meets Mickey the trainer and Mickey says to Brand, you can do it. The champ is retiring and you can be his successor. So Mickey says first, you can do it. You can do what? You can become the new MMA champ.

Who does Mickey say this too?

Mickey says this to Brand the bunny.

Why does Mickey think that Brand can do it?

Well, Mickey says because the current champion is retiring, quitting.

So is the current champ going to fight again?

No, the current champion is not going to fight again, the current champion is retiring.

Mickey says that Brand can become his what?

His successor.

(A successor is someone who follows another person. You replace them) So Mickey thinks that Brand could replace the current champion.

Become the champions what?

The champion’s successor

Does Mickey think Brand has no chance or does Mickey think Brand could become the champion’s successor/replacement?

Mickey thinks Brand can succeed, can become the champion’s successor. The current champion’s successor, because the current champion is retiring, someone will success him, replace or follow him.

Mickey believes Brand can be the current champion’s successor.

What does Brand do?

Brand the bunny decides to train with Mickey every day. Brand feels unworthy, but trusts Mickey.

The first time that Brand trains, he’s completely exhausted after just one hour, but even though he’s exhausted he stubbornly continues training for four more hours.

How does he continue training for four more hours?

Stubbornly… he stubbornly continues training for four more hours.

Who stubbornly continues training for four more hours?

Brand the bunny. Brand the rabbit stubbornly continues training for four more hours.

How?

Stubbornly.

(Stubbornly means without changing one’s mind, without changing the mind, without quitting, without stopping, without changing. The adjective stubborn means someone who holds onto one idea or one thing they want and they will not change, they just keep going for one thing or they keep believing one thing, they won’t change they’re stubborn).

In this case, it’s good. It can be positive or negative but in this case it’s good because Brand stubbornly continues training. Will not quit or change, even though Brand is exhausted and this continues. Brand continues to train stubbornly, with great motivation every day four or more hours every day. So Brand trains with Mickey. Finally, Brand gets his first fight. His first fight is against Frazier the ferret. In the beginning of the fight Frazier knocks down Brand. It looks like Brand is going to lose, the fight hangs in the balance with Brand on the mat on the floor.

The fight what?

The fight hangs in the balance.

(Hangs in the balance means that it could go either way. Brand could lose or recover and win) If something hangs in the balance it means that defeat or victory are a 50/50 chance. It’s the moment of possible decision, the moment when something could change one way or the other.

We don’t know what’s going to happen, it hangs in the balance. You can imagine two scales and there’s weight on both sides. Which side will go down and which will go up? We’re not sure yet, it’s hanging there but a change is coming.

So what hangs in the balance?

The result of the fight hangs in the balance. Brand might lose, Brand might win. Brands on the floor. The fight hangs in the balance.

What will happen next?

Brand recovers

Brand recovers and pins Frazier to the ground.

(To pin in a fight means to hold someone on the ground where they can’t move or escape. This happens in wrestling, in mixed martial arts. If you pin someone to the ground it means you hold them on the ground and they can’t move.)

So who gets pinned?

Frazier the ferret gets pinned to the ground.

Who pins Frazier?

Brand the bunny pins Frazier, holds Frazier to the ground.

So the fight hangs in the balance and then suddenly Brand recovers and pins Frazier the ferret to the ground.

What does Brand do?

He pins Frazier to the ground and wins the fight.

Brand continues fighting after this first victory. Brand continues having more fights. In fact, Brand wins 20 more matches.

How many more matches does Brand win after the first fight?

Twenty more; Brand wins 20 more mixed martial arts fights/matches.

How many matches does Brand win after the first fight?

Twenty more. Brand wins 20 more matches after the first fight.

So Brand wins how many total fights?

Twenty one; the first one plus twenty more.

Finally, after winning 20 more matches, Brand gets the title fight against Foreman the gorilla.

What kind of fight?

The title fight.

(A title fight in boxing or MMA is the championship fight, the title fight, the fight decides who will be the champion)

Who is Brand’s title fight against?

Foreman the gorilla. Foreman is very strong and muscular.

(To be muscular means to have a lot of muscle.)

Which fighter is muscular?

Foreman the gorilla is very muscular, has a lot of muscles. Foreman is muscular.

Is Brand muscular?

No, Brand is not muscular. Brand is kind of small and thin, doesn’t have big muscles.

So which fighter is muscular?

Foreman the gorilla is muscular.

Before starting the fight, each fighter looks each other squarely in the eyes.

How do they look at each other, what do they do?

They look at each other squarely in the eyes.

(To look someone squarely in the eyes means to look directly into their eyes. It means you have a strong direct look directly into their eyes. You’re not looking down or up you look directly into their eyes. You look squarely into their eyes or in their eyes.) So they looked each other how?

They looked each other squarely in the eyes.

Did they look each other squarely in the ears?

No. They don’t look directly at each other’s ears they look each other squarely in the eyes.

Each one staring at the other’s eyes.

So the fighters do what?

They look each other squarely in the eyes. The two fighters look each other squarely, directly in the eyes.

After looking each other squarely in the eyes, the fight begins. Foreman swings powerfully, but Brand the bunny jumps and escapes.

How does Brand escape?

By jumping away. Brand jumps away from Foreman’s swing.

Foreman keeps swing, but misses every time.

Does Foreman hit Brand the bunny?

No, Foreman does not hit Brand the bunny. Foreman misses every time.

What does Brand do every time?

Brand jumps away. Every time Foreman swings, Brand jumps away. Brand evades the swings.

(To evade means to avoid, to get away from.)

So Brand evades/avoids Foreman’s swings.

Does Brand get hit or does Brand evade Foreman’s swings?

Brand evades the swings.

Finally, Foreman becomes very tired. He swings and swings and swings and misses and misses and misses and becomes very tired. When he becomes tired, Brand the bunny jumps and kicks him with both feet.

Does Brand the bunny kick him with just one foot?

No, Brand does not kick him with one foot, Brand kicks him with both feet.

Who does Brand kick with both feet?

Foreman the gorilla. Brand kicks Foreman with both feet.

Boom! He hits Foreman with both feet. The kick reverberates through the whole arena.

(To reverberate means to vibrate or to echo. So it’s a sound that keeps going, keeps vibrating or shaking in a big area like an echo)

So boom there’s a loud sound when Brand kicks Foreman and the sound boom, boom, boom echoes and vibrates where?

Through the whole arena.

Is the kick quiet or does it reverberate through the whole arena?

Brands kick reverberates/vibrates and echoes through the whole arena.

What reverberates?

The sound of the kick. The sound of the kick reverberates through the whole arena.

Whose kick reverberates through the whole arena?

The sound of Brand’s kick reverberates through the whole arena.

So is the sound loud or soft?

It’s very loud. It’s so loud that it reverberates, vibrates, shakes and echoes through the whole arena. It reverberates.

This powerful kick knocks out Foreman and Brand becomes the new MMA champion.

That is the end of our mini story. Listen to the mini story several times every day if you have time, at least once a day. Listen to the point of view lesson and all the other audio lessons as well, every day for 10-14 days with VIP lessons.

Enjoy and I’ll see you next time. Bye for now.