The Terrifying Fact of Depression

It's all......THOUGHT. That's right.  Let me superimpose it for you. THOUGHT Think about it.  Our mind, which is home to trillions of cells, can and has created everything around you at this very moment.  The environment, relationships, feelings, assets, friends, everything! When I came to realize this back in early 2016, I literally unfriended every...

TOEIC: Conditionals II

I wanted to do another rundown of conditionals so you all have a more thorough understanding. If you understand conditionals, not only will it improve your score by about 5-10 questions on Part 5, but also improve your writing - enabling you to use complex structures rather than simple structures. Conditional sentences contain two distinct parts:...

Napoleon Hill: Lesson Fourteen – Tolerance/Intolerance — The Desperation of Help Needed In Thailand

First: Intolerance is a form of ignorance which must be mastered before any form of enduring success may be attained.  It is the chief cause of all wars.  It makes enemies in business and in the professions.  It disintegrates the organized forces of society in a thousand forms and stands, like a might giant, as...

TOEIC Grammar: Conditionals (For My Students Around The World)

Conditionals   Type 0 General truth If-clause (hypothesis) Main clause (result) Use If + present simple Present simple If the temperature falls below 0 C, water turns into ice. Type 1 Real present If + present simple, present perfect or can future/ imperative can/may/might/must/should/ could/have to + bare infinitive real – likely to happen in...

Do This – & Criticism Can’t Hurt You

"I discovered years ago that although I couldn't keep people from criticising me unjustly, I could do something infinitely more important: I could determine whether I would let the unjust condemnation disturb me.  Let's be clear about this: I am not advocating ignoring all criticism.  Far from it.  I am talking about ignoring only unjust...

Free-writing & Free-speaking Topics For ESL Students (Downloadable PDF)

Freewriting Topics FINALLY! Thanks to my man on instagram, I've been shown the way to upload PDF's on blogs for my students, which means there's a lot of content that's coming soon for all my South-Eastern Asia seaboard students. In Asia, ideas aren't developed as compared to the western world.  Let me give you an...