of the people who are closest to you in your personal and in your professional life. Why

am I saying that? Because in today's lesson, I'm going to teach you some simple, yet powerful

phrases and expressions that you can use to help stay positive as well as to encourage

other people around you, okay? Now, we all want to be loved and appreciated

and admired and respected. And sometimes it just the takes a few simple words in order

to achieve that. By doing that, we can improve our relationships with other people; we can

increase our confidence and the confidence of people around us; and we can also change

attitudes for the best -- for the better, okay? So let's look at some of these expressions.

And by trying to include them in your daily life, I think you'll see that there will be

quite a change in the relationships that you share with people at work and also at home,

okay? So let's look at some of these expressions. Okay. So if you want to instill confidence

in someone, these are some things you can say. Now, the words here are not difficult.

But as I said, sometimes the simplest things are emotionally hard to say. So what you might

want to do, especially if you're alone, is after I say the sentence, try to repeat it

after me. If you've said something once, it becomes easier to say it again. And then,

in the right situation, you may find that the words come to you more easily, okay? So

here we go. "I know you can do it." Okay? Repeat after

me if you like. "I know you can do it." Okay? We say that when someone isn't very

sure; he's feeling a little bit afraid or nervous or scared, maybe before an exam. "I

know you can do it." You're showing that you have confidence in them.

Something similar to that, "I have confidence in your abilities." Okay? That's a little

bit more formal. Perhaps you want to use that at work with one of your colleagues, with

someone who you are a supervisor for, right? So -- one of your employees -- "I have confidence

in your abilities." Parents can also use that, okay?

Another one, "I have faith in you." Would you like to repeat it? "I have faith in you."

"I have faith in you" means "I believe you can do it; I know you can do it; I trust you

can do it; I believe you have the ability to succeed in whatever it is that we're talking

about." Okay? "I have faith in you." Next one, "I believe in you." Okay? Now, this

one is actually very powerful. "I believe in you", first of all, is different from saying,

"I believe you." That little preposition changes the meaning. If we say to someone, "I believe

you", it means that I think that what you're saying is true. Let's say somebody else has

another story, you have this story, and I believe your story. "I believe you. I trust

that what you're saying is true and honest and correct." That is, "I believe you." Okay?

But when we add this little preposition "in", and we say to someone, "I believe in you",

it means, "I believe in your potential as a person, your potential as a human being,

to achieve something or to do great thing." So it's actually a very powerful thing to

say to someone, okay? Now, if the person that you're trying to instill

confidence in is yourself, you can also use these on yourself, okay? You can say, "I know

I can do it, or I have confidence in my abilities, or I have faith in myself, or I believe in

myself." Okay? Sometimes we have to do a little bit of self-talk to make ourselves -- to give

ourselves the strength to do something or to face a challenge, okay? All right.

Now, if you want to show your appreciation of someone, you could use some of these simple,

yet powerful phrases, okay? "I trust you." Okay? Again, three simple words, but really

powerful. "I trust you." When you say to someone, "I trust you", you're saying to them that,

"I believe that you are honest, that you are loyal", okay? "I trust you."

Next one, "I respect you." Very powerful. When you say, "I respect you" to someone,

you're saying, "I have an appreciation for your value, your behavior, the choices you

make in your life." Okay? Next one, "I admire you." Okay? When you say

to someone, "I admire you", it means that you believe they have a lot of strength or

strengths that you admire -- the things they have achieved in their life, and how they

have achieved them, or that they face difficulties in a very confident way, all right? Without

giving up. So you say, "I admire you." All right?

And of course, the last one is perhaps the most powerful of all, which we can't use in

every context, but we can use it in more contexts than you might think. Of course, you can say

to someone, "I love you." Okay? You can say that to a spouse or a partner, all right?

You could also use it in a family context, right? Parents can say to their children,

"I love you. You're so beautiful. You're wonderful." Right? You can use it between brothers and

sisters. You can also use it with friends, "I love you." Sometimes the tone of voice

changes between when it's a romantic "I love you" or when it's a fraternal or friendly

"I love you". But it's also very powerful. Somebody feels very encompassed and very accepted

when we say that, okay? All right. Now, the last little clue, to make any of

these sentences which I've explained here more powerful, try to use the person's name

after that. So imagine if someone says to you -- and your name is John -- "I know you

can do it, John." Okay? So if you just add the person's name after that or before that

-- sometimes after it is good because then, they've heard what you have to say. "I have

faith in you, Mary." "I believe in you, Maria." Okay? Why do we -- why does that make it more

powerful? Because everybody loves the sound of their own name. So when you use these phrases

and expressions with the person's name, it will make it even more personalized and even

more effective. Okay? So this is a special kind of lesson to help

you learn of simple words. But simple phrases can sometimes go a long way. Okay?

If you'd like to do a quiz on this to practice this, go to our website at www.engvid.com.

And good luck with your English. Bye, for now.