Understand a video created for native speakers on habits and motivation + learn advanced expressions

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Business English with Christina


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- Improving your English by watching videos
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created for native speakers is super exciting,
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but it's often difficult and frustrating to do alone.
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Today, I'll help you to learn
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some business English expressions
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and understand some of the big ideas
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in a video from one of my favorite authors
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on habits and motivation.
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Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,
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and welcome to Business English with Christina,
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where you become better at English and better at business.
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Having just a little help
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can make a big difference in how much you understand
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and learn when you watch real life videos in English,
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like videos created for native speakers.
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So today, I wanna help you to understand
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a video that I really like
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to help you get some interesting expressions
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from a video that you can find right here on YouTube,
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and it's by James Clear,
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like I said, he's one of my favorite authors
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because of his book.
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There it is, over there,
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"Atomic Habits" which I definitely recommend
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if you can read books in English.
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Now, you might be interested in James Clear,
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if you're interested in reaching your business goals,
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or really improving any area in your life
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where you need good habits to succeed,
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like learning English, for example.
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So the big idea from his video
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that we're gonna talk about today
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is if you can change your habits,
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you can change your life.
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- And so if you can change your habits,
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you can change your life.
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- And before we get into that video,
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let me just remind you
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that you can go to christinarebuffet.com/worksheets
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and get some free activities,
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a free worksheet that I've created to go with this video
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so that you can really test yourself,
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learn these expressions,
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use them in real life,
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and start creating good learning habits.
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Early in the video,
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James Clear talks about what would happen
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if you were able to improve by 1% each day.
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- If you were able to improve by 1% each day
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for an entire year...
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- And that means in some area of your life,
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you make some tiny change.
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Maybe you would learn some new expressions
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that make you just 1% better in English,
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but then you would do that for each day for an entire year,
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because he also talks about
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all of these small changes adding up,
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as we would say in English.
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And he says...
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- And those gains compound,
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you would end up 37 times better at the end of the year.
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- If those gains compound,
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you would end up 37 times better at the end of the year.
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Now, if you work in finance
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or you just have a bank account with interests,
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you probably already know about compounding gains,
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or basically it's earning interest on your interest.
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And that means that when you start now and you keep going,
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the change at the end is much bigger than you might expect.
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And then just notice how he says
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the same thing in plain English.
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- The small habits
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and little choices are transforming us everyday already.
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- Small habits and little choices
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are transforming us every day already.
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Since I'm a neuro-language coach and a business owner,
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I love this idea that starting small and simple
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just to get that new habit is great,
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and then being consistent about it
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is what's gonna make that big change.
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And so many of the people
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that I've worked with to improve their English,
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they've put these things in place
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for their own English practice,
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and made bigger changes than they thought possible
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just by starting small and simple and easy 'cause often,
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getting started, it's the hardest part.
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Speaking of that sort of topic of motivation
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and getting started on the topic of motivation,
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James Clear says...
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- Many people think that they lack motivation
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when what they really lack is clarity.
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- Many people think they lack motivation
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when what they really lack is clarity.
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In this case, if you lack motivation,
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it means you don't have enough motivation,
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but what does it mean to lack clarity?
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It means to not have a good mental image
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or a good understanding of the real problem.
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And one of the big problems
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that James Clear points out in the video
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is when you don't have a plan for starting your new habit,
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which simply means that you don't really know
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or you haven't decided how you're gonna reach your goal.
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You've got the goal,
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but you don't know what to do next.
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And he talks about the importance of having a plan
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when he says...
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- But instead, you can take the decision-making out of it
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by explicitly stating when, where,
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and how you will implement the habit.
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- You can take the decision-making out of it
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by explicitly stating when, where,
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and how you will implement the habit.
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Here, to take the decision-making out of something,
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it means that you remove the need
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to make any choice about your new habit.
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And when you don't have to choose,
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it's easier to act.
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I've signed up for a running plan program
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because it means
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I don't have to think about what I need to do.
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I just have to check the app,
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see what the coach tells me to do,
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and I go and do it.
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And I promise you,
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it makes my life so much easier.
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And more importantly,
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it makes it easier to stick with the plan
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and that helps you reach your goals.
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Now, going back to James Clear,
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he said explicitly stating something.
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So when you explicitly state something,
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it just means that you say
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or you write exactly what you mean
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so that there's no confusion, no ambiguity.
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It's just very clear.
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And to implement a habit,
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it simply means to start your new habit,
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to put it in place.
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You can also say to implement a plan,
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to take an idea and then to put it in to action.
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Think about it for a minute.
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Is there a habit that you would like to implement
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that could change your life?
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And maybe you want to make that new habit
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practicing your business English regularly.
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Well, you're in luck,
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because, as I say,
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if you don't use it, you lose it.
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And here's how you can use what you learned today
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and also start putting in place,
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start implementing some new habits
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for improving your English.
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So, first thing you can do,
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tell me about the habit that you would like to start,
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and you can put that down in the comments.
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And then the next thing to hold you accountable
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and help you to get started is I want you to write down
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exactly what you'll do to begin that new habit.
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Like James Claire said,
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make it explicit.
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This is the perfect opportunity to practice,
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to make sure that you are starting your new habits,
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and practicing your English and using it correctly.
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If you liked this type of lesson
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where I take let's say real world video
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created for native speakers and then break it down,
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divide it into smaller parts to help you to understand it,
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let me know.
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It's something new that we're trying.
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There is a part two.
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So whether you like it or not,
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you are going to get the part two.
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Anyway, just let me know
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what you think of this type of video,
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and there are three ways that you can tell me.
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You can give this lesson a thumbs up on YouTube
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and subscribe to my channel
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so that you don't miss any future Business English lessons.
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You can also go to christinarebuffet.com/worksheets
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and get the free worksheet that goes with this lesson
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to test what you've learned.
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And, of course, you can watch this next lesson,
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which is all about feeling absolutely confident in English
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with less effort starting in just two minutes per day.
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All right, thank you so much for improving your English
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and yourself with Business English with Christina,
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and I'll see you next time.
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