4 Life-Changing Tips from Your English Coach: Find time for English.

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Business English with Christina


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Do not wait.
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Do not wait until the time is right to
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start seriously improving your business English.
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If you know
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that you need to speak better English for your career
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but you think that you're too busy, watch this episode.
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You'll learn three life-changing strategies
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for learning English when your time is very valuable.
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And these are lessons that I've learned from decades.
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That sounds really old to say that
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but literally like 20 years of experience helping hundreds
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of clients as a business English neuro language coach.
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All right, let's go.
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Now. Waiting is probably one
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of the biggest mistakes that I see smart
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professional people making.
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They can see and they can feel
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that their English is holding them back professionally
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and that it's hurting them a little bit every day.
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But they say, and they think, I'm too busy.
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I'll start in a few months.
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I, I need to think about it.
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I'm not sure that I have enough time.
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But here's the thing, yes
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you can fit English into your schedule
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but only if you start right now, right away.
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And you can already see this and feel this at your work.
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You can, you know
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that you are ready to speak better English, that
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you're ready to have more confidence when you're speaking.
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And you've been feeling this probably for quite a long time.
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I mean, every time that you can't speak
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up or speak clearly in your meetings in English
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every time that you don't get that job or that opportunity
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and every time that you see
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that English is limiting your potential, your English is
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constantly reminding you something needs to change.
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So you know that something needs to change.
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But this is something that I see way too often.
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You trick yourself.
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You tell this story to yourself that, you know
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I'm too busy right now.
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I just need to wait until I have more time.
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You know, I don't, I don't, I can't do it.
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But here's the thing
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there is no magical tomorrow when you will be less busy
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or when you will have more time.
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I mean, maybe think about the past, I don't know
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two years in your life during that time.
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Was there a time when you were much less busy
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than you are now?
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Probably not.
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And that's probably gonna continue into the future.
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And that means that you're going to continue also
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feeling frustrated and stuck until, I don't know when.
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And I've seen a lot of people finally
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change their career reality when they change their English.
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Like really?
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And this is a change, like a mindset shift takes 30 seconds
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and it looks like this.
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That's it.
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I have to do something now.
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I have goals that I care about in my life and in my work.
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English is stopping me and I'm tired
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of it and I'm going to do something about it today.
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And that little five second decision to
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act will save you hundreds of hours
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because you have decided to make a change.
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You realize that you're tired
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of waiting for the right time, which will never come.
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And you decide like you make that decision
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that now is the right time.
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And that is one of the most important time
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management changes that you can make.
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For example, one of my big personal goals, you know
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that I have my own business business English with Christina.
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And when I was thinking about starting the business
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of course there were just, I mean
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I had to learn everything because I wasn't an entrepreneur.
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I've never had a business and I didn't, to be honest
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I didn't know what I was doing.
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And I could have said to myself, oh
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I'm too busy with my job, because I was working
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in a training, training organization at the time.
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But I knew that I had this deep goal
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which was to create my business
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to be able to help people like you, to have the confidence
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in their English in a different way, different
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from like other traditional, classic language school offers.
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But also for me personally, like you know, I'm American.
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I live in France, but my family is all in the us.
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My parents, they are not getting younger.
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And I know that at some point I will probably
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need to be able to literally take my business
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and be able to go back
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to the US in order to take care of them.
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And I can't do that if I'm working in a company.
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And so one of my big goals was
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I would say for you, but also
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for me to be able to have that freedom and that flexibility.
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And so I knew that, you know
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if I kept telling myself I don't have time
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I'm afraid I don't know how to do it
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then I would never reach this goal
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of having a business that allows me to go back
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to the US for a long time, the day when I will need to.
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And so I found the time, it was often nights
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it was often weekends, it was, you know
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in addition to my regular job.
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But I knew that I had to start and I had to do it.
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And, and that's what I did.
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You have to think what is your goal?
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What is your deep down goal?
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And then you have to just start working at it.
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There's never a perfect time to start.
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But if you make that decision
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that now is the time that you will start
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you will find a way to make it happen.
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And you know, that is, I would say
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probably one of the best time management decisions that most
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of us make in this business world.
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It's, you decide what matters.
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You decide what goes on your to-do list.
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You decide what goals you want to reach, not someone else.
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I mean, yes
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you have the goals that maybe your boss sets for you
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but you also have your own goals and that you
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can find the time to start working towards those goals.
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So I mean, why don't, why don't more people do this?
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Because everyone can do it Well, because it's different.
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It's new you, it takes work.
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It's not easy to be honest.
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And you have to see yourself in a new way.
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You have to maybe change your habits, change your schedule.
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You have to think again
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about how you spend your time and how you organize yourself.
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You may have to reorganize your routines
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and you may have to have difficult discussions with the
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the important people in your life
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so that they can support you
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because they know how important that is for you.
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And then you have to hold yourself responsible
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for working on your English consistently.
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Not just when you have time or when you feel like it
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but you have to create your routine, your schedule
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something that fits into your day every day.
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And yes, I like
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I know that you have obligations, you have deadlines.
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It's the same for me.
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But you can make that decision to spend 10, 15,
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20, 30 minutes per day on your English.
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You don't have to start with your
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your ideal schedule to begin with
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but you just have to start.
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And after you start, then you can optimize
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then you can improve.
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But if you're always saying, now is not the right time
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I'll do it later, you're never gonna start.
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And that's why it's important also to not
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let others dictate your schedule
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or your to-do list for every moment of your day.
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Like I said, yes, you have obligations
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to other people that's part of life
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but you also have to have obligations to yourself.
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You know, don't leave it up to chance.
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You know, you have to show
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up every day and take these steps one at a time
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but maybe it takes years.
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Hey, that's part of the process.
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It's, it's not always a fast process
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but if you're doing it regularly, over time
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you are going to get to the place that you want to be.
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So make sure that the way that you're spending
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your time today is going to get you
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to the place that you want to be in the future.
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You don't wanna have regrets later.
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So if you have decided that now is the time
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for you to do something about your English
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why don't you join me for a five day challenge to make sure
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that you're making the best of your very valuable time.
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You'll learn some fast and surprising strategies
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that will really help you to improve.
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And if you want to join me for this five days
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of putting your career and your English first
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then you can go and sign up
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for this free five day challenge down
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in the link below the video.
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And remember, if you don't use it, you lose it.
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So here's how you can start using what you learned today
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in the comments.
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Tell me what future goal do you have
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that you can only achieve with better English?
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Tell me in the comments, share it with me.
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Let's get a little accountability going, and then
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I will definitely see you down there in the comments.
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And then I'll look for you in that five day challenge.
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So like I said, go ahead and sign
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up to get your invitation to this free five day challenge.
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The link is down below the video
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and I am very excited about this.
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I will see you for that challenge.
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We're gonna make now the time for your English
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for your career for you, and I'll see you next time.
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