Improve your Business English: The MOST important thing

- Hi, I'm your English coach Christina

and welcome to Speak English With Christina

the best place to become confident

in business English step by step.

You know, I talk to so many people

who dream of just speaking better English

so that they can get better job opportunities.

They could feel more confident about themselves

or just feel happier about their English level.

And sometimes they're already doing lots

of things in English but they're not seeing

a lot of progress or they say like,

I'm just too busy and there's nothing I can do about it.

Now, this is where you can choose

the path that you want to take.

You can continue along the same path

which leads to the same results and the same frustration

or you can change your path

and go towards the most important thing for your success.

Now, what is this most important thing?

It's habits, the most important thing

that determines your success or your failure

in improving your English is your habits.

With the right habits, anyone can become confident

and fluent speaking English.

And I wanna show you how

and we'll start with tiny habits, easy to do habits,

just to get the habit in place

so that it's easy for you to do English everyday

even if you are super busy.

And if you want my free English habits starter kit,

go to christinarebuffet.com/habits to get it.

Now, of course, for a habit to be effective

you have to do it regularly.

But how can you do your English habits every day

when you are busy, when you have work and family,

when you are tired at the end of the day?

If you wanna be regular with your English,

think of a vase, like a metaphor, like a vase,

like a vase where you're planting seeds

so that the flowers of your confident English can grow.

I don't know, that's kind of a silly metaphor

but imagine the image and it works, I promise.

So, vase, for make your habit visible,

attractive, satisfying and easy and convenient.

And we'll look at each one of these.

So, make it visible, put your resources

in a place where you can just easily pick them up

like a book on your kitchen table

or your flashcards next to your favorite spot on the couch,

or just anywhere where you can take them

and remember to do your English.

You wanna make it attractive.

So do it in a nice space that makes you feel good.

Maybe it's your comfortable couch.

Maybe you go outside to the park.

Maybe you sit in a chair next to a window

but take that time as like time for yourself in a nice space

and then make it satisfying.

And sometimes just the satisfaction

of putting an X on the calendar

because you did English that day is sufficient.

You can say, look, I did it.

I'm regular with my English.

I am good at learning English.

And if you do that every day on your calendar,

I mean look at all of those times

that you improved your English.

Or do something nice for yourself, a nice cup of coffee,

a walk in the park or anything that is satisfying for you.

And that part is actually really important

because when you want to create a new habit,

neuroscience shows that it's not the number

of times that you repeat it,

it's the satisfaction and the happiness that you feel

after you complete that new habit.

So even if you do just a few minutes

like really like feel satisfied

and happy that you're doing something good for your English.

And finally, make it easy and convenient.

The reason that we start small

is so that it's easy to accomplish your goals

and to feel good about yourself.

Now, of course, with time, you wanna do more

than like two minutes of English per day,

but to start make it easy,

make it just two minutes or five minutes

whatever you can do, because that way you can do it.

It's easy, it's quick, it's convenient.

And then you can celebrate that you did it.

And when it starts to feel too easy to do a little bit

of English every day, challenge yourself more.

And like I said, if you've got those right habits,

that right environment anyone can become confident

and fluent in business English.

Now, like I said, to help you do that,

I have created a free English habits starter kit.

It'll help you start your tiny habits

so that you consistently move

towards more confidence in English.

To get it, go to christinarebuffet.com/habits.

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so that I can continue to help you on your journey

to becoming more confident in business English.