Writing in English: write to reach your business goals!

Writing is a great way to become more confident and more fluent in business

situations.

But did you know that writing can also help you to reach your professional goals

and your business goals? And today,

I will help you with some great writing practices,

the English speaking professionals like, like myself,

use to stay productive and effective. You ready?

Let's go. Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,

and welcome to Business English with Christina,

where you become better at English and better at business.

And I'm really excited to share these tips with you today because I find

that writing about my business goals really helps me to achieve them.

And so I just wanted to share this with you. Also,

The brain dump is something that a lot of professionals use to stay productive

when they're super busy and they have a lot of things like literally

on their mind. And I do this as well. I mean, you know,

like when you have a lot of things,

a lot of different things to think about and so many things that you think

that you have to do and you don't know how you'll find the time or what you need

to do first. I mean, me,

like trying to run an international business, um, manage a team,

put in new things and practices and always trying to improve,

like I felt that way as well, just totally overwhelmed.

But here's the thing, if you keep all of those things that you need to do,

like in your head,

you won't actually get many of them done. Why?

Because your brain is like always thinking about them. And that takes energy and

takes away your focus. So what can you do to solve that problem?

Try a brain dump. A brain dump is when you take everything in your head,

in your brain and like dump it on a piece of paper.

Like you write it all out on a piece of paper,

like a journal or just a notebook, whatever.

And it feels a lot better to not have all of that

stuff on your mind, in other words,

to no longer be actively worrying about it. Now,

one of the things that I love about a brain dump is that it's super easy.

It's literally just taking a piece of paper and making a list of everything that

is on your mind and everything that is stressing you. And I promise it works.

But here's another tip from your neuro language coach that's me,

is reduce your stress and free up your brain power even more

by then actually starting and starting with something that is

ridiculously easy so that you are sure to do it.

So take a look at your brain dump and you've got a

lot of things that you're really worried about or that you're thinking about

right now.

Now what we're going to do is to pick one of those things that is really

important for you to do right now. Um, let, let's,

we'll take an example from my own brain dump.

Um, right now in 20 23,

1 of my big goals is to get more B2B clients

for my business. And that's something that I want to happen this year.

But it's a big project with lots of little steps. And sometimes,

you know, it's hard to know what's the first step that I need to do?

What's the right first step? So where do I start? Well,

what I would do is to pick the absolute smallest,

easiest thing that I can do just to get started.

And I would write that down. So maybe I choose, um, first thing,

make a list of potential B2B clients. Okay? No, wait,

I have to do something even simpler. First,

create a spreadsheet where I can organize my list. I mean, it,

it's super simple to create a spreadsheet. I mean, the,

the most difficult thing is maybe trying to find a title, uh,

for this spreadsheet.

But that is something super simple that I can do right now really

easily.

And it's a great way to push you onto a momentum

of actually doing something and taking action.

And then maybe you can list two or maybe three

easy steps that you can take after your first action is

complete. And then, I mean, now look at you.

You're taking steps towards reaching your goal. Now,

okay, so maybe your,

one of your big goals for 2023.

It's not to get more B2B clients,

it's to become more confident in English. So we're going to do this same process

for your English. You ready?

So I want you to take a piece of paper or a notebook or

your journal or a document on your computer, it doesn't matter.

Take something where you can write something and answer this

question,

what are three to five priorities or goals that you

have for this year?

Now pause this video and give yourself a few minutes to write

down those ideas. Now here's the important part.

Take that list of priority and choose one,

maybe two items on your list that are really, really important for you.

Now why are you only choosing one or two when you have so many? Well,

because you can't do everything at the same time.

And if you know that,

that makes it possible for you to accomplish what really matters,

you don't have to cross everything off your list right now. You just have

to select one,

possibly two that really matter to you to focus on first.

And then again,

list maybe just the first very easiest,

simplest thing that you can do to get started on that goal.

And I mean, do that every single day. Okay?

Now that you have that one priority,

take that and write it at the top of your page,

like in big letters so that you see it and you know that it's there,

it's big, it's important for you.

And then look at that big goal and say, today,

what is the simplest action that I can take to move me

forward on that goal?

And maybe you can pick just one action if you're having difficulties getting

started. But if you feel like you're on,

like you've got some good momentum going, um,

and you're on a role as we say in English,

go ahead and maybe list a couple of things that you can do,

two or three things that you can do to move forward on that task,

um,

that way you can do them. And then as you do your,

you do your work each day and then at the end of the day,

ask yourself two questions. This takes like five minutes,

but it can make a huge difference in how you evaluate your success

and how you set yourself up for success,

how you plan your success for the next day.

Ask yourself these two questions.

What did I do today to work towards my goal?

And if I missed any opportunities to work towards my goal,

how can I do better next time? Like I said, it's very easy.

It takes five minutes,

but it can make a huge difference in your next steps.

And now you might be thinking that like, okay,

that's really simple. Like, that's so simple. That's not gonna help me. Um,

just writing my big priority and then writing my to-do list

or my goals, like it might look like it's really,

really simple. And that's true.

And the thing about simple things is that they are easy enough for you to do

over and over again and regularly so that you get the

habit that makes your life easier, not harder.

And that's exactly why habits work. And as your English coach,

I'm passionate about helping you to stay on track to meet your English

goals.

And that's why I host live free workshops on topics that matter to

you. If you just go and sign up for my newsletter,

you can get your invitation for these workshops and join me every month

and help to keep you focused and on track to reach

your English goals. And of course, the next workshop is on January 25th.

It's a very special one where you'll get to look inside my conversation club and

how it will help you to build that habit of practicing English

every day so that you become confident and you feel comfortable

speaking. And as I always say, if you don't use it, you lose it.

So here's how you can use what you learned today.

What is one priority that you have for this year?

Put that down in the comments and share it with us.

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simplifying your life and helping you to understand native speakers. All right?

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