Become good at Business English, in 2 minutes per day (...to start!)

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Business English with Christina


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- With the right environment and just two minutes per day,
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you can start to become really good at business English.
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Let me show you what I mean.
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Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina.
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And welcome to "Speak English With Christina,"
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the best place to become confident in business English
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step by step.
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Last time we talked about how essential it is
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to have good the habits to become good in English.
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And today, it's a very practical lesson
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on how to create the right environment
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to build those good habits because too often, you know,
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I think that we don't think about everything
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that goes around your learning.
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And if you don't do that,
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if you neglect that, it can really hurt your confidence
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in your ability to learn English.
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You know, like so many clients tell me,
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"I'm just not good at English."
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Or, "I was never good at English in school."
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Or, "I tried training programs in the past
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and I didn't really improve that much
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because I don't have that talent for learning English."
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But let's look at the environment that you were in.
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You know, in school, there are often 30
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or more students in the classroom
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and you have to be really motivated
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to do a lot of things yourself.
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If you're taking lessons in like a big company
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or a big institution,
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sometimes you just start the program
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without ever considering
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how to integrate your English learning into your busy life.
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And, of course, you can't always do more and more
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in your schedule.
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So if today you feel like,
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"Ah, I'm just not good at learning English."
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It's not you that's the problem.
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It's probably the environment
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from your past learning experiences.
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So I wanna help you to create a good environment
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and good habits that will make you feel confident
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about your English.
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And you can get a free worksheet
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to help you concretely do this
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at christinarebuffet.com/habits.
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So go there and get that worksheet.
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Now, there are three steps
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to creating your environment.
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Step one is implementation intention.
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That's not easy to say.
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But what is an implementation intention?
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It's basically planning in advance to do something,
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but it's very, very specific.
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For example, I will action
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at time at place.
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For example, I will read one page
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of my book in English
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at breakfast at the table.
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And, you know, hundreds,
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hundreds of studies have shown
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that an implementation intention really helps you
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to be consistent with doing your habits.
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So number two is to create an environment
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where it's easy to do your intention.
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If you wanna read one page of your book
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at the breakfast table,
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put your book on the breakfast table the day before
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and maybe put a bookmark at the page that you want to read.
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And the idea is that you just do some quick preparation
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that makes it super easy for you to do the intention
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when you want to,
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because if you sit down for your morning coffee,
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your book is like right there,
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it's got the bookmark,
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it's pretty hard not to just open it up
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and read that page.
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And the third step is a two-minute rule.
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So when you wanna start building habits,
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start super small.
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Start with something that you can do without fail
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because then you'll feel satisfied like,
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"Yay, I did this."
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And that feeling is absolutely essential
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for building new habits.
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So you wanna start
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by doing something that takes two minutes or less.
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So like, if in the morning, you don't have time
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to read an entire page in English,
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read one paragraph.
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If one paragraph is too much,
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just read one sentence.
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Now, will it transform your confidence in English
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if you read one sentence each day?
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No, no, it will not.
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But right now, you're just mastering the skill
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of regularity, consistency,
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showing up and doing it each and every day.
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And that is one of the most necessary skills
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for really improving your English.
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But, you know, most traditional programs,
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they don't focus on that process.
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They only focus on the end result,
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like reaching a specific level
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or getting a specific result on a test.
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And they never focus on how to make it easy
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for you to get that result.
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But without the process, without the regularity
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and the consistency,
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it's normal if you never reached the goal that you wanted.
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So if you're not good at English
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or you feel like you're not good, it's not your fault.
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It's that you just never learned how to make it easy
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to be regular doing English every day with small habits.
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Now, if you learned something from this lesson,
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please subscribe to my channel
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so that I can continue to help you on your journey
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to becoming more confident in business English.
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And, of course, if you want the free worksheet to help you
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implement all of this concretely in your life,
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go to christinarebuffet.com/habits.
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And I'll see you next time.
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