I have been practising English but haven't seen any improvement yet. | Ranjan Shekhawat

Based on the thumbnail and the title of this  video, you know what this video is about.  

And if you are watching this video, I am sure,  you want to improve your English. Changing or  

creating small habits in your life can make  you achieve what you want to achieve. And yes,  

including good speaking skills. Now, one  question may pop up in your mind. How does this  

small change in your habit make you learn English  Language? Just stick to this video till the end. I  

am sure you will get your answer. In this video,  we will see how to make positive changes in your  

life. By cultivating the right habits. And what  are those right habits? How can you form those  

right habits? And more importantly, how can you  stick to those right habits? Well, dear learners, you can  

achieve unbelievable results by just following a  few simple instructions and changing a few of your  

behaviours in your life. So, let’s get started!  Just imagine a plane taking off from Bangalore to New  

Delhi. If, during take-off, the pilot decides to  adjust the route of his plane by just 2 degrees to  

the west, the plane’s nose would move just a few  feet. The passengers sitting on the plane will not  

notice this small change. But over the course of  the journey across the country, the impact of this  

small change would be considerable. The passengers  would get off the plane in Jaipur instead of  

Delhi. Generally, we don’t notice small changes  because their immediate impact is negligible.  

Clear? No? Let me make it more clear. Take another  example, you are fat and have a big belly and one  

day, you get up in the morning and go jogging for  30 minutes. But you’ll still be fat. Your weight  

will not come down. Let’s take another example if  you eat three burgers for dinner. It won’t make  

you fat overnight. But if you repeat this small  change day after day, you will become fat. So,  

guys, it all depends on the small change  you make every day in your life. That’s it.  

Just go jogging for 30 minutes every day. I am  sure you will eventually be leaner and fitter,  

even though you won’t notice the change every  day happening in you. It requires patience and  

confidence to make a positive change in your life.  So, if you find that your behaviours and habits  

don’t seem to be paying off, try to focus on your  current changes rather than your current results.  

So, my dear learners, to  make significant changes in your life,  

you don’t need to reinvent yourself. Rather, you  can make tiny changes in your behaviour, which,  

when repeated time and again, will become habits  that may lead to significant results for you.  

But how to make those changes in your life? Well,  one way is to change your surroundings or general  

environment to encourage better habits. And how  to change your surroundings or environment. For  

example, if you want to learn English. What you  need to do is practice. You need to speak English.  

But to whom? You don’t have people around you  to speak English. So, what you can do is stand  

in front of a mirror and start speaking English to  yourself just by looking directly into your eyes.  

Make this change in your life. I am sure you will  be able to speak English fluently. Simple changes  

to your environment can make a big difference.  Have you ever thought about what makes you happy?  

For instance, when we do pleasurable things like  eating what we desire to eat or when somebody  

praises us. How do we feel? We feel good, right?  Our brain releases a hormone called dopamine  

which makes us feel good. You might have often  observed that we feel good by just anticipating  

those pleasurable things. For example, kids get  excited, or I can say they become thrilled by  

just anticipating the upcoming festival. Let  it be a new year, Diwali, Holi, Christmas, Eid.  

Because that anticipation makes our brain  release dopamine hormone in our body which  

in turn makes us feel good. So, always think about  getting your result. What would be your reaction?  

Let it be good speaking English. Think about this.  Your brain will release dopamine hormone and make  

you feel good and motivated. You don’t need others  to motivate you. You can motivate yourself. And  

it’s called self-motivation. If you are motivated  by others, that motivation will not last. It will  

not be long. You will be motivated for some time,  but after that, you will be in the same situation  

where you were earlier. You just give up your  plan to do something in your life. But, my  

dear learners, Self-motivation is the  thing which will always be with you. But what you  

have to do is you have to understand the concept  of the dopamine hormone, which is released by your  

brain and makes you feel happy and good. We generally  do what is easy for us to do. For example,  

scrolling through social media takes zero effort.  So, it’s easy for us to fill up lots of our time.  

This zero effort makes us waste our precious time.  But doing a hundred push-ups or learning English  

requires a lot of effort. Guys, what you need to  do is you have to move yourself from zero-effort  

activities to those activities which need some  effort if you really want to see some change in  

your life. You don't have to do anything if you  are complacent and happy with your life. But if  

you want to achieve something in your life, guys,  you need to make small targets instead of big  

ones. Like instead of making a target of reading  one book every week, just make a target of reading  

two pages every day, which is easy and doable.  Let’s take another example. Suppose you want  

to run a marathon. Then you simply put on your  shoes every day after work or after your studies,  

run for two km, and gradually increase your time  and kilometres. Not like on the first day itself,  

you want to run 10 kilometres. You will not be  able to do that, and you will get demotivated and  

frustrated. Similarly, for learning English, you  get frustrated when you don’t see any change in  

you, even after one month or two months. And what  do you do? You just give up. No, you don’t have to  

give up. You need to have patience. Learning any  language is a gradual process. It’s not like with  

the snap of your fingers, you start speaking  good English. My dear learners,  

it requires time and practice. So, you need  to give your time and keep practising. I am  

sure you will be able to speak English the way  you want to speak. You need to have a desire in  

you. Don’t let that die. If you lose your desire,  dear learners, you lose yourself.  

So let that fire of your desire be there in  you till you get your result, your goal. So,  

just focus on small changes instead of big  changes. You might have observed our mind works on  

immediate response. Let me put it in other words,  our mind responds or reacts to immediate pleasure  

or result. Let me give you an example. We all  know smoking kills. And we also know if you smoke,  

after 20 years, you will have cancer, even  though people smoke. Why? Why do they smoke?  

Because their brain works on immediate response or  immediate result, or I can say immediate pleasure.  

After smoking, they feel relaxed and stress-free.  This immediate result makes them continue smoking.  

They forget about the long-run result,  which is more dangerous than this.  

So, dear learners, just focus on long-term  results instead of immediate ones. Maintaining  

bad habits requires zero effort. You don’t need  any effort to carry on with your bad habits. Let  

this be smoking or any other bad habit. But you  need a lot of effort to maintain good habits. Let  

this be speaking English in front of a mirror. So,  my dear learners, how to maintain or,  

I would say, how to track those good habits? Let’s  talk about that. For example, you are going from  

Delhi to Jaipur in your car. You keep driving;  you don’t know how much distance you have covered  

or how much distance is left. You will feel bored.  You will feel frustrated with your journey or with  

your driving. But when you know how much distance  you have covered or how much distance is left,  

you will feel motivated and enthusiastic to  complete the rest of your journey. For example,  

you want to reduce your weight, or you want to  speak a good English language. I know you will  

put in the effort for your goal. But after one  month or two months, you don’t get your desired  

results. You get frustrated, and depressed. And  you think you have put in so much effort even  

though you didn’t get any results. But why? You  will remember those days you made an effort, but  

not those you missed practising. So, friends, here  comes into the picture the technique of tracking  

your habit. What you need to do is just write  at the end of the day about the effort you have  

put in for your goal on that day. Don’t miss this  habit of tracking your progress. After two months,  

when you get frustrated about your results. Just  read your diary and see how many days you missed  

practising for your goal. You will realize you  need more practice and time for your goal. I am  

sure you will stop your frustration and jump  immediately on the battlefield for your goal,  

and I am sure you will definitely win this battle.  You will come out with flying colors. Once this  

habit goes into your subconscious mind, you won’t  require any effort to continue this. Generally,  

what we do. We commit to do something and keep  that commitment with us. We don’t talk about it  

to anybody. We hide it. And why do we hide it?  Because we think if we fail, what others will  

think about us. That’s where we are making  mistakes. My dear learners, if you want to do  

something different or want to make some changes  in yourself, I suggest you, dear learners,

instead of hiding your commitment, just  talk about those commitments to your partner, to  

your best friend, or your colleague. So, somewhere  in the corner of your mind, it will be there that  

if you fail, what others will think about you. You  don’t want to lose your face in front of others,  

right? And with this pressure, you will be able  to stick to your commitment. And I am sure that  

will make you achieve what you want to achieve.  Sticking to a positive habit, however small,  

is a surefire way to achieve big things in  your life. In the end, a key message to all  

my dear brothers and sisters. A small change will  not transform your life overnight. But that small  

change every day will lead to a big change in your  life. Just make a habit of speaking English to  

yourself in front of a mirror just before going  to bed. No one on this planet can speak English  

fluently and fearlessly without practice. Thank you so much for watching this video! Stay Blessed!