SHADOWING ENGLISH High-Level Speaking Practice for Fluency

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English Coach Chad


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eating your frog for breakfast what's this about  let's do some highlevel English speaking shadowing  
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practice let's do this let's take a look at this  first part one of my favorite authors is Brian  
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Tracy do you know Brian Tracy he's he's old  school old school um motivational speaker who  
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suggests the idea of eating your frog say this  with me together Shadow me one of my favorite  
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authors is Brian Tracy who suggests the idea  of eating your frog one of my favorite authors  
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is Brian Tracy who suggests the idea of eating  your frog in other words your frog is the most  
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important task that you have to do this task is  often the one that you are most likely to put off  
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or procrastinate on all right I'm going stop right  there for that phrasal verb put off put off if you  
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put something off you procrastinate basically the  same thing right here put off and procrastinate on  
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I put off calling my parents I put off doing my  homework homework I procrastinated on calling my  
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parents I procrastinated on doing my homework  like that all right let's Shadow I want you  
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to say this with me here we go in other words  your frog is the most important task that you  
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have to do this task is often the one that you  are most likely to put off or procrastinate on  
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again if in other words your frog is the most  important task that you have to do this task  
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is often the one that you are most likely to  put off or procrastinate on did you get that  
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that was a lot of text to repeat with me however  it is also the task that can have the greatest  
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positive impact on your life and results at the  moment however it is also the task that can have  
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the greatest positive impact on your life and  results at the moment one more time however  
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it is also the task that can have the greatest  positive impact on your life and results at the
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moment to reach high levels of performance and  product activity it is essential to develop the  
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habit of tackling your major task first thing  every morning all right so you have to tackle  
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it tackle is to do to to attack or to do it you  tackle it you tackle the task first thing every  
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morning let's say it together to reach high levels  of performance and productivity it is essential to  
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develop the habit of tackling your major task  first thing every morning first thing every  
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morning we should say it a little bit faster  huh okay one more time to reach high levels  
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of performance and productivity it is essential  to develop the habit of tackling your major task  
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first thing every morning this means that you  must eat your frog before doing anything else  
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without taking too much time to think about  it you don't want to take too much time to  
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think about eating a frog because eating a  frog is not enjoyable so don't think about  
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it just eat your frog all right this means  that you must eat your frog before doing  
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anything else without taking too much time  to think about it again this means that you  
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must eat your frog before doing anything else  without taking too much time to think about
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it what is your next frog what is the one task  that can have the greatest positive impact  
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on your life and results right now one more  time what is your next frog what is the one  
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task that can have the greatest positive  impact on your life and results right now  
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let's identify it and tackle it it's  crucial not to give in to distractions  
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give in to something something that means  you you let it take control of you you  
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give in let's identify it and tackle it it's  crucial not to give in to distractions let's  
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identify it and tackle it it's crucial not  to give in to distractions don't give in to
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distractions until you accomplish your  most significant priority everything  
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else is a distraction until you accomplish  your most significant priority everything  
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else is a distraction until you accomplish  your most significant priority everything  
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else is a distraction therefore you  must always ask yourself the following  
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questions is what I'm doing right now  the next most significant use of my
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time therefore you must always ask yourself the  following questions is what I'm doing right now  
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the most the next most significant use of my  time I missed up messed up I missed up messed  
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up I messed up the next most significant  use of my time all right that's okay  
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let's try the next one is it the task that is  moving me towards creating the best results let's  
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say that sentence only one more time is it the  task that is moving me towards creating the best
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results is it the task that is  moving me towards making my greatest  
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contribution my greatest contribution make  a contribution give back to the world make a
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contribution let's say that last  sentence one more time is it the  
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task that is moving me towards making  my greatest contribution my greatest
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contribution is it the task that is making the  most of the available time that I have again  
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is it the task that is making the most of my the  available time that I have let's try this sentence  
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is it the task that is helping me to become my  highest self is it the task that is helping me  
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to become my highest self is it is it the task  that is helping me to become my highest self
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if your answer to these questions is no then  it is a distraction it is a Temptation that  
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could be a million things but what is what  it definitely is not is your priority it's  
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definitely not your priority it could be a  million things but what it what it definitely  
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is not not is your priority another way to  say that is but it's definitely not your
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priority all right let's say that whole thing  one more time here we go if your answer to these  
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questions is no then it is a distraction it is  a Temptation that could be a million things but  
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what it definitely is not is your priority how was  that did you get that one should we do it one more  
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time one more time on this one okay one more time  here we go if your answer to these questions is no  
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then it is a distraction it is a Temptation that  could be a million things but what it definitely  
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is not is your priority did we get it good good  because that's the very end of it and now we're  
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going to say the whole thing nonstop say it with  me try to speak in a smooth clear voice and just  
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Shadow me shadow me means say it with me here we  go one of my favorite authors is Brian Tracy who  
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suggests the idea of eating your frog in other  words your frog is the most important task that  
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you have to do this task is often the one that  you are most likely to put off or procrastinate
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on however it is also the task that can have  the greatest positive impact on your life and  
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results at the moment to reach high levels of  performance and productivity it is essential  
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to develop the habit of tackling your major task  first thing every morning this means that you  
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must eat your frog before doing anything else  without taking too much time to think about it  
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what is your next frog what is the one task that  can have the greatest positive impact on your  
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your life and results right now let's  identify it and tackle it it's crucial  
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not to give in to distractions until you  accomplish your most significant priority  
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everything else is a distraction therefore  you must always ask yourself the following  
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questions is what I'm doing right now the the  next most significant use of my time is it the  
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task that is moving me towards creating the  best results is it the task that is moving me  
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towards making my greatest contribution is  it the task that is making the most of the  
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available time that I have is it the task  that is helping me to become my highest
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self if your answer to these questions is no  then it is a distraction it is a Temptation  
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that could be a million things but what  it definitely is not is your priority  
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and that's it boom we did it good workout  that's not easy not easy for me so I know  
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it's not easy for you too high level English  speaking practice one step at a time that  
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was step 324 get all 10,000 steps that's the plan  englishcoachchad.com I'll see you in the next step
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