hello Judy Norfolk here from doing
english.com once again here in the gym
oh I'm just done with my workout for the
day before I cycle home I need to catch
my breath what a better time to do a
video than whilst I am catching said
breath
I am I and to be perfectly honest super
busy at the moment
and it's not often that I have to say
that because I've injured my I've
engineered my life
to be such that I'm generally not that
busy
pidgins the advantage of working at a
gym okay they come to see you and there
it goes my PhD thesis what the the first
draft of my PhD pieces anyway I need to
have a complete draft of the whole thing
submitted by the 15th this month that's
four days from now at the time of
recording it will then come back and
I'll have to pick some parts but I mean
the bulk of it will be dumb so right now
all I am pretty much doing 12 hours a
day is writing writing writing reading
back over what I've done editing
tweaking more writing and yeah that's
making me quite busy because I do have
other things that I have to get done as
well
accounting for example which isn't quite
finished for this month and that's also
got to be him on the 15th but despite
how bloody busy I am of all this stuff
Here I am in the gym why Julian why why
don't you just go to the gym save
yourself a couple of hours because
that's how much it takes point on my
cycle up here by the time I actually do
my work at night cycle back home we're
talking about two hours out of my day
surely about two hours who have been
better spent on more writing or doing
other stuff and you would think that but
the answer is no you see Parkinson's Law
first of all any task expands to fill
the time available and if I gave myself
an extra two hours it doesn't really
mean I would get an extra two hours
worth of stuff done I would just spend
an extra two hours pretty much just
doing the same amount as I do anyway not
only this but the fact that I'm not
hangout will mean that my energy levels
poor suffer and this is very much
mistake that I used to make in the past
I fink cup was busy or I'm too tired to
go out running I'm too tired to go to
the gym and so I'd skip it well the
reason I was tired is because I wasn't
getting out I wasn't exercising as a
result my health was suffering I didn't
have the energy that I needed to do the
things that I wanted to do and it's a
downhill spiral so one of my own
personal rules and I have it several of
them is that health and fitness always
comes first no matter what no matter how
busy I am
no matter how important the other tasks
that I am working on in my life no
matter how profitable because I have
refused to take on otherwise perfectly
acceptable coaching clients for the
simple reason that the only time that
they could do sessions was the time when
I go to the gym when I go running yes
people don't believe me when I say this
but it is true I've turned down very
very profitable and clients because of
this but it has to be the fixed thing in
my routine Fitness Health working out
three days a week I go to the gym two
days a week guaranteed I run and then it
weekends I run if I can be bothered
that's how I do things and that comes
first that's fixed I don't change that
for anything and what does this got to
do with improving your English perfectly
honest not really much though I will say
if you are not as fit and healthy as you
perhaps should be well you will find it
more difficult to improve your English
to speak English well because lower
level a health
well that will drag everything else down
as well so if you're feeling tired if
you're feeling frustrated if you're
feeling pissed off with your English in
general and you just don't have the
energy to do something about it go to
the gym and of course once you do it you
can be listening to audio books audio
lessons like the ones that I make on
your iPhone whatever it is that you use
and you can actually make that into a
part of your learning time
as well I do have videos on my my
youtube channel
probably paste posted on my blog as well
about using running time to learn
effectively
I'm not going to link to it but if
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English fast right I am gonna cycle a
home then I've got a bit more writing to
do and I've got to put together at some
bits and pieces for my event in Taipei
in December remember December 7th we are
having a bit of a gala we're now calling
it but if a party there's gonna be a
nominal fee just to cover drinks and
things for that we've now decided and on
December the 11th I'm going to be doing
an advanced workshop we're gonna be
digging into a very important topic
related to improving in English in a
record time right I'm just rambling now
aren't I buh-bye