hello Michelle how are you doing today uh
hi 23. I know it's just amazing oh my God are you excited about this new year I am I'm right
I'm ready for it I'm ready for our new year yeah we've had an intense couple of years 2020 2021
2022 very intense years now we're ready to have hopefully a lighter here knock knock on wood yes
yeah yeah yeah do you typically do you enjoy this time of year when you have a chance to kind of set
new goals and just you know really get yourself on the right track it's a clean slate I do like it I
also I have to be honest I think it's a little intimidating for me like I'm not I'm not like
a huge one on like the big resolutions because I mean I do think it puts a lot of pressure and and
also like you can set a resolution at any time of the year however however like I I do think
it's good to kind of feel that freshness and to kind of get in the right mindset of the new year
but I also don't like to be like well dude these are like this is what has to happen oh my gosh
all the time it's just like a little too much like especially for a professionally it's one
thing but for personal life I think it can be a little bit intimidating and you know um but
but good to think about what do you think yeah I mean I think anytime we have a chance to change
our habits it's exciting like I just came back from my trip to Argentina that I shared with our
listeners that we were going it was amazing and I came back and now I'm like wow I could change the
way I do things right I could change my workflow I could make change changes and to be more efficient
especially at work or even in life right it's a it's an opportunity so it's not pressure in my
mind it's more like if I want to make this change I could usually I kind of just fall back into my
old habits to be honest I think that's very common but no I I I agree with you I do think
it's nice and I do like to like set new goals and things like that um again I think personal versus
professional is a little bit of a different feel for me the personal is a little like I can I can
do it anytime and I want to have that feeling like I can make changes anytime for sure as well but I
think sometimes the personal like the typical you know resolutions like stop doing this like
stop this habit stop this habit it's nice to think about but sometimes I feel like you know it it can
it can be a little much sometimes yeah for sure so for our listeners guys listen up if you are
the kind of person that needs to build momentum if you're gonna make a change if you're gonna ramp up
your English this this year we have an opportunity to join our challenge our five-day challenge we're
calling it the new me in 2023 five-day challenge you like that title Michelle I love it and you
know I just realized that I was saying don't put too much pressure on yourself however like guys
however to be honest when it comes to learning something new I especially think that this is like
a new time I guess what I was talking about more of the Hat more of the things like stop biting my
nails you know how people say like typical things wait like those kinds of things I feel like are
just kind of like the things that people say every year however when it comes to a new skill
to reminding yourself I think that has a different feeling because it's more it's less about stuffing
something that's more about starting that's what you're gonna say that's what I was just noticing
in the examples you use right yeah stop smoking I don't smoke and you don't smoke but some people do
right stop smoking stop biting nails stop eating too much these are all kind of self-discipline
restrictive things right exactly but what I love is the idea of the endowed progress effect so if
I see that I've made progress towards my goal every day that's incredibly motivating for the
human mind yes so I think that like having that start mindset yeah that's where that's
where you're going to get motivated and inspired rather than the stop doing this I've done this
wrong I'm beating myself up about this right two different kinds of goals exactly exactly so guys
this offer is going on right now but just right now right it's not going to be available forever
it doesn't make sense forever it's available until January 7th Michelle what is the link where they
can go to get this before we get into the quotes for today okay so the link is allearsenglish.com
new 2023 so 2023 yeah so go there and I'll explain a little we'll explain Michelle and I will explain
a little bit more what exactly it is later in the episode but I want to start off today
with some exciting and fulfilling quotes just to talk about them and see what they mean to us at
this time of year Michelle what's the first quote well I love this one the secret of getting ahead
is getting started and that's by Mark Twain yeah and this is exactly what we're saying right this
is exactly what we're saying this is not about stopping doing something it's about what do you do
with your first week of 2023 and how can you get ahead more in your mind it's a mind game Michelle
right you want to propel yourself forward so the feeling of this is you know just if you don't get
started you can't get ahead sometimes I think we get like or I mean for myself I'm sure for a lot
of people you know you kind of get like you can kind of get Frozen yeah Frozen yes and um this
just to have this new year it's this opportunity for you to be like no I'm like whatever it was
whatever it was it's time to time to get started time to get excited instead of being frozen in
place yeah I think part of the problem is when we know we want to do something we think we have to
do it all that same day yeah so for example you know if I know that I want to kick back up my
Spanish because I was actually excited about how how I felt so comfortable in Argentine Spanish
Michelle oh it is so hard to understand they speak so fast they use a totally different accent
um but my listening was actually the strongest I've seen in all of our trips to Spanish-speaking
countries yeah I was ready for it I had hired four or five different tutors on italki to
practice this Argentine team Spanish leading into it but now we've been back for a few weeks have I
taken lessons have I was going to continue my lessons no I have not gone back to them
so what I'm trying to say here is the secret is just getting started I could build that
progress effect in My Mind by just booking my next lesson and that would be all I would have
to do today and then tomorrow I just show up for the lesson and then I book it again so it's one
little step at a time it's not doing the whole lesson that first day right Michelle oh yeah
and I think you know that's where it's easy to get into trouble is to have that mindset
off yeah like you gotta do it like I want to learn a new language let's do it all right the
second like yeah that's you know it's not it's not really reasonable and you're gonna get burnt out
um right so we want to have this you know okay we're getting the momentum I love what you said is
just like just setting the next appointment doing that one intentional thing that will give you the
next step I think that's huge exactly or have you ever had the experience where you're gonna
you have a blank canvas in front of you let's say you have to write a paper you know what I
do is I'll go and make an outline and just doing that or I have to do a project which involves a
spreadsheet it's complicated I'll go and set up the The Columns and the rows and then I feel so
much I just feel good I feel like I'm building the bones of the project right right right right
right or even just like making an appointment that you have to make I mean like even I mean
sometimes I can be like a little paranoid about my health and I'll be like yeah oh I have
that and my mom's like well then just doctor like even just sometimes like making yeah better like
makes you feel better kind of a way to think about it another example I love it so good so
guys that's our first quote that we hope inspires you at the beginning of the year is the secret
of getting ahead is just getting started it's actually easier than we than we realize Michelle
I love that now do we have a second quote for our listeners today yes and this is by uh Theodore
Roosevelt so he was the president of the US uh from 1901 to 1909 right Lindsay yeah uh-huh and he
established a lot of our national parks so that's amazing the older I get the more I appreciate the
national parks having gone to a lot of them and thinking it's really special to be able to enter
a park and pay some money and you know that this land is preserved and you can hike and you can
explore it's incredible Michelle I need to do more of the Nash national parks you really should you
really should and they're a lot on the East Coast too where you don't have to drive across the whole
country so what's the quote the quote is keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground
yes what does this strike you I like what what what do you think of when you hear this quote
um well I I this feeling of you know remaining stable not my headphone is falling out of my ear
there's a remaining remaining stable remaining grounded but having a lot of ambition right so
like you have Big Dreams you have big dreams but in order to do them you have to actually
do them rather than like thinking about them do you know what I mean yeah it makes me think of
the expression this is a bonus for a listener's down to earth right in your mind is that a good
thing or not a good thing to be down to earth I to me it's a very good thing what do you think I
think it's a good thing yeah for sure but you're right in order to kind of build a successful life
we need both we need to be grounded as you said and we need to kind of be reaching for the Stars
so it's somewhere in between that we're gonna hang out right right right right right right
because if you're not if you don't have those like your eyes like set on this big goal then you might
not be motivated to do the actual work yeah vice versa if you're uh if you're wait now I'm getting
myself confused well yeah vice versa or or if you like uh don't have wait if you have [Laughter]
um okay let's start off yeah no well actually Michelle I was just gonna say just to kind of
like compliment I think we know what you're trying to say right we have to be somewhere in the middle
we have to be somewhere in the middle but uh last month Aubry and I did an episode on quiet quitting
this idea of that you know gen Z is doing a lot of kind of just doing the bare minimum and maybe
stepping back from work and not investing quite as much and we talked about how in some ways that's
good because you're going to remain in touch with family build your relationships build your life
outside of work but in another way it's going to leave a huge gap because we need meaning in
our lives as human beings right right you know what I mean right yes exactly so that is that
reaching part right we need to be reaching for something thank you Lindsay yes I love it I love
it my goodness what happened to my mind I know you're okay we're just getting started here on
the year right so Michelle tell our listeners a little bit more about this five day challenge
let's talk about it okay so guys this is amazing so this is five days and you're going to learn
something new in English every day so that's what Lindsay was talking about it's like kind of this
getting the ball rolling yes that's another good expression for our listeners by the way yeah get
that momentum going the ball rolling right and it's one day at a time for five days but every day
you know you're growing so you can see this actual Improvement and you're going to use all four
skills in English right Lindsay yeah I love the idea a lot of our listeners you guys are always
asking us you know what about reading what about writing you know there are other there's more than
just speaking but you're gonna get all four skills this is going to help you to get that Head Start I
feel like you're making progress you're taking that one simple action each day so that at the
end of the five days you're really gonna be on a really different path okay I love it and how
much time does it take each day to complete the challenge really just 30 minutes or less
yes for each challenge so I mean if you want to spend more time on these daily challenges and
projects you can so it's really flexible like what whatever you can or want to put into it
um you know so if you feel like you want to really go for it and do more that's great but don't think
oh well I really I don't know if I have the time it's really just 30 minutes or less for five days
yeah we've talked to you guys a lot and we know that most of you really just have 30 minutes a
day to work on your English right and maybe you add on the podcast in the morning on your way to
work we've got 30 15 to 30 minutes a day so we're gonna help you maximize that time Michelle so good
absolutely so guys you will learn something new you're going to make a positive change in your
life every day for five days so Lindsay can you talk a little bit more about how they get in on
this excitement yes of course guys you need to go straight to this link right now go to
all earsenglish.com new 2023 okay so you go there and remember this offer ends January 7th the price
is going up so you don't want to miss it all right guys so that is your next action as soon
as you finish this episode go there and join this challenge get in on this ah oh my gosh I'm excited
for you guys I just I think it's the perfect way to get like I think of like like room right
you're just like ramping up engine yeah I think I think it's gonna be huge get yourself in the right
mindset for the start of 2023 with your English I love it so good Michelle thanks for hanging out
on the podcast as always we have a blast together on the show so we are lucky to be here absolutely
love it guys and happy New Year to everyone all right good stuff talk to you soon bye bye
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