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