Are Your English Challenges Skill Based or Self-Sabotaging?

I constantly meet and work with really smart people who think they have an English skills problem while their English is advanced, but their anxiety causes issues such as speaking too fast.

Could this be your challenge?

Could it be that your conscious mind knows you need to speak English slower and clearer, but perhaps your subconscious mind is always reacting with the fear of making a mistake or even the fear of being promoted and not being good enough?

Are you trying to satisfy your perceived expectations of others, like your parents, or competing with siblings?

As parents, I'll tell you that most of us want our children to be happy and secure.

Your siblings are probably wrapped up in their own lives and hardly notice what's happening in yours!

I constantly notice people use passive English learning activities, such as studying grammar textbooks or watching English videos, when their problem is actually speaking!

Remember Pareto's 80/20 rule, where 80% of results come from 20% of the best efforts!

For English speaking, these are shadowing, reading aloud, and recording yourself speaking, all of which are applied with self-assessment and small improvements daily.

Once you remove these roadblocks and start doing the 20% that really moves your English speaking skills and confidence, you will truly be a proficient English speaker at work and the rest of your life!

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My challenge is just not enough English skills

Maybe it's something deeper

I always focus on the 20% that delivers 80% of results

I know why I'm not confident speaking

I have a plan and am on the road to being a confident English speaker and being more successful at work

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