Not only English, being great at anything pretty much all comes down to how bad you want it. You’ve got to want it! You’ve got to want it so bad that you wouldn’t want to exist in this world without it. It’s the food you eat, the water you drink and the air your breathe. Breathing is not a luxury, it’s not optional, it’s the thing you do not to die. Now you tell me “Hey wacko, how is being great at English like breathing air to survive”? and that’s where I go “It’s not fool!”! But you’ve got to make yourself believe it. You’ve got to somehow trick your mind into accepting it as your new reality. Once your brain believes this new reality, it starts to take the right kinds of actions and make all the right choices. And then, all of a sudden, you’ll find yourself more focused, more intelligent, more positive, more passionate, more committed, more productive and eventually more successful.
Now, the question is, how can you trick your brain into believing that speaking English well is as important as breathing air? You associate it with other things you like, whether it be fame, money or any other form of success. Use the “if” word, it’s so powerful. Start your sentence with something like that “If I spoke English like a native speaker, I could…” You could what? Sit down and get yourself to write a few sentences down. Imagine for a moment what your life would be like if you could speak English like a native speaker. What could you do for your family? What could you do for your country? What could you do for YOURSELF? Imagine what it would FEEL like. How proud would you be? How confident would you be? How capable would you feel? Now hold on to that. Hold on to it and start staring at it. And keep staring at it until you fall in love with it, because then, and only then, it will become the air your breathe. Visualize it. It’s only by visualizing it that you’ll be able to program your brain to follow it.
Be honest to your heart. Be honest with it and follow it wherever it wants to go. And if your heart wants go where your brain doesn’t, you’ve got to figure out a way to trick your brain into hopping along. Our brains fear the unknown. Our brains assess the probability of achieving future goals based on past data and events, which oftentimes do not make a strong case. Your brain goes through the archives and thinks “Oh Oh , hold on, last time you tried to do that, you failed miserably, so logically, if you try to do the same thing again, you will obviously fail…again”. You can’t let your brain scare you, you’re going to have to control it, program it and find a way to convince it to join the ride.
CAN YOU DO THAT?
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