Mentionsy

What I like to do when one year ends and another one begins is reflect on what the past year was like and plan for what I would like the future year to bring.

I don't think life just happens to us and so you have to know what you want in order to get it.

Common New Year's resolutions are eating healthier, exercising, saving money and getting better with personal finances, learning something new or quitting old bad habits.

Or I told myself I would... I told myself I would start going to bed earlier and get at least 8 hours of sleep.

There's always a lot of talk about goals and habits around the start of a new year.

A habit is a series of repeated actions, so things you need to do over and over to get you to achieve that goal.

If your goal is to learn a new language, then you need to get into the habit of doing those lessons every day.

Being consistent means doing something regularly with a predictable pattern.

Other phrases in everyday spoken English related to starting new habits are get back into a routine, meaning do what you used to do regularly.

I'm going to leave my bad habits in the past and start fresh in the new year.

Keep doing something consistently.

Fall off track means to drift away from a goal.

I was doing so well with practicing my Spanish, but then I got busy doing other things and fell off track.

If you stopped doing something, your goal is to get back on track.

I think Americans see it as a normal part of doing something.

Sometimes things don't work out.

And that's when you move on or try again.

Failure and rejection are the things we're scared of most, but those things are necessary to learning and growing.

I know this is silly and I think I heard this on TikTok, maybe.

But people say rejection is protection or rejection and redirection.

Sometimes telling yourself things like this works.

The phrases we use when discussing things that didn't go according to plan sound like this.

I wanted to wake up extra early and cook breakfast, but that was difficult, so I already gave up.

I what if you're not doing anything new in the new year?

My company usually closes for business for the last two weeks of December, so everyone has a chance to take a break and do something fun.

This means that the conversations we have when we get back into the office are mostly focused on what everyone did during the break.

And she said, absolutely not.

And I said, no, I don't want to be a different person.

So then Megan showed me a picture of what she wore for New Year's Eve and we talked about how she spent the night.

And since we're on the topic of New Year's Eve, let's take a minute to quickly go over what people do on the last night of the year.

New York is known for the ball drop in Times Square, and that always gets broadcasted all over the world.

But when it comes to New York, I have never and I have no plans of ever ringing in the new year in Times Square.

Little horns and whistles or any kind of noisemakers are common party supplies, just like little hats and glasses with the new year on them.

New Year's Day is meant for R&R or rest and relaxation.

And with that I'm going to conclude this episode.

People say that writing things down and making vision boards helps.

Whatever you call it, if you are dedicated and put the effort into something for long enough, I'm sure you'll see the results you want.

If you have any questions about this episode or any other episode, don't be shy, write me an email at viola at naturalneangielski.com.