Styczeń 5th, 2011
Dear BEM Readers,
Welcome to 2011!
New Year's resolutions
Be honest! You have a list like that. In your head at least, with some of those or other„to-do” items.
Do you execute any of these in reality? Of course not! (if you do, good for you)
What is the usual response after the next 12 months? Well, I was just so busy at my office and we moved house, my kids changed their school, my fiance left me, my dog died, etc.
and I JUST DID NOT HAVE THE TIME.
Is it about time really??
Lets take a quick example:
What if those people said, they DID NOT HAVE THE TIME? :
Lech Walesa
Martin Luther King
Pope John Paul II
Well, our World would look like quite differently today, right?
But I know, the „New Years resolution myth” is also my problem.
What can help us?
1. The „dog & bone” trick - if I do this, I get that i.e. If I work harder on my business english maybe I get that new client that my competitors are after too.
2. The „what if illusion” - what if I work on business english skills? Maybe I get that promotion that I have been waiting for sooo long?
3. The „what's in it for me” perspective - what will I get from learning new business english knowledge, expressions and vocabulary?
There are also great online resources:
1. Zen Habits - a blog on how changing our everyday habits can change our results and lives.
2. Fast Company - an online business magazine
„Make Goals Not Resolutions” - When people take the time to visualize exactly when and where they will do something, they meet their goals.
„Make a resolution that matters”
3. CBS on „Making Resolutions Stick”
Make Resolutions Stick
Try one of the techniques from the above and see if it makes a difference for you in 2011.
Until then, visit the BEM blog to learn more and develop your business english skills.
Chris Dargiewicz
Useful vocabulary:
1. To execute - wykonywać, przeprowadzać
2. To-do list - lista zaplanowanych czynności/obowiązków
3. To be after something - poszukiwać czegoś; gonić za czymś
4. Resource - zasób
5. A habit - zwyczaj; przyzwyczajenie
6. To visualize - wyobrazić/uzmysłowić sobie
7. To meet someone's goals - osiągnąć założone cele