Goals

Questions

1. What is your goal with learning English?
2. What is one of your short term goals?
3. What is one of your long term goals?
4. What is a goal that you’ve recently completed?
5. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
6. Do you have any crazy or impossible goals?
7. Is it important to have a goal? Why or why not?
8. Do you always complete your goals?

Videos

At the end of the year, everyone always reflects and set new goals for the year ahead. After a few months, a majority of those people forget their New Year Resolutions and fall into old patterns. Are you one of them? There

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are also those who never even try to rise above or try to aim for anything. Are you one of them? In this video, I share my thoughts on New Year’s Resolutions.

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Category:  Education & Language
Keywords: Goals | Last year | This year

Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.

Category:  Psychology
Keywords: Goals | Habits

Vocabulary:
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secluded
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anchor
lighthouse
greenhouse
handsaw
hammer
power tool
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board (noun)
ton
land sick
biomass
canoe
paddle
real estate
prosper
fulfilled

Expressions:
subsistence living
hon

Vocabulary:
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Expressions:
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Vocabulary:
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involuntary
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syndrome
faculty
pervasive
prevalent
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downplay
abnormality
self-esteem
spiral
accolade
threshold
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voice (verb)
peer
dismiss
excel
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mentor
competence
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Expressions:
nagging doubt
shake a feeling
put something to rest
surefire way

Vocabulary:
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principle
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underdog
aspect
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keyboard
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grounded
clarity
stuntman
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perfectionist
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continuity
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relentlessness
finale

Expressions:
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going above and beyond
get smacked in the face
sell a joke

Vocabulary:
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smoke (noun)
engine
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pilot
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unemotional
terror
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urgency
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humanity
ego
reflect
eliminate
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artistic
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miracle

Expressions:
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brace for impact
mend fences
make sense
connecting dots