First section of your English action plan PTF is about your goal.
So right now don't write anything yet.
Just think about it.
So if I right now ask you what is your goal with English.
Take two seconds.
What would you say.
So if your response included the words fluent or perfect or no mistakes no no we're going to have some
real talk.
And the real topic is fluency is not a good goal.
It's also not the right goal.
That really broad What does fluency mean.
I'm a native speaker and I'm fluent but if you tell me to give a presentation about biomechanical engineering
I don't know what words to use.
So think about it that way if you say fluent you'll never be happy because what does that mean.
Does that mean that you won't be happy until you know every word in the English dictionary.
They're always adding to that.
So already that's that's not a realistic goal.
Does that mean that you can talk about anything anywhere with anyone why you're not going to mean that.
So for this goal I want you to be specific and the reason you're going to be super super specific and
I'm going to teach you what I mean by that is that we're going to reverse engineer the rest of this
Course is about reverse engineering that means that we.
Think about the goal first the end and then everything we design is to achieve that.
And it can be more than one goal.
By the way.
So for example if you say I want to be able to speak with native speakers confidently.
OK that's a little more specific by native speakers where about what for example do you live in an English
speaking country.
OK.
Let's say you do do you want to speak to people at work.
Do you need that.
Do you want to feel comfortable speaking to people at the grocery store.
Do you have kids you want to speak to other parents when you go pick up your kids from school.
Do you do you see where I'm going with this.
I want you to get really specific.
So native speakers.
Why.
Where and about what.
If you don't live in an English speaking country are you going to run into native speakers.
No.
What does that mean to you.
Or is it really your goal to be able to understand native speakers because you love watching TV shows
so that's different.
OK so really think about what you want why you want it where you would use it.
Another example is you want to have a better life OK.
So how will English help you have a better quality of life.
Does that mean that you want to apply for a job in an English speaking country or an English speaking
company.
So do you see how that is totally different then you want to travel more so that different English.
This is where our reverse engineering is really important because the kinds of activities that you're
going to do are very different if you're worried about job interview and work English than you would
do if you're thinking about traveling.
So get specific.
And if you're thinking about traveling is it because you already travel.
Is it because you would like to travel in the future or do you have a plan to go somewhere soon.
Give me details and maybe you don't need English for work.
Maybe you don't even like to travel by.
English is intellectually stimulating for you.
Or you just really love the culture you love reading blogs and English you love watching American movies
or you love watching British TV shows.
Notice how specific I got.
British TV shows American movies remember everything we're going to plan is going to be about this school.
So if you like specifically maybe you like both you just like English whether it's British or American
or Australian so that's fine.
But be specific what is it TV shows movies.
Netflix is at HBO give me as many details as you can.
Now if it's specific to a culture or a country include that because that will affect the resources that
we pick later on.
Okay.
And I don't want you to feel overwhelmed.
I want you to feel excited because maybe you've never thought about this because you've always thought
about I'm going to study to be fluent but now that we know that's not really an effective or productive
approach this might take you a minute and that's ok.
Like really think about what makes you tingle.
So when you think about watching movies in English without captions one day does that get you excited
when you think about maybe meeting new people when you're on a tour bus traveling in New York City next
year.
Does I get too excited if you feel excited about something that is a good goal.
So I'll leave you with that.
Take a couple of minutes and then press play again.
Now that you have all of those examples and you probably have so many ideas and I hope you're full of
excitement go to your PDA and write down your goals.
Remember write down what's good for you right now.
These goals are not forever.
They're definitely just for now.
As you grow as you get older as you change your goals will also change goodlike.