Now with time I'll be honest this is the number one obstacle.
Hands down.
This is the number one obstacle for me for my learners for everyone.
And the important thing is you have to make time.
And like literally put it in your calendar because if you don't you're It's easy to forget.
You won't want to do it or you'll think I'll do it later.
Later becomes next week next week becomes next month and then you feel like you've lost a lot of the
English that you've learned.
So what I would recommend is if you have a calendar great use it.
If you don't get one figure out what time works for you.
Are you a morning person.
Are you better in the evenings.
Are you a night owl.
Are you really alert in the middle of the day before lunch after lunch.
Try to pay attention to when you feel the most alert and the most open minded and that's probably a
good time to sneak in some English and I sneak in because if you are at lunch.
And that's kind of your best time.
Obviously I don't want you to spend your entire lunch doing English things and not talking to people
or not doing your work but rather maybe just do five minutes before you eat or if you're going out to
eat while they're bringing out your food.
Do a little bit of practice.
So you want to make it work for you.
If you have crazy busy schedule.
Now what I would recommend is figure out when you can double up.
For example if you are in the car you have a long commute podcasts and audio books are your new best
friend because that way you know you have time to do it without taking away time where you need to be
productive or be present for your family if you know that mornings are really good for you but at work
you're too busy tying in with the habit.
When you go to make your coffee and you press the ON button the coffee takes a few minutes to be ready.
Use that time and read a few quote outloud when you try learning with a habit.
It gives you an extra opportunity it gives you.
Honestly it makes it more likely that you'll do it because you will always make your morning coffee.
You'll never forget that.
So if you have reading in English quote with that habit you can imagine where that would be even harder
to skip.
So these are little ways that you can make the most of your time if you like to exercise.
That's another great one.
If you're at the gym if you're running you know audio books podcast.
These are all really wonderful.
If you enjoy watching television finding the right kind of English chauffeur you can be amazing.
Notice that in trying to tie it into what you already do.
That's the best way to ensure success.
If you have to take time away from your busy schedule and honestly it really is about the busy days.
So when you know you have a lot going on those are the easiest ways to forget about English.
And that's where I want you to feel the most success because it feels good when you know you had a full
day with your family with work with whatever and you still made time.
Even if it's 30 seconds to practice your English these micro successes make a big difference in motivation.
Another great thing you can do is set a timer on your phone but don't set like the annoying alarm.
I want you to set it with a really lovely tune or your favorite English song.
Make it so where you connect that alarm with something positive because that sound is going to trigger
either tension and anxiety or relaxation and energy.
So even something as seemingly insignificant as the alarm makes a big difference in motivation because
you hear the song that you like.
Oh ok.
This is my time to practice English to your disposition is better.
You're more open to learning and you're excited about it you'll want to do it the next day.
And my best tip for you for budgeting your time is have a plan.
In fact having a plan B plan C plan because no matter how much you want to do English and maybe you
put it in your schedule and you're doing everything that we're talking about you're going to have unexpected
things happen because it's real life.
Maybe you get sick maybe you have an extra thing to do when you didn't expect it.
Maybe your weekend was supposed to be relaxing and it turned out to be super chaotic.
So prepare for those have a list of activities I would recommend.
Organizing your resources according to time.
So whatever you're planning for the week.
Maybe you make a list of resources you can use.
Make sure you have a few 30 seconds to 1 minute activities.
Make sure you have five to 10 minute and then maybe something longer like 10 to 20.
Remember I don't recommend doing more than 20 minutes.
You just honestly you lose interest.
It gets boring and very few people can do things for longer than 20 minutes and productively retain
that information to keep it varied but that way if you have a day where you're particularly busy and
you had a five minute activity like there's no way I'm going to do that.
No problem.
Relax.
Just read the quote.
Check out your horoscope during lunch.
So when you have all of these plans done ahead of time it becomes very easy to go with the flow.
We want to make sure that your English learning plan is flexible that it's adaptable to your real life.
So now let's plan for tomorrow.
Look at your calendar.
Or if you want to plan for the week look at your calendar and figure out what time would work best for
you.
Remember it could be something teeny tiny like 30 seconds or it could be something that's 20 minutes.
Put it in your calendar.
If you know you're going to read a quote with coffee.
Put that 15 30 minute walk if your calendar is like mine I don't think you can do less and then just
put coffee in quote see.
So when you see like OK I'll remember put a post-it note by your coffee maker put the quote on the post-it
note.
Personally I recommend just have your favorite quote web website which I have links to in the resource
page and have that tab open on your phone all the time so that way in the morning for your coffee.
Click the button.
Check your phone.
Read your quote.
Read out loud.
Drink your coffee.
So create a habit.
So excited for you.
Now this does take a little bit of discipline but it's so worth it.
And the more you get into it the less effort it takes and when you do forget a day or you have to skip
a day.
Don't beat yourself up about it.
Just say you know what.
I forgot yesterday or I was just lazy.
Whatever the truth is.
OK I'll do something right now.
I'll do something today.
Every day is an opportunity to start over.
Don't fall into the trap of I didn't do it yesterday so I'll do it tomorrow.
Make sure that you're mindful in the moment.
Forgive yourself and move on.
You're awesome.
This is going to be the rest of your life so it's OK.
And if you want something a little structured Fairman kind of cool.
Sign up at English challenges dot com and you'll receive my three day weekly challenges.
Every Sunday I send an email with a calendar.
Yeah I actually make the calendar events for you so it automatically uploads to your calendar and you
have three activities and a private Facebook group where all of my subscribers join and we chat about
the week's topics.
It's so fine and I hope to see you there.
You already have your weekly action plan filled out and ready.
Now I want you to put those things in your calendar.
So right now take a few minutes.
Schedule the time every day for all of the days this week that you're going to dedicate to learning
English.
Remember it can be five minutes or 20 minutes but this will give you a good idea of how to include English
in your daily schedule.