[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) There’s a scene in Avatar The Last Airbender (the fantastic original series — not the sorry excuse of a movie) where one of the villains decides to become good. At one…
Category: Reflections
Reflections: What science fiction and video games have taught me about life
[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) If you had a look at my bookshelf, you’d find a pretty diverse range of genres: adventure, biographies, non-fiction, essays, science-fiction, romance… but in a way, I consider all of them to be…
How to build consistency with new habits, Part 1
[3 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) If you’re on this blog, you’re someone interested in personal development — which means you have tried building good habits in the past, which means you’ve for sure struggled with building good habits…
Reflections: Manifestation explained from an “outsider’s” perspective
[5 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) Have you ever looked something up from sheer curiosity, and ended up going down a deep rabbit hole? That’s been my journey with manifestation so far. I’ve always known about the concept, and…
Reflections: Could our weaknesses just be laziness?
[1 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) Anyone who has gone anywhere with me knows that I am horrible at directions. And I mean, completely hopeless. I not only don’t know where to go — I usually set off in…
Reflections: When unexpected events in our lives help others
[2 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) I heard a podcast the other day which was talking about decision making. It was a three-part series, with the first part delving into fate versus planning. In particular, the host Hilary talked…
3 tips to handle small unexpected problems in a calm, positive way
[2 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) Have you ever met a couple with this sort of contrast? I do know a couple like this. And here’s the interesting thing. Most of the time things end up working out just…
3 tips and quotes to let go of control and find peace in daily life
[4 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) One thing is particularly frustrating about life: it doesn’t always go the way you want. We have all these painstakingly thought-out plans, we spend hours assessing and analyzing, and life so rudely disregards…
The best tips for preparing conversation-based language lessons
[5 minute read] (ESL learners – click on the bolded words to see explanations and notes. Try the exercise at the bottom after! 🙂 ) Can you possibly love languages without loving conversation? Speaking is the very manifestation of a language. Stop speaking, and you’ll quickly lose the language too. It’s therefore crucial for language lessons to include…
Choosing the best language learning resources: 5 questions to ask yourself
Wondering how to choose the best language learning resources for you? These 5 questions will tell you how.
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