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You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

Our friends, family, and workmates influence us more than we think. The famous quote from Jim Rohn states that we are the average of the five people that we spend most of our time with. Here are some examples:

- If everyone around you eats unhealthily, you will most likely eat bad food too.
- If everyone around you is always complaining and isn’t enjoying life, it will be difficult for you to be carefree and to have fun.
- But, if everyone around you is highly motivated, you are more likely to be motivated too.

As James Clear puts it: “Most of our behaviors are driven by two things: our environment and our beliefs. And environment is perhaps the most powerful of those two because in many cases your environment can shape your beliefs. This is especially true when you consider your environment to include the people who surround you”

How We Can Apply This to Learning English?

It’s hard to do anything on your own for a long time, especially when progress can’t always be seen. Learning English is a long-term journey; a journey full of different challenges. And it’s even more difficult to do what we need to do over the long-term if others aren’t supporting you.

We only have so much willpower [the ability to control our actions]; we need the support of others and to be in a positive environment to achieve our goals. Think about the people that you spend the most time with:

- Are they driven and motivated?
- Are they supportive of your English learning goals?
- Are they the type of people who can achieve a goal such as learning English?

If not, they could be slowing down your progress without you knowing it. They could be affecting you subconsciously and stopping you from doing the things you need to do to reach English fluency.

This might sound quite depressing, but there is good news..

Spend More Time With Those Who Inspire You:

What I don’t suggest is that you leave your family, ditch all your friends, and then only hang around [spend your time with] Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama!

But a great starting point is to hang around with others in person or online who have similar goals and ambitions that you have. For example, I meet up with four other entrepreneurs once a month in my local area, and we chat regularly online too. We all inspire, motivate, and help each other to do the things that we need to do in order to achieve our goals.

I’m also friends with teachers online who are as driven and committed as I am. We inspire each other to keep creating amazing resources for our students and to keep improving as teachers.

Being surrounded by these people has helped me and this website grow tremendously over the past year. And I don’t think that I would be where I am now if I hadn’t taken that step.

So, let’s now take a look at what you can do to improve your circle of influence so that you reach your English learning goals.

As learning English isn’t something that can be achieved in 3 months, you may hear a lot of negative things from other learners, such as:

- English is so hard.
- I’ll never reach fluency.
- My English is terrible and it’s getting worse. I should give up.

What I suggest you do is to ignore these comments, and don’t spend time with these people (when possible). Instead, connect with others who are going to have a positive influence on your English learning. The effect this will have will be huge, and will make a big difference to the progress you make.

You can do this by:

- Following inspiring people on social media (teachers and language learners) and communicating with them in meaningful ways.
- Joining groups with other English learners to discuss your goals and what you are doing to achieve them. Keep the discussion positive, and encourage each other to keep progressing.
- Changing the subject when someone talks about your goals in a negative way.

This is a great starting point, and you will soon notice how being around positive people, both teachers and fellow learners, will have a positive effect on your learning.

7: Are Others Stopping You from English Fluency Success?

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I’m Georgiana; founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help YOU speak English fluently.

In this episode:

I’ll be discussing some more about the most common phrasal verbs. Today, we’ll take a look at the phrasal verbs created with the word “look.”
After that, I will tell you a short story called the Point of View lesson, to help you with grammar and to review the vocabulary you will be learning.
Remember, a phrasal verb is just a verb and a particle. For example, “get in.” By the way, I recommend you to check out the previous episodes about phrasal verbs.

Remember, you just need to learn the most common phrasal verbs.. Also, instead of learning all the different meanings of each phrasal verb, you just need to learn one or two different meanings, preferably, the most common ones.

Ok, let’s get started! We’ll see what we can do with the word “look.”

Look after
It basically means to take care of somebody. For example:

I can’t come with you because I have to look after my brother.

My boyfriend always looks after me.

Who’s going to look after the children?

Look down
This one means to think less of someone. Consider someone inferior. In other words, when you think that you’re better than someone.

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In this English lesson, you're going to learn 52 commonly used phrasal verbs. You're going to do this by watching a typical day in the life of my friend, Dave. Watch the video and see the list of the phrasal verbs below.

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*** The 52 Phrasal Verbs ***

Dave’s alarm goes off at 4:30
As soon as he gets up
He turns on the coffee machine
He’s run out of cream
It is time to work out
If they work out in the morning…
He sets off on his 20-mile run
Breathing in the ocean air
As he runs along the oceanfront
He’s running out of energy
He doesn’t give up
He bangs out 100 push-ups
Turns on the shower
Jumps in
Dries himself off
He opens up his computer
Logs into his emails
He turns down 5
He has to iron out a few details
He looks up flights to New York
He doesn’t have time to shop around
He fills out the form
It’s time to get on with writing his presentation
He doesn’t want to put this off until next week
He gave them up a few years ago
He warms up leftover pasta
He digs in
The afternoon is dragging on a bit
He adds in a little
He spends the rest of the afternoon finishing up his presentation
It’s now time to chill out for the rest of the evening
To see if she wants to hang out
He heads out just before 5 and sets off for his friend's house
He’s looking forward to catching up
They grew up together
He’s worried about them growing apart
He pops in for a few minutes
They decide to eat out
So they head out to this new exciting restaurant
He wolfs them down
Sarah only picks at them
They then go through the menu again
And pick out a main meal to share
Sarah then knocks back a couple of very expensive cocktails
He’s trying to cut back on alcohol during the week
They actually run into an old friend from school
They decide to stay out a little bit longer
Dave drops Sarah off at home
He has enough time to write down what he has learned that day
He then turns off the lights
Gets into bed
And passes out immediately

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