How to Deal with Missed Language Goals Failure

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okay today’s topic is how to deal with

missed language goals and failure

have you ever failed to reach a goal if

you’re planning on learning a language

as your 2021 new year’s resolution

or if you just want to know how to get

back up and recover from language

learning failure

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jump into today’s topic

how to deal with missed language goals

and failure

if you’ve ever set a goal you’ve

probably dealt with failure

a lot of people set goals around january

when they set their new year’s

resolution

if you’re planning on setting a

resolution to learn a new language in

2021 you’ll want to pay attention

now in this video when we say failure we

mean

you set a goal but you don’t reach it

for example

if the goal was learning 100 words in a

month either you learned some words

meaning you took some steps or you did

nothing at all meaning you learned zero

words

failure usually happens for one of two

reasons one you set an unrealistic goal

that’s too hard for you or your routine

or your lifestyle

for example learning 1 000 words in a

month can be overwhelming

for 2 it could be for reasons outside of

your control

maybe you got sick or you’re busy at

work and have no time

or you’re moving life can get in the way

so how do you deal with failure do you

feel disappointed

do you quit do you keep trying leave us

a comment and let us know

but if you want to succeed with your

future language goals you’ll need to

change your outlook on failure and learn

how to recover

so here are five ways to deal with

missed goals

one ask yourself is this outside of my

control or inside of my control

for example you could be moving you

might have overtime at work

you may get sick and life might just get

in the way

these situations are outside of your

control so there’s no need to blame

yourself

if they were inside your control it’s

likely you set a goal that was too hard

or simply unrealistic for your current

lifestyle

why ask this if the situation is outside

of your control you should keep on going

if the situation is within your control

you can work on fixing it

and we’ll tell you how in just a bit

second

if you feel disappointed about a missed

goal which is normal

use that feeling as motivation don’t

stop your language learning journey just

because you’re feeling disappointed

third understand that this isn’t the

last time you’re going to fail

there’ll be goals that you’ll hit and

there’ll be goals that you miss

that’s just a fact of life and in a way

that’s good news because you’ll get used

to failing

you’ll learn not to feel too bad about

it and you’ll learn how to keep on going

fourth understand that as long as you

spend time on the language that’s good

enough

goals are also meant to get you moving

in a certain direction

so as long as you made some strides in

the right direction that’s better than

nothing

so if your goal was to learn 100 words

but you learned only 20

20 is better than zero you still started

moving in the right direction

and if you didn’t reach 100 this time

you can hit 100 in the future

it’s just a matter of time fifth recover

from failure by setting

smaller goals why set smaller goals

if you failed to learn 100 words

wouldn’t it make sense to try that goal

again

or double up punish yourself and learn

200 to make up for lost time

in schools when we miss homework we have

to make it up and stay on track with new

homework

this doesn’t make sense with goals the

reason is

if you fail again it’s because that goal

is too far out of your reach

either you yourself can’t handle it or

your current situation like being busy

at work

or having a private matter doesn’t give

you much time

by aiming lower you can at least get

back on track to succeeding at reaching

a goal

you’re getting something done and you’re

getting your confidence back up

because if you couldn’t reach 100 words

last time chances are you won’t reach it

this time

so try 50 words 30 words give yourself a

chance to succeed on your own terms

and that’s it don’t let the small

failures keep you from making a big

success

make your goals work for you let’s recap

one more time

one ask yourself is this outside of my

control or inside of my control

two if you feel disappointed use that

feeling as motivation

three understand that this isn’t the

last time you’re going to fail

four understand that as long as you

spend time on the language that’s good

enough

and five recover from failure by setting

smaller goals

if you’re planning on setting a language

learning resolution for 2021

let us know what it is leave a comment

so thank you for watching this episode

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next time we’ll talk about how to get

back on track after language learning

failure

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