S5E18: This year isn’t over yet

Full transcript:

Good morning, happy Wednesday, and welcome to the Language Confidence Project. I’m your host, Emily Richardson, I’m a tiny and colourful polyglot with a background in language teaching, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics and I’m here every weekday to support you through your language learning, whether you want to be learning your language, or you really don’t, but have to learn one anyway.

And I don’t know about where you are, but the weather is definitely changing here, it’s getting colder and darker and all the shops are filled with pumpkins and, actually Christmas, since about August, and it can make it feel like the year is already ending.  

But there are still three months to go until the end of the year.

So today, I just wanted to invite you to do a really quick check in, either just in your head or as a journaling prompt, and ask you, is there anything that you would love to have done by the end of 2023?  

Is there any particular topic you want to have covered, a module you want to have finished? A creative project you’d like to have started or completed? A goal in your new language that you’d like to have made a reality?

When you imagine yourself entering 2024, where are you at in your language, or in your creative life, or any other goal you have for yourself this year?

Because you still have a whole quarter of the year left.

And even if you had a yearlong project that you set yourself in January, but you haven’t got round to starting it yet, don’t write the year off just yet. Is there any way you could scale it down, make it smaller and more manageable, that will mean you can still have it well underway or even maybe finished by the end of the year?

I know it can feel like the year is speeding up and speeding up and the winter can be busy for so many of us, but you still have so much time, language learners. And if you want some extra accountability and support, come and join my Patreon community where we have three hours a week to study and work together in the Creative Space, there’s a monthly Q&A, a monthly hangout with all the other creative, mission-driven and multipassionate language learners I know, and a whole load of other bonuses for less than the price of a coffee per week. You really don’t have to do this alone. And I just wanted to mention as well that if you would like to read along with my podcast episodes, transcripts are now available on my website which is www.languageconfidenceproject.com. They’re coming out with each new episode every day, season four is also up, and I’ll gradually be uploading seasons 1, 2 and 3 over the next few weeks as well.

Have a wonderful day, and I will see you tomorrow.