870 : The Restart Cycle That’s Stealing Your Fluency : 3 Systems To Break It

Something is holding you back from speaking English fluently and it's called the restart cycle. Do you want to understand how to break out of it? Well then, let's jump right in. The restart cycle is made up of five stages and this cycle holds back thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of English learners just like you.

Stage one of the restart cycle is motivation. Now this is the spark that ignites your desire to improve your English. It's triggered by an emotional moment and inspiring encounter or a missed opportunity. Your energy is high at this stage.

The plans feel achievable. You can do anything you put your mind to. You can learn anything and everything seems possible. Stage 1 of the restart cycle feels amazing.

Stage number two, this is where you start to study. The action phase where you actually begin studying using flashcards, grammar exercises, apps, YouTube lessons, the first days feel productive and disciplined you believe? You're finally making real progress stage number two of the restart cycle.

And then, stage number three. Life happens. The disruption phase where real life interrupts your study routine. You're no longer able to study English the way you'd like to.

A deadline. A family obligation exhaustion or simply a busy week start to pull your attention away from English. You miss one day. Then two, then a week slips by.

This is stage three. life happens and what happens after this stage number four you stop. The silent face where you don't make a conscious decision to quit your English studies. You simply don't start again.

The app sends you notifications but you ignore them. The textbook you were studying starts to gather dust. You avoid thinking about English because it brings feelings of shame and failure. This is Stage 4 of the Restart Cycle, which leads to Stage 5.

Restart the return to Stage 1 weeks or months after stopping something re-ignites the desire, a new opportunity, a new embarrassment, a new year you think this time will be different. And you begin the cycle again with a new method, a new app or a new plan, this my

friend is called the restart cycle. I want you to break out of the restart cycle and in order to do this to do this you have to understand something. You see to break out of the cycle you need a system to achieve your goal. A system to achieve your goal. Let me break this down, a goal is a specific outcome you want to achieve, a destination or a target.

For example, I want to speak English fluently by the end of the year. Here's the problem with making goals. You see, once you reach it or fail to reach it, the motivation often disappears. Goals, my friend, are temporary.

But systems are not. You see a system is a repeatable process or routine that moves you forward. The daily habits and actions you take regardless of the outcome. For example, I will practice speaking English for 10 minutes every morning before breakfast.

Breakfast. This is a system. What's the benefit? You see systems create consistency.

And don't rely on motivation or perfection. You just follow the process and progress becomes inevitable. This is why systems are so powerful. Here's the key inside.

Goals are about results. Systems are about progress. When you focus on the system, the results take care of themselves. This is why systems are so powerful.

Now there are actually three powerful systems that I'm going to teach you in this lesson today to help you finally get out of the restart cycle. The three powerful systems are the vocabulary builder system, the daily speaking practice system and the active listening system. Let's start with our first

system. The vocabulary builder system. Now your goal is to learn and confidently use 500 new vocabulary words and expressions by December 31st, 2026. Let's say this is your goal. Now in order to achieve this goal, you have to follow the vocabulary builder system.

So what are the steps for this system? Step number one. Learn two new words every day from Monday to Friday only, which equals 10 words per week.

Step number two, review the previous week's words every Sunday for 15 minutes. Step number three, use at least one new word in a real conversation or written message each day.

And step number four, keep a simple vocabulary journal with the word, the definition, an example sentence and a personal connection. This is the vocabulary builder system. So let me show you what this would actually look like. So I want you to imagine, look at my notes right here.

We're following along on the podcast, this and very closely. So, again, for five days, Monday to Friday, each day you're choosing two new vocabulary terms. So, for Monday, we see we have Monday right here, day number one, our first term is overwhelmed.

Now, the definition of overwhelmed is written down. Like you have too much to do or too much to deal with. Now, what am I doing again on Monday for Monday to Friday following the vocabulary builder system? I'm going to then write an example sentence using the word. Here we go. I felt overwhelmed when my boss gave me

three projects to finish by Friday. So we have our example taken care of. But remember, part of the system is also the personal connection. So you have the term overwhelmed. What is the personal connection? Here we go. This describes how I felt last week when I had too many tasks to do at work. So again, the term, the definition, an example and a personal

connection for the first term overwhelmed. We're talking about following a system in order to retain the information and stop falling into the restart cycle. Now the second term we have for Monday is deadline and we're doing the same thing the definition, the example and the personal connection.

I won't read all of these examples, but you're seeing my notes. But remember we have the daily application. So we're going to go down to where it says daily application. For the daily application, I have chosen to send a WhatsApp message to my colleague, and

I want to use the term overwhelmed. This is the message that can be sent.