Articles tagged with ‘Getting things done’
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Chinese habit formation challenge, November 2019
It’s time for a learning habit challenge! It starts on November 10th, so enrol, decide on a habit you desire to have and work your way towards forming it over the coming weeks. This article contains more information about the challenge, some important things to keep in mind as well as suggestions for what habits to aim for and how to get there.
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What’s your next step to master Chinese?
Procrastination is a major problem facing anyone trying to learn Chinese outside class (which should include almost everyone because if you only do what you’re required to do in class, you won’t get very far). In this article, I share some ideas on how I handle big projects and intimidating tasks. The gist is that you need to break things down and you need to know what your next action is.
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The get-back-up-to-speed summer challenge
This is a challenge to encourage readers (and myself) to get more out of the remaining weeks of the summer. I have huge Anki and skritter queues and I plan to fight the down to zero before September 1st. You might need to study more vocabulary or you might have other things you want to complete this summer. Will you join the challenge?
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Time boxing Chinese: Get more done in less time
Time boxing is a very powerful way of getting things done, not only useful for language learning purposes, but also for almost anything you feel that you should be doing but keep on postponing. It is particularly useful to do open-ended tasks such as reviewing lots of vocabulary. in this article I describe what time boxing is and how you can use it to learn Chinese.
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