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Hi friends! Happy holidays and almost New Year! Last year, I made a New Year prep guide that you all loved, and honestly, I did too! It was my first time planning out my year in this way and reflecting on the last year, I found that it was highly effective! My method focuses not on particular goals or things we want to do but more so on the people, we want to be. If you’re aiming high enough, most times we find that our goals require a completely different version of ourselves, and rather than focusing on becoming that person, we simply focus on the things that person would do and ultimately land in failure. By focusing on becoming the person I wanted to be, I found that I was still able to achieve things outlined in my guide without even looking at it past March 2021. Without further ado, let’s get started!

emojis for peace and love on planet earth

another set of badmojis!! 

🍅🥝🫐🍓🍒🍑🍐🍏🍎🥭🍍🍌🍋🍊🍉🍈🍇

do these ever not look like living hearts just wondering

look. :)

remade those emojis i did like last year because the old ones were ugly and also just, wildly different sizes lol, these ones actually all match!

one of these things just isnt the same

Knife taped to a bat emojis for anon!

At first I thought you meant the animal so now there’s a bonus weaponized mammal!

hehe YEZ! :3 kitty

Introduction

I've studied Spanish at school for 3 years and now I'm at a low B1 level. I can actually understand pretty well while listening or reading but I can't communicate fluently.

This plan will include vocabulary build up, some grammar revision, a lot of listening, reading and writing. And could be used for the most languages, not only Spanish.

Plan

Every day:

Conjugate one verb in present, past and future tenses

Make a list about 10 - 30 words long

Create flashcards with them and start learning them (I use Quizlet for flashcards)

Revise yesterday's set of flashcards

2-3 times a week:

Read an article or a few pages from a book

Write a few sentences about anything in your target language

Listen to one episode of podcast (at least one)

Once a week or every two weeks:

Watch a movie in your target language, preferably animated movie as the language used there is easier. You can watch with subtitles

Grammar exercises

Translate some short text

Once a month:

Write something longer, like an essay or report, on chosen topic

Additionally:

Talk to yourself, to your friends, to your pets

Text with someone

Look at the transcription while listening to the podcast for second time

Repeat what you hear (in podcast or movie)

Check words you don't know from the listening and reading

Read out loud

Listen to music in your target language - you can even learn the text and sing along

Watch YouTube in your target language

Change your phone language to the one you're learning

Think in you target language!!!

large textbooks filled with extra papers which hold the answers to the problems you thought were too brilliant to be thrown away, or the simple short summary of a part you were struggling to understand before

having your textbook absolutely ruined by highlighters and sticky notes all over it, those little tips and ideas you picked up from the lesson. anyone who opens that book immediately knows that you’ve studied the crap out of it and know the concept by heart. “this is the most annotated book i’ve ever seen” is literally the highest form of compliment for me.

solving math or chemistry problems to a soundtrack album or ambient sounds, extra points if it’s in afternoon lol

when you’re so focused and keen on getting to the final answer that your hand physically can’t keep up with your eagerness so you end up with the most incoherent solution. but you’ve finally got the answer right!

being self-taught in a subject or a few chapters of the textbook, and still smashing the quizzes and the exams

coming up with a new solution to the problem, or seeing the problem from a new perspective, and finally being able to solve it because of just that.

confidently walking out of the exam room. 0 doubt in your mind that you crushed it!

actually feeling how you’ve grown academically, and how much more knowledgeable you are compared to the beginning of the semester

casually and confidently having conversations with a professor about your studies, exchanging ideas and discussing the existing theories, methods, on-going research and all