decide the meaning of what happened. Based on these events, maybe you
decided that you were bad at English. Maybe you decided that English was
painful and stressful. Each negative experience made the belief stronger.
The problem is that these beliefs then affected all of your English
experiences that followed. So whenever you had another encounter with
English, it was always with these negative limiting beliefs. Because of this,
you automatically viewed every new experience with English more
negatively. If your beliefs are strongly negative and you don’t change them,
you can completely destroy your ability to succeed as an English speaker.
Many English learners completely lose hope and simply quit, never to
succeed.
You must, therefore, replace your limiting beliefs with strong
empowering ones. “Empowering” means “giving power.” So an
empowering belief is one that gives you power!
What kind of empowering beliefs do you need for English speaking
success?
Here is a sample list:
English is easy, fun and exciting.
I can speak English fluently in about six months.
Mistakes are normal and necessary. Even native speakers make
mistakes.
Communication, not a test score, is the purpose of English speaking.
Grammar study kills English speaking.
Anyone can learn to speak English powerfully.
There’s nothing wrong with me, I’ve just been using a bad method and
I can change that.
I’m sure you can see how much stronger these beliefs are. You can see
that these beliefs are more likely to create success than the limiting ones.
You can probably imagine the greater feelings of confidence and excitement
that these beliefs create. But how do you create these beliefs? Clearly the
