Lovely morning.It’s really important to make a plan for yourself to achieve your goals and to take action to work towards them, little by little, day by day. However, when you start to feel that you are getting closer and closer to your future, it is a good idea to change your way of doing things a little bit, or to put it in a more dramatic way, to break some of your existing ways of doing things and try something new. Of course there is always the possibility of failure, but it is not uncommon for what you think is failure to actually lead to success.
For example, in learning English, it’s like going from reading an English newspaper with a Japanese translation every day to reading TIME. Many people find it difficult to read articles in TIME because of the amount of text and the difficulty of the words. However, instead of despairing over your lack of understanding, try to analyse why you can’t read an article in TIME. If you do this, you will discover that you understand the English grammar, but the words are too difficult to understand, or a sentence is too long and you can’t understand what it’s saying, or any number of other reasons why you find it hard to read TIME articles. Once you know the reason, you can take action to overcome it.
For example, in muscle training, it is good to change the training menu instead of doing the same part of the training every day. In a way, learning English is similar to this. The basic idea is to have something to keep you going day after day, but sometimes you need to do something different, or put more pressure on your training. The more you challenge yourself in this way, the more you build up your own knowledge base. And that is where maybe more than what was written in textbooks and manuals is created.
We are now surrounded by so much information that we tend to think that the answer lies in the overflow of information rather than in thinking for ourselves, but instead we need to select that information for ourselves, and from there to interpret and customize and personalize it in our own way and find our own way. If you do this, you will have a solution that is unique to you, and you will realise once again that you are the only one.