每日英语听力 Day 23

welcome to the listening time podcast, hey everybody this is corner and you are listening to episode 135 of the listening time podcast i hope you all had a good end of the year and i hope that you are ready for 2024 and that you are motivated to make this a good year for you and at the time of recording this it is still novermber->November i am recording this very early however when this is released it will be 2024 so i want to make sure to wish you all a happy new year.

and in today’s episode i want to talk about the fact that it is going to be a new year when this episode is released like i said it is not a new year for me yet it is still November but when this is released it will be a new year and i want to have a new mindset so this episode will be mostly for myself i want to talk about some of the things that i want to change about my mindset but i think that you might also benefit from it because these are also changes that you can make to benefit your mindset this year.

so i think that this will be a good topic even now->though i am talking to myself here i am also gonna relate it to people and->in general so hopefully you will benefit from this and before we continue remember that if you want to really improve your listening this year and you want to start to understand native speakers when the speak fast then make sure to join my membership so you can get my specialized listening training so make sure to go down below and click on the link in the episode description that is patreon.com/listeingingtime.

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alright, let us get started. are your ears reeady? you know what time it is. it is listening time.

okay let us talk about the new mindset that i want to have this year and that may be some of you want to have this year so the first thing that i want to improve regarding my mindset this year is that i want to view everyday as a gift i already do this and i already understand this i get that this is true that everyday is a gift for me however i do not act like it all the time there are many times when i don’t act as if the fact that i am alive today is a gift and i kind of take it for granded->grante.

in English when we say that you take something for granted, what we are saying is that you do not appreciate it you just view it as obvious that is true and you do not really stop to consider that you just say oh yeah of course you just take it for granded you do not appreciate the significance of it so for me i know that everyday is a gift but sometimes i take it->this for granted and i do not really act like this in my daily life i do not act the way i want to act accroding to this idea.

so when i say that everyday is a gift what i am saying is that i need to understand that i do not neccessarily deserve good things sometimes we can feel like that that we deserve to have good things. if we have good things it is because that is how it is supposed to be we deserve that.

however i think that if we have that type of thinking all the time then we do not actually appreciate the things that we have we do not appreciate the good things in our life because we view it as something that we already deserve so why do we need to appreciate it?

however i do not want to have that mindset i want to have a midset where i consider everyday to be a gift that i do not deserve but god give it to me so i am thankful i am happy and i am going to appreciate it->\ this day and i am not only talking about the day but all the things inside my day all the things that happen and that i have and experiences that i have i need to view them as not things that i just deserve but gifts that have been given to me i think that is a good attitude to have.

and in general with this mindset i want to have more grantitude. granditude refers to being thankful for what you have so if i view everyday as a gift and i do not think that i just deserve all of these good things then i can be more grandful->grateful i can be more thankful for the good things in my life because for example when you receive a gift from someone else you are thankful right? you did not have that gift before no one made that person give you that gift because you deserve it no.