Every English learner says the same thing at some point:

“I’m just not good at English.”
But what if the problem isn’t your English?
What if the problem is not having a system or design?
You’re not a bad learner. You’re a learner without a system.

And when you don’t have a system, your days get decided by whatever is loudest and strongest:

A system will make you past all of these and work on your goals.

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Let me describe a very normal week for many learners:

One day you study grammar.
One day you read a few pages from a book.
The next day you watch a random YouTube video.
Then you do nothing for 10 days.
Then you feel guilty and say, “Okay—I’ll study for 2 hours tomorrow!”
That’s not a plan. That’s just a wish.
It’s like going to the gym like this:

Will your body change? Probably not.
Mastering English works the same way. 
It is not hard, but you won’t learn without a system and plan.

A system is not:

A system is:

Something you follow even when you are not in the mood or you don’t want to.

Even when you’re tired.
Even when you’re busy.
Even when you’re stressed.
Even when you’re sad.
Because the system removes daily decision-making. 

You don’t wake up asking, “What should I study today?”
You wake up and follow the plan.
A real system answers these important questions:

If you can’t answer those questions, you’ll keep feeling stuck.
And if you can answer them, then all you have to do is simply follow the system.

It sounds serious. It sounds amazing.
But it usually fails for one simple reason: It’s too difficult to do that every day.
Big plans feel exciting, but they don’t create consistency. And consistency is the real secret.

10–30 minutes every day beats 2 hours once a week.

Intensity burns fast. Consistency builds energy and creates momentum.

These rules come from habit research (like Atomic Habits and The Power of Habit)—but we’re using them for English.

Make your practice specific.
You need 4 things:

Example:

and write 5 new phrases

Not “I’ll study when I have time.”

The right time doesn’t magically appear.
You create it.

If it feels heavy and difficult, you will avoid it.

So keep it small:

Here’s a harsh truth that most English learners don’t like to hear:
You cannot learn English from watching short videos and scrolling through social media.
But you can learn from a 5-minute video if you:

Same content; different focus. This is super easy to do, but extremely powerful.

Make your learning experience fun and enjoyable.
Connect English to something you already like:

And don’t ignore your environment.
If your desk is messy and everything is scattered around your room, your brain will feel messy.

Make some small changes to your space and environment to make learning more fun:

Make your English practice space feel like a place you want to come back to.

When you finish your practice, you should feel like you just won something even if it feels small. Because small wins build confidence. And confidence builds consistency.

Use simple rewards like:

This is not childish. This is psychology. The mind likes to feel rewarded.

Your phone is not the enemy. Your routine is.

Right now, many people have a default routine:

Pick up the phone → scroll → scroll → scroll → then, feel bad because you wasted one whole hour.

What if your new routine is:

Pick up the phone → open podcast app → Go to The English Zone podcast → listen for 20 minutes → close your phone

Go to Notes App → write down 5 new words that you learned on the podcast → say them out loud. 

Go to Voice Recording App → record your voice for 5 minutes → practice speaking and pronunciation → close the app

Same phone; different result.

Your environment shapes your behavior.
Your behavior shapes your identity.
And your identity shapes your future.

Many learners say: “I want to speak fluently.”

But speaking is output.
And output depends on input, meaning reading and listening.
If you want to speak better English, you need better and more input:

You can’t speak if you don’t learn how a word or phrase is pronounced and used
through listening and reading.

Total time: 30 minutes

That’s it. No perfection. No pressure. Just repetition.

And yes—at first, it will feel quiet. You will not feel like improving, but I promise you over time, your consistency will pay off big time.

Because your identity changes when you take action every day.
Every single practice session is a vote that you cast for your future self.

We’re already at the end of January 2026.

Soon it will be summer.
Then fall.
Then another January.
The time will pass whether you plan or not.

So the real question is:
Will you be the same person at the end of 2026…
or someone with a new identity, stronger English, and real confidence?

If you want help organizing this into a clear written plan, use the worksheet I mentioned earlier (download it, print it, and fill it out).

Thanks for reading!

Much love,

Ziyad