Native Expressions 2

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Summary

Let me share a hard truth from today’s video:

you will never make millions of dollars if you try to do everything by yourself.
If you do that, you will just stay a very busy and very tired person!
To fix this, the speaker introduces a genius idea called the “Dollar Per Hour Rule”.

Imagine your time is worth one hundred dollars an hour.
If you spend your time doing simple things—like checking emails, booking travel, or going on grocery runs—that you could pay someone twenty dollars an hour to do, you are basically setting eighty dollars on fire!

So, what is the secret to fixing your schedule?

First, try a “time audit” for 24 hours or 7 days.
Write down everything you do in 30-minute blocks. After that, use the magical Four Ds:

Delete: Stop doing things that don’t even need to happen, like useless meetings. Always do this step first!
Defer: Don’t let small tasks interrupt you all day. Put them off and do them all at once later.
Delegate: Hand the job off to an assistant or someone else who can do it well.
Do: You should only do the tasks that survive the first three steps!

The biggest lesson here is that if you do not value your own time, nobody else is going to value it. Wow, what a powerful message!Now, let’s practice some of these great expressions so you can use them in real life.

In our listen and repeat section, you will just listen to the native speaker and say the exact same sentence out loud.

It is the perfect way to make your English sound natural.Take a deep breath, warm up your voice, and let’s go to the shadowing part!

Listen & Repeat!

Click on a word or sentence to listen to the audio, then repeat it out loud.

Native Expressions Ep.2 | 1 – 10

hard truth

: reality. an unpleasant fact that is difficult to accept.
A business owner must face the hard truth that they cannot handle every small job alone.

happen to

: chance. to do or be something by chance or accident.
The tired worker just happens to be the person who owns the store.

run something through

: test. to examine or pass something through a system or filter.
It is a good idea to run every task through a simple rule before deciding to do it yourself.

buck

: dollar. an informal word for a US dollar.
If a job is only worth twenty bucks an hour, a manager should not do it.

set something on fire

: burn. to waste something completely, especially money.
Doing cheap chores when your time is highly valuable is like setting your cash on fire.

ground something

: clarify. to make an idea practical or easy to understand with a real example.
To ground the idea of valuing time, the speaker gave a specific example about checking emails.

triage

: sort. the process of deciding which tasks are the most important to deal with first.
She spends hours every morning on message triage instead of focusing on big projects.

run

: trip. a short journey to do a specific task or buy something.
He decided to hire a helper to handle all the daily coffee and grocery runs.

premium

: extra. an additional cost paid for something.
By doing low-value tasks instead of important work, you are paying a huge premium.

click

: understand. to suddenly become clear or make complete sense.
Once the math clicks, the leader will stop wasting her expensive hours.

Native Expressions Ep.2 | 11 – 20

flip

: change. to turn over or completely change into something else.
His mindset flipped from trying to save money to wanting to buy his time back.

afford to

: pay. to have enough money to pay for something.
Many busy people wonder if they can afford to hire a personal assistant.

audit

: check. a careful examination or review of a record.
She did a weekly time audit to find out exactly how she was spending her days.

block

: period. a specific section of time set aside for a certain activity.
The schedule was divided into short blocks to make it easier to manage.

replaceable

: disposable. capable of being put in the place of another or easily swapped out.
She realized that many of her daily chores were replaceable tasks that a part-timer could easily handle.

kill

: cancel. to stop something from continuing or happening.
The manager decided to kill the weekly project update because it was no longer helpful.

standing meeting

: regular meeting. a meeting that happens at the same time and place on a regular schedule.
They have a standing meeting every Monday morning to check on the team’s progress.

batch

: group. to put similar tasks or items together so they can be dealt with at the same time.
Instead of answering messages all day, he tries to batch them into one short period in the afternoon.

interrupt

: disrupt. to stop someone from doing something by breaking their attention.
Constant phone notifications can easily interrupt your workflow and ruin your focus.

context switching

: jumping. the process of changing your attention from one task to a completely different one.
She found that constant context switching made her brain feel very tired by the end of the day.

Native Expressions Ep.2 | 21 – 28

hand off

: pass. to give responsibility or control of something to someone else.
Once the main design is finished, she will hand off the smaller details to her assistant.

survive

: remain. to continue to exist or be useful after a difficult process or test.
Only the most important duties should survive the strict filtering process.

in the first place

: originally. at the beginning of a situation or before anything else happened.
He regretted paying someone to do a job that was not even necessary in the first place.

take someone seriously

: respect. to treat someone as important, professional, and worthy of attention.
Investors will not take him seriously if he does not show that he values his own work.

elitist

: snobbish. believing that a group of people is better than others and deserves special treatment.
Thinking that only top executives deserve support can sound a bit elitist to normal workers.

make sense

: be logical. to be clear, easy to understand, or have a good reason.
Hiring someone to help with basic chores completely makes sense when you look at how much your time is worth.

light money on fire

: waste. to spend cash in a completely useless, foolish, or inefficient way.
Paying a highly skilled expert to clean the office is basically lighting your money on fire.

reframe

: rethink. to change the way you look at or understand an idea or situation.
Hearing her mentor’s advice helped to reframe her entire approach to running a company.

Original Video

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