Episode Description:
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” That’s the title of a popular song, but many times, if we’re not careful, summer can be as busy, blurred, and stressful as the rest of the year. How many times does late August roll around and we think: “Where did summer go?” This episode encourages you to “seize the day” and make clear goals so you can plan out the rest of your summer. What do YOU hope to achieve and complete before school starts? Find some practical tips here.
Word for the Day: amorphous (adjective) blurry, out of focus, unclear
Listen to Episode 2 below.
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Check your listening ability.
1. Why was July 7, 2017 National Palindrome Day?
2. Which coast of the United States is the US Center for World Mission on?
3. T/F Mr. Dreyer would rather make a list of goals and only get half of them done than all of them.
4. At 4:07, how does Mr. Dreyer use the word “shot?”
A. fired a gun
B. aim
C. a medical needle for immunization
D. small amount of alcohol
5. What does it mean to make a mental asterisk?
6. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. This is a humorous metaphor to teach us a lesson about goal setting. What can we learn from this?
7. Why should you choose your friends wisely?
8. If you aim for _____________, you’ll hit it ____________ time.
9. What tool is Mr. Dreyer’s friend using to achieve his goal to save $1200?
Answer Key:
1. A palindrome is something spelled the same way backwards as it is forward. The date was 7/17/17.
2. The West Coast in Pasadena, CA.
3. True. The way he sees it, if all his goals are completed, he may have aimed too low.
4. B. aim
5. Asterisks (*) are used in books to refer to footnotes or additional information regarding the word(s) preceding the asterisk. To make a mental asterisk, is to make a mental note. In this case, Mr. Dreyer says in all our planning, we need to make a mental asterisk that we’ll only complete our goals with God’s help.
6. We can be more successful in achieving our goals by taking it one step at a time, rather than tackling it all at once in different ways.
7. You become like the people you spend time with.
8. nothing, every
9. Mr. Dreyer is his accountability partner.
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Recently some writing students of mine listened to a podcast episode of their choice and wrote a brief response as to how the content might help them. Here is one:
I chose to listen to the second episode because it was one of the shorter ones (I was a little short on time). In this episode, I learned some ideas related to planning. Although the summer is almost over, I can still use these planning skills during school time. While listening to this podcast, I also heard how small, manageable plans sometimes work better than big dreams you have. As a person who is terrible at making plans of what I am supposed to do, this episode has helped me tremendously, as I now know that writing plans down on pieces of paper is more helpful because I can see them.
— Katie in Hsinchu, Taiwan
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