Hadar Shemesh asks what you've avoided saying in English because you felt your language wasn't good enough. She shares three costs from her own Spanish: skipping a conversation with other parents, not complimenting a staff member, and postponing a doctor's appointment she needed.
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I want you to name 3 things that you didn't do or that you didn't say over the past 6 months because you felt your English was not good enough or that you weren't ready. I want you to name the cost of this feeling. I'm gonna name 3 things that I didn't do in Spanish. I didn't join a conversation between parents in my daughter's school because I didn't feel like I was ready for it. I didn't give a compliment and interact With someone who works in my building, and I wanted to say something kind and grateful, and I didn't. And I felt like I lost a human moment between 2 people. I, I lost that. I wasn't a part of it. And I haven't yet booked an appointment to a doctor I need to go see because I don't know exactly how to say what it is that I need. So I have been procrastinating on that. These are my 3 things. What are yours?