Lesson 1 – Why Foundations?
My team and I are preparing for a new series of Foundations, a one-year course that parallels my latest project. The first cohort completed this course about three weeks ago, and it has been…
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The Unsung Hero of Your Day: Why a “Rise Ritual” is Your Secret Weapon for Unstoppable Productivity
Until recently, I believed that productivity was solely determined by how "hard" you work or how many hours of your day are taken up with "productive" tasks. I would wake up each morning, check…
The Unsung Heroes of Longevity: Why Your Feet Are Your Ultimate Productivity Hack
I used to think of my feet as just… feet. They got me from point A to point B, and as long as they didn’t hurt, I didn’t give them much thought. But then, a…
The Most Overlooked Productivity Technique That Actually Works
I think it’s amazing how we perceive ourselves when we do a self-assessment; how I see myself and who I am. For example, when I held my first session for the foundations course, the…
How to Organize Your Digital Life: Simple Tips for Files, Notes, and Photos
Are you overwhelmed by the amount of digital clutter in your life? In this episode, Thanh and Brooks will provide you with practical solutions for organizing files, meeting notes, and images across devices and cloud…
New Reading Exercise for You ( 2026)
This is a great way to develop your English and practice your IELTS reading skills. Learn some interesting vocabulary about an interesting topic. The questions are sentence completion which means you need to locate…
Reading Question Types and Strategies
The Educational Testing Service (the organization that creates the TOEFL exam) categorizes the ten different questions on the Reading section of the TOEFL iBT into three main groups based on what skills they are designed…
Use Mental Floss for Practice
Practice: Science It is a clear to see that Mental Floss's science tag has a lot of science sections similar to what you might see when taking the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign…
The Integrated Writing Practice Task
Unlike the TOEFL Academic Discussion writing task, where you present your own opinion, the TOEFL Integrated Writing task asks you to summarize opinions that you read and hear. This first writing task is all about…
Shorter (2026) Changes to Your Need to Know
ETS Announces Major 2023 TOEFL Updates: What You Need to Know Significant modifications to the TOEFL iBT exam were implemented by ETS as of July 2023. These modifications are intended to give students a more…