Your tenses don’t need to be perfect.

You have been told your tenses must be correct.

They don’t.

It’s fine to get them wrong sometimes. Or even a lot of the time.

In 25 years of coaching, I have never seen someone lose a deal, a promotion or a room because they used the present simple instead of the present continuous.

I have seen people lose their train of thought – mid-sentence – because they stopped to worry about it.

The tense is not the problem. The hesitation is.

Quick win: Next time you freeze over a tense – choose one and keep speaking. The meaning will arrive. It almost always does.

💬 How much time have you spent worrying about tenses?

— Christine