I can tell you I'm going to make my dreams become a reality and it starts
right here with my studying the work ethic and discipline that I practice
will carry me not only through University but through the rest of my
life I don't care how much I have to invest
how much time I have to invest how many hurdles I have to jump through I'm going
to continue doing this until unsuccessful
I love how Eric Thomas talks about his show up rule he says you can pretend
that you care but you can't pretend that you're there the only way you can show
that you care is if you show up and what I'm asking you to do for me is to show
up every single day it's easy to miss a class on Monday morning when you're
feeling tired the problem is you'll miss that one class and you'll get away with
it then you'll miss another class and then another and then another it's human
nature if we can get away with it and gain instant short-term satisfaction
from it then we keep on doing it and it's an easy trap to fall into that's
why it's so important to not miss even one class because it can quickly
snowball into something more dangerous and it's funny because the more obsessed
you get with your studying the louder the haters will get the more they will
try to drag you down and pull you back down to their level and when I say
obsession don't get me wrong your health and well-being should always be put
first exercise II will sleep eight hours a night
and then study like a madman throughout the entire day
people will think you're crazy why are you studying so much what's the point
why don't you ever leave your desk why do you always spend so much time reading
textbooks if people don't think you're crazy you're not yet operating at the
outer limits of your potential you're not there yet and that's the difference
between people that are good and people that are great the good are passionate
the great are obsessed obsession is a necessity but in order to make that
change you need to be real with who you are if
you're disappointed with your grades what could you have done differently
did you really study to your full potential did you really not
procrastinate at all when you were revising and when you look deep within
you it can get raw and it can get ugly sometimes when you're looking in the
mirror but if you're not real with who you are then nothing's gonna change but
you will be bold and courageous enough to look in the mirror and fix what's in
that mirror and how you address it is you deal with it head-on you deal with
it every day you deal with it every single day of your life where you say
okay I'm not performing as well as I could in math so I'll allocate an extra
one hour a day towards that and that's when growth happens that's when life
really begins as Jim Ron puts it taking responsibility for whatever happens to
you it's one of the highest forms of human maturity accepting full
responsibility it's the day you know you've passed from childhood to
adulthood knowing that you have consciously made the decisions that are
now affecting you knowing that what is happening now today is the direct result
of your actions yesterday every one of you in five years is going to arrive
somewhere and here's the thing so many people are just relying on
haphazardly stumbling around in life relying on chance and just hope it all
works out you don't have to throw your life to chance you have a choice you can
choose which direction your life goes and the first step to making that choice
is to not negotiate with procrastination taking responsibility means counting on
yourself trusting yourself being confident with yourself doing the right
thing trusting your own instinct learning from
the mistakes that you have made but also taking the credit from your wins I used
to have a long list of reasons why my grades weren't that good I felt I had to
explain myself otherwise I would look back I have this weird list called
reasons for not looking good I used to blame my professor he wasn't teaching me
anything I used to blame my parents they didn't
give me enough support I used to blame my friends after school they kept asking
me to go out with them I used to blame not having enough time and most students
have this list it can even be pages and pages long but
you need to screw up that paper throw it in the bin get a blank sheet of paper
and write one word me because it's not what happens that
determines the quality of your life and the reason is because what happens to
you happens to all of us all of your classmates had the same professor as you
all your classmates had the same amount of time as you the same thing can happen
to two different people but one student gets good grades the other student gets
poor grades why is that it's because it's not what happens it's what you do
that changes everything don't avoid the struggle don't avoid the obstacles
they're always going to be there they're not going to go away the question is
are they controlling you or are you controlling them the question is are you
at the wheel or are they at the wheel are you playing the victim or are you
playing Victor into those things that's the question believe in yourself if you
continue doing the same tomorrow that you did today
I know exactly what grades you'll get this year just look at last year because
if there's no improvement there and you're studying then you'll just
continue getting the same grade so if I had a chat with you tonight one-on-one
just you and me my personal advice to you would be reach
down inside of you and come up with more of those remarkable human gifts that you
have within you they're there waiting to be utilized and then change anything in
your life that you want to change and I challenge you to do that because I know
you have the ability to change if you don't like how it is for you change it
if you don't like your grades study more if you don't like your body go to the
gym if you don't like your friends get new friends you don't have to be the
same after this video and if you are it's completely your choice take full
responsibility don't complain be prepared be kind and go out there and
study
I like how Andy four-cell a pudding he said have you done what you said you
were gonna do on January 1st last year did you stick to your new year's
resolutions or did you just talk about doing them did you just tell yourself
that you were going to do it doing anything successful doing anything
importing is going to take discipline there's always gonna be a reason to wait
there's always gonna be a busy schedule there's always gonna be something
unexpected that happens it's always going to be that way you have to work
through it you have to prioritize your studying and make it more important than
everything else going on in your life but a lot of you don't want it enough
it's easy to fall into loving the idea of something and it's hard to fall into
the habits of action to actually achieve the grades you're aiming for it's not
about after the vacation or after the film or after the YouTube video it's
about right now people who succeed stick to the plan regardless when you tell
yourself you're going to study for hours tonight for your exam next week you need
to do it you are all curious about what the secret is why certain people succeed
when you don't succeed well I'm gonna tell you why
successful people while you're whining and crying about it how things are hard
and why things aren't fair guess what they're doing they're doing the studying
you have to commit to becoming better you have to commit to being a person of
action you have to commit to being someone who doesn't just talk but
follows through become someone who does instead of
someone who jests talks if you really want it it's yours to take no one gives
it to you or takes it away it's yours if you want it it's a marathon not a sprint
there's no fast fix to achieving extraordinary grades there'll be days
you'll be tired even exhausted but you continue regardless because you don't
judge it on the daily you judge it in the long frame you keep your eyes on
graduation you know there's going to be ups and downs but you know that it's all
going to be worth it you know that when you start getting results it's going to
be worth it you look in the mirror and you'll say yeah I did this you feel this
overwhelming feeling fear over working in a crowd you're overworking everybody
around you you're studying more than that you became something you became
somebody and once you get there that's when you know you've done enough but
don't talk about practice what you preach and just do it it won't happen
overnight it's gonna take months and months of work just don't quit you keep
fighting you keep fighting no matter what because trust me on graduation day
you'll look back over the last few years and you'll realize it was worth it when
I was at university my professor asked us why do you want a 4.0 GPA what do you
want to accomplish why are you studying and someone would get up and say because
if I work hard and I study well and do well in my exams to get some work
experience then maybe I can get a good job and provide for my family and become
what I've been put on this planet to become my professor said sit down
because if you think with such uncertainty if you say the word maybe
then you're never gonna make it you have to get up and be absolutely convinced
you're going to become a success you path to success starts right now with
your daily studying you have to do whatever it takes however many hours of
studying it takes reading textbooks until late at night going to see your
professor if you have questions attending every class arriving at the
library at 6 a.m. while everyone else is still sleeping whatever it takes you
need to do it that's the answer I want to hear from you I can see straight away
those students that are a bit wobbly and struggling with motivation and those
that have a deep sense of hunger within them that is driving them to put in 100%
effort every day those that have a short term and long term goal that they're
chasing every day I can see it in their eyes I can see it in their actions I can
see it in what they do their passion their drive their relentlessness they
just go on and on and on they study when they're tired they study when they're
bored they study when their body keeps telling them to procrastinate but they
manage to push out one or two hours more studying and it's this extra bit of
study that differentiates these top students from the rest of the class and
it's not some genetic advantage that the high achieving students have they've
built up the discipline everyday over years of working on improving themselves
on improving their concentration their work ethic their daily routines no
matter how long their day was at university and how much work they had
they will always go home and study some more they have a very clear vision of
where they're going because as Arnold Schwarzenegger puts it you can have the
best ship in the world the best cruise ship in the world but if the captain
doesn't know where to go that ship will drift around the world out there at sea
and it will never end up anywhere and this is exactly the way it is in real
life if you don't have a goal and you don't have a vision that you're not
going to be happy and that's why it's so important to have that vision
it's so easy for people to fall into the trap of studying but getting mediocre
grades and they know what they want they know they want to improve but they don't
actually do anything to change anything so they get average grades for the rest
of the year they make up excuses why they can't get better grades but in
reality they are exactly that just excuses the hardest thing to do is to
take the first step on the path to improvement but once you take that first
step it's easier to then take another then another then another because
greatness isn't achieved by taking just one step but it's about taking lots of
small steps the small decisions you make throughout the day that all add up to
achieve that goal it's easy for us to look at people that are doing well that
are getting good grades that are volunteering that are getting work
experience that seem to be completely unphased at university and think that
person just got lucky they're cleverer than me they're more
academic than me they have more support than me
but the reality is that they took that first step to self growth and then they
took another step and another and what you're seeing is the result of them
making dozens of right decisions every day they get up they don't make excuses
and they go out get their head down and study so why not you because that can be
you but you need to start getting things moving you need to take that first step
whatever it is whether it's waking up an hour earlier or studying for an extra
hour that night it doesn't really matter what it is because it's just one step
and from there it'll encourage you to take another step and then another and
every one that you look up to you can be that person you can become the person
that people look up to because we all have greatness deep within us but only a
few have taken the steps to become great everything you want you can have it's
not out of reach you the only thing stopping you is you and your actions
what you do today will determine whether you ever reach it some of you the reason
why you're not where you want to be is because you're a slave to your feelings
you give in to your feelings you don't feel like waking up so you don't wake up
you don't feel like studying so you don't study you don't feel like going to
the gym so you don't go to the gym and that's the problem because it's very
rare that you actually feel like doing the things you need to do and how do you
fix this there's just one way you have to ignore how you're feeling and do it
any way you need to get your studying done it doesn't matter how tired you are
so what everyone around you is also tired just don't think about it you just
know that it's something that has to be done you're a university to study it's
just what you have to do don't give in to the immediate gratification that is
whispering in your ear because it's an easy hill to slide down once you make
one bad decision then you make another and then another and before you know it
you're failing to exam after exam after exam you need to take action before you
get to that point it's very simple the attitude you have when facing struggles
and obstacles is what determines whether you will be successful and if you're
going to commit the next two three four years of your life to your education
then your attitude is everything being able to keep studying despite the
adversity thrown at you you fail an exam keep studying you argue with your
friends keep studying you have money problems keep studying you keep on
marching on through the struggle the chaos the frustration the
procrastination the disappointment the anger the regret when all that is
there but you keep studying through it all you know you have the discipline to
be a successful person it's the ability to know that even though at the time you
feel overwhelmed and overpowered you know deep down that it too shall pass
you will find a way you will keep studying to chase your
goal to make you proud to make your family proud through thick
and thin you will continue studying it is something that is ingrained into
every successful person the ability to push through difficult times not because
you were lucky with it not because they inherited it but because they developed
it they did it once they did it again they did it again and each time after
that gets easier and easier the more you overcome your struggles today the easier
you'll overcome your struggles tomorrow and once you build up that momentum of
improving your productivity it becomes a whole lot easier and it's funny how it
works the more you study the more you understand the subjects and topics and
the more you prepare for your exams the easier your exams will be the easier
University will be the easier it will be to get a good internship or graduate job
after graduating it's really very simple the more you study the easier your life
will be keep studying do not ever give up
respect the struggle of your journey because it's the struggle that will
build you to be stronger but be persistent keep working on it's going to
be a struggle it's going to be hard but that is an incredible thing because you
are going to figure it out you will pull through you have enough time you have
enough resources you have enough commitment you will find a way to smash
your exams believe in yourself you will figure
things out when tomorrow comes you might not know what steps to take but believe
in yourself steer your own ship it's your life
take control