Around 97% of students are distracted by cell phones.
Are you a part of that 97%?
When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe
then you'll be successful.
Whether your distractions are text messages
Checking emails
Surfing the web
Playing games or scrolling through social media.
The fact remains that it is a distraction.
I'm saying to you today that there's some of you
if you give up your cell phone, you would be successful.
But your cell phone is more important to you than your success.
Stop wasting time on your cell phone.
Facebook isn't going anywhere.
Instagram will still be here this weekend.
Focus on your dreams, focus on your studies
focus on your goals and aspirations.
Put the thing down.
Look up! You're missing stuff.
What is the long-term effect of too much information?
We don't know, but we're finding out.
Focus on becoming a better you.
A better you that is not distracted by unnecessary things.
You gotta cut off the cell phone. You got it no TV.
There were those of you who were watching the game last night.
You really didn't have no business watching these boys
win a national title
going to the NBA and making millions.
You didn't have no business watching them.
Because you're not where you need to be.
One that is determined to succeed and not scroll
that is determined to prosper and not post
to grow all day and not game all day.
Stop wasting time on your cell phone.
And when you get to the point
where all you wanna do is be successful as bad as you wanna breathe
then you'll be successful.
It's about you and your future.
It's about your grades.
It's about your dreams.
Ultimately, it's about your life.
The time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success.
The time you could be using to be successful, you're using on the cell.
And the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill.
Is your life more important than that app, then that game, that post?
I need cell phones off, listen to me
Some of you are gonna be broke for the rest of your life
because that little thing on up on the side.
You're gonna be broke for the rest of your life because of a little cell phone.
We're so plugged into our cell phones
that we become blind to the world around us.
Has somebody told you that you couldn't live without it?
We can't take our eyes off the screen
long enough to see the beauty of the world around us.
Let me break it down for you like this.
You are given 24 hours in one day.
Let's be honest, you're going to sleep for about six to eight of those hours.
So that leaves you with about 16 to 18 hours left in your day.
Digital distraction, how many people feel like your mind is so distracted
and you can't focus on just one thing anymore?
And the fact that you cannot put it away is because you are addicted.
Right, if you wake up and you check your phone
before you say good morning to your girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse
you have an addiction.
And like all addiction in time it'll destroy relationships
it'll cost time and it'll cost money and it'll make your life worse.
You're in class probably for about 4 to 6 hours per day
That leaves you with about 10 to 12 hours left.
I get it. You gotta eat a few times that day
you might have to get a quick hour nap in.
Now you're left with about 7 to 9 hours remaining in your day
And that's on a good day that you're left with about 7 to 9 hours.
On other days you might have even less time.
Don't cry to give up, cry to keep going.
Don't cry to quit.
You already in pain, you already hurt
Get a reward from it.
You can accomplish so much in seven hours.
You can type your mandatory paper in school in less than seven hours.
You can study long enough to pass an exam in less than seven hours.
There are so many things that you can complete within seven hours
that remain in your day.
But for some reason you can't put down your cell phone
long enough to realize you've had your cell phone all day.
Can you put it down?
Are you using it or is it using you?
And where is it leading you?
And I'm not telling you "Oh, I'm against the establishment and all that"
I'm telling you at least ask yourself
What is the long-term effect of too much information?
What is it doing to me?
Don't miss what I'm telling you
stop wasting time on your cell phone.
I get it.
You're gonna say "well I don't spend seven hours straight on my cell phone"
but watch this; you might check it up to 60 times per day.
And each time you check it
you might only spend about four minutes on it at a time.
Well, 60 times four is 240 minutes
which equals four hours.
So before you even realize
you may have spent four hours on your cell phone throughout the day
simply checking it.
Be able at any moment
to sacrifice what you are for what you will become.
Some of you- you focus until the phone rings
and then you're like I gotta answer it, if I don't answer the phone I'm gonna die.
Now whether you're checking and responding to emails or texts
whether you're surfing the web
whether you're on social media or even checking the weather and traffic.
The fact remains you have just spent four hours doing so.
Then you go home, away from work, away from school
and spend even longer on your cell phone.
Now listen, I'm not saying that you should never check your cell phone.
I'm not saying that it's bad to be on your phone.
But what I am saying is, if you are on your phone
more than you are being productive with your school or your business
that's a problem.
It's- a lot of people they give...
they give away their sovereignty and their power
first thing in the morning.
Like the first thing in the morning they'll just, they'll pick up their phone
and they'll check everything, you know
because there's- the way it's set up, right
They're getting their, their dopamine fixes
and it’s really rewiring their brain.
So it's training them just to be distracted all the time.
If you would rather check social media more than school, that's a problem.
If gossip is more important than grades, that's a problem.
If apps are more important than your accomplishments, that's a problem.
If Facebook is more important than your future, that's a problem.
Stop wasting time on your cellphone.
I need you to study like you've never studied before
I need you up all night long studying.
Getting about 3-4 hours here, hour and a half here, two hours here
You hear me say this all the time, for some of you this is it.
There is nothing that is more important
than you achieving all of the things you want to do in life.
And if you are being too distracted by your cellphone
then you've got a problem.
I'm not here to sugarcoat it, I'm not here to ask you nicely.
I'm here to tell you stop wasting time on your cell phone.
So here's what I want you to do
make a commitment to yourself right now.
Challenge yourself today.
That the same amount of time you have been giving to your cell phone
will now be spent working on your dreams
your goals
your aspiration
your studies.
Push yourself to succeed just as much as you push those buttons on your phone.
Then and only then, will you be successful
in life and in school.
Is there a need for 24 hours a day news?
Is there 24 hours a day worth of news?
You have to give it everything you got.
No more TV, no more parties, no more playing.
If you gonna have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying.
Get off the phone.