a lot of students are caught halfway between improving themselves and not
improving themselves they watch motivational videos on YouTube and trick
themselves into thinking they're making a difference in their lives there are
too many students just half invested in personal development and growth there
are too many students just half wanting better grades just half committed just
half grinding and the real way to do it is to write it down and give it
everything you got whether it's improving your grades running a marathon
whatever it is you've got to write it down and go for it
every Sunday I schedule everything that I'm gonna do that week I say I'm gonna
do 30 hours of independent study this week and I'm going to the gym at least
five days next week I throw in two times next week and I'm going to eat
absolutely no unhealthy foods for at least six days next week it doesn't
matter how I fit that in but I fit it in doesn't matter how I'm feeling if I set
a goal of going to the gym five days that week then I go to the gym five days
that week I do everything I can to make sure my brain is functioning at its
optimum I eat well I exercise well I sleep well I look after myself I'm
keeping my engine smooth I'm changing the oil regularly I'm getting serviced
regularly and all of this means that I can study well I can stay focused for
longer I can be more organized so I know the exact date of every single deadline
and an exam there are consequences that you pay when
you're constantly seeking comfort and avoiding discomfort remember the last
time you procrastinated so much that you didn't study for an exam then do you
remember the disappointment you felt when you received your exam grades and
if you make that a habit then you're never going to feel like you've
accomplished anything you're not gonna have this understanding that difficulty
and struggle and the ability to push through that is a muscle and the more
you push through difficult situations the bigger that muscle grows and it'll
get to a point where you're so used to pushing through difficult situations
that it just becomes a habit and that is when you start to achieve great things
that's when you understand that it's easy to overcome obstacles if you've
never had to overcome obstacles or you give up too easily you never really know
that you can unless you faced actual adversity you don't understand how you
can feel and how you can react to overcome that adversity it's so
illogical because when you look at discomfort and then you look at
successful people you know that those people absolutely do not stay in their
comfort zone quite the opposite they go out there and they intentionally disrupt
their environment to create an even more uncomfortable situation it doesn't
matter if they're tired it doesn't matter if they have kids it
matter if they're stressed successful people are able to compartmentalize
everything else going on in their life and stay laser focused on their end goal
discomfort and not being happy with the average grades you might be getting
right now is what is going to fuel you to start achieving great things because
right now you're not a hero in your own eyes you're not someone that you respect
when you're studying your studying because you have to you're studying
because you know there's an exam coming but you're not respecting yourself
we all have massive respect for hero figures like in the films where the guy
always does the right thing or the guy who helps everyone out the ultimate hero
this is the character you need to play in your own movie this is a battle that
you will fight for the rest of your life don't give in to the resistance just
fight it and every day you do so you'll win the battle for that day and you'll
continue to fight that battle every day and if you keep doing it you'll start to
realize that you'll rise above everyone around you you'll start achieving things
you didn't think you were capable of
exams are a test to see how well you can exercise your mind and how well you can
manage intense situations it's difficult it's not that easy but the better
prepared you are the more you have studied for that exam the less intense
that exam will be and it's the same with regular life the better condition your
body is in the healthier you eat the more exercise you do when you do get ill
which happens to all of us your body is far more prepared to fight off the
illness the more you prepare and keep your mind and body in the best condition
that you can the better prepared you are for fighting all this adversity that
will be thrown at you in the future but it's also important to constantly keep
yourself exposed to these stressful situations where there's not a long
break in between and that's why having exams regularly can be used to your
advantage they keep you primed for battle they
keep your mind focused on an end goal as Joe Rogan said one of the best pieces of
advice he's ever been told he said live your life like a movie like you're the
main character in that movie and right now when the movie starts you've sucked
you're a loser you're lazy you're bad at everything your life is a disaster and
just decide to not be a loser anymore leave your life like there's a film crew
following you around and millions of people watching live your life like your
kids are going to look back on this film and they're going to be proud of you
everyone loves a success story everyone loves a Hollywood
transformation everyone loves a movie where the main character completely
messes up their life and then they fight to get it back together again and the
way to do that is to write down what you need to do and make a decision that
you're going to commit yourself 100% to making sure you get it done and you'll
look back and you'll realize it was all the pain you suffer the adversity you
faced it was all worth it the attitude you have when facing struggles and
obstacles is what determines whether you will be successful 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 to be 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
don't negotiate with procrastination and on the first day of not negotiating the
procrastination you might not see results straight away but as simon Sinek
puts it if you go to the gym and you workout and you come back and look in
the mirror you will see nothing and if you go to the gym the next day and you
workout you come back and look in the mirror you will see nothing but if you
stick with it if you fight off the distractions and truly focus for long
periods of time every day consistently I'm not exactly sure what day but I know
you will start to see results there's no sudden improvement it's an
accumulation of staying focused every night just pushing out that extra one
hour of studying a night that one hour by itself is useless but if you do it
consistently and you do it in combination with lots of other things
it's those small things that you do over and over and over that matter the most
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 or
lying 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
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