I remember I had just failed my third exam in a row and I will never forget
the moment that a man walked up to me and looked me in the eyes and he said
that that is the best that I will ever be able to do and in that very moment I
made a decision greatness would be my new norm make this moment the moment of
truth for yourself many of you have been selling yourself short
you've been striving for average because that's all you think you're capable of
you're surrounded by average therefore subconsciously you become average but
you have the opportunity to experience more you have the opportunity to be
someone who is in a constant state of growth you might be thinking it's not
possible to study any harder than I already am if I can ask for one thing
while you're watching this please watch it with an open mind do not set
self-imposed limitations on yourself you can't change the past but you can change
the future just because you've been getting C
grades your whole life it doesn't mean that it has to continue that way I've
done it myself I destroyed my self-imposed limitations and stopped
studying like a C grade student and started studying like an A grade student
and the rest is history once you start becoming self-aware and utilizing that
growth mindset you'll start realizing that you're capable of much more than
what you're achieving right now once you start growing once your habits start
growing once your work ethic starts growing you'll start to see your grades
start growing you'll start to see the obstacles as challenges to help you grow
stronger
don't fear the obstacles ask yourself what did you learn from use adversity to
your advantage decide to come out of this better a lot
of people have this dream in their head but they don't know how to make it a
reality we navigate through life but we don't know how to achieve the dreams we
have and it's very easy to give advice to that because whatever you're trying
to achieve in your life whatever greatness you're trying to achieve it
requires the same approach it requires you to level up what you're doing right
now and that's why I talk so much about putting in the effort with your studying
it's not even about the studying it's about the work ethic and the focus that
you're growing and nurturing and then once you graduate you use those same
skills that you've been priming for years and go laser focused on your
chosen path whether it's become a businessman a lawyer a doctor a surgeon
an accountant a teacher a nurse a scientist a musician it really doesn't
matter the path to becoming great is the same for everyone
the best people in any field are those who devote the most hours to it when all
their actions within a 24-hour period are explicitly intended to improve their
performance so what does that mean for you it means getting at least seven
hours of sleep a night to help with your brain functionality and memory retention
it means eating healthily and exercising daily to energize your body and reduce
stress levels it means setting daily study goals to keep pushing yourself
harder and keeping your studying consistent you're fully aware of the
bridges you need to cross over to significantly improve your grades you
know exactly how to make it reality yet you're navigating through life and you
keep missing the bridges to bridge the gap between your performance right now
and the grades you're capable of getting and I'll leave you with the words of
Gary Vaynerchuk if you want to be an anomaly you've got to act like people
want all these special things to happen but then they're acting like everybody
else they want the phenomenal grades but they're studying just the same amount as
everyone else so they achieved the same grades as everyone else and work ethic
is the one thing that you have complete control over you don't have control over
how well you retain information or how naturally gifted you are any particular
subject but you have complete control over how many hours you study you have
complete control over how often you ask your lecturer for help when you get
seriously stuck I feel like there's a shift that needs
to be made to make people work harder the big one that I realize makes the
biggest difference is you're going to die you only get one shot at this
you can't just rewind your life and do it again you can't be talking about how
you're going to achieve amazing grades next semester but then you don't study
on the weekends take full control and learn how to love to lose that's how
life is we all have losses I'd loved adversity
I'd love to climb I loved the chip on my shoulder I love when people are saying I
knew it he's not that good I love when my friend gets better grades than me so
it gives me the ammunition to destroy him next time you have complete control
over your studying complete control so push yourself harder because no one else
will do it for you there's one thing motivational channels never tell you
it's something they all avoid saying even though it can be the most
motivational two words here they all avoid saying it's these
two words you can't because let me tell you when someone tells me that I can't
do something when someone doesn't believe in me or looks down on me or
sees me as weak and powerless I don't care who it is
my parents my friends my professors at University Society it doesn't matter
when I'm told that you can't I'll prove you wrong when you try to drag me down
I'll bounce back twice as strong with more focus more discipline more
determination than ever before because you chose the wrong person to mess with
because a lot of people would be discouraged and intimidated and fall
back when they're told they can't do something most people are like that and
that's fine it's normal to feel that way it's normal to feel discouraged when the
people around you are dragging you down that's not me I turn that negative
energy into obsession I studied three hours more every day I
stay focused like a laser procrastination doesn't stand a chance
when almond obsession mode now you can see the link between your studying and
Happiness the more you push yourself and your studying to become better than you
were yesterday you will start achieving more and
feeling better about yourself which will make you happier there's a direct link
between your studying and your happiness there are a few people who have decided
within themselves I'm going to make it some people aren't waiting for their
lives to improve some people are moving on their own because they feel within
themselves I've got what it takes to make it they are not afraid about
tomorrow because of how they see themselves
because of what they feel that they deserve because of what they feel that
they can create for themselves because these people have decided as they look
at the future as they look at themselves there's a way where there's a will
there's a way and when you have that kind of Drive nothing can stop you
nothing because you took the pain and you
channeled it into productive action it's a life changing skill to have to be able
to take negative emotions and pain and flip it into fuel for your fire
so make a decision right now which path do you want to take the path of hard
work and success or the path of pain and regret
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