how badly do you want to change your life what are you willing to give up to
have the life that you dream of are you willing to give up all of the
procrastination and the Netflix and by hitting the snooze button five times
before you eventually get up are you willing to give up all of this for the
life that you aspire to have or do you just want to talk about it and I mean
give it up forever because two or three or four weeks isn't
good enough you really start to see improvement when you are consistent all
the success I've had it goes to the fact that I understood the process day-in and
day-out of being consistent I just keep doing
the same thing over and over and over again it will take a while it might take
one year it might take five years but here's what we know if you do it every
day every day works someday doesn't you just need to every day study in the
words of Les Brown don't count yourself out don't say you can't achieve those
grades you don't know what you cannot do if you're not willing to challenge
yourself decide that you're going to do something about decide that you're going
to achieve the grades that you've set out to achieve become an active force in
your life decide that you're going to achieve it and keep studying for and
studying for and studying for it and know that however much you study you can
better your best that you can get better at it see this is the only life you've
got give it everything you've got put your heart into it you don't want to
squander it feeling that you can't do any better
you can get better grades you can perform better in your exams you can put
more effort in you can study harder you deserve to do better you are entitled to
that it is your right to do better have you done what you said you were going to
do did you study when you said you were
going to study or did you get distracted and put it off there's always going to
be a reason to procrastinate there's always going to be a busy schedule
there's always going to be something unexpected that happens it is always
going to be that way you have to work through it but a lot of students don't
want it enough people who succeed stick to the plan regardless when you tell
yourself you're going to study you need to do it you have to commit to getting
better grades you have to commit to being a person of action you have to
commit to being someone who doesn't just talk but who gets the results - no more
excuses no more complaining no more victim mentality take responsibility
disappointed with your exam results take responsibility it's not the teachers
fault it's not the examiner's fault it's that your parents fault it's your fault
when you see something that you want go after it attack it and don't stop until
you achieve your goals don't let anything or anyone stop you from
achieving it be obsessed over your future be consumed
by the possibilities the super-successful don't stop when
they hit their targets they simply reset and go again you have the ability to do
things that you can't even imagine you have talents and skills in you that you
haven't even begun to reach for yet studying only makes improvements you can
always better your best you have not done your best work yet as long as
you're here you have a chance to become better you have to believe in yourself
you've got to decide to be hungry most people go through life trying to do as
little as possible trying to be casual about you've got to be bold in life
you've got to take life on you don't get in life what you want you get in life
what you are you've got to have some reasons that when life knocks you down
and it's going to when you receive your exam results back and you're
disappointed and that's going to happen when you start to feel deflated and
demotivate and that's going to happen when you want to throw in the towel and
give up and that's going to happen what reason are you going to use what reason
are you going to call on to pick yourself up I'm doing this because I've
been called a loser all my life and I'm going to make something of myself I'm
doing this for my parents to make them proud of me after they've loved and
taken care of me I'm doing this because I want to give my children a better life
then I've been given I'm doing this so I can be massively successful and make an
impact at scale whatever the reasons are it will keep you strong it will keep you
in the game it will be your rock in the storm if you have a strong enough reason
you can overcome almost any obstacle the key is what we do in our times of
pain stress and frustration pain changes us it doesn't leave us the same you can
come out defeated and giving up on your dreams or you can come out with
excitement and looking forward to the new opportunities in front of you
this is an opportunity of a lifetime and you need to take advantage of it once
you realize this it can be the most powerful thing that ever happens to that
dream is not going to just sit there and wait for you to come get it you've got a
chasing like a man possessed you've got to go and get it and if you can find
within yourself the part of you that wants more you want to make a bigger
difference you want to push a bit more you want your grades a bit higher you
should never be satisfied with the grades that you've got because the
attempt to achieve more makes you into something phenomenal the difference
between you and most other students is they might be smarter than you they
might be faster readers than you it might have more money and resources than
you but listen to me they will not outwork you many of you
don't realize you are entering the greatest five year window of your life
if you're twenty years old what you do every day for the next five years is
going to determine the direction your entire life heads towards are you going
to live a life of mediocrity like 95% of the planet or are you going to rise and
fire up all cylinders to live the life you have the potential of living this is
a time where you have so many opportunities in front of you it's a
time before you're married before you have kids and have to spend a huge
portion of your time and money on them it's a time before your hopes and dreams
have been sucked out of you you've still got this window of
opportunity the next five years and yet you don't realize all these huge
opportunities dangling right in front of you manage your time better study harder
and take full advantage of the opportunities you've been given the
studying you're doing right now it's easy when you go to class it's easy it's
easy compared to what you're going to face after you graduate when you go to
class you have people making sure you turn up you have people telling you what
you need to do you have people telling you what books to read what to write
what exams you have how to study for them when you graduate and you're out in
the real world you have none of that so when you start taking control of your
own life when you start pushing yourself without anyone else having to do it for
you that's when you know you'll be okay after you graduate and so it's time to
get to your desk and get to work be the person that putting in the work
it's putting in the hours that's putting in the study time while everyone else is
playing the short-term game dreaming and hoping that everything will work out in
the end you're going to be studying when you're in your early 20s this is the
time you need to work this is the time you need to get your head down and study
well you don't have all the baggage that you're going to have your late 20s and
30s right now is the time where you can grind at your full potential it's harder
for the 30 and 40 year olds that have had to go back to university because
they wasted their education when they were younger it's harder to be studying
full-time when you have a family that you need to feed so if you're lucky
enough to be going through your education with no baggage with no kids
with no financial responsibilities with nothing dragging you down then take full
advantage of it the next time you need to study and you catch yourself
questioning whether to procrastinate a little more or to actually go and study
please recognize how lucky you are to be in that situation