you have to be the hero of your own story and you can do it
90 of it is just showing up get there and start
studying you're not going to feel perfect
every day there's gonna be the days that you just have to push through
and they can be even more numerous than the days you don't
and so the benefit of discipline has always been that through discipline
you get things done you get more things done than the next person
you can get more exam preparation done than the next
person therefore you get better grades than the
next person
if you have ambitions if you have dreams then your actions have to match those
too many people have dreams of becoming a world-renowned
lawyer or doctor or engineer and they dream of having a big house and
a fast car and being able to provide for their
family but they come home from school and what
do they do what's the first thing that they do they
pick up the tv remote and they turn
the tv on and straight away that's two hours wasted
two hours every day wasted just sat in front of the tv
watching mind-numbing tv shows that's 14 hours a week 60
hours a month 730 hours a year
so what are you doing the minute you wake up in the morning
to the minute your head hits the pillow at night
how many hours in between do you spend doing things that just don't
matter things that don't bring you closer to your dreams and ambitions
and i'm not saying that you shouldn't have any time off
i'm saying that your dreams need to match your actions
if you want to be in the top 10 of the field that you're going into
then one day a week wouldn't be unreasonable providing that the other
six days you're going all out now if you want to
be in the top one percent in your profession
then you need to sacrifice your weekends you sacrifice going out with your
friends you sacrifice the tv and the down time
and you study you study hard you've got to keep putting in the study
time every day one hour is better than zero two hours
are better than one there's no quick fix there is no easy
road you need to study hard and be patient
those two things the long game you're going to play
and if you're serious about becoming the best doctor or the best
surgeon or the best whatever it is it's a game you'll be playing for the rest
of your life you don't stop studying even when you've graduated and you're 50
years old you will still be studying the world is
always evolving and you need to stay updated and so studying should be
integrated into your daily life in the same way that eating and
breathing it
there's no other way around it and you will have bad days
there will be days where you have no idea what your professor is talking
about there will be days where the book you're
reading might as well be in another language but
i guarantee if you're driven and focused enough
you'll find a way you'll ask questions you'll read books
about it you'll research about it and eventually
you'll understand it but if you settle for
mediocrity then you're setting yourself up to fail
and that is simply not an option you're capable of more than that you're
worth more than that everybody's got a dream
everybody's got a goal but how are you going to get there
what's the plan you gotta have a plan don't go to bed without a plan of how
you're going to handle the next day you have to work at it every
day success is never an accident it's from having a plan and executing
the plan every day if you do the studying
and you go after it for long enough you will get the grades you're aiming for
that's all it is there is no shortcut there is no easy road
to get good grades and to be the best version of you possible it will not
happen by cutting corners or taking shortcuts
or looking for the easy way there is no easy way
there's only hard work early nights early mornings hard work studying
preparing stress frustration discipline and repeat
you need to have the discipline it will drive you to study when you don't feel
like studying discipline defeats the infinite excuses
that forces procrastination upon us
in the words of eric thomas there's power inconsistency
there's power in doing something over and over
and over again there's power in studying over and over and over again
but your problem is you're going all out monday
wednesday friday 10 a.m to 12 one to five and you're starting and
stopping and starting and stopping
i challenge you i challenge you to fill in the gaps
i challenge you to go all out monday to sunday to challenge you
to go from average to good and good to great
this 24 hours belongs to you and whatever you do in this 24 hours
will determine who you will eventually become and that's what you need to focus
on stop thinking about wanting to become a
millionaire or buying a supercar or buying a huge mansion you need to
start focusing on what you're going to be doing
in the next 24 hours that will help you get where you want to be you have 24
hours and in that 24 hour period you can
either break your life or make your life less brown once said
you're going to hit a wall and that wall shocks some people
that wall discourages some people that wall stuns some people
it's painful hitting that wall but some people hitting that wall refuse to be
denied this person comes back anyway again and
again and again and if you keep on hitting
that wall here's what happens to you you will have an incredible breakthrough
and it's as if the universe says let's help him out come on i admire that
kind of tenacity let's give him a hand this person
doesn't care about the pain because this person knows something
there's no gain without pain 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
so discipline yourself greatness does not happen
easily the costs are huge it means battling these negative thoughts on a
daily basis it means fighting the procrastination
ignoring it pushing it to the back of your mind do
what you have to do to eliminate the procrastination
do what you have to do to smash it to the ground
because it's trying to drag you down and keep you away from
greatness being great is going to take sacrifices it's going to take time
it's going to take energy it's a constant battle of going the extra mile
doing things that other people are not prepared to do
putting in the hours that other people are not prepared to put in
waking up before other people are willing to wake up
preparing for exams before anyone else in your class are willing to start
preparing it's not an easy journey that's why
there's not many people who achieve greatness because by its very nature
only the top one percent are able to reach it
because only the one percent are willing to pay the price
only one percent have the attitude of a winner
only one percent are willing to do whatever
it takes they do not take the easy way out
you need to train that instinct to study when you're tired
to study when you're bored to study when you want to relax
of course get eight hours of sleep a day eat well
exercise socialize your mental and physical health should always be your
priority in the long term you need your mental
and physical health to reach greatness so do not ignore it short term and long
term make it a priority but don't use that as
an excuse to be lazy study in silence let your success make
the noise your success isn't recognized when
you're studying until the early hours of the morning
it's not recognized when you're the first person walking into the library at
seven in the morning your success isn't recognized when
you're hustling every day behind closed doors
yet this is where your success is made it's during the daily habits and routine
when you're putting in the discipline and building your work ethic on a daily
basis and applying these skills consistently
this is what will push you to the next level
it's the discipline that you cultivate in the lonely nights of studying in the
early mornings to have the results you've got to be
willing to do what everyone else is not willing to do
you have to go places where everyone else is not
willing to go if you look at the all-time
greats all throughout history the top is 0.1
the true leaders the titans look at what they do they don't seek
short-term pleasure in everything they do that's what the 99
percent do the top is 0.1 do the opposite
because they understand that if you want to have a great life
look at what the 99 do and do the
opposite
you