having an effective daily routine is one of the most important things you need to study smart
i really can't emphasize enough how important this is and by studying smart it's this idea
that you don't need to be studying for 12 hours a day to achieve phenomenal grades if you study
just six hours a day but you study smart so you study efficiently you use the right memorization
techniques you study the right material for the exam and you use your time efficiently then you
can study far few hours than your classmates while at the same time achieving higher grades
and i go into far more detail on studying smart rather than studying hard in my 30-day study
course where i work with you one-on-one to turn your grades around and pull you up to that next
level of studying you can check the description for a link because honestly there's just far too
much to talk about in this one video but i spent three years of my bachelor's degree really homing
in my daily routine from the moment i woke up to the moment i went to bed it was all planned and
strategized to make my studying as smart and as efficient as possible the idea being and i think
this is the case for all of us to study smart so we don't have to study as hard right so i made
a lot of mistakes with my daily routine but in my third year of university they were all ironed out
and in this video i'm gonna go through my perfect daily routine that was 100 optimized to encourage
me to study smarts not necessarily study hard so i'd wake up at 4 45 a.m seven days a week for the
first few weeks this was really difficult but after i'd say one month of doing it every day
it just became a habit and most mornings i actually ended up waking up naturally at like
4 30 a.m so about 15 minutes before my alarm clock went off so i have a whole video on how i managed
to train myself to wake up at 4 45 a.m every morning and click on the pop-up banner to watch it
but having this daily routine building up a habit of waking up at 4 45 every morning it made things
so much easier you train your body to know that it's time to wake up so it does it automatically
and this is what i mean when i say learning to study smart will make your life so much easier
the alternative is having your sleeping schedule all over the place so it's difficult to wake up
in the morning you have to drag your half dead body out of bed and you just feel terrible that's
not working smart if there's another option that is easier significantly more effective
healthier and would make you happier long term then why wouldn't you choose that option right
so when my alarm clock goes off i'd spend 15 minutes reading the news on the bbc news app
because it just keeps me up to date with what's going on around the world and it was particularly
beneficial to me as someone who was studying economics and finance because i would read
up on economic events the trade was going on around the world economic problems particularly
countries are having and really just applying the theory of what i learned at university
to the real world so what's actually happening in real life so at 5 00 am i'd get out of bed i brush
my teeth and get a shower and i'd make a point of leaving the house before 6 am so in one hour that
really was my goal because i didn't want to spend ages getting ready but my aim was to be out of the
door as soon as possible what i've noticed is for me it's really important that i live my life with
intention so when i'm getting ready to leave the house i move fast i get things done fast
and i leave the house fast i could spend double or even triple the time choosing what clothes to wear
watching netflix checking my social media watching tv and just keep getting distracted so
that's why my aim every morning was to be out of the door by 6 am by 6 30 i'd be arriving at
the gym so go to the gym at this time has a few benefits for me firstly the gyms are almost always
empty because not many people want to exercise at that time right and secondly if i was feeling
tired or low on energy after going to the gym and exercising by the end of it i'd be feeling
far more alert and energized finally in my first year university i made the mistake of going to
the gym in the evening but there were a couple of problems with that firstly i would often just feel
tired so i would just skip it so that's obviously not good and secondly it's super crowded in the
evening because that's when most people go and thirdly it would be on my mind the whole day if
i get it over and done with in the morning then at least for me i just would feel better throughout
the day obviously that's just how i do it if you go to the gym in the evening and it works for you
then that's awesome keep doing that but you need to be constantly reviewing your daily routine
because it's these small tweaks that you need to just keep making that will really optimize it and
allow you to make your day super productive at 7 45 a.m i'd arrive at the library ready to study
and i've realized that i'm the most awake in the morning i get my best work done in the morning
it's when i'm the most productive so i try to get as much studying done in the morning so by 8 a.m
seven days a week so from monday to sunday i made sure that i was at my desk and studying
at the very latest 8 a.m i realized that having a structured study schedule was so integral when
it comes to studying smarter rather than harder i noticed that by studying at 8am every single
day after a few weeks i made it into a habit so it became much easier because my mind knew that
it was time to study so that's exactly what i was able to do and forming these kind of study habits
it encourages us to repeat the same tasks every day until it just becomes instinctive just like
brushing our teeth every morning we don't even need to think about it right we just do it and
that's really integral when it comes to studying smarter not harder we want to make our lives
easier not harder we want to create a situation where studying is just integrated smoothly and
seamlessly into your life you're not forcing yourself to study but instead you're creating
structures in your life and these study habits and strategies they're what make your studying far
easier on top of that i made my studying fun again super important when it comes to studying smart
honestly studying smart is just about making your life easier making the studying process easier so
going into how to make your studying funnies honestly i could talk all day about it and it
would be going a bit off topic in this video but i go through various ways you can make your studying
fun and engaging a couple of months ago you can click on the pop-up banner to watch it some days
i had lectures for two or three hours a day and other days i didn't have any lectures at all so
if i didn't have any lectures i'd study from 8am to 5pm there were a few breaks in between so i
studied for eight hours from monday to saturday and four hours on sunday but honestly studying
for this number of hours just wasn't really necessary i was aiming for a 4.0 gpa and i
knew that six hours of really smart and efficient studying would get me a 4.0 gpa just six hours but
i didn't want to leave anything to chance i knew that if i studied an extra two hours every day
there's no way on this planet i wouldn't achieve a 4.0 gpa i mean it would be almost impossible
i like that idea of setting a goal but then putting in so much work and directing so many
resources towards that goal that you absolutely smash it so you set a goal but you study
far beyond it if that makes sense but it did work when i graduated i achieved a first-class honours
degree which is equivalent to a 4.0 gpa i achieved a grade of 75.5 and i only needed 70 to get a 4.0
gpa anything above that was just a bonus so i could have studied a lot less than eight hours
a day i could have probably even gone down to four hours a day if i'm completely honest but i'd
have to make sure that those four hours were super efficient but honestly that would have been risky
i do like how i did it where i just over studied to make absolutely sure that i hit my goal and in
my final year my grade was high enough where even if i didn't attend the last five or six exams and
i got zero percent on all of them it really didn't matter that much my average grade would have still
been high enough to hold me above the 4.0 gpa grade band i kind of treated university like
having a full-time job that's where my mindset was so most white-collar workers work at least eight
hours a day and if you're feeling tired or having a particularly bad day they can't just call their
boss at work and tell them that they're not gonna come to work today because they can't really be
bothered that's just not how the real world works and the people that do do that probably wouldn't
have that job for long so usually at around 5 p.m i'd pack my stuff up and i'd go home usually
i'd do some video editing for this channel for a couple of hours and at 7 pm was my relaxation time
this is really important to be able to relax and unwind at the end of the day i'd spend it going
out with friends and some days i'd be working on some other side businesses i had going on at
the time and honestly some days i'd just turn on netflix or watch youtube for an hour or so
if you study smart and you really concentrate your studying into a smaller number of hours
then that will really afford you more time at the end of the day to really just relax and do things
that you really enjoy doing and this is kind of your award for studying so hard during the
day and i think it's quite important for long-term performance and really just maintaining a healthy
lifestyle at 10 p.m i'd be in bed now i took this incredibly seriously it really is easy to have a
set time that you need to be in bed by but then we just get busy right we just want to stay up
and watch another film or watch another youtube video a bit longer and the next night it happens
again and before you know it you're going to sleep at ridiculous times and it's near impossible to
wake up early so it's super important that you prioritize the time that you go to sleep because
in the morning when it's time to wake up you'll thank yourself for it without a productive
daily routine at university it would have been extremely difficult for me to have achieved a 4.0
gpa just like pushing my teeth in the morning waking up at 4 45 a.m going to the gym at 6 30
a.m and arriving at the library at 7 45 a.m they all just became daily habits they didn't require
much determination or willpower i simply just did them and that's really what i want to get
across in this video studying smart is all about making your day flow smoothly and productively
your studying shouldn't be this thing that you hate to do that you have to force yourself to do
every day now obviously you are going to have bad days and there will be elements of your studying
that you find boring or subjects that you don't particularly find interesting and that's okay
that's completely normal but i'm talking about overall your overall experience with studying
should be very positive it's so important to keep your studying interesting because then you're more
likely to want to do it right and this idea of studying smarter not harder is a really popular
topic on this channel you guys seem to love watching videos on ways to make your studying
easier so you don't have to study as hard which makes sense right why wouldn't you so i've made
two other videos on this topic how i study smarter not harder you can click on either of the cards on
the screen they both go over how i can actually minimize the number of hours i study while still
achieving really good grades i say it all the time you don't have to be studying crazy hours every
day instead try studying fewer hours but studying smarter then finally i'll go through this topic in
a lot more detail in the transform your grades in 30 days course links in description below