as Eric Thomas says you have to give it everything you've got
no more TV no more partying no more playing if you don't have a 4.0 what you
need to be doing is studying get off the phone sorry I'm not available until the
end of this year you've reached the right number but
you've called me at the wrong time I'm about to start studying now I dare you
to keep retaking your exams over and over until you pass I dare you to have
100% attendance I dare you to stop missing classes like you're soft that's
the problem with a lot of students it's a soft generation so they quit
everything and if you create a culture of losing if you keep going through life
and not even caring whether you lose or not if you keep failing and failing your
exams because you're making the same mistakes again and again if you keep
letting it happen then it's going to become a culture you need to stop being
a victim and start creating the life that you're capable of there is no
excuse for not living up to your full potential
this will only happen when you stop waiting for good things to happen to you
and you start taking action to make them happen
that means stop waiting for the right time to study stop waiting until you
feel ready just study straight away stop letting negative people influence
you and drag you down with them push forward I'm going to learn
I'm going to fight I'm going to do what it takes to get the highest grade
possible in these exams I'm going to do everything in my power every single day
to stop being a victim and start making something of my life in the words of
Eric Thomas you get from being a loser low self-esteem doubt in fear but if you
can find your way to this side guys it's sweeter on this side greatness it's
about getting better never settling never saying well I got a PhD now so I'm
finished you know at the end of the day when you
lay your head down and sleep if you've pushed yourself as hard as you
could or if you just took the backseat and let life do what it wanted with you
most of you won't be successful because when you get tired you quit there's no
motivation or drive there to push you through the tiredness you always want to
blame other people you always want to hold other people accountable you're so
quick to point out other people's flaws but you never look at yourself and point
out your own flaws and if you don't do that then you're not going to improve
them and grow there's a lot of potential within you a lot of talent but you need
to realize that your talent is not going to create itself your talent isn't going
to nurture itself how much time do you spend every day debating with yourself
whether you should go and study or procrastinate a little longer well let
me give you some advice sometimes you have to ignore what you're feeling and
just go through the motions you might feel like watching TV you might feel
like doing something you might not feel like doing something and instead of not
doing it just go ahead and go through the motions get it done get out there
and do what you're supposed to do it's the problem most students have they
negotiate with procrastination and at first it's difficult to overcome
but the more you do it the more you make yourself study even when you don't feel
like it the easier it will become get up and go
and study
we all know the students that complain about their grades they make excuses why
they couldn't achieve higher but because they're making excuses they blame
everyone else but themselves so they don't do anything about it they don't
fix anything they don't improve anything so they continue getting the same grades
if all you do is complain nothing's going to happen in your life 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 that dream is
not going to just sit there and wait for you to come and get it you've got to
chase it you've got to chase it like a man
possessed you've got to go and get it so what are you doing about it you've got
to take action with your studying find a solution to your problem
don't be the problem for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
if you increase your studying by 50% your grades are also likely to increase
and if they don't then find out why the feeling of getting
the same mediocre grades every exam every report every assignment the
feeling of being tired of getting beaten up by procrastination the feeling of
anxiety and stress every time a deadline approaches it's the tiredness that will
propel you to have the motivation to change the desire to get off the ground
and stand up and stop eating dirt the battleground is in your mind that's
where the war is it's in your head that's where the enemy fights
that's where procrastination and temptations lie as soon as you wake up
the battle begins and it continues throughout the day through temptations
and seductions the battle continues and your friends see you studying and
studying they see you studying all day and you make it look so easy but they
have no idea of the gunfire going off in your head because the real battlefield
is in your mind it's never the situation you find yourself in it's always in your
head this is your moment this is your year of transformation complete
rethinking re-examining rescheduling re-evaluating this is the battlefield
it's not exams it's not reports it's not enemies it's not teachers it's not
parents that's not the battlefield stop wasting your time focusing on these
things and look within you it is something that is ingrained in every
successful person to look at the external problems around you and improve
and fix yourself to be able to overcome those problems the ability to push
through difficult times the more you overcome today the easier you will
overcome obstacles tomorrow and once you build up that momentum of improving your
productivity it becomes a whole lot easier and it's funny how it works the
more you study the more you prepare for your exams the easier your exams will be
the easier University will be the easier it will be to get a good internship or
graduate job after you graduate it's really very simple the more effort you
put into developing yourself and improving your studying the easier your
life will be respect the struggle of your journey because it's the struggle
that will build you to become stronger but be persistent keep working on it's
going to be hard but that is an incredible thing because you're going to
figure it out you will pull through you have enough time
you have enough resources you have enough commitment you will find a way to
smash your exams you will figure things out when tomorrow comes you might not
know what steps to take but believe in yourself it's hard dealing with the
pressure during exams it's hard taking the heat with deadlines looming most
people can't do it they quit chasing their dreams because
it's too hard that kind of courage and fearlessness it's hard breaking bad
habits making new habits starting all over again that's hard most students
won't do that most people don't have the determination and hunger about them that
kind of courage and fearlessness only comes with years and years of pushing
yourself stepping outside of your comfort zone aiming for targets you're
not even sure are possible but when you finally decide to take control of your
own life and decide that despite the inevitable obstacles despite the
difficulties you're going to face despite the years of dedication it's
going to take you make a decision that you're not going to let anything or
anyone get in your way so what if it's hard it's going to be worth it it's
worth it to show the world I'm not just average like most people it's worth it
to show my friends family and teachers that I can become something
that I am capable of achieving great things I can achieve whatever I want
it's worth it to me to pay this kind of price it really doesn't matter what
you're going through how you deal with it is all that matters the only way
you're going to push past the mountain of obstacles the late night studying
until 3 in the morning the multiple deadlines that just keep coming and
coming you need to have extraordinary focus a
crystal clear vision of exactly what it is you're aiming to achieve whether it's
getting that a grade or 4.0 GPA or getting into the most prestigious
university in the country you need to work out exactly how you're going to
make it happen you need to make it the first thing you think about when you
wake up it's only then that you have a chance because then when that
procrastination starts sliding into your life you will muster the force to
destroy that obstacle do you think like an A student or are you falling back
into that C mindset your success is completely dependent on how you use the
24 hours in your day everyone has the same amount of time Bill Gates Warren
Buffett Will Smith they all have 24 hours and you'll see this with the
students in your class the students failing their exams you'll probably
notice the same pattern they wake up whenever they want to wake
up they might go to class they might not it depends if there's something more
interesting on Netflix to watch when their exams are approaching they don't
care they might start studying the week before for a few days before or even
just the night before don't fall into that mindset it's not okay if you want
to get a grades then make it happen you have to act like you have all the energy
in the world because it's no good just thinking as though you're going to make
a change it takes action everything that you've ever dreamed of is nothing
without action everywhere you look take a look around you you're surrounded by
people that have impressive dreams but they stay as dreams because they didn't
take action now look around you again that iPhone sitting on the table that
Samsung TV on the wall that laptop you're working on they were all created
by people no different to yourself it's just that they followed their
dreams if you want to be a great student if you want to be known as that person
in your class that does well in every exam that's thrown at them then you're
going to be misunderstood by a lot of people they're not going to understand
why you're doing it because you're going to be so driven and so focused and so
disciplined they just won't get it when you wake up early and start studying
straight away while they're still asleep then you go to college and study some
more and then you go home and study even more your classmates will think you're
crazy they'll never understand why you do it
but you well when the exams come and your classmates are getting more and
more stressed as the exams come closer you'll be absolutely fine but it's not
just about the grades sure being able to stay calm because you know you've
prepared well for an exam feels good but it's more than that it's about what it
represents it's about who you are as a person it's about becoming that person
that whatever you touch whatever you get involved with it turns out incredible
and people want to study with you and be in your group because they know that if
you're involved they're going to get results but the reason why not many
people are studying at that level is because it's difficult to get up early
in the morning when you're tired it's raining outside and you have to go to
college when you really don't want to it's a long journey you're going to have
times where you feel like you're not capable where you have people talking
about you behind your back when you feel like you just want to give up
it's a journey that's going to be very uncomfortable but through this journey
you will find peace within yourself confidence self-esteem determination
courage all of these things are going to be found only through difficulties
getting uncomfortable and putting yourself in situations that you don't
want to be in how badly do you want it how badly do you want to achieve the
dreams that you have what are you willing to give up to achieve them are
you willing to give up the procrastination and the YouTube and the
Netflix and the Instagram and the Facebook are you willing to give up all
these things to free up more hours in the day for working towards your dreams
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're consistent all
the successes I've had I've achieved them after entering a state of flow for
weeks months even years where I had complete focus on the work
I understood that day in and day out I had to have complete commitment and be
100% consistent I just kept doing the same thing over and over until I
mastered so how about you did you do what you said you were going
to do did you study when you said you were going to study what did you get
distracted and end up procrastinate there's always going to be a reason to
procrastinate there's always going to be something unexpected that happens it's
always going to be that way but people that succeed stick to the plan
regardless you have to commit to not just talking about it but taking action
you