it's time to get your grades in check to start putting the effort into your study
to achieve the grades that you know you can achieve and it starts with the
number of hours you put into your study it's very simple
on average the more hours you study for an exam the higher your exam grade will
be everybody wants to achieve grades in the top 5% of their school or university
everybody wants to be that person that appears to effortlessly glide through
every exam but I'll tell you right now it doesn't just happen it's the endless
hours of reading textbooks practicing past exam papers asking the professor
questions researching reading writing that's what you don't see in three years
you'll be able to think back I got the lowest grade in the class three years
ago and now I'm in the top 5% of the year
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 we all know people that have these dreams and ambitions and they
talked and talked and talked about what they're gonna do and they're talking and
talking but there's no action they say they're going to do this and they're
going to do that but what are they going to do it they just end up coasting
through life like everyone else so you can see that behavior in another person
so don't be that person do something about it do something to move you
towards that goal if that means studying an extra hour that day then so be it
if that means going for a 30-minute run after class then so be it
it doesn't matter what it is however small or insignificant that step seems
if you take one small step 365 days a year
it all adds up how long are you going to continue with your life taking exam
after exam and getting mediocre grade after mediocre grade stop being that
person that is full of excuses stop being that person that has every excuse
under the Sun why you shouldn't study why you have better things to do you are
the reason why you're getting the grades that you're getting you are the reason
why negativity is following you everywhere you go you are the reason why
you're struggling financially it's a choice and you've made it you have
thought your way into being mediocre just like everyone else around you you
have thought your way into negativity and despair stop complaining about how
difficult the exams are when you haven't even studied for them of course they're
hard if you haven't studied you want to improve your grades you want to improve
your life you want to improve your opportunities you need to start now you
don't really want to wake up and get out of bed at 5 in the morning get up and
get out of bed you don't really want to go to the gym you go to the gym you
don't want to study for that exam coming in two weeks you study for that exam in
two weeks you need to get things
don't give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your
ear shut that down don't listen to that voice instead go through the motions get
out of bed go to the gym revise for the exams and what you'll find is you'll
have more success and when you have more success you'll feel more fulfilled more
content with your life you're not going to feel perfect every day but you've got
to push through
I can tell you I'm going to make my dreams become a reality and it starts
right here with my studying the work ethic and discipline that I practice
will carry me not only through University but through the rest of my
life I don't care how much I have to invest
how much time I have to invest how many hurdles I have to jump through I'm going
to continue doing this until unsuccessful
I love how Eric Thomas talks about his show-up rule he says you can pretend
that you care but you can't pretend that you're there the only way you can show
that you care is if you show up and what I'm asking you to do for me is to show
up every single day it's easy to miss a class on Monday morning when you're
feeling tired the problem is you'll miss that one class and you'll get away with
it then you'll miss another class and then another and then another it's human
nature if we can get away with it and gain instant short-term satisfaction
from it then we keep on doing it and it's an easy trap to fall into that's
why it's so important to not miss even one class because it can quickly
snowball into something more dangerous
through discipline you get things done that si isn't going to write itself that
textbook isn't going to read itself that class isn't going to attend itself you
have to do it and you have to do it now so stop thinking about it stop dreaming
about it stop watching youtube videos about it and debating whether or not to
procrastinate even further start studying take that first step
and start studying 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 you'll ever hear 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 it is my parents my friends my professors at
University Society it doesn't matter when I'm told 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 I'm an obsession mode and it's the negative comments the people saying you
can't that fuels this obsession to become stronger and stronger I can study
12 hours a day it's easy
I go to the gym in the morning study for four hours eat study for four hours II
study for four hours then sleep it becomes a routine a set of daily habits
that I carry out religiously and I've loved every minute of it the studying
which I once struggled with has become an obsession that I love I look forward
to it every morning I love learning about the world around me
I love the satisfaction at the end of the day after studying for 12 hours I
love the sense of accomplishment I love the feeling of my grades increasing from
C's to B's to AIDS I love what my friends ask me what grade I got and I
love the shock in their faces when I tell them studying for exams something
that I used to struggle with on a daily basis the struggle with focus and the
struggle with procrastination to struggle with constant distractions it's
now so much easier and I have my haters to thank for that
when they told me I can't they fueled me they gave me the energy to power through
to love what I'm studying to study at a level which I thought was impossible
just a year ago my haters made it possible the people around me trying to
drag me down helped me and for that I'll be forever grateful