There's no other way around it. If success is the result that you are
ultimately seeking, you must be obsessed with the process. You have no time to let
fear, doubt, failure, quit, negative thoughts or give up enter into your
mentor. So you have massive potential. So from the moment you open your eyes in
the morning your mindset has to be win. Meaning winning that particular morning
and carrying that winner's mentality with you as you enter your classroom. So
what the person to the left of you is pessimistic? So what the person to the
right of you is zoned out? You. Yes you! Can only be concerned with staying locked
in because you refuse to let the aura of your classmates or classroom enter
into your mental space. See this race is won by the one that can distance him or
herself from the rest of the pack, and those are facts, so I need you to realize that there will be
bad days. There will be times that you feel like you have no earthly idea what your
teacher or professor is talking about but what you will never, ever do is throw
a pity party. What you will never ever do is tap out, what you will never ever do is
concede and throw in the towel.
What you will do, is knock on his or her door, and say listen. I only have one
option and that is success in your class but right now, I'm confused about the
lesson you taught today and I need clarity and I need it now. I guarantee, that if you are passionate
about wanting to achieve success in that class, he or she will bend over backwards to help you. But if you
settle for mediocrity and never say anything you are setting yourself up to
fail and failure my friend, is not in your DNA. I promise. You're not the first person to
question whether or not they have what it takes to achieve at a high level. I
promise you're not the first person to feel like they are underperforming. I
promise you are not the first person to feel like their brain is about to explode.
Listen to me those that can push through no matter what storms arise are in the
small minority, that small percentile of those that ultimately break through and
make their goals and dreams a reality. So the reality is this. You were blown with
everything you need to pass every class with flying colors, you were born with
everything you need to overcome the anxiety that may pop up from time to
time on a mission to derail your lifelong hopes, dreams and aspirations.
See my favorite acronym is HWPO and just in case you forget, or just in
case you don't know, that means Hard Work Pays Off.
So winners like us never lose focus and we're horrified and petrified whenever
someone tries to tell us to take the easy route because we already know there
is no easy route because if it were easy everyone would do it.
So we avoid that ignorance and get back to our grind of studying harder than we've
ever studied before because we understand that you get out of it what you put into
it. So we pour our heart and soul into our homework, we
pour our heart and soul into studying for exams
that way we sleep like a baby because we know in our heart of hearts that we have put
every ounce of our being into our work and therefore, success is a foregone
conclusion. Listen to me. What if, after all of the hard work, after all of the studying,
after all of the blood, sweat, and tears, you still fail? I need you to believe
and never forget this. You never fail, you never lose, you only learn. See, life will
knock the mess out of you when you least expect it. It's part of the process.
See that's when you have to tell yourself, because of this setback, I'm stronger
because of this setback, I'm wiser, because of this setback, I'm smarter
and because of this setback, I'm hungrier than ever!
So I say all of this, as a friendly reminder.
You got this. You were born to be spectacular!
So I need you to jump over the obstacles, I need you you to go around
the pitfalls and I need you to push through the adversity because that
dormant volcano of success that's living inside of you, it's just waiting for you
to grant permission for it to erupt.