What do you want from your life? We're gonna go big picture here where is it
that you want to be in six months time where is it that you want to be in a
year's time, in two years in three years, in four years, in five
years you get the picture now you've probably heard those questions before
you've probably thought about those questions before let me flip it the
other way though where do you not want to be in six months time really think
about this where do you not want to be in a year's time now you're looking for
the motivation to study you're looking for inspiration to help you to get
focused right now and that's what we're here to do and I want you to start by
asking yourself that question where do I want to be and where do I not want to be
when you understand the importance of not just your motivation so the thing
that's gonna push you forward you've also got to look at what are the blocks what
are some of the things that are stopping you from being focused right now how
many tabs do you have open in your browser where is your phone right now is
it on loud or silent have you got rid of those triggers is your bedroom window
open so you're sat there and you're looking
at your homework the paper that you're supposed to do and you can see in that
moment that you're hesitating one key insight, idea, wisdom that you need to
take into your skull and into your spirit and that's in life when it comes
to studying in that moment when you're hesitating to get the work done that you
need to do there is no in-between you're either growing or you are decaying
there's no in-between there is a law of entropy in the universe go and look at
your physics textbook and you'll realize that there is no in-between you're
either on the attack you're on the offense and you're getting things done
so you need to stop waiting where it's safe on the sidelines and you need to
start working and that means picking up the pen answering the first question and
then focusing on the next and the next and the next and turning the page over
and over hour after hour, day after day, week after
week you have to stay working you have to stop waiting where it's safe on the
sidelines think about where it is you want to be and where it is you don't
want to be because if you're looking for the motivation, if you're looking for the
inspiration to get started, to get going that's the thing that's really gonna
drive you that's the thing that's gonna get your rocket off the ground now think
about that analogy when you're waiting and waiting and waiting for the rocket
to get started to launch and lift off into space what happens five- four- three-
two- one- liftoff
and I want you to use that same analogy in your head when you sit down at the
desk, when you get to school, when you get on the bus, you get on the train, you
start walking, you get to the library five- four- three- two- one-
go when you get to the next lesson five- four- three- two- one- go and I want you to
use this countdown to liftoff, to get started because here's the thing when
you're looking for the inspiration you're looking for the feeling and
feelings are temporary, feelings come and go you can't control how you feel you
know that already but what you can control is your level of discipline, the
level of discipline that you have to get started and that's what you can do to
help you get there it's not fun to wake up early and read and read and read and
it might be boring to sit alone in your room or alone in the library studying it
might not be fun, it might not be easy but it is profitable it does give you
results think about all of the great people that we admire in our society and
the things that they must have had to go through in order to make it look
effortless motivation is not just going to find you by chance it's gonna find
you warming up in the gym it's gonna find you with that pen in your hand ten
minutes into that study session in the library on a Sunday when there's no one
else around none of your friends joined you motivation might even find you like
me when you get rejected by every single University you apply for, sweating
working hard, straining yourself, pushing yourself to get things done and there's
only one person in this world who can make it happen and that person my friend
that person is you that person is the one that looks right back at you in the
mirror and you need to stop looking for guarantees from your teachers or from
the curriculum and don't get me wrong you know there's plenty of holes in
education plenty of things that I don't agree with
but you have to learn to play the game and this is the work these are the words
that I wish I had heard when I was younger
push yourself, get it done, make it happen stop looking for external motivation and
start building that fire inside of you start adding more logs, more petrol to
those flames every single day and when you're waiting where it's safe, not only
are you wasting time but you are murdering yes I used that word
intentionally you're murdering that success that you crave because potential
doesn't activate itself on the sidelines it activates itself when you're taking
action, when you're in the arena, when you see the people who had less potential
than you achieve more because they did what they got it done they made it
happen so the only thing that I want you to take away from this video is what
you're either growing, you're either on the attack or you're on the defense and
that means you're decaying there is no room for an in-between so push yourself
stop waiting and commit today the only thing that you need to do is to
take action and motivation is what's created as a by-product and we have so
many things the entire culture that revolves around creating the
feeling instead of doing the action and that's the single thing that you need to
know is if you're looking for the motivation to study, if you're looking
for the motivation to work hard, if you're looking for the motivation to get
started you're looking in the wrong place, the only place that you need to
look is at the book is at the pen the only thing that you need to do is to
get started sit down at your desk, turn your phone
off, close all of the extra tabs in your window that you don't need and get going
and when the distractions come, realize that these things are temporary they are
temporary visitors but the regret, the regret that you're gonna feel when you
get smacked in the face on results day in the classroom and the teacher asks you a
question and you haven't done the work you haven't done the homework, you
haven't done the assignment but most of all you know in yourself, I didn't really
live up to my potential, that's gonna hurt and I say this because I know. I was
that kid when I was at school, when I was at university, when I was in college but
the greatest pain, the greatest motivator was regret and trust me do you want to
live with regret or do you want to live with success? If you stay where you are
right now imagine where you'll be in six months imagine where you'll be in a year
and a rolling stone gathers no moss and that speaks to the power of momentum
that when you take one repetition, one revision session after another revision
session, one habit of waking up early in the morning and then you do it on
Tuesday, you do it on Wednesday, you do it on Thursday, you do it on Friday, yeah it
wasn't fun but it was profitable wasn't it and all of a sudden you've got a
five-day streak and then the game is let's turn it into a 10-day streak and
then the game is, let's make it twenty let's make it thirty and
next thing you know you've done a hundred days of studying and in three
months you've turned your entire academic career around, you've changed from an
average student into a great student and it can be done in the space of a hundred
days and it's not gonna be fun the feelings aren't always gonna be
there, you're not always gonna feel like it but it will be profitable and you
will avoid the greatest pain of all and that's the pain of regret and that pain
that's permanent. The feeling is not so which one do you want do you want the
feeling that's temporary or do you want the regret that is permanent that's
burned into your soul that you knew I could have done better. I could have done
so much better. Get up stop what you're doing and start taking more action take
five seconds five seconds this video is gonna end 5- 4- 3- 2- 1- go make it happen