i knew that i had to make sacrifices to get where i wanted to go i knew that i had to sacrifice some
of my social life i knew that i had to sacrifice watching movies and watching youtube and scrolling
through social media and giving up on all those things allowed me to climb to the top of the class
they allowed me to graduate as one of the highest performing students in the university they got
me to where i am today and that's what you have to decide if you want to graduate at the top of
your class if you want to get the best scholarship or the best graduation job you've got to embrace
sacrifice because it takes sacrifice that's what it takes to be great any kind of success
that you'll experience in your life will take sacrifices whether it's with your education
your graduate job your career business personal relationships everything you need to be willing
to go the extra mile someone who wakes up early goes to the gym walks into the empty library
while everyone else is still sleeping you will get tired but if you have a strong enough reason you
will find the strength to push through why are you different than all the other people in your class
who are trying to achieve exactly the same as you what makes you stand out from them what makes you
deserve it more than they deserve it somebody's waiting for you to give up somebody's waiting for
you to fail so don't just talk about your hustle don't just talk about how much you're studying
actually go ahead and study and if you're doing well at school or university if you're doing more
than the group of friends you hang around with if you're getting better grades than them if you're
doing more to move yourself forward than they are it's easy to fool yourself that you're working
your full potential but it depends it depends where your group of friends have set the bar let
me explain if you run the 100 meter sprint with a group of people that can't run as fast as you
of course you'll win quite easily it wouldn't take much effort but if you run against people that are
much faster than you you might come sixth or seventh place up even last but it would push
you and inspire you to run faster it would make you push that little bit more instead of training
three days a week you might start training five days a week and it doesn't matter that you came
in in last place your time will be faster and that's why you need to surround yourself
with people that are better than you it's these people that will pull you up and encourage you
and motivate you there's a quote you become the average of the five people you spend the most time
with because their characteristics and habits and ways of doing things will rub off on you
if your friends are all letting life pass them by and they don't prioritize their studying then it's
likely that that behavior will rub off on you too it's one of the single biggest improvements you
can make to your life to evaluate and if necessary upgrade the people you spend the most time with
as will smith once said as a child my parents always told me you can be whatever you want to be
you can do whatever you want to do but i didn't totally believe it yet i went out into the world
and i carried myself and i held my head high and i stood there i looked people in their eyes and
i talked to people as if i was deserving of all the things that this planet had to offer
confucius said one time he who said he can and he who said he can't is both usually right so
ask yourself this have you made the necessary sacrifices what do you want to be remembered
for i hope you want to be remembered for someone who gets results for someone that gets good grades
for someone that has their health in check for someone who has their financial situation in check
jocko willink mentioned in his podcast a couple of years ago the word motivation it
doesn't really mean what we think it means we think it means that we're fired up to
do something we think it means that we have the self-discipline to make the necessary sacrifices
in our life we think that it means that we're eager and passionate to make something happen
and we think that somehow we should just be able to turn that eagerness and turn that passion on
but you can you can just turn on passion you can't just turn on the desire to study
it just doesn't work that way and honestly that isn't even what motivation means
motivation doesn't mean to motivate and to scream and to encourage to motivate actually means to
provide a motive a reason why so to motivate someone is to explain to them why they're
studying why they have that assignment and exams that they're graded on how it will help them where
it will take them why they should continue to study and to work and to fight and when
you need motivation for yourself don't look for someone to scream and yell don't look for someone
else to give you motivation but look at yourself look at yourself and remind yourself why
why are you doing what you're doing and remind yourself that this struggle this
temporary fight that you're in this is what will allow you to achieve incredible grades
so then it brings us to the question why are you studying why does it matter whether or not you
pass an exam how can it help you in the real world because it's a huge misconception that school or
university is irrelevant for real world success it is necessary to build up the knowledge learned by
generations because the more knowledge you have the more aware you are and the better decisions
you make it helps you build up the self-discipline that is absolutely essential for success you
learn to push yourself to do things when you don't necessarily want to do them because when you start
working it's going to be exactly the same there'll be things that you don't want to do but the people
with a driven mindset will push through them and do them anyway so it's up to you to do something
it's 100 on you we are all products of our own choices our exam grades are the products of our
own choices our financial position is the product of our own choices circumstances only define you
if you let them every decision you have made has led you to the situation that you are in
right now so do you like where you are now can you go further can you make more sacrifices can
you improve your grades further can you improve your exercise or your diet further there's no
reason why you can't have everything you want in your life you want to earn a million dollars
within a few years of graduating you absolutely can you want to become a world-renowned doctor
or lawyer or surgeon you can there's no reason why you can't have everything that you dream of
you just have to practice extreme self-discipline keep improving yourself every single day set goals
commit to them and take consistent action so recognize that your excuses are not valid you
have the time you have the intelligence you have the skills and the knowledge and the support
and the discipline to get your studying done so begin to live the life that you've always wanted
start taking action now there are no shortcuts push yourself improve yourself be the person that
you know that you can be i like how will smith puts it he said that 99 of people are not willing
to do what it takes to make their dreams come true they're not willing to make the sacrifices
and the world is so competitive and challenging yet you're making yourself weaker you're making
yourself an easy victim for failure as soon as you graduate because the financial stability
doesn't go to those that procrastinate every day the health and well-being doesn't go to
the people that are too lazy to go to the gym or eat healthily you are stopping yourself from
getting what you dream because these habits that you pick up through your education
is these habits that are going to stay with you for the rest of your life the center of bringing
any dream into fruition is self-discipline something as simple as eating when you need
to eat and drinking when you need to drink you don't procrastinate when you need to eat right
so your studying should be the same every day we are making decisions that don't line up with our
own end goals yet we keep doing it and doing it even though in the long term it's destructive
and if you've never been a disciplined person now is the time to start and it's not as bad or as
hard as you think the word sacrifice has negative connotations it's often seen as a punishment or a
painful experience and i'm i'm not talking about sacrifice in a negative way i'm talking about
sacrifice in a sense that it will make you free it will make you a happier person a more productive
person a wealthier person a healthier person it can help you and support you to reach your dreams
so sacrifice is the underlying factor for every a grade student it's when you have an exam in
two days and part of you wants to hang out with your friends but the part of your mind
that is looking after you that is looking after your well-being and cares about you
it pushes you to go and study it knows that if you don't there will be huge consequences to follow
it knows that if you don't study you won't get the grades you have the potential of getting
such high grades but you just won't achieve them it knows that it could even
affect your job prospects once you graduate and therefore affect your prosperity in the future
as will smith says again self-discipline is self-love if you want to be happy you have to love
yourself therefore you have to be disciplined and do the right things when they need to be done it's
about looking after yourself it's about taking care of yourself the road to sustained happiness
is through sacrifice and taking positive action destroying procrastination practicing extreme
self-discipline and you will see this for yourself if you make that decision if you decide today that
you're going to prioritize your studying that you're going to prioritize the actions that will
lead you to reaching your long-term goals that you're going to practice extreme self-discipline
you'll notice your life will become more streamlined you will have fewer problems
fewer obstacles you don't have to worry about an exam approaching because you'll be fully
prepared for it anyway you won't have to worry about exam races because you won't have any
you'll make yourself proud you'll make your family proud you'll be healthier because you prioritize
exercise and healthy diet your life will be better in almost every way imaginable and all it takes
is self-discipline small acts of self-discipline consistently every day and if you're someone that
struggles with self-discipline believe me i've been there i know what you're going through but
i managed to completely transform my studying through university and become exponentially
more self-disciplined in just one year and you can click on the video on the screen for
one of my newest uploads on my second channel where i explain six powerful ways to become
more self-disciplined specifically for students and if you learn to master these skills early
how you can still benefit from them years down the line even after i graduated i'm still using
these six self-discipline hacks and it's an important video so i'll see you over there