I was not the smartest or the wisest or the wealthiest but my goals were clear I
knew what I needed to do I knew what it was going to take to graduate in the top
5% of the university you can be the best in your class or the best in your
university you want to do break things but your actions need to match your
words you need to invest in yourself don't let yourself be average average
people waste their lives away every weekend for what because that's what
separates the people that become phenomenal human beings is that they
endlessly pursued personal growth and personal achievements they look at
themselves every day and when they have a day where they didn't perform at their
best at their full potential they recognize it take note and the next day
they don't let it happen again and yes it does mean sacrifices are made what
kind of sacrifices so the average student goes home after school and
watches two hours of Netflix that the high-performing student goes home after
school and reads two hours of his textbook that night and it's a sacrifice
it's a very real sacrifice but what comes out of that is a much greater
freedom if you do the study and you go after it long enough you will get the
grades you're aiming for that's all it is there's no shortcut there's no easy
road to get good grades you have to be the best version of you possible it will
not happen by cutting corners or taking shortcuts or looking for the easy way
there's no easy way there's only hard work late nights early
mornings hard work stress frustration discipline and repeat
you need to have the discipline it will drive you to study when you don't feel
like studying because doing well at school at university it's hard it's hard
getting good grades but we are in charge of the life we live and when you're in
charge you say if it's hard then do it hard don't allow this to stop you there
is no easy mode in this what is the easiest way to turn your grades around
your attitude about it that you decide that you are not working at your full
potential that you decide your grades do not represent what you can achieve I
knew I needed to study every single night when
I knew that if I missed even one night it could snowball into two nights three
nights four nights everything I did was to take one step closer to achieving my
goals I'd wake up at 5:00 a.m. go straight to the gym I'd come home
have breakfast it's still dark outside I'd go to the library 6:30 a.m. as
always I was the first one there average students don't go to the library at 6:30
in the morning classes would start at 9:00 and finish around 4:00 I go home to
eat and study until night no one was doing what I was doing
no one was achieving the grades I was achieving so when people see you waking
up at 4:30 a.m. and you head straight to the gym and you don't drink and you
don't smoke and you get to the library at 6:30 a.m. you're not doing that to
show off or to prove to your friends you're better than them you're doing it
because you realize that doing the hard things having the discipline to do these
hard things it gives you the long-term freedom and happiness they
just don't have you gotta make a decision to stop making excuses and get
it done there's nobody in this world that's going to get you what you want
you're going to have to go out there and get what you want by studying hard being
talented is not good enough you've got to study hard and you've got a work hard