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| A+ STUDENT MENTALITY |
There are key components and key ingredients in
the recipe of a student mentality. Number
one, you need to be disciplined. The
future is very expensive and only those who are carriers of discipline can
inherit the future. I need you to stay
motivated I don't care if you have to
listen to me a thousand times I need
you to stay motivated and I need that motivation to mature into discipline. I need you to be self-aware so I need you to
remember that you are always learning. In life, you are always learning. And I need you to believe in yourself. I need you to see yourself as capable, lovable, and unconditionally worthy of your
future. Turn your pain into progress. I need you to see yourself, see yourself. One of the things that many students lack is
vision. You got to see yourself before
you get there. You have to hear
yourself telling yourself "Thank you." I need you to open up your ears, open up your ears because you from the future are telling you
'thank you.' Thank you for not giving
up when you wanted to give up. Thank
you for not being depressed. Thank you
for not allowing the brokenness to eat your progress. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You got this. It's going to get hard sometimes, I’m
telling you right now. It's not going
to be easy but it's worth it. Maybe
you're listening to me right now you want to lose weight or you- you're trying
to pass the final exam or maybe there's just this feat that seems as though it
is impossible to turn your pain into progress, turn your pain into progress. I need you to be uncomfortable with average.
I need you to be allergic to average. I need you to come to the end of yourself so
many people are depending on you. A
student is hard-working, a student is mentally tough. Have the ability to adapt, have character, consistency, demonstrate courage on a daily, stay motivated, stay positive, earn your respect, have a winning attitude, breathe, compete, make no excuses, set goals, practice great habits, stay focused. Do you want your future? You got to outwork everybody on that field. You got to outwork everybody in the room. You got to learn how to perform under
pressure. You got to leave it all out
on the field. Everybody wants the
future but everybody wants to be average. There are going to be times when you feel
like you're losing your mind and you study for hours and you're going to take
an exam and you will not pass. A
student is resilient. A student is
disciplined. A student is committed. A student is consistent even when they don't
want to be because the cycle of depression needs to end with you. The cycle of not enough needs to end with
you. The lack and the dysfunction and
the anxiety and all of these things that your family and your father and your
mother have gone through you have to keep a student mentality. I studied and I failed the exam. I studied and I failed the test and life is
an uphill war and it is filled with tests and exams and critical moments where
you are going to have to dig deep inside of yourself and ask yourself why. Why did you start in the first place? And what was the emotion, the feeling what
was the science and the psychology behind the decision that you made? And 9 times out of 10 I can tell you why you
started. You started because you were
hungry. Hunger is the feeling of
discomfort or weakness caused by a lack of food coupled with a desire to eat. How hungry are you? When you feel like throwing in the towel, when you feel like surrendering everything
you worked for remember why you started, remember how you felt when you started, you were hungry. When you want to let go when you want to
surrender when you want to stop when you're ready to quit when you have failed
and failed again. Let me remind you
what got you here hunger got you here, a strong desire got you here.
You were desperate to break curses in your
family. You were desperate to break
the cycle of poverty and depression. You
were desperate. Hunger got you here. Remember
this, every dream requires discipline.
Every dream requires discipline. You can travel the world and study students
and their behaviors and their mindsets there is a science behind achievement. And when you study the most successful
students in the world we find that they are responsible, they are motivated they
are self-managed, they are self-aware,
they have a long-lasting student
mentality even after they have passed the test because they understand that
life is a test and in life there are ups and there are downs. And so accept the responsibility, see yourself as primarily responsible for
your outcomes and your experiences. You
are going to need discipline. Motivation
will help you get started but discipline is going to keep you on the road to
your destiny. You got to be
self-motivated. You got to find
purpose in what you do by discovering personally meaningful goals and dreams. If you're going to be a successful student, if you're going to come out on top you've
got to start managing your time. You
plan and you take action in pursuit of your goals and dreams. So let me tell you something everybody has a
dream but there is a behavior that must follow your belief system. Remember this, behavior follows belief. If you have not been able to change your
behavior to match your dream then you need to go back and examine your belief because
10 times out of 10 if you can't change
your behavior to match your dream then you don't believe. When somebody believes everything changes. The time is coming where you are going to feel
like giving up but you're going to have to remember why you started. You got to dig deep and learn how to create
possibilities for yourself when nobody gives you an opportunity. You have to turn your mess into your
message. 
A+ STUDENT MENTALITY