FOCUS ON YOURSELF NOT OTHERS – Best Study Motivation Compilation for Success & Students
Figure out who you are.
Don’t apologize for who you are.
And then become even greater
than you naturally are
at what you are.
Once you understand
that every time you lose
it’s an opportunity for you
to not only learn that lesson
but take it a +1 step, past the lesson,
you’ll start to appreciate those lessons.
So many people float down
the river of life
without ever even putting
their paddles in the water.
Just hoping and praying
and dreaming and wishing
that they’re going to
end up somewhere good.
Guys, that’s not how life works,
you know, you have paddles in your boat
you’ve just got to learn to use them.
Humans do not transition
to another level
when they’re comfortable with
the level that they’re on.
The whole games broken
because everybody’s too tied up
into other people’s opinions.
I only care about my opinion of myself,
and I care what my mom, and wife,
and kids, and the world think
Just not as much as I care about
the way I think about myself.
I had a very important person in my life
come to me and say, “who’s your hero?”
and I said, “I don’t know, I’ve got to think
about that, give me a couple of weeks.”
And so I thought about it,
you know who it is?
I said, “It’s me in 10 years.”
So I turned 25,
10 years later that same person
comes to me and goes,
“So are you a hero?” and I was like,
“Not even close!”
She said “why?” I said,
“Because my hero is me at 35.”
So you see, every day, every week,
every month, and every year of my life
My heroes always 10 years away.
I’m never going to be my hero.
I’m not going to attain that,
I know I’m not,
and that’s just fine with me
because that keeps me with
somebody to keep on chasing.
You want to be somebody who succeeds?
You want to be somebody
who builds something?
You want to be somebody who
people write books about one day?
You’re going to have to be ok
with being bad for a long time.
I’m telling you, I’ve been thinking
I’ve been making calls.
That’s what I’m asking you
to do, what fuels you?
The reason why you’re so lazy
is not because you don’t have the ability
you’re so lazy
because your dream is so small.
I dare you to work
on yourself for 6 months.
I dare you to shut out the world.
I dare you to shut out
all the distractions.
I dare you to give up everything
that is keeping you from your dream.
If you have a dream,
don’t just sit there
make something happen.
Sometimes you just have to move,
do something, make a call,
reach out to someone,
Google something
learn something new,
write down what you need to do
in order to make a better life for yourself
and be brave enough to do those things.
I dare you to take a stand today
to say no more.
I will no longer accept this for my life.
I dare you to take action today.
I dare you to write your goals down
and get someone to hold you accountable.
I dare you to hold yourself accountable.
I dare you, I dare you
to give up everything that is
keeping you from your dream,
to say no to all the negative influences.
I dare you to pick up
a book instead of a drink.
I dare you to work harder
than you think you did yesterday.
I dare you to prove them wrong.
I dare you to prove yourself right
I dare you to stand up as a man
or as a strong woman
as whoever you are.
And declare that you’re going to claim
a bigger and better life for yourself.
I dare you to make
something happen this week,
to take massive action this week.
Drop everything and do something.
I dare you to walk more than you talk.
I dare you to do good
for the sake of doing good.
I dare you to tell no one about it.
To be kind for no reason.
I dare you to spend time alone.
I dare you to say no with pride,
no to bad habits,
to negative people, to wrongdoings.
I dare you to speak your truth.
I dare you to dream bigger,
bigger than they told you
was possible for your life.
I dare you.
I dare you to walk your own path
wherever that leads, whatever they say.
I dare you to lock
the world out for a week
and work on you,
work on your dreams.
You’re well and truly capable
of living at a higher level.
If you do or you don’t
that’s up to you.
Ask yourself,
am I happy with my life
exactly as it is now?
Am I happy staying where I am?
If you don’t like the answer get to work.
Work on yourself.
Work harder than you think
you’ve worked in the past.
More discipline, higher standards,
more self-respect, more boundaries,
less BS,
more forward, less backward,
more positive, less negative.
Only those who dare to go
after the life most don’t have,
will ever have the chance of
living a life most will never have.
Only those who dare
to fight for a great life
have a chance to live a great life.
What’s it going to take for you to change?
What’s it going to take for you
to realize your potential?
What’s it going to take
for you to be proud?
Proud of the person you are,
proud of your effort,
proud of the person you’ve become.
What is it going to take?
When you feel like your professor
or your teacher has lost their mind.
When you feel like your energy is all gone
and it’s impossible to finish
every assignment on time.
When you feel like you’re mentally broken
and your motivation to achieve
is hard to find.
When you feel like the clouds
in your life are so dark
it would be impossible to
ever see the sunshine again.
When you feel.
Those are three of the most powerful words
that could ever be put together.
When you feel.
Because to feel means
you’re still with us.
Because to feel means
you’re still breathing.
Because to feel means
you still have an opportunity
to be achieving.
Because to feel means
that you still have
the power to stop the pain,
stop the bleeding,
stop the hurting,
stop the grieving.
I said,
when you feel.
Because to feel means
you’re still with us.
Because to feel means
you’re still breathing.
Because to feel means
you still have an opportunity
to be achieving.
Because to feel means
that you still have
the power to stop the pain.
Still have the power to stop the bleeding,
still have the power to stop the hurting,
still have the power to stop the grieving.
So whenever you feel like your professor
or teacher has lost their mind.
Because they’re overwhelming
you with a workload
that seemingly will take up all your time.
I need you to pause
and recall the reason why you made
the choice to invest your time.
And never lose sight of the fact
that you are destined to shine.
Never lose sight of the fact that
you were made for this grind.
Never lose sight of the fact
that no hole is too deep
for you to climb up out of.
And above all else,
your Why will never ever
allow you to withdraw.
Your Why will never ever
allow you to pull the plug.
Your Why will never ever
allow you to throw in the towel.
See, it’s your Why that
will push you to dig deeper
and go that extra mile.
See not only do you owe yourself
but you told your mama you would finish
You told your daddy you would finish
You told your brother you would finish
You told your sister you would finish
So therefore it’s up to you to never
diminish the value of your work.
And a wise man once gave me a wise word,
and now I’m passing
these wise words onto you.
You are in total control
of your situation.
So when you feel like
you’re facing a breaking point,
this is the point when
you go to your professor
This is the point when you go
to your academic adviser
and not the time to despise her
and not the time to despise him.
Simply say,
“I am in this until I walk
across the stage with my diploma.”
“I am in this until I smell
the sweet aroma of success.”
And right now, I’m feeling overwhelmed
because I am on academic overload.
Do you have any suggestions that will
help me power through this semester?
Because my only option
is to figure this out
and whatever it takes
I can, I will, and I must do.
See I understand that drastic times
call for drastic measures.
And the measure of a person’s will
is determined by what
they are willing to do
to ensure triumph over tragedy.
The measure of a person’s will
is determined by what
they are willing to do
to ensure success over failure.
The measure of a person’s will
is determined by what
they are willing to do
to ensure winning over losing.
And see right now,
I’m choosing to fight
for my academic future
and that’s why I came to your office.
I promise
when they see that your passion
is pushing you with a purpose
they will give you every
ounce of their being
to assure you are successful
because they know you’re worth it.
I just need you to never forget
that you’re worth it.
Success is your baby.
You just gotta birth it
and then kick back and enjoy
the fruits of your labor.
But in the meantime,
I need you to pull up your sleeves,
I need you to tighten up
your boxing gloves
because you’re right in the middle
of a heavyweight boxing match
and life is trying to take
your title and your survival
in this academic arena is at stake.
It’s moments like these
where we separate
the real from the fake.
But winners like you shake off
any and every punch that life throws
and fight back with a series of
vicious head shots and body blows
to overcome and achieve the victory.
But believe you me
life will keep testing.
Believe you me
life will keep trying you.
Believe you me
life will keep pushing you.
Believe you me
life will keep trying to break you.
I don’t think you heard me
I said believe you me
life will keep testing.
Believe you me life will keep trying you.
Believe you me life will keep pushing you.
Believe you me life will
keep trying to break you.
Mark it with me.
And always remember
you are unbreakable.
They want to see you fail
but you are a diamond
and you succeed because
you get back up after you fail
and you will get back up again and again
until your arms are raised with the wind.
So I need you to speak
positivity into existence
and ignore your inner voice of resistance
because it’s your
resilience and persistence
that will allow you to master
your time management skills
that will allow you to break all of these
huge assignments down into small pieces.
That will allow you to
group study with a winner’s circle.
That will allow you to jump over any
and I mean any academic hurdles.
Always remember when you feel
that means you are still breathing
and thus, you have
an opportunity to keep achieving.
This is a great day
to win.
Defining ourselves by what we are not
is the first step that leads us
to really knowing who we are.
You know that group of friends
that you hang out with
that really might not
bring out the best in you.
You know, they- they gossip too much
or they’re kind of shady.
They really aren’t going to be
there for you in a pinch.
Or that computer screen, right
That computer screen that
keeps giving us an excuse
not to get out of the house
and engage with the world
and get some real human interaction.
How about that food that we keep eating
stuff that tastes so good going down
it makes us feel like crap the next week
when we feel lethargic,
and we keep putting on weight.
Well, those people,
those places, those things
Stop giving them your time and energy
just don’t go there, I mean put them down.
And when you do this,
when you do put them down,
when you quit going there
and you quit giving them your time
you inadvertently find yourself spending
more time and in more places
that are healthy for you,
that bring you more joy.
Why?
Because you just eliminated
the who’s, the where’s,
the what’s, and the when’s
that were keeping you from your identity.
99% of people
are not willing to do what it takes
to make their dreams come true.
The center of bringing
any dream into fruition
is self-discipline.
You know, something
as simple as food and eating
it’s not about your body
as much as it is about your mind.
It’s getting command of your mind
to be able to choose actions
that are in your own best interest.
And I think the word discipline
has kind of gotten a bad name
We think about it in terms of punishment.
I’m not talking about
Discipline in that way
I’m talking about discipline in the sense
that you- you forego immediate pleasure
for the exchange of long term self-respect.
You cannot win the war against the world
if you can’t win the war
against your own mind.
Because motive matters, right?
And what drives us, I always tell people
that there’s a success formula
I subscribe to and I call it h-cube
that- it goes from your head
to your heart to your hands.
Affirm things in your head,
but if you’re not acting with your hands,
there’s- there’s something that’s missing,
right there’s an incongruence there
and I, what I tell people is like,
you know check in with
the second H which is your heart
which is the symbol of like emotion,
the energy of motion.
And so I feel like that’s
the fuel that fuels the car
that gets you to take action for something
and I do believe what got me through
it is figuring out what my Why was.
And I say if happiness
is what you’re after then
you’re going to be let down frequently
and you’re going to be
unhappy much of your time.
Joy though
Joy is a different thing,
it’s something else,
Joe is not a choice
it’s not a response to some result.
Joy is the feeling that we have from
doing what we are fashioned to do
no matter the outcome.
I started enjoying my work
and literally being more happy
when I stopped trying
to make the daily labor
a means to a certain end.
I need this film to be
a box-office success.
I need my performance to be acknowledged.
I need the respect of my peers.
And all those are reasonable aspirations,
but the truth is as soon as the work
became the reward in itself for me
I got more box office, more accolades
and respect than I ever had before.
For me it’s like
no brain left behind, right
because I lived with that
identity for so long
and my- my message to people
whether it’s on stage
or in the podcast or anything,
is that, you know, we are more
than what we’re demonstrating
that we’ve been sold this lie
that people are taught through school.
Like when I do these demos
and I, I on stage memorize a
hundred names and words and numbers
forwards and backwards
and I make- it appears effortlessly.
I always tell people
I don’t do it to impress you,
I do it to express to you
what’s really possible
because the truth is
everyone can do this too and so much more.
We were taught a lie
that somehow our intelligence,
our potential, our learning, our memory
somehow is fixed, our creativity is fixed,
our thinking is fixed like our shoe size
and what we’ve discovered
as we know more about brain science
in the past two decades, we’ve discovered more
than the previous two thousand years
and what we know is that we’re grossly
underestimating our own capacity.
To be able to grow, to be able to
contribute, to improve our intelligence
and our influence and our impact.
And I’m really, I want to kind of
pull the veil behind
and just say hey,
“This is about transcending
you know, this is about ending the trance.
Ending the trance that
we’re not good enough.
You know, that we’re not smart enough,
that we’re not this genius
and I’m telling the truth
and the truth is
we’re faster and we’re
smarter than we think
and not just to be able to memorize things
but be able to really solve
significant challenges
and maybe that these challenges
that we’re going through
are the lessons that we
need to, to learn the most.
Now all of us go through struggles, right
in our health, our relationship, whatever it is
but through struggles come, come strengths
and people don’t talk about this as much
and you know,
I probably have a post-traumatic
you know, stress from it,
I’m going through brain
injury after brain injury
but there’s also post-traumatic growth
which, which you know,
like is widely talked about
but there’re some people that go
through immense amount of trauma
and difficulty and challenge
but they come out of it
actually more empowered
they say to themselves that
because of going through this
I found a new strength,
I found my superpowers,
I found a new meaning in my life,
I found a new level of commitment,
I found a strength, a mission if you will
and a lot of them attest that
they wouldn’t trade that experience
no matter how painful it was at the time
for, for anything.
I realized what was stopping me,
was my own fear.
It wasn’t…
it wasn’t anything with
my educational aspect,
it was me thinking I couldn’t
do well in mathematics
and when I learned to remove that fear
and think “I’m gonna do this
no matter what’s going to happen.”
I may fail it.
I may not fail it.
I’m going to do well at this
and I’m going to just,
just see where it goes.
I’m going to put my all into it
and find out.
I’m motivated by fear.
I hate being scared to do something
and I think what developed
in my, in my early days
was the the attitude that
I started attacking things
that I was scared of.
I want to talk about failure.
I want to talk about why things go wrong
Why you fail to study better
And you’re wasting your time
because you can learn as much, if not more
from your failures,
your non starts, your hesitations
as you can from your successes.
We think that things happen overnight
but they don’t.
They happen every day
in each passing moment.
You win or you lose
You waste or you create.
Winning or passing an exam or degree
it’s not a one-time thing
It’s an everyday thing
and every moment thing.
You don’t win once in a while,
you don’t do things right once in a while,
you do them right all of the time.
Winning as a result or success excellence
they’re all habits.
Your goal is not too big, okay?
You’re just not yet the person
you need to be to execute against that
and that is absolutely fine.
So you don’t just lose once in a while.
You don’t make an error once in a while.
You don’t fail an exam one time.
You want the secret?
It’s called work.
Do not get confused here.
You have to work to match
the ambition coming out of your mouth.
There’s only one thing
that you need to really find
and that’s direction.
You need direction,
your own direction.
Not someone else’s direction,
not your parents direction,
society’s direction
or social media’s direction
your own direction.
But what does that actually
mean, it’s a big word
Well, it means knowing
where you’re numbing yourself
or where you’re awakening yourself.
Where you numb yourself off
with laziness, sleeping in
more than you should,
scrolling through your feed
more than you should,
distracting yourself more than you should
hesitating, procrastinating
waiting,
waiting
again and again
until you’ve numbed yourself
from reality.
But when you are awakening yourself
you know what that feels like
because you’re here
listening to this motivational video.
You’re focused.
You’re seeking direction,
you’re setting a clear goal
for every single day.
You’re taking trips to
the library or the coffee shop
Study session after study session
you say no to the easy things
and yes to the right things.
Music sets the tone for our moments
and we know it because even with
these videos that you like to listen to
the best ones have the best music
and it’s classical music,
18th century music that…
has been shown, scientifically proven
to engage the parts of your brain
that are responsible for
two really important things
your focus and your memory.
So if you ask, if you want to know
how to stop wasting time
and study more effectively
Turn the music on
and turn the distractions off.
This gym is for your minds steady study.
So choose the tools, the tone
that’s going to help you the most.
And to round off with just remember this
only as high as you reach can you grow.
Only as far as you seek can you go.
Only as deep as you can look can you see.
And only as much as you
can dream can you be
So reach high, reach far,
go deep and keep dreaming.
My name is Keshav
and this is your motivation to study.
Peace.
