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Coffee before exam?

Can you imagine yourself relaxing in a café sipping your favourite cappuccino a day before a national level, life-deciding exam? Almost all will answer in a big NOOOOOOOOOO. This requires an ultimate level of determination and not letting the goal out of sight. All of this isn’t hard because all of it requires two things: consistency and self-discipline. After all, the gap between the life you should be living and the life you are living is because of self-discipline.

This is not just applicable to academics but to any field. If you want to excel, you have to give in every part of your flesh and blood, all of your mental and physical attention, and of course, sacrifice many things in order to get to it…

I am lucky to have witnessed students who did all the above things to succeed. Their parents and I had to tell them to stop studying because they had done sufficiently enough. When a student has put in so much of himself to achieve a goal, only then he can chill in the café just a day before the exam. If you think that I always kept pushing them into this, that's a 'no, no.' I don't remember discussing anything with these students about how to study post 10th. Shahrukh Khan in the movie Chak De India says this in the 70 minute pep talk, "Aaj mein tumhe nahi bataunga ki kaise khelna hai, balki aaj tum mujhe bataoge." Just like the dialogue, these were the ones who showed me how one should study. 

You may say that not all are like these... The fact is... Everyone is... As Robin Sharma, in his book ‘The leader who had no title,’ says, ‘…every one of us has the potential to be geniuses at what we do. Most of us just don’t believe this truth.’ When one doesn’t believe this truth, one doesn’t work towards it and when one doesn’t work towards it, one never achieves. That is the very reason why out of the best of minds, only some go ahead and others follow their example. Everyone in the lot had the potential but only a few achieved that greatness. Quoting Robin Sharma once again, ‘Unrealised potential leads to pain.’ And that is the very reason expectations shatter and one suffers from the pain.

Ultimately, do understand that all of us are always faced with a choice. It is the choice that determines what will happen of us and most choose wrongly and some choose wisely. And that difference between the choices is what makes us say that an achiever took the road not taken.

Best wishes! It is easy and achievable. Just choose, jump into action, sacrifice things and see the magic work. After all, you all deserve that cup of coffee and not anxiety before the exam.

And hey you! Thanks for being here. Means a lot. If you liked reading this, do share it with others, comment your thoughts on it and help share the optimism.

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  1. Prapti Takale3 October 2021 at 09:05

    Just amazing
    All that you write is so apt and wonderfully accepting

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