AMERZING: 2017

, by Amer Ridzuan

In Travelogue,

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In Travelogue,

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In FeaturedPost,

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In BlogTips,

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In StudyHacks,

How to Get Yourself to Study?

Well, everybody’s parents, at least mine kept emphasizing the essence of good grades, a good uni and so on. But I never seemed to get it, why study at all?

When the test week is around the corner, the fear of failure grips me and I study a bit to not get an F on my report card, but that desire, that passion for learning more never existed.

This is when I realized that just getting motivated isn’t gonna help me improve my grades.

What is motivation?

I like to consider motivation as yeast to your cake. A little bit of yeast is enough to make your dough all soft and fluffy. But yeast in itself is gonna do nothing.

The dough, I would like to compare it to the habits you build over time.

Motivation will you give you that kick start but it’s up to you to stay in the long, tiresome race of life and emerge victoriously.

The myth
Let’s face it! Study isn’t gonna happen in a day. If you spend the entire year, thinking about the next Fast and Furious movie or about that new NFS game, your brain is going to be thinking along the same lines right before your exam too.

Ask yourself the right questions

The ultimate, long lasting motivation or rather purpose to study arises from asking yourself the right questions:

Why should you study?
What will happen if you don’t?
What will happen if you ace your class?
What will happen if you barely pass?

When I asked myself these questions, the will to study emerged willingly.

After asking yourself these questions, summarize as I did here:
“I study because I want good grades and without them, I won’t get into a good university and I probably won’t get a good job.”

Now yeah, you don’t have to get into a good uni to get a good job, but your chances of getting a good job increase.

When you constantly remind yourself of what will happen when you don’t study, you’ll feel more like studying. Try it today: instead of thinking about the fun things you can do during the time of study, ponder upon the negative consequences of not studying namely building up stress for the finals or not being able to cram in more material: this will help you realize why must study now and not later.

Habitualize

Build good study habits. Make it a routine to revise a bit everyday to avoid piling up tons of equations and formulae to be mugged up at the last moment. Habits are formed out of simple tasks being repeatedly done on a consistent basis.

Pick a routine, something like, “As soon as the weekend approaches, I’m gonna study one chapter of any subject.”

Pick something small and achievable and keep carrying out that routine over and over again.

Over time, you’ll find that you need less effort to study; thus enabling you to study even when your motivation is low.

You can learn more about the importance of habits here.

Procrastination

Procrastination is the killer of all success. The act of delaying your most important tasks will diminish the quality of your life and maybe you have the will to study but are too habituated into procrastinating that you never can make yourself study.

Click here to find an easy way to quit procrastination once and for all.

To sum up

Ask yourself the right questions and you’ll have yourself a genuine reason to study.
Build good habits by doing a particular routine over and over again.
Try to procrastinate on procrastination.

I write articles on habits that help you get the most out of life. I not only mention these habits but provide you with a plan to implement those habits ASAP because I want you to change your lives ASAP :)

Visit me on www.thehabitblog.com.

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In Personal,

We Live in Different Timezone

Time Zone Map

Today, I'm very delighted to share something with you guys.

Now in Melaka, when I'm writing this post, it is 1:49 PM. Maybe my friends in UK, they just wake up from their sleep because it's still early, 5:50AM. But it doesn't mean that they are slow and I'm faster. This is because we are living in our own ‘Time Zone’.

Recently, there was an aunty condemned by the netizens because of her swanky claims that with her current salary (RM2XXX+), she can have more than 5 houses, many cars and can still save some of them.

She said the youngsters nowadays are too much pampered compare to her time, nagged about the fresh grad that fails to secure a job quickly after graduation date, and continuously told the public about her glorious teenage era where people at that time were really easy to get a job, the youngsters are all working since very young age etc.

Honestly, I totally couldn't agree with her statement. You can't compare today with the past 10 20 years. That time has already gone.

I'm 19. They say, to be a successful person, people should do multiple jobs, so I do multiple jobs even though I know it might affect my study.

I study every day, I blog, I do freelance designing that consumes my study time, I do freelance writing that needs me to put my assignment aside because the dateline is very near, I even do selling cloth at the "Pasar Malam" in every sem break where I need to deal with different kind of customers that sometimes I can't tolerate with their behavior.

I am trying to do my best for my life and I believe that others are doing the same things too. Everyone wants the best for their life but unfortunately, they have not yet reached their ‘Time Zone’. Their time is not coming yet.

So, you can't compare the times. Today, life is super hard, worse, the petrol price increases every few months.

If you are really wanted to compare the time, let me tell you something. Someone graduated at the age of 21, yet waited 5 years before securing a job, and there is another who graduated at the age of 27 and secured employment just after national service.

Someone became CEO at the age of 25 and died at the age of 45 while another became a CEO at the age of 40 and lived to 80 years.

Someone is still single. Someone got married and ‘waited’ ten years before having a child, there is another who had had a baby within one year after marriage.

... and I started blogging last year and was approved by Adsense after only a few months and was disabled just yesterday because of invalid traffic while some bloggers that have been blogging for more than 5 or 10 years yet still don't get any approval from Adsense and stay active.

All of these have really happened.

Everyone worked based on their ‘Time Zone’. Some people have everything that works fast for them. Colleagues, friends, associates, the youngster might “seem” to go ahead of you. Don’t envy them and please don't underestimate them, it’s their ‘Time Zone.’

You’re not late… you are not early...

Yours is coming soon. Hold on.

Sincerely,
Amer