Life Improvement Tips For The Wise Few

When your studying, you will get to a point where you will feel that you want to give up, you will not know what to do next. At that moment it all seems to be going wrong, and you just can’t seem to figure out what to do to make it. It doesn’t matter if it’s your final year in school, or your first year. It can be a business of your own or a simple goal that you have set.

At one point in your life, you will reach a point where you will want to give up. At that moment my only advice is to stay the course and keep your focus. It will all turn out just fine. Don’t ask me why this works, but I have been there myself and at that time I felt like giving up, but for some reason it just works out.

Don’t ask me why it works, but all I can say is it works, once you don’t give up.

I will give you an example when I was in my final year of Engineering. I was at a point in my life where this one subject just plagued me, I just couldn’t figure out how to pass this one subject: “Information Technology.” It was not the most difficult subject, but for some unknown reason, I just didn’t understand this subject. I would fail if I got a bad mark, and we only had one exam for this subject.

I honestly didn’t get it, I studied and studied. The day came and I had to do that exam, I felt very anxious and couldn’t understand why, this was a feeling that was foreign territory for me. I went into the classroom, and for some unknown reason, I had this feeling that this test was going to fail me.

As I sat down, and started with my test, I saw no light, I couldn’t figure out what to do, I was skipping question after question, it seemed that I couldn’t answer anything. I just did what I could, and I knew that I would surely fail.

A couple of weeks went by, we got the results, I passed all my subjects except this one subject, I got only 30%. Can you picture that. I failed miserably, and had no clue what to do next. I just sat there staring at my grade, and thinking: What’s next? Would I be able to turn this around and still pass, I had one chance only and I had to stand strong and focus. I had to keep my self calm and pep myself up, encourage myself to be strong and prove that I can make it.

To make a long story short, I honestly felt like giving up, but then at that moment I said; “You came so far, you just can’t give up now.” Those were just words, because in my head I was thinking that I can’t make it, and I honestly had no clue how to go about passing this subject, but at that moment I had this little voice inside of me telling me to honestly hold on, get the courage and take that test one more time.

I listened to that little voice, I decided to take that test over. When it is all going wrong you have to learn how to boost your self confidence. To be honest I really didn’t have a choice, because I would fail if I didn’t.

It was the first time that I had actually failed a important exam, and I honestly didn’t know how to deal with that type of defeat. At that time I was wishing that someone was there to give me a boost, and I couldn’t find that person. I had no one to turn to, but myself, if it was to be, it was up to me. Those words stuck in my head.

Giving up is sometimes easier than we think, but it is the easiest path, and the most obvious choice. And failing is no big thing, many have failed before me, but for some reason I didn’t realize it was a choice. So I made the choice to do it over again.

I didn’t study as hard as I did for the first test. I just went into the class room, saw the test and said, wow, this is even more difficult than the first test, but this time, I had no plan on skipping any questions. I wrote to my hearts content and I finally finished the test, and left, didn’t bother to discuss it with anyone.

A couple weeks later, I got my results and realized that I did pass, it was a happy moment, and it made me realize how often in our life, we quit too soon. Had I quit, then I would have never know how I could have made it by just sitting out the test.

With that I would like you to listen to an audio from Stephen Pierce that really captures this moment. It made me think back. In his words, all you have to do is hold on, don’t give up. A word of encouragement.

If you have a goal or a dream that you wish to accomplish, please remember to hold on and be strong, it will turn out right. Just don’t give up.