FOCUSED
PREPARATIONS
Seeking purpose and leading a
meaningful life is everybody’s desire. As is rightfully said, God help those
who help themselves, we always try to work hard to achieve our goals and
fulfill our dreams. Hoping for a better future and striving to make it happen
is a natural human tendency. While some people are highly determined, there also
exist some who are just too idle to do anything about it. But when one has made
a choice and has opted for something willingly, it is crucial to remember why the
choice was even made in the first place; always remembering the worth of a
decision is an act of the wise.
Preparing for something isn’t a complete
approach in itself. Competitive examinations are set to test your knowledge as
well as how well you keep a track of your valuable time by prioritizing the questions
provided. And, to survive this challenging task, adopting a more focused
approach is utmost important.
A focused preparation strategy will
not only benefit you in understanding the exact level of competitiveness from
time to time but will also enlighten you with your strengths and weaknesses.
Set Goals for yourself: Draw a benchmark and work hard towards it. Goals
make you put in that extra effort to achieve the benchmark that you’ve set for
yourself- hence they prove to be a big help in raising the performance
standards.
Do what your heart tells you to, do not get under the influence of peers or
family pressure and make wrong choices as this will only ruin your long term
goals. Listening to everyone, imbibing the important suggestions, but eventually
taking a decision on your own, empowers a person like nothing else.
Take charge of the moment: Live in the present and let go of the
stress. When you’re happier and contended inside, you tend to concentrate
better. Hence, leisure time is important too. Do what makes you happy but never
lose the locus point. Smart work is the key.
Treat Obstacles as a step up in the ladder of
success: Just like a hurdle race,
obstacles in life try to slow down your pace or even make you fall. But the
only way to overcome them is by facing them, get through them intelligently and
run to finish the race. Learning from mistakes demands for an open mind. Denial
of the fact will only make it hard for you to fully analyze and understand the adversity
of the situation. How can a person be proactive in his/her approach without
being a keen observer of the circumstances? Every problem in the world is an opportunity
in disguise. How to use that obstacle to your advantage or just reducing its
impact on your preparation needs strategic planning. For instance, time
management is your problem area when you attempt an exam, so this is an
obstacle that you want to overcome. An effective counter plan would be to buy
online mock test series and sit for them every now and then. What will this do?
It will help in building confidence and better understanding of how the time
needs to be allocated amidst the different sections in the paper. Now, you
won’t feel nervous when you’re actually sitting in the exam as you’ve done it
multiple times before. This obstacle has now become one of your strengths.
Aim for progress/Improvement not perfection
or result: Perfection is a pure myth. There
is entirely no substance to it. To think that one can attain all the knowledge
in this world in one life is a bit frivolous as information is limitless and
infinite like our universe. Struggle for progress and development rather
chasing supremacy as that is absolutely non-achievable and hence one may even lose
the direction and the required motivational push. The core of a successful game
plan is to always set ‘achievable’ targets. Therefore, always aim for a mental
and psychological growth and an improvement from yesterday.
Take no attention of externalities: Yes, Some say that, luck plays a pivotal
role in their lives; I don’t know the real definition of luck. Satisfaction
with oneself and the conviction in your decision making skills gives you more
power compared to almost anything else in this whole world. External factors such
as a friend earning well, someone shifting to a bigger house, someone going
abroad, someone clearing the exam before you even though you two were at the
exact similar level of preparation will act as highly influential deviations but
we need to remain assertive and decisive.
Regular practice and perseverance
not only makes a man perfect but also makes him evolve as an individual. This
backbreaking task of clearing and surpassing expectations
is not something many people dare to take up. Hence, have respect for your
decision and your choice; believe in the values of honesty and hard work. Rest
will follow!
*******Better late than never when the
going gets tough, the tough gets going
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