Do you sit down to study thinking today is the day I'll finish off xx% of my syllabus, but end up succumbing to PUBG, Netflix and Youtube? Worry not, just read this small tip from my experience...
THE STORY
It is a lazy Sunday morning. You wake up and reach out for your phone. The clock reads 10:00 am. You had a late Saturday night - chilling with friends over PUBG, social media and gossip. You don't want to get out of bed, but suddenly your eyes land up on the big fat ICAI study material lying on your study table. Your cheerfulness vanishes for a moment. You had promised yourself yesterday that you would finish off at least 3 chapters (~100 pages) before going to bed. All you had done is reading 10 pages.
You get out of bed thinking you'll make up for it and achieve that target today. You get fresh, grab your breakfast and tadaa! You are at your study table at 11 am. With great determination, you open up the last page you had read and start reading. Just then your phone pings. It is a Whatsapp message from one of your friends you were chatting with last night. Chatting begins. Half an hour passes. You are still highly engrossed in chatting.
Suddenly you find a host of Instagram and Youtube notifications waiting for you to read them for ages. You switch from Whatsapp to Insta and try to show off some multi-tasking skills. You are enjoying the new Insta stories uploaded by Koli aunty. You also find Chanchlani uncle posting a new video that has gone viral in just 10 minutes of launch. So you now shift to Youtube to watch it too. After all, you are a big fan of Chanchlani uncle and do not miss a single video of his. It is a 10-minute long video, but it is already 1 pm
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Lunchtime) - Score: 0 pages
The post-lunch session is also not very different. The same routine continues, maybe even add a 2-hour session of PUBG and chicken dinner to it. The score still reads 0 pages while the clock reads 5 pm.
To cut the long story short, your target of completing 100 pages just keeps getting procrastinated. You find the outside world too colorful, while you are still locked down in your house for the past 100 days.
THE MORAL
CA students say - "It is my dream to become a CA". My reply to them is - it all depends upon your determination as to how quickly you realize your dream. If you have the vision and the determination, no distraction on this planet can stop you from achieving your dream (Yes, I hope the Om Shanti Om kayanaat dialogue is ringing in your head). If you are determined and serious enough, you will automatically become disciplined and focused.
Many people say, I need a timetable or a study schedule to get myself started. But what most of them end up doing is - either they keep chopping and changing the timetable too often and preparing a new timetable every week, or the timetable itself goes for a toss after the initial excitement is over. My suggestion here is simple - Don't have a timetable. Have a vision - a vision to become a CA at all costs. You'll automatically fall into a timetable of your own.
BEYOND THE GYAN
If you are one of those who find it hard to kickstart your day, read this small tip:
Start in short cycles. I personally followed the 55-5 Rule - Study for 55 minutes, relax for 5 minutes. Those 55 minutes should be free from distractions and disturbances. Then start the second cycle. This keeps the brain charged up and within 3 cycles, you end covering up a good bit of the day's target. Once you get habituated to this, increase the cycles on a particular day.
Hope you now sit down and analyze on your own where and how those 24 hours you have are spent. So stop procrastinating and start studying right now!
If you want to read more about how to study for long hours, please go through one of my earlier posts here
Thanks for reading!
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