Get The Best Grades With the Least Amount of Effort
With thousands of readers and subscribers to this blog, I get a lot of content contributed – most of it is fantastic, like the fun student video below.
I’m sure it will make you smile regardless of what type of student you are. I love it when students use their creative energy and spirit in positive ways like this. Enjoy and please share it with your friends and family!
We’ve all been in that place when we wonder if all the hard work and sacrifices are worth it. Click on the hyperlink to have a look at this Infographic on US Education statistics.
If that doesn’t convince you, maybe you need to know the real value of a degree. <- click here for a more uplifting perspective.
One of my very first mentors wisely explained to me that any investment I made in myself, I took with me wherever I would go, for the rest of my life.
I know when you’re young a week or month is a long time and a year seems like forever.
Just think about how quickly the LAST YEAR flew by and that should convince you that it’s a lot shorter than you’re currently thinking!
Don’t ever give up on yourself -
you are your best investment!
I recently had someone in Boston write this on a few blackboards for me… That’s when I thought I might as you to do the same – spread the word to other students.
If you do, take a photo and send it to me and I’ll post it here on the blog.
Thanks in advance for helping us get the word out to more students. Sometimes all it takes is one idea to transform a mediocre student into a ‘genius’. By doing this, you’re engaging in a concept called ‘paying it forward’. Engaging the Law Of Attraction is something special that once you set it in motion, good things will start to happen, almost like magic.
Do it because you want to help and then see and tell me what happens!
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One of the ironies of the world is that in under developed countries, young people are dying to get to school – in some cases that’s literally true. I don’t want to get on a political soap box because that’s not what this blog is about. Others can do a much better job of promoting that agenda than I can.
I, however, can change the world one student at a time.
If you’re frustrated with school, ask yourself why. I mean really ask yourself the question honestly. Is it because you’re lazy? Tired? Bored? Scared (being bullied)? Not doing as well as you’d like? Not in the popular crowd/group?
Ask yourself the question until YOU KNOW the real reason.
When you do know the absolute real REASON, deal with it.
Deal with it because it’s what’s preventing you from getting the RESULTS you want and dream about.
We’re REASON or we’re RESULTS.
It’s as simple as that.
It’s as complicated as that.
Complicated because UNLESS you’re honest with yourself, you’ll never deal with the #1 obstacle in your path. That means you’ll never achieve your true/ultimate destiny.
That’s enough for you to think about for today, or not.
Most people won’t give much thought, but then again most people (as many as 80% of 8 out 10) end up unhappy in their lives as adults, with regrets.
Regrets that go all the way back to their school days when they KNOW they could have made a shift that would have changed their lives forever.
If only they had know then what they know now.
Well guess what?
You are young enough NOW to make the change.
Make it and I guarantee you that in 20 years from now, you’ll remember this blog post when you meet someone who has regrets and is unhappy. You’ll realise that YOU made the effort when it counted… RIGHT NOW.
And they didn’t.
Don’t be that person — I know too many of them.
Lives lost and ruined because of lack of discipline, self esteem and self worth.
But also pure, sheer laziness and lack of will.
You can achieve ANYTHING you want in life (or school), you just need to WANT IT BAD ENOUGH and then do WHATEVER it takes to make it happen.
I know -
I’m not superman – I just have great strategies, but most important of all, I have passion and drive to make things happen.
This incredible video was sent to me by Ray Keefe of Successful Endeavours in Melbourne, Australia. What amazes me about it is how so much information can be captured in such a short period of time in such a compelling and dynamic way – its’ absolutely mesmerising don’t you think? It’s why my MindMapping course is so popular with students who want to cram for exams at the last minute.
Have a look at our testimonials page – I guarantee you it’ll motivate you to improve your study habits. So many of the students are not native English speakers – so if English is your primary or ONLY language – imagine how hard it is for someone to learn in a foreign language… And yet they do!
Simply amazing – click here -> to read a few inspirational student stories.
Peter sent me these… What do YOU think of them?
I’ll give my feedback once I get yours first
Give us your feedback by leaving a comment below.
Note Taking - Sample #1 - Chapter 1 Summary
How do your class notes look compared to these?
Note Taking - Sample #2 - MindMap Diagram
What suggestions do you have for Peter to improve his note taking?
Note Taking - Sample #3 - Use Of Colour
There is a dialogue in the comments to a recent blog post I wanted to draw your attention to… Click on the hyperlink to read the thread. You can add to the discussion!
http://www.get-better-grades.com/blog/being-smart-can-make-you-stupid/
If you’re really keen to tap into the limitless potential of your unconscious mind, you’re going to want to have session in a floatation tank. In this day and age of constant interruptions, time slicing and multi-tasking, research reflects it’s having an effect on our ability for deep thinking.
The changing nature of work, study and leisure is rewiring the human brain in such a way that deep reading the concentrated pursuit of linear stories and thought – is being trained out of us.
A University Of California (San Diego) study found that the amount of information the average American processed in 2008 was triple what it was in 1960. This has turned many into pancake people – spread wide and thin.
A series of psychological studies over the past 20 years have shown that after spending time in a quiet rural setting, close to nature, people exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and improved cognition (learning). Their brains become calmer and sharper.
Floatation Tank Improves Your Grades
Now it may not be quick and easy to head out to the country, but a 1-hour session in a floatation tank can do you and your grades – real wonders.
It’s inexpensive and easy to do. The feelings of weightlessness have to be experienced to be fully appreciated.
You should test various approaches to using a floatation tank as a study aid:
Using a floatation tank as a pattern interrupt will stimulate your creativity and innovative thinking by tapping into the subconscious part of your brain, unleashing the Exponential Potential™ that resides within in.
All you need to do is trust the process and “release yourself from the expectation of the outcome” as Dr Deepak Chopra extols. This is not something you can force. You need to ‘let it happen’ and then marvel in its quasi-magical powers as you become the genius you always knew you could be!
Even though we’re #1 in our category on ClickBank and have been for more than a year, it’s always nice to win awards and acquire other designations.
This one’s special because Pat Wyman does a great job with her HowToLearn.com website.
I’ll talk more about it in a few upcoming blog posts, but right now, it’s all about us and our new award that now adorns our blog page!
Whoohoo!!!
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.
What a profound short little paragraph that says it all :-
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for,that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply or create wealth by dividing it.”
Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
A recent study in the United States revealed that 2007 graduates earned 77% more per hour than those with only a high school diploma. Click on this hyperlink if you want to know the value of a degree.
That’s why a small investment in a study book is a great investment. There, I’ve said it. If you haven’t bought my study book what are you waiting for? It’s comes with an 8-week money-back guarantee, tons of bonuses and has been purchased by thousands of students from all over the world. It’s even been translated into 4 languages, English, French, Romanian and Chinese.
What more proof do you need? Maybe that’s the problem – you need absolute certainty to make a decision.
That’s not going to happen. There is no such thing as “perfect knowledge”. In fact that is one of the many concepts and ideas that I share with you once you buy my study book. Get it now and start improving your study habits.
Today’s post is a testimonial from one of my clients who bought my study book, his name is Abel.
Hi, Dr Dussault.
All I can say is wow. I’m studying ACCA (online) but my main problem was lack of motivation to study. Like you explain in your study book, what was holding me back was my comfort zone of past success with my studies. What bother me most was the fact that my constant thought was to study but in reality I wasn’t studying! The more I thought about it, the more I ended up sleeping without even reading for a minute! In a nutshell, your study program made me realize that I will never change my life until I change something I’m doing (or not doing) daily.
Now slowly but surely I’m following through. With my study to do list, I know if I follow it I’ll get better grades otherwise… I don’t even want to think about it anymore!
I hear myself now saying… “Abel bear in mind that you never plan to fail your exam but merely fail to plan to pass!”
That’s my best shot.
Regards,
Abel
This 3 minute YouTube video is from a teacher with a special approach that will inspire you to get better grades by doing your best. It’s a source of inspiration and motivation that you can come back to whenever you need a little motivation. Even though it’s about a teacher, after all, it’s all about YOU!
Recently, Ann, a First Year University Student posted this comment on this blog…
Dear Marc Dussault:
I recently purchased your book. It has now been a week and while I agree with a lot of the suggestions in your book, I have yet to start implementing them yet.
I was a procrastinator in high school. Somehow though I managed to succeed enough to well and still get into the Engineering degree of my choice.
However the same methods don’t work anymore in university. University is so different from high school!
Yet for almost the past 5-6 years this is all I have done in order to complete my studies. I understand everything your book says and I appreciate the e-mail tips; I do the exercises and I try to eat well as well as sleep, but still… I just can’t seem to start.
What’s wrong with me? I’ve researched on the net, and apparently there are not only procrastinators but also chronic procrastinators as well. I think I may be one for sure, for I’ve been procrastinating so long I don’t really know what the meaning of “study” is anymore…
I make lists and lists of what I want to achieve. Each time changing and changing the detail or format, and hoping that I will implement it (I tried to start with this technique from your book first). But somehow I just become tired by the large amount of uni work covered in the day or even if I’m not tired I just would rather have fun things to do.
I really want to succeed and do well… that should be enough motivation… but I still can’t keep it up. I did the 8-minute technique and it seemed to work well, that I actually kept going. But the next day, I looked at the same piece of math homework and I could not bring myself to continue doing it. I literally was having a mental argument inside my head for the pros and cons of not doing the homework, that I physically felt like I was actually getting stressed.
Where do I start? And why can’t I stay motivated?
In saying all of this, I have a mathematics exam this Friday…
Sincerely requiring help………….!
Ann
First of all, Ann, you’re “owning” the label of procrastinator just a little too seriously – what that means is that you SEE YOURSELF and THINK YOU’RE a procrastinator, which means you’re going to continue to procrastinate. Let’s face it – the label of regular every day LOSER is not enough, you need an even WORSE label… “Chronic Procrastinator!” which is a TOTAL LOSER!
How does that make you feel? Because it’s true – procrastinators, especially chronic ones never achieve anything because they never get anything finished – many don’t even start – LIKE YOU!
How do you feel about being branded a LOSER?
Procrastinator sounds better doesn’t it?!?!
You’re still a LOSER…
UNLESS you are just “doing procrastination”… That means you just slipped and got into a bad habit and are in fact a winner who just slipped up…
Is that it? Are you really a WINNER who just had a lapse of judgment and discipline?
Or are you really a LOSER? If you are a LOSER, good riddance, I have no time for you – seriously.
If however you are a WINNER who just lost her way – watch this YouTube video for the cure to procrastination – it works even better for CHRONIC PROCRASTINATION!
Now seriously, how do you “Stop It!” ???
As a student who wants to get the best grades with the least amount of effort, you need to find inspiration and motivation from somewhere. This YouTube video is so cute, I am sure you’ll agree that not only is it original, but the message is positive and uplifting. Enjoy!
The Economist Magazine recently reported that a male university graduate will make $82,000 more in his working lifetime than his non-university graduate peer. This includes the cost of tuition, lost wages while studying as well as extra taxes paid. What this simply means is that it pays to get better grades.
But getting better grades is not just about winging it – you need to be systematic and discipline about it. My study book and this blog are great way to learn to get better grades with less effort. My study book comes with many bonus materials that will help you – go to the product page now and check it out.
Today’s blog post is a clarification from my Speed Learning Video Program. The quote was “The brain stops reading fast it does not want to get dizzy”. It was after I mentioned you can read 200% faster on screen using Rapid Reader because your eyes don’t have to go from left to right.
Someone contacted me and was wondering if this has any thing to do with past negative programming that the brain can work against you. For example if you have not had a lot to do with a subject and tried to take it for a study course, would the brain work against you automatically?
This is a great question – and you’re not going to expect the answer I’m about to give…
Continue reading ‘Your Untrained Brain Can Work Against You’
Today’s post is from a Pastry Chef in Melbourne. “Speed reading is starting to help me especially with concentration and comprehension, I read through the pages of the document about Host Beneficiaries the other night real easy, normally I am not a reader and would not get through it.”
“The study book “Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” has great power for me, it has been thirty five years since I left school and now I want to start studying again. So I have decided to put it to the test, I am going to study Cooking and Pastry as well as Baking Breads and I am going to do it as though I want to be a Consultant to the Industry so I will see what happens. Also I will try something I know nothing about and that is computers that will be fun!
This is from a ‘baker in Melbourne’… If you are looking to improve your career or your business – learning new stuff is essential. Whether you buy my study book or speed reading video program or BOTH, once you start, you won’t want to stop because getting the Best Business Results With The Least Amount Of Effort gets to be addictive!
You’re in school to learn HOW to learn.
I am pretty sure it was Albert Einstein said it best when he said “Education is what you remember after you’re forgotten everything”.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t study to get As or High Distinctions.
It just means that if you adopt a ‘bigger picture’ of why you’re there, you’ll enjoy the process a lot more, find it easier and you will achieve better grades.
I had a professor of strategy in my MBA program who, once I had been accepted into the Ph.D. Program asked me “are you enjoying the Ph.D. Program as much as your MBA?”
My automatic response (at the time) was “No”.
He said “I know why.”
Of course I pushed him for the revelation (that changed my academic career forever)…
He explained “When you did your MBA, you knew, when you started exactly when you would finish (my program was a 2-year Executive MBA with a pre-set schedule). With a Ph.D. Program, it’s an individual pursuit with a beginning, but no pre-set end. In fact most students never finish/graduate. That’s why you are not enjoying it as much as you should/could. There is no ‘timeline’ to it.”
“Wow!”
I couldn’t believe how true that was. From THAT DAY ONWARD, I cherished every single day I was a Ph.D. student, or a student of Law, or a student of company governance or student of squash.
I know that if you’re in grade school or high school this may be reaching a little beyond your current consciousness, but TRUST the process and TRUST that you need to ENJOY the journey to make it as successful as it can be for you.
Give it some thought and don’t rush to a conclusion.
Onward and upward!
Dr Marc Dussault
P.S.
I am getting quite a few e-mails from readers of my book “Get Better Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” – please respond via comments to this blog – that way you can get backlinks to your sites, get exposure as well as help others in the process.
I am really enjoying your feedback -the breakthroughs people are having are very inspirational – I am amazed at how many foreign students are buying my book. If English is not your first language, my book’s easy to read and the strategies are simple and easy to implement.
