Five Steps Towards Academic Excellence

Three of the World’s Excellent Professors Who Have Guided, and Still Continue to Guide, Students Towards Academic Excellence: Dr. Lome Prado, Dr. Donalie Cabral, and Dr. Malou Maderazo. Brilliant minds stay forever modest, beautiful, and young!

If one attempts to get the gist of the ideas or notions present in writings on self-development, we may find these common denominators: knowing what you want, focusing on it as often as you can, visualizing that you are already in the process of receiving what you want–or have already received it– and feeling excited about it, removing any doubt about whether or not you will receive it, and expressing gratitude for having received it.

Can the aforementioned insights be applied by any student who wishes to be better in his or her classes? Can these insights be used towards becoming the ideal student that one wishes to be? If so, how may one apply them? The proposed procedures are for your exercising the muscles of your thought. The encompassing view is that, as Albert Einstein himself believed, thought is energy, and energy is not only inexhaustible; it can’t also be consumed. Therefore, what you constantly think of assumes a life of its own. And if you maintain your focus, you get faster to what you have always been thinking about. Now try these:

1. Change the way you think. Especially, change all the received negative programming of the past. You must view yourself as capable of whatever it is you wish, want, or desire. If you think you aren’t, you impose a limitation on your natural capabilities. If you aim to be the ideal student, and you really want that to be true, then think about what you may be doing as already an ideal student yourself! Pass this on to your subconscious, so that this gets imprinted there. If it does get imprinted down there, then you have planted it deeply in yourself, and it can grow and manifest in your external reality.

2. Spend at least 15 minutes with yourself daily. Think of nothing else except the thought that you are academically excellent. To do this with power, look for a place where you could be alone–for fifteen minutes–and tell yourself in a well-modulated voice: “Every minute of every day, my mind allows me to understand clearly and effortlessly all the lessons that I am supposed to learn.” Believe this to be true and never for once doubt it.

3. Maintain a cool, confident, optimistic, and enthusiastic attitude. Let your optimism preside every day. Bring this exciting mood with you as you visualize that you already are an excellent student–and doing what an excellent student does! Your mind that receives this thought will make the necessary re-arrangement in your system, so that you will find yourself more understanding of things as you observe, listen, hear, read, or do things.

4. Take care of your health. Health is your main capital to doing what you you have thought and taught yourself to be: an excellent student. Try to balance your physical and mental activities, so you won’t get bored with the things that you need to do everyday. It is most important then to choose the proper foods, as well as to get the proper or desired amount of sleep: at least 8 or 9 hours.

5. Express gratitude for being the continuously developing person that you are! Count your blessings! You might wish to get hold of Og Mandino’s book The Greatest Miracle in the World to really count the blessings that you did not know you have been receiving, and continue to receive.:-) Of course, among other things, express gratitude specifically for being the academically excellent student that you are. Learn to see Life in everything you face or meet. There are always a thousand and one reasons for you to always find the smile:-)

GOOD LUCK!!!