“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Jim Ryun

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. - Benjamin Franklin

How to Change a Habit - Lifehacker

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

Surrender Yourself to Your Dreams | Postbac Premed

Success comes when you surrender to that dream—and let it lead you to the next best place.

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/What-Oprah-Knows-for-Sure-About-Finding-Success#ixzz2EhNzi5kc


This quote sounds about right. I haven't fully surrendered myself to all the hard work that becoming a medical doctor entails. I come close to it tip toe around it but I just need to full sink myself in it and keep it up. I always start of the semester with a bang. I am working hard and producing results and I get tired and burned out by the end of the semester which is now. Is this normal? I level of commitment seems to drop off as the semester gets towards the end. 

Visualizing Success | Postbac Premed

When I had my aha moment earlier this week, I decided that I needed to learn how to take myself to a different mindset. I changed up my study music and began visualizing my success in school and life in a far more detailed way. Now, I just need to see if it produces results.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/12/22/the-cognitive-visual-strategies-of-top-athletes/

Feeling Comfort in Underachieving

I woke up this morning asking myself "What would life be like if I woke up trying to be my very best?" I know this might be a weird question to some people being as half way through my premed prep I should be over this. However, I still haven't seen my best in my premed classes. I have done okay but not great like I need to be doing. So, what can take to this next level?

I firmly believe it is waking up with my intention to do my very best each day. I should be doing this already but sometimes I feel like I am kind of slogging through life. Being premed and life in general can get boring, dull, and repetitive. Somehow I feel comfort in being my old self and being smart but slightly underachieving. I know I have what it takes to get into a great school but something within stops myself from taking it to the next level. I found this article that kind of explains how I am feeling. I need to learn how to find comfort in stretching my comfort zone.

I hope today is the start of a change in my life. I notice my friends around me reaching great heights that I know they could not have achieved without pushing themselves. It is my turn to do the same. Allow myself to be great.