 How do I stay motivated in medical school? How do I keep going in med school? You know, I'm on a medical journey and I'm not sure if it's worth it anymore If you've you said any of these things guys I think you're going to be really helped by this video because I'm gonna break down How somebody going through a stressful time like med school or being a pre-med can make it work in their life Regardless of who you are and what type of things you should do I'm gonna break it down to four that's going to help you stay motivated and be successful and finally get to that finish line I think you're gonna enjoy this video. So stay tuned after this intro All right guys What is going on a lecture from them the journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress if you're new to this channel And you want to learn how to succeed on your medical journey not by just surviving but by thriving through tips and Motivation and go ahead and join the community by subscribing like this video if you enjoy it and help me reach my goal of 25,000 subscribers But with that being said let's get into this video's tip. I feel stuck I want to become motivated, but I feel like I'm losing a part of myself on the medical journey What type of things should I keep in mind to get me through the process? And so someone had asked me in the comment section what type of things I use personally on my medical journey to help me get Through whether it was family support system. It was all those things I'm gonna give those tips and I'll give you some examples of how I was able to use each of those things to Get to the point where I am now where I'm about to graduate medical school and enjoy the whole process and didn't feel that burned out or Feeling of regret. I hope I can help you get there, too So tip number one like give this in a previous video But is try to have dinner a meal a Skype call with somebody outside of medicine and don't talk about med school It's really hard for us when we're surrounded by our medical school peers or faculty or attendings and Most of our day goes from studying clinic come home sleep and repeat It's really hard to not become a medical student 24 7 But you can break that cycle and stay motivated because you can feel like you still have a part of yourself If you include the people that aren't part of that medical school process So for me, I'll give a personal example, you know my fiancee I'll put a picture up here has been with me through this whole journey of medical school And has been a huge support system cookies Helping me on my step one just kind of support system calls on a daily basis Skype calls Whatever it may be you need to have that kind of person in your life. It may not be a significant other It may be a best friend and it may be, you know, anybody it can be yours Similarly, it could be a parent But that's one person who I you know deeply relied on during my journey You just have to find who that person is for you And so if you don't have a person to go to necessarily it can be a variety of people But try to have a meal with somebody outside of med school and don't talk about medicine Once you do that, you feel like there's something scheduled on a weekly basis where you're no longer a med student and that's perfect And so you feel like you're losing a part of yourself and you feel like you're completely a med student at all times I think this tip is going to help you and you probably need it more than you probably know So find one individual get a skype call with them or get dinner even better and make sure You know set of out to them and to yourself that you're not going to be talking about med school I promise you it's going to work wonders. So tip number two that you can do is make sure you find time for your personal hobby Now I didn't say hobbies because sometimes that's tricky in med school But find one thing that you don't want to lose a sense of for some people It's something as simple as like I love fitness and so I want to Make sure my gym workout is you know a part of my daily life for me and for you know As you guys can see I love creating content on helping medical students and pre-meds In their journey so I'm always thinking about videos and blog posts that I can do for you guys And so I need to make time to do that because if I didn't have this platform I think I'd my med school experience would be completely different. So that was my personal hobby You know, I would come in the computer and I'd write about something I would write an email or create a video and this is what the MD journey has now become something That's a part of my medical school experience. So obviously you don't have to become a vlogger or a youtuber But you have to find that personal hobby and maybe something as simple as reading a book You know watching movies cooking But find time for it, you know, if you want more tips on kind of how to find time Go ahead and I'll go ahead and link a video in the description where I explain to a student of mine who had the same Complaint of I don't know how to find time for myself. Go ahead and watch that video I think it will help you out But once you understand how to find that time Insert it with a hobby that you try to or plan to keep for your four years in med school. I promise you You're going to enjoy it now before I get to tip number three and four go ahead and just comment down below What is one hobby you wish or you need to or you are? Keeping as part of your medical journey. It may be fitness and maybe reading I want to know what kind of hobbies do you guys like and what are you making sure that you don't use On your medical journey. So make sure you comment down below tip number three Now it's going to sound weird, but I want you to create an impossible goal Now hear me out. It may not sound like it's part of this video But sometimes we become stagnant in the rest of our life because med school takes over And so the same way I told you you need to find time with somebody outside of medicine You also have to set goals for yourself that are big that are also outside of medicine So for me, you know 25,000 subscribers like I mentioned at the start is one of it. It's outside of med school I want to read 52 books this year And so I have to find time outside of my medical school curriculum and you know obligations to do that Those are my personal impossible goals. Just create one something that as soon as you say it your brain Doesn't even ask you, you know, that's crazy. It just says okay, you know, that's not going to work And so that's an impossible goal try to reach it and then reverse engineer on what you'd have to get there And maybe reading a certain amount of books and maybe getting to a certain fitness level Maybe you want to run a marathon into the year and you never even ran at 5k That's a good impossible goal You can get there It's going to require a lot of steps as soon as you do this guys You put yourself in a frame of mind Where again, you're not a medical student 24 seven and you're able to focus on a goal outside of medical school That you can work in for a long period of time because it is an impossible goal You're not going to be able to get there tomorrow You can work on a day in a day out and you'll have something on the side that you'll also enjoy pursuing As well as becoming a physician So create an impossible goal just one and if you want to see you know my whole list of impossible goals I'll link in the description to my impossible list that you'll find on the blog post and every time I accomplish one I go ahead and mark it off So that way you guys can follow my journey You can see what goals I'm accomplishing which ones I have left to do But I encourage you to just create one impossible goal And then you'll find it to be a great 2019 And see how far you get at the end of the year So tip number four is a tip that I love giving throughout my videos as well as my blog posts And that's the idea of the golden nugget And I wrote a blog post recently of how to stay motivated in medical school even if you're in a slump And there's something about motivation that sometimes we don't really understand Which is you think that the goal has to be good enough and you're motivated But what we forget is that motivation is a cycle There's a reason that med students like to study hard It's because one day we decided I'm going to study hard and you got the grade And then that made you stay motivated to do it again and then you got the grade So now we continue to do it and we're you know natural hard workers The same thing goes for when you feel like you're losing a sense of yourself in medical school If you are studying a lot and you're first or second year and you're like I don't know if I can do this Ask yourself was it worth the effort to get the results? That's a quote that I love giving out but again, I'm going to say it one more time Ask if the effort was worth the results So if you've studied in the past and you got the good results You got the good grades ask yourself is it worth studying hard again to get that Similar result if you do really well with the patient and you love their interaction Is it worth to put that much effort in your future patient interactions? The answer is usually yes So if you find yourself in a slum ask yourself, what are those great experiences I've had What led to that and am I willing to put in similar effort to get that results again? Usually the answer again is yes And so if you want to kind of some help on figuring out what those golden nuggets are for you It'll be a free worksheet that I'll go ahead and link down below that you guys can just fill out And I break it down into a very like simple three step process And if you understand what your golden nuggets are guys regardless of where medical school throws at you I promise you're going to be able to overcome it with a smile some motivation and you're going to thrive again The whole idea is not surviving. We want to thrive on our medical journey So those were my four tips on how to get out of your slump and stay motivated on your medical journey So again, I'm going to break it down Number one is to find somebody outside of medicine and just do something with them Whether that be dinner a skype call and don't talk about medical school number two Make sure you have a personal hobby and create some time out of medical school to give Some time where you can be involved in a number three Create an impossible goal and we're verse engineers You can work day in and day out and think about it until you get close enough if not To actually accomplishing it at the end of the year And finally find your golden nuggets because those are going to be huge When you are in a slump and again that worksheet will be in the description down below So that's going to be it for this video guys before I end again. I want you guys to comment down below What is one thing you're going to take away? You know, if you're not motivated right now What principle of those four would you use that you think it's going to help you get out of a slump? I'd love to hear to see if this was helpful and if you want more videos like this Just let me know and I'll be happy to make them But as always make sure you give this video a like if you enjoyed it subscribe to the channel help me get to my impossible goal of 25 000 And that's basically it share with a friend and I will see you guys in the next video. Take care guys