 Welcome to my channel. Today I was reading a very very interesting article in the newspaper this morning wherein it said that only 8% of the people are able to carry forward their new resolution. Only 8% of the people are able to be successful performing the new year resolution or in making those resolution into a habit. Now I was wondering why this percentage is so less like less than 10% of the people succeed in rest of us fail. What is the reason behind it? And then after contemplating about it I found out that the reason is procrastination. All of us are in this 21st century world are struggling to overcome procrastination. We all are slaves to the force of procrastination and we all tend to indulge into activities and tend to waste so much time that we are not able to develop a successful career. So here comes the role of certain tips that you can incorporate in your life so that when you are preparing for this UGC Net exam you are actually able to be victorious over the ghost of procrastination and you are able to give your 100% to the exam because if you give your 100% then life will definitely pay you back. So the first tip that I am going to talk about in this video is that you need to say no to distractions. It is very important make a not to do list. You might be wondering what is Arpita talking about making a not to do list. Like we all have to make a to do list but Arpita is telling us to make a not to do list. Yes guys I am telling you to make a not to do list because unless and until you don't make a not to do list you will never be able to concentrate on the items that are listed in the to do list. What happens is that whenever you are working on something which is there on your to do list somewhere you get distracted due to the items that are pulling your attention which are there in the not to do list. For example like there were several friends of mine who started watching Game of Thrones while they were preparing for UGC Net exam and they were not able to clear it. Now you can very well wonder why was that so because Game of Thrones is such an addictive television show that if you start watching one episode you cannot resist and you will keep on watching the entire season and then season after season and then you will realize that ok tomorrow exam and if I get something today then that is just the names of the characters of Game of Thrones and that will not help you in your exam. So it is important that you build a not to do list according to what distracts you. For example I am a person who get addictive to certain TV shows. When I was preparing for my net exam I made sure that the PC in which I used to work I used to totally put all the television shows which were there in my PC to a different laptop so that when I am working on the PC I don't feel an urge to just watch that particular clip or that particular show. Plus what you need to understand is that whenever you are preparing for a competitive exam there are things which will try to pull you down. For example there will be certain set of people in your life who are distractors like who will demoralize you to the extent that you will think that I can never achieve success in this exam. There will be people in your friend circle who will try to tell you certain writers or certain questions that will put your morale down that will make you feel as if you have not studied anything. So it is very important that you keep yourself away from such people. On top of that what is important is that if you are addicted to any particular android game or PlayStation game then make sure that you keep that aside because all these things will somewhere pull you towards them. Our brain knows what is right what is wrong but what where the brain fails is that we work on pleasure principle. Our brain our hormones work on pleasure principle. Whenever we get pleasure from something we will automatically get into that stream not aware of the thing that somewhere this pleasure thing might not be right for my life at this point of time. So it is very important that you keep yourself away from the pleasurable things. For example when a person is on a diet it is very important that the person doesn't taste any sweet things because when you just taste sugar you feel craving to have it more. Unless and until you have not touched sugar you feel as if you have the power to resist it but once you touch sugar then sugar gets the power and you actually become a slave to sugar. The same thing happens with all the addictive things. When you are working on those addictive things when you are associated to those addictive things you will find that they have the power they become the masters. The second important thing that actually helps you while you are preparing is to break down things into smaller chunks. What is important guys is that whenever we are working on any important writer like a big writer like Shakespeare who has written so many works we get so overwhelmed that we feel that we will never be able to finish this chunk. This topic will never be finished. It is so endless and that is why we keep on procrastinating it. Today it is two hours, today it is one hour. What will we do? And sort of those ideas keep on running in our mind. Where you can win the battle is that divide a bigger chunk into smaller chunks. Make it into bite sized lessons. Make it so small that you are able to finish the target in 30 minutes or 45 minutes not more than one hour. So that even if in a day you are not able to give more than two hours at least you can complete two chunks of that particular topic. So always try to make and divide a bigger chunk into smaller chunks which you can complete and make the goals very realistic. We all are in this realm of imagination. We overestimate our abilities. We think that okay, in today's day I will complete all the five romantic writers, major poets. Now that is not practically possible because you will get overwhelmed. You will get so frustrated that you will not even begin with the romantic writers. So it is important that give yourself realistic targets as well as divide a major writer into smaller parts and work on each individual chunk. And once you finish every chunk reward yourself. Because every time you reward yourself, every time you appreciate yourself, your brain is motivated to work for you again. Because if you keep scolding your brain that you don't even remember, you don't even have any education, then what will I do in life? All these things if they keep on hampering, all these things if they keep on haunting your brain, you will find that you will never be able to be successful in your endeavors. Because somewhere you are actually working in the opposite mechanism. Your brain needs appreciation. We all feel good when we are appreciating. If you have two scenarios in one scenario, your parents appreciate your efforts, you will be boosted to do more. You will have this feeling that yes, I will do more. I will make them proud. And if your parents keep on cribbing, criticizing you, you will find that you will get into a zone where you don't want to work anymore for them. You don't want that they should be happy because of you. This is how it works. Similarly, if the external criticism hampers us, similarly the internal world hampers us more. Because external criticism is like a knife. If the person is trying to kill you, then you can at least save yourself. But if I am trying to kill myself through the words, through the harsh words that I am using for myself, then nobody can stop me from that. So these are the two things that you must keep in mind when you are preparing for UGC net English literature. Because somewhere these two things will help you in building your stamina and in following a proper study routine. Now the next important thing that we are going to talk about in this video is the Pomodoro Technique. Now Pomodoro Technique is very influential technique in psychology. Pomodoro Technique says that every time you take up a task, take a task which is not more than 30 minutes of time. Okay, now take up a task, do it for 25 minutes, then take a 5 minutes break and then reset the timer. And make sure that you don't get into the distraction into any distraction while you are working in the task. Whenever you have a distracting thought, think about it and tell the thought that come after 25 minutes when I am through with this work. Pomodoro Technique helps you to keep check of your targets. Every day you can make a checklist wherein you can write all the things that you would like to do that day. Divide those things into chunk of 25 minutes and after every 25 minutes, take a 5 minute break so that you can think about all those stuff which were disturbing you in the 25 minutes or you can relax yourself by listening songs or by doing some stretch ups or exercises. So Pomodoro Technique is very influential because when you try to sit for a longer period of time, you try to give a sitting of 3 hours, 4 hours, your brain stops working for 30 minutes and that is when you have all the distracting thoughts coming up. So it is important that just in order to break the task into 30 minutes so that every time you have a distracting thought, you can tell yourself that I just need to work on this thing for 30 minutes and after 30 minutes I can definitely think about what is distracting me. Also at the same time, do remember one very very very essential thing which is called Ulysses Pact. Now if you have read Ulysses, you must be aware of this thing that Odess when he was going on the ship, he was quite sure that he will be distracted by the siren song and that is why he attached himself to the ship. So he actually made sure that he tied himself to the ship mast so that he is not distracted when the siren song is played. The same thing applies to you. You need to also work on the same strategy which was followed by Odessi because Odessi became so successful because he had the power to overcome all the distractions. Similarly, if you have a target in your mind and you can just tie yourself to the target and you can make sure that you are not distracted at any cost, I am sure that success will be yours and it will be yours very soon. So you must know that you have a goal in your life which is clearing UGC net English and you have to tie yourself to that goal and you have to keep all the other things aside. One very important thing that can help you in this process is listening to motivational songs whenever you take a break. While the Pomodoro technique you are following it, if you take a break do listen to some really motivational songs. Like I had an entire playlist of motivational songs from Bhag Milka Bhag, Laksh movie from Maricom and I used to listen to them constantly so that I can keep myself boosted throughout the preparation and I know that yes these people worked so hard and they were able to make a mark on this world. Similarly, if I work hard I can also make my parents proud I can achieve the goals that I have in my mind and I can do so good in my life. So that is how motivational songs will help you to keep yourself on track. Also at the same time do remember that there is this beautiful movie, Pursuit of Happiness in which the father tells his son that don't ever think bad when people say that you can't do it because when people say you can't do it you just need to keep your focus on your goal and you should not listen to them because even if I, being your father even if I say that you cannot do it don't listen to me. Just keep your focus on the goal and keep working towards it, keep striving towards it and that is where the success lies and that is what is the key to success. So that's it with this note I end this video. I'll be meeting you in my next video lecture. Till the time I meet you next, happy learning and before you go do subscribe to this channel. 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So with that note I end the video. Happy learning. Keep loving literature.