so in this blog i'm gonna go through how i went from struggling to stay focused when studying for even 15 minutes at a time i would get distracted so quickly to being able to concentrate for a full 12 hours with just a few breaks in between this is something that i've been thinking about quite a lot recently the difference between what would be called an average student and a high performance student and what makes an average student average and what makes a high performance student high performance i've realized that the first hour of the day what i'm going to call the golden hour is kind of what determines how your day will turn out so whether you have a productive day or an unproductive day it is influenced heavily on what you do in the first hour of the day so let me explain when my alarm clock goes off in the morning but i keep hitting the snooze button.

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 and i finally wake up and i spend 30 minutes scrolling through social media i then slowly go and shower and have breakfast watch netflix for a bit then two hours after waking up i finally leave the house it's very likely that that slow energy momentum will carry on throughout the day on the other hand let's say i wake up early i get straight out of bed i get ready i go straight to my task list and see what tasks i need to complete first and i have a very productive morning then of course i'm likely to have a productive day too it's this golden hour in the morning the one hour after waking up that often determines whether i'm going to have a productive day or not and i see this a lot with the students that i coach the high performance students live their lives with urgency they have things to do people to see goals to achieve and so their actions match that it's like when you start working your graduate job and you'll have key performance indicators or kpis to read you'll probably have a manager keeping an eye on your performance so for every hour that you work the company is investing money in you so naturally they want you to work at a decent speed.

 so if you're working slow and you're not reaching your kpis and just your general demeanor is slow and lethargic then it's very likely that your manager will pull you into their office and have a world review and ask you to speed up the thing about being a student is that students don't have a manager like you would have in a workplace right they don't have a manager to keep track of their performance and to apply that bit of extra pressure to speed up their performance so essentially you have to be your own manager you have to be regularly monitoring yourself and be asking was i productive today was i working as fast as.