Key point to Admission Success

Key point to Admission Success

Everything in life must start from a beginning, as a journey of a kilometer must also start from a step. The beginning of anything in life really has a very important role to play in determining the endpoint. It's also the same when it comes to admission success; there must be a starting point.

There was this American athlete in the 2008 Olympic competition in Beijing, China who won ten gold medals in the men swimming category. When asked how he did it, he replied: "I just try to beat the whistle". That is to say that he always tries to start well. This athlete is Michael Phelps. So you see, every winner should have a perfect beginning (starting point).

A lot of students started well in their admission pursuit and later gaining that admission of their dreams and ended up becoming champions in all of their endeavors in life. These students are not more brilliant or smarter than those students that didn't get admitted, but because they have a good start they now have a better advantage than the rest of the students who didn't gain admission. You have to know that life itself is not fair and if you don't make the right start today, you may never get ahead in your admission pursuit and life in general.

Sometimes when you ask these students that started well how they managed to gain admission or become successful in life, these students often reply: 'probably we worked harder'. Just that? Wow, it sounds so simple. But, do you know that this is not true? Everyone knows that if you have to succeed in gaining admission into any institution of higher learning of your choice and succeed in life, you have to work hard, but more is needed from you. So, what is the truth? You see, these students that were admitted worked hard, but they did some other things to guarantee them a place in that institution of their choice. Most of them do this unintentionally. They know things that you don't know. My friends, this is the secrets of admission success. In the next few chapters, we shall be looking into these secrets thoroughly.

Starting well doesn't automatically mean that you must end well. There are at times where certain factors could come into play to take you out off-course. Starting well only gives the starter a better advantage over those students who didn't start well and early, but it does not necessarily mean that the starter is going to reach the finish line before those who didn't start well and early. Like I said earlier, life itself is not fair. It's not how far but how well. The end is what really matters in this race. You can start small and end big, but you can never remain small and end big.

Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived (starting well) makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Starting well helps you to create the future from today; the present.

For a starter getting to the finish line (admission success), he/she must possess what it takes to get there. For a student to gain admission and be successful in life, there are certain characteristics which you need to possess. These characteristics are acquired through constant practice.

Take for instance, in the case of a newborn baby; it will take that baby some months before it starts to make an attempt to crawl. You see the baby falling whenever it tries to crawl. Despite the falling and the pain, the child may feel, the baby keeps on pushing until it masters crawling. When this is done, you see the child crawling like it's such an easy task to crawl. After some months of crawling the child may not want to try another avenue, which is walking. This is so because the baby sees other individuals walking with their legs, so the baby tends to mimic them. Though it's not going to be that easy for the child you always see the child trying i.e. pushing on. The baby is been supported by old ones so that it can learn faster. After learning how to walk the baby may now wish to learn how to run and so on.

With this illustration of the baby, we can then draw from it certain characteristics being possessed by the baby which will help us in determining if we are going to end well (obtain admission success). They are:

Determination 
Planning 
Hardwork, and 
You need others

These are the obvious characteristics which the baby possessed in helping it to achieve its goals (getting to the finish line). We are going to discuss these four factors which will make you as a starter to get to the finish line in your academic and life in general.

DETERMINATION: This is one simple characteristic that failures don't possess. They confuse it for stress, over labor, or a waste of time. These things that these failures confuse for determination later become those things they will experience in the future. You always see them stressed up, laborious and working overtime to achieve a little.

A determined starter or student is that one who always says; even if I fail to gain admission this year, I will surely be admitted next year. A determined starter never allows what people say about him/her to affect his/her dreams and purpose in life. In life, a determined starter or student may fall seven times but will surely rise up again those seven times and even stronger. Whenever they fall, they always pick something up with them.

"Nothing splendid has ever being achieved except by those who dare to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance" - Bruce Barton. For you as a starter to be a winner by being admitted into that institution of your choice, you don't have to look at your circumstances. And for you not to look at your circumstances as a stumbling stone to your admission success, you will need to be determined. Circumstances are the excuse for failure, so run far from its trap.

A determination is that inner force which propels you through the challenges and storms of life. You must know that failure is just a lesson on how success is achieved. A determined starter or student must be determined to learning how to cope with failures. Success comes from a person taking the risk to step out into the unknown without any guarantee of success. So dear, you have to be determined, if you are to gain that admission of your dreams.

PLANNING: Many students still find it very difficult to take a piece of paper and a pen to write down what they wish and tend to achieve. You must plan your way from the starting point to the ending point. For you to succeed in your quest for admission, you have to plan a strategy for success right from the beginning to the end. The simple truth is that, if you fail to plan then you have planned to fail.

"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning"-Thomas Edison 
Any student or starter who fails to plan is like a ship without a compass. We all know what is likely to happen to a ship without a compass sailing in an open ocean; it will perish. So, this shows you the importance of planning before embarking on anything in life most especially your admission dreams.

There are three ways of planning. We have the short-term plan, medium-term plan, and the long-term plan. As a starter or a student, you have to plan according to what you wish to achieve during a particular period of time. When you write your plans, you must know what you tend to achieve with them. The truth is that if your plans are being carried out the very way you have planned them, they will surely give you your desired results. This is a mathematical constant that can never change its orientation no matter the condition. If your plan is like this constant, there is no doubt that what you have planned for will come to be no matter the contingency or condition present; a constant will always be a constant.

You also need to know that your past mistakes are dead and gone. If your first plan didn't work out well as planned, you have to play again but this time more effectively and accurately. You just have to plan again since this is what differentiates winners from losers. Hear what Edmund Burke said, "you cannot plan the future by the past because they belong to the past".

HARD WORK: This simply means putting a lot of effort into a plan and doing it well. If you don't work hard, you will never reach the finish line; it's that simple. To achieve admission success, you will need hard work channeled toward the right direction.

There are two types of hardwork; the one you engage in when you have a purpose (plan) and the one that has no purpose (plan). The hardwork one engages in determines what one hope to achieve in the future. Failures work hard for no meaningful reason. This is so since they have no plan or even if they do, their plans are not effective. While in the case of a hardworking student or starter, their hardwork always payoff.

The greatest and historical achievement in life like admission success is obtained through hardwork aimed toward a particular purpose (plan). Hear Martin Luther King "If you can't fly, run! If you can't run, walk! If you can't walk crawl! By all means, keep moving". Keep moving until you are satisfied with the result of your hardwork.

YOU NEED OTHERS: You must have come across the word 'nobody is an island'. Yes, for you to go far in life and gaining that admission of your dreams then you will need others. You will need others like your friends and family members to encourage you to strive harder. You will also need these people for some advice and counseling regarding your plans, but you have to be very careful.

Like the baby from our illustration, it needed support for it to stand on its feet so that it could learn how to walk. So dear, you will also be needing support from friends and family members.

You should be very careful about the kind of people you introduce or attract into your life since they have a large role to play in determining how far you will go in life and in your admission pursuit. Ok, let me explain that. While preparing and planning for admission, you should not be surrounded by people who don't understand what you are up against. These people might make you lose focus. You should be ready at this time to make some drastic decisions and sacrifices. These decisions and sacrifices might not be favorable to them but you have to do it for you to succeed. Remember, it's your life we are talking about here. They also have their own life to live.

In the same vein, you will need others to help you develop. People come to our life for a particular purpose. Identify this purpose and utilize it. You have to utilize it if it will add some meaning to your life and admission quest.

Don't be rude in your approach to some of this person you do not need in your life during this period, all you have to do is to stay away from them but don't give them the impression that you are running away from them; use psychology.

Dear starter, if you would take these characteristics very seriously, I promise, you are already knocking at the door of both admission success and of the successful life in general. Life is full of ideas, opportunities, and fulfillment, where only those who know how to excavate it get the best out of it. Never have you underestimated your value. Nobody was born a failure. You are a failure if only you see yourself as one. Strive for the best and you will see yourself getting to the finish line i.e. granted that admission that you have dreamt about.