4 D's of ACADEMIC SUCCESS - PART 1

4 D's of ACADEMIC SUCCESS - PART 1

Joshua 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.  For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Academic success should be every student’s utmost priority.  Research has shown that the human brain capacity is unlimited, and as such; it can accommodate as much data as we can input. But students are however oblivious of how their brains works hence, they tend to settle for average or less. It is against this background I find it imperative to talk about the 4 D's of Academic success as follows;

1. Desire

2. Determination 

3. Discipline 

4. Diligence 

DESIRE

 According to the Holy Book in Daniel 1:8, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would  not defile himself with the portion of the king’s  delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank;  therefore he requested of the chief of the  eunuchs that he might not defile himself”

One vital key if we want to achieve success in absolutely anything in life is the key of desire. For every student that wants to succeed academically, the DESIRE for success makes you hungry and thirsty for success.

Desire is a strong feeling of wanting to have something or a wish for something to happen.

Desire for success is the first step to academic success. This desire can be likened to the desire for food. When an individual is hungry or thirsty, he desires food or water to quench the thirst and hunger. If you are in need of something, but you do not know that you need that thing, i.e. you don’t have the desire for it, then you can never really get anything out of it. It’s that desire that drives you into getting it. Even if you are told that you will be somebody, say a billionaire in life and you do not desire it, then there will be a problem getting there. So many people are where they are today because at some point in their lives, they have not keyed into desiring certain things for their lives. If we chose to be nonchalant about the place of desire in our lives, then we will reap the fruits thereof. 

If we look at the lives of the great men and women of today, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Aliko Dangote, Folorunsho Alakija-these people at some point in their lives desired to be great and there they are today. The same way, we have a person who have become so great in good things, that is also the way we have the other set of people-thugs, armed robbers, drug dealers; at some point in their lives also, these desires were made. That brings us to the fact that our desire is at the root of whatever we become in life. There is a usual adage that goes thus; if life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. If there is no desire to make lemonade, you are left with your lemons-no two-way about it.

Also, it is important to know that the kind of environment an individual lives and the types of food available determine what he/she eats.  Thus, the kind of environment you grow up and the people you associate with (Psalm 1:1-3) or the kind of people that you meet everyday affect your desire for success-they can either  fuel  your desire to succeed or quench it.

In the book of Daniel 1, Daniel desired to be better than his peers so he took a decision (Daniel 1vs 8) to be better and that was when the desire became DETERMINATION. When the desire to succeed is fueled every day, it becomes so strong that we want to achieve our goal. Therefore, as students, we must ensure a strong desire for academic success so that seeming distractions along the way do not weigh us down.

TO BE CONTINUED