Your unnecessary doubts are making you insecure!

Welcome back to the?15th edition?of my weekly newsletter. This newsletter will provide various topics of engagement to parents and their children who are preparing for different competitive exams. So, parents are requested to share this newsletter with their kids and help them to boost up their

I call this newsletter?One2One (1-2-1), where I'll be sharing;

• 1 story
• 2 Topper Tips/Quotes
• 1 Must watch video

So without further ado, let's begin with today's story.

1 Story: Unnecessary Doubts

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of beautiful?marbles. The girl had some candies with her. The boy offered to give the girl all his marbles in exchange for all her candies. The girl agreed. The boy gave all the marbles to the girl, but secretly kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble for himself. The girl gave him all her candies as she had promised. That night, the girl slept peacefully. But the boy couldn’t sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some more tasty candies from him the way he had hidden his best marble.

Morals-

1. The most crucial lesson that this story teaches us is that when we chase something in life, two things that matter the most are Competence and Character.
2. Having a good command on concepts and subject, problem-solving determines how competent you are in that subject and how good your preparation is going. Generally most of the students are behind competence. But what they forget is Character of any individual lays a basic foundation for competence to develop and grow.
3. So Character is as important as competence or I would say Character lays foundation for competence.

Competence will give you success in exams while character will give you success in life.

4. Our character can be well portrayed by how we treat our peers. Do we treat them with love and respect or are we envious of their wins. If we co-operate with our peers, help them, we will also grow but if we treat them as competition, our personality will turn shallow.

5. I would like to conclude by saying that Co-operation will win over Competition.

?If you want to watch?Motivational Stories for Students, that contain many tips and techniques along with various life lessons, visit the channel?-" Story Speaks by Avinash Agarwal"

2 Productivity hacks (That actually works)

1. Hour of Power

Whenever we write exams, we are super productive. In those 3 hours, we do not get tired or even lose focus for a single minute. Then why can’t we focus like this when we study?

Hour of power is the concept of developing same concentration and productivity like we have while writing the exams. Because generally, students spend 2-3 hours studying and yet their productivity is not even equal to that of one hour. They procrastinate and keep pushing the work for hours instead of completing it on time.

So with HOP, they will be able to increase their productivity levels.

Start with One hour of power and then increase two and three in a day. Allot different times in the day. For e.g., keep first HOP in the morning, one in afternoon and one in evening.

To make this hour productive, look it with extreme importance, just like you see your exams. Divide the hour, at the back of your head, into different sections and allot the work that you need to complete in those sections.

Do not use the washroom, eat or use the cell phone. Do not sit on bed while studying during this HOP. This is all because, you have to develop a situation just like you face in your examination.

Keep a watch with yourself to track the time.

?2. Now the other thing that happens whenever we sit to study is that we tend to remember all those miscellaneous tasks that we have lined up to complete. And when we get up to complete those tasks, we get distracted.

So put all these tasks in a?Miscellaneous Task bucket that will hold account of all mini miscellaneous tasks. All of these tasks can be completed altogether when you get up from your studies.

1 Must watch Video: 3S for Sure Shot Success

Success in a competitive exam is not only dependent on your knowledge level but also on to what extent you are able to apply that knowledge in the examination hall. In other words, what matters is to what extent a student is able to convert his knowledge (input) into a net score (output).

The video talks about?3S for Sure Shot Success?which are;

• Speed:? Ability to solve questions quickly.
• Strike Rate:? Ability to solve questions correctly
• Selection:? Ability to select what to do & what not to do.

To know further in detail, please watch the complete video.?

Free Goodie

As a gesture of courtesy for providing immense love and support to my newsletter, I want to share my latest?Picture book on, “10 Life lessons from Bhagavad Gita for Parents/Students”.?This picture book will provide you a new perspective. This will also help you and your children to stay motivated, even in the toughest times. So, enjoy the picture book and next month I will be back again with something new and exciting.

I would also like to announce my new book- "How to raise a Topper".

Through this book, I want to convey to every anxious parent and every nerve-wrecked student out there is that anybody can be a topper. All you need is the right mindset and a few habits to support all that positive thinking.??