There’s one thing that will sink your ship faster than anything.
OR
have you flying high over the mountain tops in a split second.
That thing is momentum, and it is a huge deal.
You can see it clearly in sports, but it happens everywhere. Watch a football team score a touchdown, and then the defense keeps the other team to a three and out and the whole game changes because their team feels like they can’t win. The wind goes right out of your sails. I see it every weekend on the Little League field. My dad came to a game, and afterward, he talked about how he could feel the emotion flood from one dugout into the other. Keeping that momentum is a key to winning.
I told you won a big tournament last a week ago. One of the reasons is momentum. Because of the way tournament baseball is played, our opponents had to play two games on a hot Sunday before they met for the championship at 4 o’clock. We only had to play one game before the championship.
I knew that all we had to do was get out to an early lead, and there was no way they could beat us. They were hot and tired, and I knew those kids didn’t think they could win the third game. Any little nudge would finish them off. We wound up winning 5 to 0. We scored two in the first, and the one chance they had to score some runs early was crushed by some amazing defensive plays on by our team.
Momentum is a key for you as well. You know how this works because once you get going on a test, once you drop into the zone and feel like you’ve got a few right, it gets easier. When you get a few wrong, it’s a whole different ball game. Once you hit a streak of questions that you can’t answer your brain is in a panic mode and start to freak out. Even worse than that is when you hit a streak of questions that you don’t even understand if you don’t let me know what they’re asking.
You’ve got to keep the momentum on your side you got to keep your confidence up and not winning feeling that feeling like you’re going to win no matter what.
One of my favorite unintended consequences of using the final step when you study is that you build that momentum during your exam. The Final Step is made up of 1200 questions designed to get the most vital information to stick in your brain as quickly as possible.
Knowing all those key pieces of information makes it so you can get more questions right, but that’s not the only benefit. It makes it, so every single question scratch that and make it so that every single question has a piece you at least understand. There’s always something you get, and it makes sense to you even if you can’t answer it. I get emails from people all the time telling me they could hear my voice during the exam.
All that comes from using The Final Step. That builds confidence and momentum. When you walk in the door, and you recognize the first ten questions, you start cooking along. It is so much better than spiraling out of control when you don’t recognize anything in the first ten questions.
Pause for a minute and FEEL it. You can picture it on the movie screen in your mind. It’s an awful lot of the falling stomach feeling, and it’s the number one reason people fail the exam.
Get off on the right foot — string together some wins and get the momentum on your side, use The Final Step to do it.
Brian Wallace