10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)

consistent, daily effort. Your workload is almost always large, and the best way 
to stay on top of it, keep your stress levels low, and maximize your learning 
potential is to make sure you’re putting in effort every single day.

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When you turn this daily effort into a habit, great results will follow. Here’s 
some proof:
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By designing a habit to write 500 words a day, I was able to finish most of 
this book in a couple months’ time.
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A habit of reading and taking notes has resulted in a Book Notes folder in 
Evernote with over 7,000 words of notes on three different books over the 
past month.
•
Doing four sets of 10 pull-ups every day has increased my max number of 
pull-ups in one set to 17 (when I started I could only do 6).
Deliberately designing habits and making sure to stick to them until they 
become natural has had incredible effects upon my health, learning, and 
business. In fact, since becoming serious about my habits, the number of visitors 
to my website has gone up over 200%; I’ve been able to publish more than 
double the number of posts that I used to; and my daily energy levels have 
increased as well.
So how do you start building strong habits? My suggestion is to use 
Habitica
. 
This is a website that helps you build habits by using video game elements, 
specifically those taken from RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior.
By completing daily habits and tasks, your character in Habitica will gain 
experience and gold, which will let you level up and buy items respectively. 
You can also join Parties with other players, and this is where Habitica becomes 
really effective. If you start a quest with your party members and fail to do your 
daily habits, you’ll take damage - but so will your party members. In order to 
keep them from getting pissed at you, you’ll need to make sure you complete 
your habits every day.
I’ve been questing with four College Info Geek readers for a couple months 
now, and during that time I’ve not even thought about skipping my daily habits. 
It wouldn’t be fair to them. Plus, since I’ve been tracking my habits in Habitica 
for so long, most of them are just natural now.
Lastly, you can join interest-based Guilds in Habitica, which let you chat with 
other players and take part in challenges. And guess what? Yep, you guessed it - 
there’s a 
College Info Geek guild
available to join. 
As of this writing, we’ve got around 1,500 members. I’d love for you to join in, 
jump in the chat room, and help build everyone’s motivation levels. We also 
have monthly challenges you can join in order to build your skills in real life.