You don’t know what you want. Often the thing you want is the exact opposite of what you need. Forcing yourself to do something you don’t want to do is the hardest part of the battle. Doing those things you don’t want to do is the healthiest skill you could graduate with, but there’s a way to make it easy.

Think of pushing your car to the gas station because you’ve just run out of gas. Pushing the car to make it slowly roll towards the gas station is the biggest pain. You are essentially moving the whole car from nothing.

That’s you when you only do the things you want to do. You’re a fuel-less car with no momentum. It’s hard getting out of bed when you’re sleepy. It’s hard going to the gym if you haven’t been in a while. It’s hard going to class when you don’t feel like it. Building momentum will make things easy.

If you’ve been properly fueled and regulated, your body will wake up and get you to wherever you need to go, even if you don’t want to. It won’t be a decision. Your body will just move. That’s momentum. Your desire to be elsewhere is irrelevant to momentum.

Going to class after class makes your brain be like, “Okay I guess it’s time for class now,” and your body is only comfortable if it takes you there. It’s automatic. There’s no pain and suffering. There is no decision to be made. And that momentum is the key to easy college life.

You can’t expect to keep up with things you aren’t in the room for. That’s impossible. You think you could guess what happened in that class you missed? You might be right one or two times, but chances are that you’re wrong. Maybe you missed that one thing you needed to hear to understand the course. You never know when the “Ah-ha!” moments will be, so don’t miss them. They are expensive, yet priceless.

Nobody can motivate you to go to class. However, here are the numbers. If your semester is $5,500, each class is worth almost $200. That means you get two hundred-dollar bills every class you attend. You’re telling me you wouldn’t go to one little class to earn a whole two-hundred dollars? Yeah, I thought so. Consider that next time you don’t feel like getting out of bed.

It’s true. You’ll earn almost $200 every class you attend. Well, it’d be more accurate to say you’ll avoid throwing two hundred-dollar bills into the toilet and flushing them just to stay in bed another forty minutes and wake up tired all the same.

So, build the momentum, push that fuel-less car and no matter how much you don’t want to, go to class.