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CPA Exam: How to Find CPA Study Time While Working Full Time - YouTube
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If you feel like you can't find the time to study
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consistently or you struggle sticking with
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your daily study routine, in this video, I'm going to
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give you two simple steps to solve that for good.
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Let's start with a quote from the book Atomic Habits,
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that was written by James Clear.
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He says, "You do not rise to the level of your goals,
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you fall to the level of your systems." So,
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of course, anyone who starts the CPA exam process,
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their goal is to pass the CPA exams.
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But we also know from the published pass rates
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that only about 50 percent of candidates pass
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their exams and some large
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percentage of all CPA candidates eventually give up and
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never finish their CPA at all.
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Now, everyone knows that you're supposed to stay
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consistent, you're supposed to study every day.
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So where does this always go wrong?
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And typically what you'll hear is someone that says,
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"life gets in the way"...
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And life does get in the way.
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People are busy. If you're working full time, it's
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incredibly hard to find four to five
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hours a day to sit down and study.
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Now, if your life becomes: you wake up, you
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go to work, then you study, then you go
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to sleep, and then you do it over and over again, for
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months, life quickly becomes pretty
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miserable. In fact, going back to the book
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Atomic Habits, James Clear talks about
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how, if achieving your goals
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requires huge amounts of willpower
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that goes against your natural tendencies
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and you're always fighting yourself to try and accomplish
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the steps that lead to your goals, you will
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not follow through.
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So the question is, how do you make your daily study
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routine doable?
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How do you fit your study routine into your normal
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daily life so that you don't have to fight yourself
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every day to make time for it?
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So let's go back to that quote one more time.
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You do not rise to the level of your goals.
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You fall to the level of your systems.
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Or we could say you fall to the level of your
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daily routine. OK, so how do we do this?
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So the easiest way to make your daily study sessions
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easier to accomplish, make them easier
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to fit into your actual daily routine, is
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to make them shorter.
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So what we teach our clients to do is to have a two hour
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main study session and on workdays, that's
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all you do with your review course.
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So you do a two hour study session, you're following
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our study framework and you do it in the morning
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so that your biggest task, your
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biggest mental hurdle, it's done, out of the way, you
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don't have to think about it and dread it all day long.
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For example, the main study strategy we teach our clients
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for moving through new lessons we call "planting
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the seeds". This is where you learn how to quickly
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identify the most tested parts of any
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lesson and you learn it backwards,
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which means learning it in the same context that you'll
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actually see it on test day.
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And this can be done with any review course, once you
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know how to do it. When you know how to study like this,
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you really can get more done in two hours
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than somebody studying four to five hours the normal
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way. Now, if you want more info on how to actually do
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this and our other strategies, then we have
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a free "Strategic CPA Studying"
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workshop that you can attend.
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It's a webinar.
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It's only at certain times, there should be a link below
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this video or a button below this video you can click on
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to sign up for one of those upcoming sessions.
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So at the beginning, I said I'd give you two ways to do
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this. That was the first way: a two hour main study
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session. You lock it in in the morning, you make it a
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morning ritual. So it is done, you do it when your brain
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is fresh. You're not trying to study for four hours
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after work, when your brain is already fried and you
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can't even focus on the video lecture.
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It just works so much better in every way to
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do it in the morning. So that's step number one.
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Step number two is then throughout the rest of your
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day, you continue to study from your
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phone using study supplements.
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Now we all get these screentime reports,
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which are shocking, to say the least.
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You know, you think, "how did I find three hours a day
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to goof around on my phone?" So what I'm talking about is
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simply taking advantage of all that time,
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even the busiest people, all of us.
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We have these smartphones we carry around and we look at
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them up to a hundred times an hour.
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So even taking a portion of those little
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"mini sessions" on your phone, you replace all your
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time-waster time on TikTok, Instagram,
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Reddit, whatever your favorite time waster apps are,
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you replace that with reading review notes,
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taking quizzes. Whenever you're in your car, you listen
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to audio notes, when you're preparing meals, when you're
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just lounging around the house, you could be
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listening to audio notes in the background.
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Now, I don't just recommend this because we happen
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to sell the exact study supplements I am talking
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about. So study after study like this one
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proves that when you're trying to learn a new topic
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or a new subject, whatever it is, when you study
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in small chunks multiple times a day, you're
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recalling the information you're trying to learn
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multiple times a day, it is dramatically more effective
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for your long term learning and your long term retention
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than one longer study period done
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just once a day.
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Now, for our purposes, it just so happens that it's
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also a lot easier to do it this way,
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I think you would agree that two hours a day
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is twice as easy as trying to sit down
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for four or five hours a day, and then you
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make up the rest of the time by doing the things you're
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already doing. You're already driving your car places.
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You're already looking at your phone multiple hours a
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day. You simply fit in the rest of your study time
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in all those little five to ten minute chunks.
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The big advantage is, you have put in four
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to five hours by the time you're done with work for the
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day and you take the evenings off, you
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get to still do the things that you would normally do, so
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that you don't go crazy through this process.
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That alone makes this process much more doable.
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It makes it much more motivating.
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But most of all, it just makes it much more likely that
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you will actually stick to it.
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So to recap, you do the two hour main study session
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with your current review course.
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It doesn't matter what review course you're currently
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using. You do two hours in the morning.
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If you want more info on how we teach our clients
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to study, you can sign up for one of those free strategic
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study workshops.
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There should be a link below the video or a button below
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the video. So you do the two hours in the morning with
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your review course. Then you take study supplements
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and you keep studying throughout the rest of your day.
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This way, by the time you're done with work, you've put
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in four to five hours, maybe even more, of quality
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study time so that you can take the evenings off, so
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that you don't go crazy through this process.
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So if you found this video helpful, please take a second
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to like the video, subscribe to the
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notified whenever we publish new videos.
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And then in the comments below, just leave a comment
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about your current struggle with finding time
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to study. What is your average day look like?
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Why is it such a challenge to find the time to study?
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And then if the ideas in this video made sense,
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let us know in the comments.
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Thanks for watching and we'll see you on the next video.
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