Mistake 1: Being resentful of the test or your current situation.

This is a wrong attitude for any desired test results or situations. If you pour hatred or resentment into anything, what outcome will you get? I bet you see the answer right away.

If you don’t, then try this simple experiment: Focus on the feeling of being treated unfairly and swear to defeat it. Then go study for an hour.  On another day, just accept your situation and go study for the same amount of time. 

On which day are you more productive?

The reality answers you.

- So what is the right attitude?

See the situation you are in as an opportunity!

The truth is, the bigger the obstacle, the higher the reward! It is waiting for you right on the other side of the difficulty! Your only job is to face the obstacle directly! Not to go around or try to avoid it! (Otherwise, you will see it again and again in the other forms). Gather all your energy to push through your biggest struggle, and you will see how life opens up in a wonderful way you've ever imagined. 

If you look closely at any situation in your life, you will see there always are two sides: negative and positive. A sincere appreciation, which comes from understanding, is a way to experience the positive side in any situations. On the other hand, if you fight with or complain about the situation you are in, you unknowingly choose the negative side to experience.

Here is an example of what I am saying: 

Say, you are not an English native speaker but are going to take a test in English. You can think of this situation as an opportunity and feel grateful: The test will motivate you to study English, with which you often feel bored studying. This will give you great advantages in terms of life opportunities and make your brain more flexible. By thinking this way, you feel more satisfied studying for the test and make much progress with the test. 

But you also can think this situation as an obstacle and feel resentful: the test makers are not fair with people whose mother tongue is not English! The native speakers of English have so many advantages over non-native speakers! In this case, you are likely to proceed neither with your test nor with your English.

So it depends on you to see your situation as an obstacle or as an opportunity. If you see your test as an obstacle, you will find it hard to study. But if you see the test as an opportunity to improve certain skills or improve your life, you will enjoy studying it.

 (If you want to learn more about the miracle of seeing the Goodness in any situations, please read Chapter 6-Practice 4)