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How to Pass Your CPA Exams, AND Still Have a Life
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May 3, 2024
In this SuperfastCPA video you'll learn how to pass your CPA exams and still have a life, in 3 steps! In this video we cover CPA study strategies and CPA exam study tips you can use to pass your CPA exams while working full-time, and still keep your evenings free! IMPORTANT LINKS Learn "Strategic CPA Study": https://www.superfastcpa.com/study-secrets/ EPISODE TIMESTAMPS 00:00 How to Pass & Still Have a Life 00:34 Introduction 01:15 Step 1: 2-Hour Morning Study Session 02:19 How to Master Your CPA Study Process 02:57 Why Morning Studying Works Much Better 04:38 Step 2: Mini Sessions Through Your Normal Day 06:26 Step 3: Take the Evenings Off 07:13 Built-In Retention Practice 07:59 Take a True Break from Thinking About Studying Each Day
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There's this huge sense of relief
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You don't feel like your life is bleak, that it's just work, study, try to sleep
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and do it all again. You get your life back to a certain degree
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do the things that you would normally do, do the things that you like doing
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and the biggest thing is you can feel good about what you accomplished during the day
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so that you can completely disengage and just shut off that part of your mind
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that's always worrying about CPA study. All right, so in this video
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we are going to cover briefly how to pass your CPA exams
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and still have a life. And a lot of people out there think that that's not possible
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that if you're going to make the commitment that's required to pass the CPA exams
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that it has to take up your entire life, basically, outside of work
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Your whole life's going to be work and then study. That's partially true
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but I'm gonna show you how you can take the evenings completely off
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and why that's so important to give your mind a mental break from constantly thinking about studying
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or feeling guilty for not studying. So step one is a two-hour study session
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that's done in the morning. So in the morning gives you several advantages
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So first and foremost, for this to work, you have to have your study methods nailed down
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You need to know exactly how to dissect and effectively move through each lesson
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so that it's formulaic, it's surgical. When you sit down for the two hours
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you know exactly how to move through that day's lessons so that you're not constantly getting stuck
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watching and re-watching the video lectures over and over and not really accomplishing anything
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Now, when you do know how to study very effectively, very efficiently
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you can honestly get more done in a two-hour morning study session
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than somebody studying the normal way, four to five hours. If they save it for the nighttime
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there's constant distractions and their brain is already fried from working 10 or 12 hours
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It's just not effective. It does not work nearly as well. You have to spend twice the amount of time
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to get the same results if you save your studying for the evenings
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Now, there's a lot I could say and get into all the specifics
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on how to do the morning study sessions, such as what exactly your study routine should consist of
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the different study methods, how to dissect every lesson, but we cover those in our free study training webinars
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Those are a free one-hour training where we will walk you through our study strategies
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in detail, and it's primarily about how to use your current review course
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much more effectively and much more efficiently, but we're not gonna cover that in this short video
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To sign up for one of those trainings, you can do it at our main website at superfastcpa.com
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or there will be a link down in the description of this video. So a few of the reasons why the morning studying
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works so much better, we kind of touched on this, but your brain is fresh
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When you have worked 10 to 12 hours, and then you've also kind of been dreading
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having to sit down after work and study for four or five hours
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you are pretty drained mentally and emotionally, and you have to constantly battle distractions
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when you save your studying for nighttime. When it's early in the morning
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hopefully, wherever you live, apartment, house, I mean, whatever, at six or 5 a.m. in the morning
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there should be relatively no distractions. Your phone's not constantly going off
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you're not getting texts from people, and it should be, again, ideally, just nice and quiet
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It is just 1,000 times easier to jump straight in and stay focused and on task
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and just knock out your two-hour session. Going along with that, it's much more of a sprint versus a marathon
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I think if you asked 95% of people, if you had to do one form of a race every single day
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would you rather do a sprint or a marathon? Most people would say, yeah
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it's easier to sprint for 100 yards than try and run 10 miles
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So it's easier mentally to handle, okay, all I gotta do is just get up
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knock out these two hours, again, versus knowing that you have to sit there
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for four or five hours and think about it all day, dread it, deal with all the work stuff that's going on
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all other distractions in your life. It's just 1,000 times easier to do it like this
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And again, in those free study trainings, we will walk you through exactly
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what this two hours should consist of. Now, the second part of this
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is something that we call mini sessions. All this means is studying from your phone
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in all the little chunks that you already do this, is the thing
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You get those screen reports, and it tells you that even if you feel
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like you're a really busy person, somehow you found two to three
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maybe even four hours a day to stare at your phone. And obviously you don't do that all at one time
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You do that in these little five to 10 minute chunks. We all have these phones we carry around
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and we look at them constantly, and it typically adds up to two to three hours a day or more
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So all we're talking about with these mini sessions, since you've already invested the money
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and years of your life, getting college degrees, just to be able to sit for these exams
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instead of using things like Reddit or TikTok or Instagram, or listening to music or podcasts on your phone
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for a few months, you simply switch all that out for review notes
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audio notes, taking quizzes from your phone. And you can add in an extra two to three hours
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of very high quality study time, just by going through your normal day
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Nice. So this is another thing we won't get into on this video
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but our study tools from SuperfastCPA, we created them specifically with this idea in mind
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because this, for our customers that adopt this idea, it's very simple
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And it makes a lot of common sense, right? Instead of using social media apps throughout your day
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you can rack up two to three extra hours of study time, just by using study tools from your phone
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That should just make sense. Step number three in this process is take the evenings off, okay
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So you do have to be regimented, you do have to be disciplined
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but all you have to do is nail these two things. A two hour morning study session
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where you study highly efficiently, highly effectively. I should say that this is on weekdays, right
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I'm assuming you work full time, that's on weekdays. So you nail this on the weekdays
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and then you do the, whatever it ends up being, one hour, two hours, three hours
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Whenever you're in your car, you listen to audio notes. Whenever you'd normally pull out your phone
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and scroll through social media, just force yourself to at least do one mini quiz
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or read three to five pages in the review notes. Then get your little five minute
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social media fix or whatever. But as long as you force yourself to do a mini session with CPA material first
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you will start making connections with all the material. It's also a retention strategy
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So with our study tools, the idea is, you're constantly rehashing all the stuff
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you've previously studied, so that you're not forgetting things. You've spent all this time going through all these lessons
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It doesn't make any sense to put five hours into a lesson
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and then not look at it for two months, right? That doesn't logically make sense
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So mini sessions are a form of locking in your understanding and your retention
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So you've done this two hours, you've done two to three more hours. So you've done four to five high quality study hours
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by the time that you're just done with kind of your average workday
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So step three is take the evenings off and completely disengage and just don't even think about CPA study in the evenings
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And there's a huge difference. There's this huge sense of relief. You don't feel like your life is bleak
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that it's just work, study, try to sleep and do it all again for six months
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or however long it's gonna take you to pass. You get your life back to a certain degree
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You take the evenings off, do the things that you would normally do, do the things that you like doing
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And the biggest thing is, you can feel good about what you accomplished
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during the day so that you can completely disengage and just shut off that part of your mind
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that's always worrying about CPA study. So it's this huge mental relief
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or it's lifting off this huge mental burden. And you can listen to some of our podcast episodes
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where person after person will talk about that idea. Once they adopted our study strategies
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doing this exact thing, just how much easier the study process felt
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because they weren't constantly worried. Like if they weren't working, they weren't constantly in their mind
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just thinking you've gotta be studying, you're wasting time, you're falling behind
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You nailed the daily process and you just, you take the evenings off
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This is like your time that you get back right now that you don't have to worry about the study process at all
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And when you're following the study strategies that you will learn in these free trainings
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everything you're doing will be working better. It's way more efficient, way more effective
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So again, to learn how to study incredibly efficiently with your current review course
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you'll be using it slightly differently than the normal way. You wanna sign up for one of our free study trainings
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where that's the basis. We get into the nitty gritty of, this is how you dissect lessons
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This is how you move through material really quickly. And the last half hour
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of these two hour morning study sessions is another retention component that we show you how to build in
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We explain that on the training. Again, so that you're not constantly just forgetting
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all this stuff you're spending so much time trying to learn in the first place
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So you can go to our main website at superfastcpa.com to sign up for one of those trainings
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or there should be a link down in the description. So I hope you found that helpful
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Thanks for watching and we'll see you on the next episode. ♪�
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