Hi! I’m seventeen and if your having some self doubt at the moment or anxiety about your near future, i suggest you read my story and I hope it will help you 🙂 (it’s loooong, but it will help)
So about a year back I had fallen into depression because I didn’t do well in my studies the previous year and I was really scared that I wouldn’t be able to do well in my final year either with science as my stream and therefore not get into a good college. 
But then as I was looking every where for the inspiration I couldn’t find, I came across my own story that I had submitted to The Secret website the year before that I didn’t have the slighted idea about getting published). It was about how I applied the secret and my life got so much better ( you can find it here if you want. It’s titled ‘blackberry, friends, grades, school, meeee :D’) so after I read my own story, I was so inspired! And the comments! You guys have no clue how much your comments helped me! I was reading them all like a year late but I wished I could thank each one of them. And that got me motivated beyond anything ever could!
I forgot the past and all the odds and set out for the new year with new determination and new hope. 
Much to every one’s surprise, I topped almost all the subjects in the first 2 sets of tests! I can’t forget, I got a 37/40 in my physics test! Gahhh the feeling! Me! Topping PHYSICS! This was before the summer vacations.
But then after the summer vacations, everything took a toil. My scores started dipping and they fell to such a point that I scored a…. 10/40 in my physics test. I failed a subject I once topped. This was crazy.
I didn’t know what was happening. I was trying to stay positive (because knowing the law of attraction, I knew that negativity will only make everything worse). But I knew that my confidence had dropped levels, the first time I scored low in the class.
That happens with me a lot, losing confidence in myself. 
So almost 4 months later, after trying to bring my self back up, I stopped. I sat down and read all the stories in education section that I could and realized what went wrong.
I had lost confidence in myself and believed that I didn’t have it in me like the other kids. So I decided to forget the past and test out The Secret again. And I had a good opportunity too. I had my board practicals a week back and they make for 30 marks in my total score. So a fat before my chemistry practical to give me ammonium phosphate salt for salt analysis (we’re given an unknown salt that we have to find out by analyising it). So I studied for my practical bit I studied re ammonium salt analysis very thoroughly because I kept telling myself that that’s the salt I’m going to get. And for the scariest part of the practical, the viva (where an external examiner questions you) I kept telling myself that the examiner would ask me this one specific question and that she’ll be very happy with me when I give the right answer. I almost forced myself to believe this.

And much to my greatest surprise EVERY THING went as I had asked for! My salt, out of 40 anions and cations, was the one I had believed to get! Ammoniumsulphate! And that’s not it! Even in te viva, the examiner asked me the question I had decided and of course I gave the answer in a jiffy and she was so surprised! She asked me a couple of other questions too which I knew very well and my practical went perfectly! I did the same for physics and that went great too! I couldn’t believe it! Was it just a coincidence? I think not!
And now I’m on a roll! I had a physics mock test today and I believed that I was ready for it and that I knew everything that was on the paper! An guess what! It couldn’t have been better 😀

Believe, believe, believe. No matter what the odds are. Don’t ever under estimate yourself because you’re made of star dust. You deserve everything you desire 😀
now smile realllyyyy wide and go, get your dreams! Trust me, if I can do it, so can you!