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Happy early Easter!
This week, I wanted to share a short video that perfectly captures something I believe deeply:
Small daily habits create powerful long-term results.
As I watched it, I kept thinking about my students…and about my little boy.
What we do daily becomes who we are—and what our children see daily becomes who they believe they can become.
If you have a few minutes, this is worth watching:
👉 Watch here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJBZRfibicE
👶 A Personal Reflection as a New Dad
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my little boy.
He’s still young—watching, learning, absorbing everything around him.
The other day, I noticed him watching me read—and it reminded me how much children learn without a single word being spoken.
And it made me realize something humbling:
My habits today will become his habits tomorrow.
Not because I’ll tell him what to do…but because he watches what I do.
If he sees me:
📚 Reading regularly
📝 Planning intentionally
🎯 Finishing what I start
💪 Showing discipline even when it’s hard
Then those behaviors won’t just be things I teach him…
They’ll be things he believes are normal.
And that’s the real power of habits.
They don’t just shape our outcomes.
They shape the people watching us.
🧠 Identity and Self-Talk
Something I’ve learned in my day-to-day work as a doctor is how powerful identity and self-talk are.
Medicine is full of moments that test your confidence—difficult diagnoses, unexpected complications, long nights, high-stakes decisions.
And in those moments, what matters most isn’t just knowledge.
It’s identity.
Not:
❌ “I hope I don’t mess this up.”
But:
✅ “I am someone who stays calm.”
✅ “I am someone who thinks clearly under pressure.”
✅ “I am someone who keeps learning.”
That kind of self-talk isn’t just motivational—it’s practical.
It shapes how you respond when things get hard.
And the same is true for students.
Not:
❌ “I’m bad at math.”
But:
✅ “I’m someone who practices.”
✅ “I’m someone who sticks with hard things.”
✅ “I’m someone who learns from mistakes.”
Because my experience in 10+ years of private tutoring has been:
Children don’t become confident first—they become consistent first.
Confidence follows consistency.
Identity follows habits.
📖 A Quote That Stayed With Me this week
From the book The 12 Week Year:
“The quality of our decisions creates the quality of our life.”
Because habits are really just decisions repeated daily.
The decision to read
The decision to practice
The decision to try again
The decision to show up
Those small decisions—made daily—shape our future.
And for parents…
They shape the example our children grow up watching.
🎯 Try it!
Each day:
📚 Read for 1 page every day
OR
🏃♀️ Exercise 1-time this week
OR
🧠 Look up 1 thing you were unsure about earlier in the day
That’s it.
Small. Simple. Repeatable.
Because what matters most isn’t intensity—It’s consistency.
🏫 At Ehm Academy
We continue focusing on helping students build:
✔ Strong academic habits
✔ Independent thinking
✔ Confidence through repetition
✔ A mindset built on consistency
Because education isn’t just about knowledge.
It’s about who your child becomes.
As an educator, a new father—and someone who works daily in high-stakes environments—this message feels especially meaningful to me this month and I hope you can take even one item from this short read.
The habits we build today—in ourselves and in our children—quietly shape the people we become tomorrow.
Small habits today = powerful futures tomorrow.
I hope you all have a very Happy Easter weekend!
I will write to you again on May 1st!
— Deepak
Currently:
📖 : Reading | 👀: watching/listening | 🎵: song of the week | 💬 : Quote of the Week
📖 : The 12 Week Year by Brian Moran
👀 : Drive to Survive- Netflix
🎵 : Nights in White Satin- The Moody Blues
💬 : “You don’t rise to the level of your goals — you fall to the level of your systems.” -James Clear