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Determining Your SuccessTypes Learning Style Type is Critical to Your Achievement
I know I sound like a broken record, but here is more critical self-understanding few high school or college students achieve or at least to the level needed for greater if not greatest achievement. For not having a thorough understanding of one’s talents, abilities, gifts, weaknesses, learning style, intelligence type(s), SuccessType, and more, how can [...]
Ten Cents and Your Bachelors Degree Will Get You a Cup of Coffee: How to Avoid Financial Trouble
Never mind that because of the influx of community colleges over the years, grades have inflated creating an influx of unmotivated students putting a downward pressure on academic standards. Never mind that most jobs don’t even require a degree, that it is more of a demarcation point for human resources. Never mind all that . [...]
No Fear: Overcoming Fear One Fright at a Time
You’ve seen the “No Fear” clothing stickers on cars helping to coach those who want to overcome if not ignore fear. But to ignore it or to say it doesn’t exist is only healthy if you are aware of it, its purpose and need, for understanding fear and how it’s used in our lives is [...]
How Smart You Are is Based on How You Are Smart
You desire to optimize your chance for success. What do you do? To do so involves several steps. First, we discovered that to optimize one’s chance for learning is important: “Learning About Learning: The Best State of Mind in 10 Conditions” (pub. 4/21/2010). The next step is to learn how you learn or learn best. [...]
Teen Life Skills 101: A Critical Course Your Child is Missing
For most teens, they go to school and take the mandatory classes; they acquire certain knowledge: math, science, English, language, etc. And that’s nice, a nice start. However, there’s a huge something missing from the equation, actually about three-quarters or 75 percent. And it’s more than one thing, and it’s more than just life skills [...]
Attending an Accredited College or University Does Not Guarantee Career Success
To begin, let’s take a look at what accreditation means and who’s accrediting. There are six regional accreditation agencies, but there are also national accreditation and specialized accreditation agencies. The six regional accrediting agencies cover the United States and review the programs, campuses, and education delivery of their respective, regionally located colleges and universities. National [...]
Career Assessment Tests and How to Choose a Career: What You Didn’t Expect
You’ve just graduated from high school or are close to it. You’ve done the career assessment tests and counseling. You’ve pondered the career choices that have been deemed best for you. But something doesn’t seem right. However, you didn’t like the fact that no one asked you how you felt about what the career tests [...]
No Amount of Education Reform Addresses Deeper Issues
A point to consider when talking education reform is that to the greatest degree it comes down to money. There are over 15,000 individually run school districts. Some rich. Some poor. And others in-between. Those districts of the well-to-do benefit the schools in which they live more than those of the not-so-affluent. This should be [...]
A High School Education is Necessary, But Has This Opinion Ever Been Confirmed?
First, to set the stage, let’s start by saying that most believe education to be critical. Education here meaning high school since it is compulsory and everyone is required to attend. But specifically the content of the “education” spoken to by the majority is quite different from what is essential to survive in today’s competitive [...]
Best Teacher of the Century Award: Your Mom and Dad
First, remember back to when you were but a wee one, maybe four or five years old. Or better yet, take a look at your four or five year old. What do you see? A copy machine, right? As you drive in the car, walk through the park, go on excursions and adventures here and [...]
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