There are many reasons why it is difficult to achieve high levels of success. One of the most challenging issues to face is the feeling of being overwhelmed by the size and complexity of your goals. As you set bigger and bigger goals, you WILL have the feeling that your goal is impossible to reach.…
Everybody wants to be a success story. Many of us daydream about the day we will be able to explain to someone how we started our own business, earned our first million dollars, bought our own house, or any number of extraordinary achievements. While the daydream is very similar from person to person, the actions…
Elephants are one of the most powerful creatures on the planet. Their mammoth-like size and strength would allow them to crush any obstacle and go anywhere they please. Nothing could stand in the way of a determined elephant. How is it then that so many elephants are passive, sitting in zoos and circuses without incident?…
Testing can be a total drain. Sometimes you feel great, answering each question with ease. Other times, the lines start to blur, your eyes seem impossible to keep open, and the questions look like they are written in an alien language. The momentum can swing back and forth as you move through a difficult test…
I used to be intimidated by the length of a test. 50 questions would be an almost insurmountable challenge. 100 questions? Forget about it! That is until the Ph.D. program, where years of preparation led me to the qualifying exams: 2 days, 4 questions. If you pass, you get to move on and write a…
Perseverance is like any other mindset skill. It’s not something that you either have or don’t have, it is a skill that can be trained, improved, or lost without practice. Perseverance can open up doors that you otherwise couldn’t walk through. As you face difficult tests, intimidating presentations, and complex classwork, perseverance will be the…