The College Success Habits Podcast

Ep #159 - Scholarships aren't just for incoming freshman. No matter where you are at in your collegiate journey there are opportunities for you to get financial assistance. Sure, it be awesome if you applied for scholarships while in high school, and yes my guest today preaches that, nonetheless, whether you are an incoming freshman or about to become a senior - there is money out there if you are...

Ep #158 - In Neuro-Linguistic Programming, The Hierarchy of Ideas (also known as chunking) is a linguistic tool used in NLP that allows the speaker to traverse the realms of abstract to specific easily and effortlessly. When we speak or think we use words that indicate how abstract, or how detailed we are in processing the information. When you take a topic of conversation and move it to a higher...

Ep #157 - The way you behave, your personality, your habits, all of these began to form in you at a young age. If you feel like you are acting in a way that no longer serves you, look no further than the way you behaved in your childhood for the root cause in the restlessness in your life now. There is an eternal child in all of us. It seeks to be healed from the behaviors we took on in our youth...

Ep #156 - Learning to have healthy, confrontational conversations should be something taught in schools, like in the fifth grade, but that's not happening anytime soon so let's do it today so you can start connecting and loving when you have disagreements with your partner, roommate, neighbor, classmate, co-worker, employees, deli-slicer person, and random person who bumps into you at the mall, lo...

Ep #155 - Opinions are decisions you have made about topics and things important to you that you hold loosely, not in a way where you are wishy-washy, but more like, "I am not planting my flag on this hill." Beliefs are rooted much deeper. These are the kinds of decisions you have made where you will plant that flag, when you will die on that hill, for a particular belief. Beliefs are why people s...

Ep #154 - Your morals are the rules you live your life by, that you set. These are the ones that even when the mob is surging one way you have no problem being the outlier. Ethics are the rules set by civilization, society, federal, state, county, city, town, village - or whatever you call them in your country. Knowing the difference is important when you find yourself at a crossroad, a decision n...

Ep #153 - Your standards while guide your daily action and behavior. Your standards will set your habits and your habits will create the life you have. You determine your standards, you set them, you activate and take action based upon what they are - and the higher they are the higher you will go up the proverbial mountain. In this episode we dive into nine ways to set your standards so you can a...

Ep #152 - Your standards drive you toward the completion of your goals. Are your standards high enough for you to accomplish the things you want to in your life? Are your goals to low for your standards so you are causing past them with minimal effort? Your level of growth mindset versus any remnants of a fixed mindset you accumulated throughout your life will be very present here. If you hit your...

Ep #151 - Last Summer I was featured on a morning talk show and in this episode I am bringing back that content because it is evergreen and works no matter when you listen. Check this out and let's discuss how your nutrition, sleep patterns, environment, and manyyther habits are all playing their part to make or break this semester for you. You choose your habits and those habits create your life....

Ep #150 - What sparks you? What fires you up? What evokes excitement in your heart, mind, and body? In this episode I seek to inspire you to get into your life like you have never done before and light your self up!! You get one go around at this beautiful thing we call life and living someone else's dream or living someone else's life could leave you feeling like you aren't even in charge of your...

Ep #149 - Time management. I hear it all the time from my clients, workshop and class attendees, all the way to what people post on the socials. You don't manage your time as much as your prioritize it, focus it, and create the schedule that will guide you toward the habits that will create for you the life you want. Grab a piece of paper, write down the P4F like it is below, and get to focusing o...

Ep #148 - Mental health is very much tied to your body getting a good burn, or sweat, or your heart getting up there so you know its pumping hard for you. When you feel sad, or depressed, or down, get out there and get your body moving. I am not saying that will solve everything but it definitely will get you out of your head and into your body right then and there. Let's do some quick math. I kno...

Ep #147 - Sure, the rumor has it that the reason you are in college is to learn stuff. Now is that learning in the classroom, in the lab, in the library, on the streets of hard knocks? A good mixture and blend of all of these will guide you to grow into the person you desire to be upon graduation day coming and going. How you study, when you study, where you study as well as the how and when you d...

Ep #146 - Your morning routine sets the stage for the rest of your day. What do you say to yourself when you first wake up, what is the first activity you get to doing, when are you really getting your day started? If you wake up and scroll, or click, or flip then there is a very good chance you are starting your day off in a way that could dramatically shift your attitude and energy for the rest...

Ep #145 - There are multiple areas of your life you will want to create positive/desirable habits around so you can program your mind for success. Good habits, bad habits, all habits are playing their part to create your life for you - so now is the time to choose to direct your habits to create for you rather than against you. Habits to create: Morning - Studying - Fitness - Boundaries - Phone Wh...

Ep #144 - You choose your habits and those habits create your life. You'll hear a lot of people say, "create the life you want to live," or, "take charge and build your life," or whatever else you have heard that is similar to those. Here's the thing, making the decision to change, while obviously huge, because if you don't choose to do something you definitely won't start doing it, BUT - just cho...

Ep #143 - Willpower and discipline are the tools you use as you create habits that create the life you live. Discipline can be the fuel that drives you to continue an action and habituation eventually takes over and the behavior becomes something you are driven to do even on your "bad" days. The habits you have are the foundations for the life you live. It's time to take charge of them! Just hit p...

Ep #142 - Society is moving away from accepting others for their differences. The shared experiences we are having are seemingly pushing us further apart, rather than drawing us, through curiosity, toward and understanding of our uniqueness and individuality as our shared human experiences interact with one another. You are in a place of education. You are part of the solution playing out right be...

Ep #141 - Empathy is being able to walk in someone else's shoes for a brief time. To step into their world, without judgement, without giving advise, while releasing your biases, and being truly, deeply engaged in the conversation. College life is your opportunity to gain tremendous growth in your emotional intelligence because you are literally surrounded by people who are on similar journeys of...

Ep #140 - Emotional intelligence makes the world go round and stops it in its tracks. Not everything I create, do, say, etc. is a touchdown. I have learned many hard lessons in life and while this list is not comprehensive it is a list that came from my subconscious this week - just when I needed it. I believe if you listen and ask yourself when and where some, if not all, of these are cropping up...

Ep #139 - How are you communicating with yourself today? How about others? When we speak to ourselves in a certain manner or tone we are setting our energies that can be heard toward uplifting into the space of denigration and negativity. It is imperative you begin to speak to yourself with love and understanding. When you do this your words become habituated and you then gear them in that same wa...

Ep #138 - What do you value? How are your values unconsciously guiding your decisions and behaviors? When are you now ready to evaluate that which you value to ensure you are guiding yourself towards your highest sense of self? Where are you already fully aware of what you value? The university life is full of stigmas. These stigmas permeate throughout the experience of college and then flood into...

Ep #137 - Stigmas are all around you. You are susceptible to their effects every day just as much as you are probably guilty of a couple today as well. We are going to dive into this so we all can get on the same page about how stigmatizing language, thoughts, feelings, and action separate us from one another. College campuses are supposed to be a bastion of collective growth and evolution. We go...

Ep #136 - Schools out...for Summer!! If you are in the Northern hemisphere then you are getting your Summer on. If you are in the Southern hemisphere then Winter break is nearing and you too will connect with this episode. Whether you are getting a month off, three months off, taking one of those accelerated Summer classes, whatever you are experiencing - where is your focus on making the most of...

Ep #135 - Do you find yourself not feeling fulfilled when you achieve something or fulfill a needs in your life. You know how it feels to be satisfied and to look in the mirror and feel you did your best work. If you accomplish something and you don't feel good about yourself the main problem you might run into is that your expectations of what it would look like to succeed and what it actually lo...