The College Success Habits Podcast

Ep 109 - Each term is its own entity, its own world. You can choose to replicate the habits from the previous term or reinvent yourself if you are in the seat of self-awareness that opens you up to more desirable habits. You can seek to uncover what sparks you and then set about making that happen in this term. How are you going to schedule your time? How are you going to prioritize what is import...

Ep 108 - What are you giving up by not striving to become the person you desire to see yourself manifest toward? What are the costs to your overall mental and physical health when you opt for today's comfort instead of steady, sustainable work and growth? To not become and BE the person you desire is to wake up one day with the question, "how did I get here," spiraling in your mind over and over....

Ep 107 - It is in our youth when we explore the boundaries of what is acceptable behavior and what society, our inner-circle, and ourselves deems outside the lines of acceptable behavior. Your friends will play a huge role in this, so to say that you should be mindful of the behaviors of your friends can not be stated with a high enough emphasis. Getting triggered into an emotional state is someth...

Ep 106 - Take control of your body, take control of your life. It's one of my favorite quotes around physical fitness and one I adhere to with very focused discipline since I achieved sobriety in 2017. Now, I have not always been this focused. In fact, throughout my college career I would only moderately pay attention to eating healthy and going to the gym. You all know better so you can do better...

Ep 105 - Being a person with an honorable word. A trustworthy sense about you. Standing by the decisions you make and showing others you can be counted on. All of these examples and more begin to form the kind of adult you will create within yourself. You can be the person that no ones asks for anything because you don't follow through or you can be the one that sees your commitments to fruition....

Ep 104 - We all have those moments, when we have to go meet a semi-authority figure, or straight up authority figure, and we get the butterflies because it is time to eat some humble pie. Perhaps you turned an assignment in late or with incomplete work. Showed up late...again. Popped off at another student, roommate, co-worker, or client/customer.  At some point our human-ness will show itself and...

Ep 103 - Hierarchical orientation is when you seek validation through the wolf pack, the cliques, the crowd - and we all have those memories of high school which is the ultimate hierarchy orientation. College is your first real opportunity to step out of the hierarchy orientation and cut your own path without every person knowing your name let alone who you are. The beauty of college is that you c...

Ep 102 - Why are humans so hell bent on making life such a struggle. It's like we seek out anxiety and stress. How often do you choose the sugary snack, the argument, the field mindset over any action that would be more advantageous to your growth and the upward momentum toward your best, empowered self. In this week's episode we get into Stuart Wilde's book, "Life was never meant to be a struggle...

Ep 101 - You will create and experience some of the best friendship moments of your life when you are in college. These are the roommates from college that you see people in their 40s and 50s talking about - and you are in that space to create those kind of friendships right now. Here's the thing about BFFs - they take time to evolve into life long compadres, it takes energy to be in one another's...

Ep 100 - There are a ton of choices and decisions to make in your formative years. In fact, it doesn't stop. People who think that at some point you can just put yourself on cruise control and trance your way through life are kidding themselves if they expect that they will learn much of anything on their journey, let alone accomplish what they are seeking in life.  Yes, self-care and relaxation a...

Ep 99 - There are stories your mind tells yourself over and over again, further spiraling you into your limitations, and it is one of the most draining activities that a human being can do to themselves - and you do this to yourself thousands and thousands of time a day. These stories like: I am not smart enough, good looking enough, brave enough, strong enough, worth enough...I don't have enough,...

Ep 98 - Habits are created in each of us the same way. The root of the habit, the consciousness taken into account when the habit is started, and the outcomes the habits creates in our lives - this is where the individual person has their own story to tell. In Atomic Habits, by James Clear, he outlines how habits are created or broken as such... Cue: make obvious or invisible Craving: making attra...

Ep 97 - Respect other's model of the world. It is the first principle of NLP for a reason. When you can understand that we all experience the world in our own way and because of that we all have our own opinions, beliefs, and values based on our experiences and memories, that we create in our own heads mind you, then you can have empathy for other's instead of conflicting. This world can seem like...

Ep 96 - Other people think they know what is best for you. They will dig their heals in and tell you how you should live your life. They may not even know why something means so much to you nor might they even care to hear your reasons and justifications. In the end you have to decide what you want to do and then do it with gusto. You are the one living your life and in the end you want to be happ...

Ep 95 - You do not manage time, you choose how you spend it. On days like today, when I think the day is going to play out just fine, but...it goes sideways - I ask myself what can I do to get something, anything done, so I feel the day is a win. Are there times when you feel like you have so much to do you don't know where to start? What about the days when the inner-critic just kicks your butt t...

Ep 94 - Google "college student financial success tips" and you will get a 1.3 billion results in 2/3rds of a second. Now that is a ton of information to comb through. Fact of the matter is that financial success and freedom comes from having very direct conversations with yourself around the topic of impulse control, delated gratification, developing your mindset around money, and the discipline...

Ep 93 - I know how feelings can overwhelm even the best of us. I have negative self-talk that I seek to encourage out of myself. I see what the lack of emotional intelligence is doing to our society and world. If you are seeking to grow your emotional self-control, understand how your mind creates your reality, better handle and even eliminate the daily stressors of college and life - then Wise Mi...

Ep 92 - Being afraid to feel the happy because the sad might be around the corner. I have heard this before from people, clients, workshop attendees - a huge chunk of the population seems to operate under this misguided belief that not feeling the ultimate happy somehow alleviates the possibility of not feeling the ultimate in sadness. This is not how emotions work. The spectrum of human emotions...

Ep 91 - Be Decisive. Step into your empowered self. Life is full of important decisions and we often have no idea of the repercussions of our choices until years later. When you decide you are going to start something new in your life what is the energy that you are using to make that decision? Are you making this decision, taking this action, because of what you want OR because of what someone el...

Ep 90 - Self esteem comes from external validation, whether it be from what you see in the mirror, the things you have accumulated, or from another person telling you how they feel about something you have done or accomplished for yourself or them. Self-worth is valuing yourself through yourself. When you realize you have value and that you matter, to yourself above all others, then you are in con...

Ep 89 - It's been a very up and down year for the world. Over the last year, the degree to which each person has faired ranges wildly up and down the scale - whether it be from the pandemic, social unrest, and/or political melodrama. Regardless of where in the world you live, your country has undergone a tumultuous time period in its history. How you choose to internalize the occurrences over the...

Ep 87 - It can seem like an easy solution to your presenting problem. Just ask someone for assistance. Ask someone for help. Yet, what if you took a breath and slid into solution mode? The critical faculty and thinking part of your brain will be super happy with yourself when you solve your dilemma without turning to the person next to you and expecting them to have a better solution that you coul...

Ep 87 - Take action. This is principle number 4. The crucial aspect to be mindful of is, "when is action just busy work and not actually benefitting the overall accomplishment of your goal?" Filling up your schedule can be an illusion of progress. If you are not paying attention weeks and months can go by and you are still basically in the same spot. In this week's episode I share my "Three Keys t...

Ep 85 - You are always creating your reality. Your words don't describe your reality, they create it. When you step into the creator role you no longer are situated in the victim role. You create, you coach, and you challenge from a heart-centered place. How are you going to create the life you desire? Are you seeking the acceptance of strangers and acquaintances just to feel included in their tri...

Ep 85 - Are you playing the victim in your life's story? Is the world happening to you? Is everyone else at fault for the life you have? Do you wait for a hero to swoop in and save you from the life you were leading? These can be tough questions to ask yourself because the answer you arrive at may not be one that you are ready to hear. We all want to be the creators of our life. We strive to be in...