The College Success Habits Podcast

Ep #84 - What do you think is possible? What do you think is impossible? Where in your life are you allowing limiting beliefs around possibility to hold you back from experiencing and achieving things beyond what you have previously experienced and achieved?  There are voices in your head. These voices are not always yours, in fact, I'd say an unscientific percentage, let's say 99.9999% of these v...

Ep 83 - In this week's episode Michelle Mehta joins us to discuss emotions and how to better manage then - and in fact, grow with and through them for a healthier understanding and view of your life. Emotions have so much to do with your general feeling of confidence that resides in you. Come join us, gather some new tools for being at peace with your emotions - and learn how you can continue crea...

Ep #81 - If you are waiting for all the lights on your route to be green at the same time you will never leave your driveway. Planning is priceless and plans are worthless. When you ever complicate something with the idea that you can pre-plan for ALL the possible issues that may arise you are buffering and procrastinating.  Step into ACTION mode and release the notion that anything you do will ev...

Ep 80 - Change is inevitable. Being in charge of your change - that is not. When you or I seek to guide our change we often go out and get a book that will show us the way, or hit play on an audiobook or podcast. The first step to take toward the change we seek is shifting our mindset. If you have ever heard or read about a new, great strategy and sorta shrugged it off even though you approached t...

Ep 79 - It's a New Year. A New You doesn't come free with your admission into 2021. There will be action that must be taken. Any action, with a plan behind it, is better than THE BEST plan with delayed action - or no action at all. The world didn't stop because of Covid-19 or the election or social issues - I am super over hearing people use the year that was 2020 as their excuse for why they left...

Ep #78 - Slowing down is something many of us have challenges settling into. Our society gives badges of honor to those that burn the candle at both ends and push the pedal to the metal. There is a time and a place to push it hard. There is also a time and a place to back off and set a more nonchalant, relaxed pace. This episode is all about the ways we can recognize in ourselves the potential for...

Ep #77 - Reaching back into my memories from my college years, which isn't as far back as you'd think, I realize that there are certainly many, many, many things that I would have liked to have known then that I know now. This isn't one of those episodes where I tell you to do as I say and not as I do. I merely am taking this episode to think back to the mistakes I made in my teens and 20s. that I...

Ep #77 - How we experience the world is all based on our perceptions of the world around us and these perceptions are passed through our five senses, then through our opinions, beliefs, values, experiences, and memories filters, and lastly they're then sent through our delete, distort, generalize filters.  The external world, our five senses, our personalized filters, and the universal filters all...

Ep 76 - What are you pursuing in your academia? What are you hearing in your head as you make the decisions you do? What does your present look like and how do you see your future playing out based off who you are listening to and the energy you are putting out. Know the answers to these six questions will allow you to check your heading and provide you with a fountain of wealth as you strive for...

Ep #75 - Hypotheticals can run you ragged. Your mindset about the future is as important as how you analyze and move through the things that have happened to you in your past. If you start spiraling down a path of "well this could," or "this might," or "well, that's what happened last time," you will be running on a treadmill to no where. White knuckling the steering wheel deathly afraid of a tire...

Ep #74 - Judging others based off how you think, how you feel, and how you act is an erroneous way to go about your life. In this week's episode we discuss why that triggered you when I said it was erroneous - because basically I said if that is the way you live your life you are wrong, and the mind doesn't like being told it is wrong. We also discuss how your reference point for why and how you b...

Ep #73 - Emotional Intelligence can be increased, grown, developed, and nurtured. Unlike your intelligence quotient, IQ, your EQ is not set. You can start to harness the resources around you to step into your internal power and grow beyond your wildest dreams. You see people everyday who lack emotional intelligence. The talking heads on TV. The politicians without a filter. The students in your cl...

Ep # 72 - Your comfort zone is lying to you. You think you are comfortable there but what you really are is complacent there - or far worse, in FEAR there. When you push yourself to experience the world from a new perspective you are stepping outside the illusion of your comfort zone and into a space where growth actually occurs - you uncomfortable zone. In this week's episode we dive into how to...

Do you want to be right or do you want to connect? Ask yourself this when you get into a conversation with someone on a topic you know you both don't agree upon. You can raise your voice, get frustrated - whatever your response, and none of that is going to get them to flip their opinion or belief in that moment. There are many hot-button topics in our society right now, in fact, there always has...

Ep #70 - Why is feeling your purpose important? Others will balk at this but I believe it is the guiding light that so many have used to illuminate the journey that is our collective lives. What do you have a passion for? What vibrates within you at a deep level? When you hear about something do you immediately get clear on that is what you want to see yourself doing? The interests you spoke about...

You are in control of your emotions, decisions, schedule, and so much more. You have these choice points in your life where you will be able to go back and see the exact moment that you made a decision that led you to an outcome. You won't always know if the decision was in your best interest until the circumstance plays out but many times you will know going into the decision you've made that you...

Ep #68 - Fear what is it good for? Absolutely everything. You can't have courage without fear - it's a yin-yang. So how are you channeling your fear into something marvelous? It starts with acknowledging that fear is present in you. Pushing it away keeps it there, exacerbates it - what you resist persists. Making peace with your humanity, your human being-ness, is so crucial toward your acceptance...

Being adaptable and flexible will relieve stress and anxiety when you layout plans and begin working toward your goals and outcomes. What that adaptability and flexibility looks like to you will be different than that of the person next to you - but there are enough similarities that we can begin to strategize together ways to be prepared when the world throws a pandemic at us. Business coach Thom...

Ep #66 - Roommates, they can be your best friends for life or your worst enemy for a year. The number one barrier that will get in the way of you having a warm, inviting space to come home to after a long day on campus or at work is... a lack of communication. Often you might steer away from a "tough" conversation because you are afraid of the response you'll get, or the rebuttal the roommate will...

Ep #65 - In this week's episode we discuss how you are going to discover your natural high this semester. With so much about this school year influx, the "normal" social activities may not be available to you. In fact, the easiest thing to do is just go to the bar and that is even questionable - not just in terms of whether you should do it or not - but on whether that is even an option. Now, I do...

Ep 64 - Here comes Fall. Maybe there will be sports, maybe there will be further closures, maybe there will be an economic collapse and a Civil War after November 3rd - we have no idea. Though, I hope the civil unrest remains calm and nonviolent. In fact, here's too friendly, civil discourse over ugly, uncivil fighting any day. The topic for today is as the title states - five ways to get your min...

Yes, this semester is going to be unlike any other - like all semesters really. This one just has the cloud of a worldwide pandemic hovering over it, ready to unleash its gale-force winds and torrential downpours upon us all. This episode will cover many things you should be thinking about and doing as any semester gets started really BUT...with the uncertainty that this coming Fall 2020 seems to...

Ep #62 - You want to get amazing grades this Fall semester regardless of the pandemic. It is totally understandable to feel overwhelmed with everything that has happened this year. It is okay to be worried about what will happen once this semester gets into winter. At some point, you might even question whether the college admins really care about your safety, or are they just putting PPEs in plac...

Ep #61 - in this week's episode, we discuss chapter seven in my book, "College Success Habits: 7 Powerful Principles to Help You Excel in College and Beyond," - Embody Tenaciousness. Showing up as the best version of yourself every day is going to be the secret sauce that brings all of these powerful principles to fruition and guides you to the best version of yourself. There is nothing that will...

Ep #60 - in this week's episode, we discuss chapter six in my book, "College Success Habits: 7 Powerful Principles to Help You Excel in College and Beyond," - Exercise Flexibility.   Planning is priceless. Plans are worthless. Being tied to your plan will leave you rigid when you need to be flexible. In the history of time, the likelihood that any plan has ever played out precisely as it was origi...