The College Success Habits Podcast

Ep #59 - in this week's episode we discuss chapter five in my book, "College Success Habits: 7 Powerful Principles to Help You Excel in College and Beyond," - Embrace Discipline.   Discipline is where actions become actions. The secret sauce that is not so secret to anyone who has ever accomplished anything of note in their life.   It is the day-to-day steps, the habituation of taking action that...

Ep #58 - in this week's episode we discuss chapter four in my book, "College Success Habits: 7 Powerful Principles to Help You Excel in College and Beyond," - Take Action.  Thoughts and ideas are just the start of the journey, wait, are they even a part of the journey? Everyone has about 50,000 thoughts a day - give or take 5,000. With that many thoughts, how many of them are viable ideas about wh...

Ep #57 - in this week's episode we discuss chapter three in my book, "College Success Habits: 7 Powerful Principles to Help You Excel in College and Beyond," - Be Decisive. Getting yourself stuck in indecision isn't a state of doing its a state of procrastination. If you are tied up in knots over the easy decisions like coffee flavor, dinner options on the menu, or what movie to watch - imagine ho...

Ep #56 - in this week's episode we discuss chapter two in my book, "College Success Habits: 7 Powerful Principles to Help You Excel in College and Beyond," - Cultivating Courage. Stepping through the fear and into your best self isn't always an easy task or everyone would be doing it. They key tenant to remember is that, "sometimes you have to do it afraid." Thank you so much for listening and bei...

 Ep #55 - In this week's episode we discuss the first powerful principle featured in the College Success Habits book - Developing a Growth Mindset. I will go over why a growth mindset is important, what the developing process looks and feels like, how to step into a growth mindset flow today, and what if you find yourself blocked by your old, fixed way of thinking. Here is the link to buy your cop...

Ep #54 - In this episode I discuss the official launch of the Kindle version of College Success Habits: 7 Powerful Principles to Help You Excel in College and Beyond. What an amazing journey this has been to get to this day. With the paperback version a few months off, until the pandemic eases up and the print distribution facilities can begin to operate and catch up on their backlog, the digital...

Ep #53 - In this week's episode we discuss the book launch on June 25, 2020 and I go over the 7 Powerful Principles so you can gain a fresh perspective on them and how incorporating them into your life will bring you immeasurably more control over the ebbs & flows of your student/campus life as well as in your life overall. Develop a Growth Mindset Cultivate Courage Be Decisive Take Action Embrace...

Ep #52 - In this week's episode we dive into the fight, flight, freeze, or sex (it's technically called the 4 F's) of the human response system known as the amygdala and it's corresponding opposite - the cerebral cortex or cognitive thinking center of the brain. Why are we getting into this? So you can look around you and see who is operating emotionally triggered versus emotionally centered? Well...

Ep #51 - In this week's episode we discuss patience. Something our society has shown great amounts of during the quarantine and yet, we could still have a better attitude and behaviors surrounding the Q and in life in general. We will dive into why patience is important, what patience truly is, how to be patient - and what happens if we don't show patience is circumstances that aren't always in ou...

Ep 50, In this weeks episode, we talk about the learning styles of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. If you are visual you might prefer to see handouts, read, take colorful notes, and doodle during class. If you lean toward auditory then you learn well from lectures, talking about the material, podcasts, and audiobooks. If you are a kinesthetic learner then you like to get your hands dirty, exper...

Ep 49, In this week's episode I speak with Jasmine Ruys, the dean of admissions at the College of the Canyons.  We talk about the hurdles to overcome in college, not taking scholarships for granted, being self aware of one's goals and outcomes, and emotional maturity. Just a fascinating conversation that will open your mind regardless of what stage in the college journey you are moving through. Th...

Ep #48 - In this week's episode we talk about limiting beliefs and their effect on your life up till now and how they will control what your life becomes if you do not release them. It is up to you to create the life you desire for yourself. To do this you will have to release the beliefs implanted into you when you were a child and on into your teens. Think you're immune to limiting beliefs? Don'...

Ep #47 - In this week's episode, I welcome Los Angeles City College's First-Year Experience program director Jessica Cerda to the show. We discuss how to manage your time, handle the stressors college inevitably heaps upon you, and how, no matter the campus, there is help and assistance in the form of: counselors, therapists, advisors, etc. available to guide you through the maze that is the colle...

Ep #46 - In this week's episode, we will discuss emotional maturity and how you are in charge of your emotional growth just like you are in charge of your physical and mental growth (you know, working out and studying.) Emotional Maturity is the ability to take responsibility for your actions and to not blame others for your problems, the situations you find yourself in, and the general world arou...

Ep #45 - In this week's episode we will discuss the five-C's Jim Kwik, host of the "Kwik Brain" podcast and author of the book, "Limitless: Upgrade your brain, learn anything faster, and unlock your exceptional life," shared during a presentation he gave my professional men's group METal. Kwik 5 C's can be utilized by you during the novel coronavirus quarantine - and really, these are great as a d...

Ep #44 - In this week's episode we will discuss creating a new routine during the corona-crisis and answer some listener's questions pertaining to graduations being cancelled, not having your social circle near, and how online learning isn't at all like the classroom. This is temporary, you do not have to let your emotions run buck-wild. You can control them by focusing on what you can do now, tod...

Ep #43 - In this week's episode we discuss being prepared for emergency situations. Are your finances in order so you can afford unexpected costs? Being in college I'd say, probably not. How can you better prepare for something like Covid-19 in the future.  It could be a natural disaster, a broken bone, or a death in the family. Anyone of these can wrench your plans and life and you have to make s...

Ep #42 - In this week's episode we'll discuss how social media affects your mental health and what you can do to monitor and control it so you aren't at the mercy of the emotional ebbs and flows that your phone can put you through at any given moment. College is a time to explore and learn new things about yourself, your academia, and the world as a whole. Sometimes it can be hard to balance schoo...

Ep #41 - In this weeks episode we discuss finding what sparks you. You have so many opportunities in college to step outside your comfort zone and it's beyond integral to your overall development that you do just that - step outside your comfort zone. I'll cover getting out of trance mode, where your spark might be hidden, how you can step into the higher version of yourself that's been inside of...

Ep #40 - In this week's episode we discuss depression and suicide prevention. Mental health in our society is on red alert. Within our youth, it has finally taken the mic as the biggest issue being faced by a generation with all the knowledge of the world at their fingertips, but without the emotional maturity or know-how to interact within an ever-demanding society. Depression and suicide were an...

Ep #39 - In this week's episode we continue the conversation around emotional self-regulation. Emotional self-regulation is a necessary skill to develop for mental and emotional consistency. In general, emotional self-regulation has been defined as choosing to act or behave in alignment with your long-term interests and primary core values. This is so important in college (and beyond) because when...

Ep #38 - In this week's episode we discuss emotional self-regulation. Feelings and emotions will ALWAYS be caused by your thoughts and when those thoughts are confused as facts instead of the opinions they actually are, that is when we can begin to spiral down the rabbit hole in our own minds. This spiraling of emotions can and usually will alter your actions and behaviors and leave you dealing wi...

Ep #37 - In this week's episode we discuss how to build the habit of organizing your calendar so nothing in your syllabi shows up unexpected. If you do not schedule an event, study session, date, workout, downtime - then you will be more apt to feel "not in the mood" and decide to do something less productive which you could later regret. What we coverL How are you going to make sure you hit all y...

Ep #36 - In this week's episode we discuss acclimating to the new semester through mindfulness of habit setting and preparation. There are a ton of new things to get used to as the semester starts and if you are not paying attention to how you establish yourself at the beginning you could find yourself very behind, very early. Each semester is a new chance to make changes to the previous semester'...

Ep #35 - In this week's episode we discuss how to best prepare for the new semester.  How are you preparing for the semester? What books do you need? Best way to buy them? What software will you use? Do you have experience with it? Do you own it? Can you readily access it? What resources will you need to utilize on campus? library, success center, TA, advisor, other students, Will you need a job,...