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Timothy Skjellerup. Maximize Your College Experience : Get the Most Out of Your College Experience for Success Now and In the Future
Why You Need to Read This Book!
How to Use This Book
Section One: The Power of Self-Realization
Chapter 1. Step Up to the Plate: You are responsible for your education—and your life
Chapter 2. Yes, You Can: Why believing in yourself is half the battle
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the soul of the world, and you understand why you are here.” —Unknown
“Everyone wants to see you get ahead, just not ahead of them.” —Unknown
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” —Wayne Gretzky
It Couldn’t Be Done. By Edgar Guest
Action Exercise
What’s the Point?
Section Two: The Importance of Attitude
Chapter 3. Your Essential Attitude: Why a good attitude breeds success
Chapter 4. The Attitude Creep: Toxic emotions and how they come to us
Chapter 5. The Success Mindset: Ten techniques for mastering a positive outlook
Section Three: The Art of Taking Action “Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.” — John Green. Chapter 6. Emotional Maturity: Why it’s more important to academic success than your IQ
— Winston Churchill
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not.” —Thomas Henry Huxley. The Pain of Discipline or the Pain of Regret
Excellence Begets Excellence
Action Exercise
What’s the Point?
Chapter 7. Habits: How to break the bad ones and develop the good ones “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” —Benjamin Franklin
Developing Habits
Helpful Tips for Getting Started
Action Exercise
What’s the Point?
Chapter 8. Setting Goals: What is it you really want? “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every single time.” —Zig Ziglar
The Process
Step 1. Create a clear and compelling vision
Step 2. Write out your goal using positive language in the present tense with a clear target date
“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Step 3. Keep your goal in the forefront of your mind
Step 4: Visualize accomplishing your goal
Step 5: Create an action plan for your goal
“There are no unrealistic goals, just unrealistic deadlines.” —Brian Tracy
Step 6: Get moving, get started, and take action
Don’t Wait for Circumstances
Circumstances will never be just right for you to get started! Ever!
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” —Bruce Lee. My Guarantee to You
Evaluate Your Progress
Action Exercise
“To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.” —Earl Nightingale “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” —Dennis Waitley “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” —Brian Tracy “There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” —Henry Ford “Goals are dreams with deadlines.” —Diana Scharf Hunt “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” —Sydney Smith “Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” —Aristotle “Goals determine what you’re going to be.” —Julius Erving “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “The most important thing about goals is having one.” —Geoffry F. Abert. What’s the Point?
Chapter 9. Time Management: Why it’s a big load of crap “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” —Mark Twain. The P Word
DO IT NOW! AND. GET IT DONE!
“Killing time is not murder, it’s suicide!” —Tony Robbins
Vilfredo!
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates
Get Organized
How It’s Done
Get rid of it!
Action Exercise
What’s the Point?
Chapter 10. Your Personal Brand: How to develop and maintain a strong personal brand “Personal branding is about managing your name—even if you don’t own a business—in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your ‘blind’ date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.” —Tim Ferriss
Action Exercise
What’s the Point?
Chapter 11. Smart Networking: Why your network determines your net worth “Networking is by far the most important aspect of business school. The classroom is a distant second.” —Jay Devivo
Relationships!
Two Ears and One Mouth
Bringing People Together
“You can have anything you want in life if you will help enough other people get what they want!” —Zig Ziglar
Action Exercise
What’s the Point?
Chapter 12. Making the Grade: Ridiculously simple ways to beef up your GPA “I am kind of majoring in bullshitting.” —Kate Voegele
Always Have Something on You
Designate Study Time
Designate a Study Place
Listen
Spread Things Out
Be Strategic
Do Your Research
Get to Know Your Adviser
Get to Know Your Professors
Chapter 13. Sound Body, Sound Mind: How to avoid the Freshman 15, deal with stress, and more “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to be a hundred.” —Woody Allen
Sleep
Nutrition
Exercise
Alcohol
Romantic Relationships
Emotional Health and Stress
Afterword
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