Colleges Feeling the Heat – or They Will Soon

This week I was speaking to a group of parents who will soon be sending there children off to college. I had made the comment during my presentation that colleges don’t really measure their results, at least not of how well their students do after graduation....

How Does Your High School Compare?

This might be funny – If it weren’t TRUE! Parents and students who have heard me speak have heard me talk have heard about the four reasons why so many college students (69%) don’t graduate in four years. Number two on that list is that many of our...

What’s on Your Summer Reading List

What’s on Your Summer Reading List I still remember hearing Jim Rohn speak 20 years ago and his main message was, Where you end up 5 or 10 years from now will depend primarily on the books you read and the people you hang out with. Today I read an article by...

Graduation Inspires “Big Thoughts”

Graduation Inspires “Big Thoughts” This is the time of year that students who are graduating (and their parents) take time to look back while at the same time look forward and plan for the future. It has made me think of a couple of clients who came to me...

“Seven Years Down the Drain”

One of the craziest lines in the 1978 movie ‘Animal House‘ was John “Bluto” Blutarsky bemoaning ‘seven years down the drain’ when his entire fraternity was about to get expelled from school. It was funny because it was hard to...
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