Prepare yourself for Success at School

So, it's the holiday and school, awful school, tests, and the loudmouths at the back of the class are far from your thoughts. You should take a break. Rightfully so, after a term of hard, often boring and irrelevant work. You deserve it. Enjoy it. Renew your energy, find some new experiences, work part time if you wish. But don't get too far away from your resolve to get as much out of school as you can. You have to go there so why not take away as much as possible.

Yes, I like to think of it as though getting the best you can for yourself actually steals opportunity and future career and lifestyle options from slackers and misfits around you,  and places them squarely in your lap like a gift-wrapped present. Those nuisances who steal your time, who disrupt your learning. They keep your teacher engaged in preventive measures rather that the pursuit of academic excellence. Every day they steal something from you that is irreplaceable. Time. Every minute lost is lost forever. Get your revenge, and make it good. They may be tough, they may be connected. But. Stay cool and their future will be in your hands or their influence will be so small in your sphere of influence that they will appear non-existent. How? Well, it's what we are all about. Success at School.

Plan. Plan. Plan. Do not forget to follow up 'Plan' with 'execute the plan'. Whenever you get a bit of time to yourself, find time in your head, firstly to relax your soul and secondly to think of yourself and how you fit into the future. 'Fit  into the future' seems a bit odd? Not so, here the challenge is to design the world around your vision. That way you get locked into your vision better that you would if your single statement was 'I want to be a ...' Add description about location, lifestyle, learning required, expected house, the people you will call friends and subordinates at work, how long each stage will take. Dream and add targets. Dreams without targets remain dreams only, so not much use. Decide on the crown jewel. ??? What? The crown jewel is one of the ultimate visions for your future that you design. It will change as you reach set goals. Changing crown jewels. How wonderful. Not even the Queen of England can do that. Where does that place you? Feels good hey?

Sometimes this exercise seems a little too large. Sometimes a bit embarassing. You sort of ask 'Should this future really be mine?' Of course it should. Make it what you want. If it's too hard right now, not to worry, we will get round to it more slowly in future episodes. What I want you to find out is that you really can control what happens. Forget that at the moment things may seem bleak. Things may seem far away and impossible. Honestly, you can change the future and make it bright and fulfilling.

Start the plan. Know how to recognise success when it arrives.

Have a great day