I want you to think about the biggest goal you have right now. What is the most ambitious goal you’ve set for yourself? Can you picture it? Can you visualize what you will have to do to achieve it? If you have it in your mind, you are probably feeling intimidated and overwhelmed. If you…
We have all experienced a mental block at some point or another. Maybe it was a math problem that you KNEW you could answer, but just couldn’t find a way to come up with. Maybe it was an essay you had to write and the only line staring back at you was, “hi my name…
Perseverance is like any other mindset skill. It’s not something that you either have or don’t have, it is a skill that can be trained, improved, or lost without practice. Perseverance can open up doors that you otherwise couldn’t walk through. As you face difficult tests, intimidating presentations, and complex classwork, perseverance will be the…
I used to be intimidated by the length of a test. 50 questions would be an almost insurmountable challenge. 100 questions? Forget about it! That is until the Ph.D. program, where years of preparation led me to the qualifying exams: 2 days, 4 questions. If you pass, you get to move on and write a…
Testing can be a total drain. Sometimes you feel great, answering each question with ease. Other times, the lines start to blur, your eyes seem impossible to keep open, and the questions look like they are written in an alien language. The momentum can swing back and forth as you move through a difficult test…
Elephants are one of the most powerful creatures on the planet. Their mammoth-like size and strength would allow them to crush any obstacle and go anywhere they please. Nothing could stand in the way of a determined elephant. How is it then that so many elephants are passive, sitting in zoos and circuses without incident?…