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Many students will agree that college demands your time, your growth, your knowledge, your fortitude, and your resilience. To celebrate getting that tassel on your graduation day, one must stay encouraged. One method to stay encourage begin with WHY. I want to ponder the WHY question so you will understand the importance of knowing such when discouragement occurs.
Really think about WHY you desire to attend an educational institution of higher learning. Unlike what you will receive but WHY are you receiving it. WHY do you feel that you need to advance your learning. Think from the inside out instead of thinking from the outside in. For instance, remove the focus from your surroundings, your family, your home, your job and allow your "gut" feelings to answer the WHY. Allow the “it feels right” to answer the WHY. You must put this feeling into words for the WHY. If you can verbalize your WHY, it will provide the emotional background to move forward when circumstances dictate otherwise.
To gain inspiration to achieve goals, it must start with the clarity of WHY! The WHY enables balance. The WHY solidifies goals and ensures completion of goals. The WHY allows stamina to foster when the facts indicate something different. You must define the WHY before you can reach graduation. I know you believe you know the WHY but can you actually put it in words. For example, when you think of Apple do you think about computers? You see, Apple dropped the word computers from its name in 2007 because the company focused on the WHY. Apple wanted to sell more than just computers. Their WHY became “challenging the status quo by thinking differently.” Now we have iPhones, iPads, iPods, and iTunes instead of the Apple computer.
Thus, I challenge you to think differently by understanding the WHY then the HOW and WHAT will become easily. If you realize the clarity of WHY, you will begin to prioritize the demands for college admissions, scholarships, ACT scores, and place the need for studying above other relevant and irrelevant requirements. The WHY brings discipline and self accountability to ones’ life. The WHY allows ultimate balance leading to new outcomes and new opportunities.
Establish the clarity of WHY, then you will experience success in various ways than you can imagine.
