If you indulge yourself today, you will compromise your goals tomorrow.
This week, I’m featuring a quote from a great football coach, Lou Holtz.
Ability is what you are capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Mental strength determines how well you do it.
If you indulge yourself today, you will compromise your goals tomorrow. This week, I’m featuring a quote from
This quote doesn’t need my interpretation. It’s spoken straight to the point, just like Lou Holtz coached.
With the recently heightened level of competition for college opportunity and related jobs thereafter, it applies to every student contemplating their future.
A student’s success is often predictable, although it may not reach the desired level.
It’s not the lack of ability that compromises students’ opportunities or outcomes, and it’s certainly not colleges’ lower acceptance rates.
The predictability of a student’s outcome depends primarily on their motivation, mental resilience, and willingness to take on challenges that others are unwilling to undertake.
This plays right into the hands of a student’s constant dilemma: deciding between what they want now, such as having fun, hanging out with friends, sleeping in, playing video games, and relaxing, versus what they want most, such as a promising career, college success and achievement, respect, and life satisfaction.
These two desires are at odds. It requires extra insight, motivation, and perseverance to overcome immediate desires and achieve long-term outcomes.
Great results are available to the 20% most motivated, strongest-willed, and purpose-driven students who reliably choose what they want most. Half of this group is streamlining to success. Nothing will get in their way.
The other 80% of students will struggle to compete for less desirable colleges and jobs because they tend to choose what they want now. Half of this group will be heading home after college with little opportunity ahead of them.
You can choose the group that best suits your child. I recommend the 20% group, it’s just a preferred outcome. If this interests you, let’s chat.
