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"Deadlines are not finish lines."

When it comes to creating quality options and seizing upon your opportunities, nobody wins by just barely beating a deadline. 

Breaking News- life is a game of getting ahead early to improve the likelihood of winning in the end.

In my racquetball games, the first points of the game are just as important as the last points. I can't wait until the end to make the effort that I needed to in the beginning if I expect to win.

What happens when I get behind? Points become urgent and hard to come by then. Playing in a state of urgency is not a good platform for winning!

That all makes common sense, but it's not practiced often enough. Rather, too many important things are left until they become urgent leading to predictable outcomes. 

In the college process, now is the time of year when there are several important matters to take care of, such as writing application essays, planning college trips, building relations with admission counselors, preparing for SAT/ ACT's, and much more.

For those who work on these items now, quality options await you ahead. For those who will put it all off until deadlines get near, undesired outcomes are predictable. It's just the way it works. 

Let's be sure to get ahead early, stay ahead as the game goes on, and win in the end!

"The secret to achieving personal growth during changing times is to focus your energy on building the new,

not on fighting to keep the old."

We've all heard too many times during the Covid-crisis- "I just wish that we could get back to normal."

Breaking News- "Normal" is always in the present. There is never "getting back" to the way things were. Life doesn't work that way. 

People get stuck holding on to "the way it was". Businesses get stuck holding on to business models that no longer work. Education gets stuck keeping classes that are no longer relevant. 

And then they all wonder why things aren't working out; rarely considering that solutions rest within themselves and their own belief system.

Why does it happen this way? Because "building the new" is much harder than holding on to the old. A simple example is with JC Penney's and Sears going out of business holding onto the old model while Amazon was building the new model.

Someone is always "building the new" while most others are desperately holding on to the old. It's a surest platform for opportunity.

Achieving personal growth comes from embracing the inevitability of change and building upon it. 

Turning dreams into reality is no easy task. Rather, it requires intention, knowledge, and action.

Do you really know what your child dream's of when thinking about college and their future ahead?

Do you really know where their true passion lies?

Let's face it, most parents don't know. Why not? Because parents don't often ask and when they do, the child doesn't typically trust the parent enough to share those intimate thoughts...it's safer for them to say some form of- "I don't know."

That response quickly deflects the discussion. Parents willingly accept it. This is what I then hear.

"My child doesn't know..." 

Doesn't that really mean that the parent doesn't know?

You can know if it's important enough to know.

Here is my CollegeLogic 5-Step Approach. It may not work for you, but it works for me!

# 1- Dream, what do they dream of doing...find out!

# 2- Goals, set goals for achieving desired results.

# 3- Learn, gain knowledge of the process.

# 4- Plan, work from a knowledge-based plan.

# 5- Act, take proper action to support the plan.

There's nothing hard here, right? Your barrier is that you don't have someone directing the show. Without a well-directed "Action Plan", time goes by and dreams fade away...unnecessarily. 

Mom and Dad, what's your dream for your child? Here at CollegeLogic, we turn dreams into reality.

If you're a believer in dreams...let's talk!

 Resistance will crush your opportunity to grow into the person you want to be.