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Finals are just around the corner, and with them comes a whole new set of stress for many of us.  But it doesn’t have to be that way.  A little stress is great when harnessed for success.  Follow these tips and you are sure to be well on your way to success.  If you are an A student it’s time to make 100s across the board, if you are a B student, it’s A time.  Follow the tips here at Zen College Life and you are gauranteed to have greater success than you have had in previous semesters. Read more »

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Michael Phelps is probably the most well known Olympian today. He holds 16 Olympic Medals, 8 of which he won recently in Beijing.   His success, though, is no accident.  He’s no freak of nature, nor is he genetically engineered to swim.  Phelps attributes his success to his hard work, dedication, planning, and practicing.   He practices 365 days a year, with 2-a-day practices 145 days a year.  With this much hard work and dedication, it’s almost impossible to not do well. Read more »

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“Beelitz lecture hall” By Ole Begemann (Some Rights Reserved)

Tips and Tricks

As promised, here is the list of tips, tricks, and college hacks that will help ensure you great success in your college career.  Not all of them will apply to everybody, but there are definitely a few gems here for everyone.  Enjoy!

• Go to all orientations. The fact is, you can never know too much about your school, and any knowledge you do have can only be useful.
• Be friends with your roommate. Being/Having a good roommate is the difference between your apartment/dorm being amazing, or very, very terrible. Read more »
  

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Creating a Successful Environment

Now that we have a vision and a plan to create that vision, it is time to create a successful environment.  This will ensure that you can make the most of your experience and master your academic career.  I won’t get into specifics here, at it will be different for everybody, but rather a general idea of what a successful environment is and isn’t. Read more »

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Planning and Organizing

Ok, so you’ve gone through the visualization exercise and you  have a realistic image of what college is going to be like.  You know what your finances will consist of, your academic life, you have chosen the best way to spend your free time.  You have a clear idea of the commitment required for your health and relationships.   You even have an idea of what type of community activities you might like to participate in.  Now it’s time to build that vision into a reality. Read more »

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Visualization

The first step to succeeding in anything we do is to have a clear vision of success and a realistic approach of how to achieve it.  Visualization is the approach we will use to create our vision.  Think about visualization like practice before the big game.  If you create a vision of your perfect game, and you play back the vision over and over, by the time game day comes, it will be as though you’ve done it a million times. Read more »

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The University of Glasgow

Introduction:

So you’ve gotten into college, and you have a couple weeks till it starts.  You don’t know what to do, and you are probably a little freaked out.  Well not to worry, because here at Zen College Life you’ll find the perfect way to start off your college career right. We’ll start off with the basics and work our way through some of the details.  Buckle up guys, this ride could get bumpy! Read more »

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By Donald Latumahina of LifeOptimizer.org

There are many best-seller books out there. By definition, best-seller books are books which are bought by many, many people. Unfortunately, buying doesn’t mean reading. From those many people who buy a book, only a fraction of them actually read the book. Read more »

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Is it just me or did half of summer go by, and still we haven’t had any life changing experiences? What’s going on? I thought they automatically happen during summer, you just have to be there.  It seem’s like I’m always ‘there’ and yet nothing…

So I decided to take matters into my own hands, and with this attached list you can too. I call this the list of social productivity.  Do as many of these as you can, and I’m sure the second half of summer will be very eventful, to say the least.

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To Do List Software

I was recently approached by Mr. Scott Karstetter with an offer to try his new Smart To-Do List Software. As a blogger I’m always looking to give my readers the best informative reviews of the products I use or check out, so I was more than happy to try out this new software.

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