Edition 05 - December 2009
Exploring Hot Topics - Traveling the Road Ahead
Now that exams are over and the wait for results is nearing,
students may be feeling the pressure and nerves. After all, these
marks can be the determination of their future, life direction and
pathway… They can be and they may not be! Where students begin does
not mean it is going to be where they end up. Their plan and
direction today may not be the pathway they want to ultimately want
to strive in. And this is okay!!! Too often students believe that
they have to make their life-long decisions early, when they are
teenagers, and ultimately, when they are still discovering who they
are. There may be some students out there that know exactly what
they want to do, know who they are, what is important to them, what
they are passionate about and what they want to be successful in.
However there are many of students that do not have these answers
and feel lost in a world they feel obligated to conform too. These
are the students we must focus on!
Students need to understand themselves and what is important to
them before they can make decisions that could change the course of
their life. Without understanding the key essentials of what makes
them individuals and the unique souls they are, they may feel
greater pressure to conform to a direction that does not reflect
who they are. Success does not have to mean achievement in a career
and pathway, or achieving big bucks in the workforce. Success
similarly does not have to mean the best marks on VCE exams and an
ENTER score that ensures entry into the best university. Success is
an individual meaning! Success encompasses many different aspects
of an individual's life, including family, health, spirituality,
education and lifestyle. What it means to be successful to one
individual is not what it means to another.
Students do not have to be the BEST. They have to be THEIR best.
Only they will know when and what this is
I've missed more than
9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've
been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed
over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I
succeed.
Michael
Jordan
** A snippet of what is discussed in the Striving To Success
workshop
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