Success in College and after College

Who does not want to be successful in life? Success is what everybody in this world strives to achieve, but not everybody can taste it because they do not know how. To be successful you must take some decisions, you must know what you want to accomplish and create a strategic plan as a guideline to get the ultimate results you want for your life. College is one of the tools you can use to be successful because it gives you the necessary skills to succeed and prepares you for a career. Been successful in College will show you what determination and commitment can do; it will give you the trust you need in yourself to get anything you want in life. Success means to take control over your career, to accomplish your goals, but before you can have it you need to make your plan.

College is an easy decision for students, but find the motivation to keep you going toward your goal is tough. As Marcia L. Conner said “Motivation is the force that draws you to move toward something. It can come from a desire or a curiosity within you or can come from an external force urging you on.” pp 7. Only motivation can help you finish what you are starting. Young students, sometimes enrolled in College because their families want to, or because they think is the logical step once you finished High School. For adult learners is different, sometimes they enrolled because they want to pursue a new career in order to be happy in their lives. If you love what you are doing you can be incredibly productive and efficient. Other students want to fulfill a distant goal and College is one of the steps they can take to prepare themselves to reach that goal, for others that are returning complete the degree they started could be their goal. Further your educati...

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... will help you to determine which strategies to use in order to reach your goals. Think always the various ways you have to meet your goals and choose the most accurate, because as Napoleon Hill Said “ The world has the habit of making way for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.”

In conclusion, plans are the blueprints for achieving goals. They are organized by sequence and priority and are the step by step list of what you will do. You can have motivations in life, you can have a diploma, you can have skills, but if you lack a plan you do not know what to do. Every successful person in the history of world had a plan. To get success in College , to get success after College you need to set your goals and the ability to plan, organize and complete small or even larger and complex goals is going to be the measure of your success.