Zen College Life

“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” - Benjamin Mayes

If I called you and told you to meet me on the west coast, but never gave you any detailed directions could you find me? It’s possible, though I definitely wouldn’t be at the first place you looked.  Achieving success follows a similar pattern.  You could achieve success by mere chance or ‘luck,’ it may fall into your lap, or it may be handed to you.  But these are not chances that most of us are willing to take.  So allow me to give you a kindergarden tip to help you achieve greater success.
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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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A personal friend of Steve Olson’s (a blogger I love to read from) has compiled a list of free personal development material that you can’t afford not to check out.  I’ve already looked over some of it, and I have to say that we have stumbled upon a goldmine.  Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.

Check out the goldmine here!

This week we will be focusing on investing in ourselves.  You always here people talking about investing in this stock or that company, investing time in your family life and friendships, investing in a new tv or xbox (if that can even count as an investment…), but rarely do we focus on investing in what matters most; ourselves. An investment in yourself is the difference between where you are now and the raise you hope to get.  It’s a difference between the person you are today and the person you could be tomorrow.  You are your single most valuable asset, and until you start putting it to work, you couldn’t hope to be any more succesful than you are now.

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I just finished reading “The Greatest Management Principle in the World” by Michael LeBoeuf, and I am rather impressed. Though the book was written in 1985, way before the GTD movement, this book is rather inspirational in not only getting things done, but also in creative and lateral thinking, as well as tips on achieving more and things of that nature. Leboeuf stresses that “The Things that get rewarded, get done,” to explain how to manage people and how rewards consistantly achieve better results than punishments.  I’ll go into a little detail of what should be rewarded and a couple of other ideas from the book. Read more »

Our server here at Zen College Life went down sometime last week.  The damage caused a lot of problems with the site, but I’m glad to say that we are back in action, thanks to 1&1 Web Hosting.  They took care of me in a jiffy and now things are faster and better than ever.  Look out world, Zen College Life is back in action and it’s here to stay!

Pam Beesly from “The Office”

I was thinking about how much I do now during this summer break, or rather how little I do, when I came upon the idea that I could acheive so much more if I had my own personal assistant.  Then reality struck… I have no money.  So, I came up with my next best solution: Fire me as my personal assistant, and hire a new me.  Confused?

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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized” -Sun Tzu

So, you want to be a badass, huh?  I feel you.  I started out wanting it too.  Then I decided to do more than just want.  I decided to become a real live badass.  Wanna know how?

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Shilpan, at Dumb Little Man wrote an excellent article about habits of your friends that are holding you back. Here’s an excerpt.

A billboard near my house reads, “Tell me the company you keep, and I’ll tell you what you are.” If you ponder, there’s a truth in this statement. A criminal seeks another criminal; a successful man seeks the company of another successful man.

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People at the college and university levels are hopeful. We are dreamers, thinkers, and doers. We don’t just believe everything we hear, we don’t just accept everything we are given, we think, question, learn, conclude, act, and react to everything around us. Nothing is yet at it’s best, and we are the generation that believes we can change it. We can make it better. Read more »