Are you wondering how this material could be any different from the other self-discovery, grade-improving, or career-finding resources out there?  Before deciding to write this book, I read 300+ books on academic, career, and personal success.  Here's how this one is different:

1. College Success Secrets is a practical manual.

Many of the concepts are new to students and need a fair explanation to sink in so I provide that.  But it's not about unproven theories.  You'll find hundreds of practical ideas to really get the ball rolling.  These are proven in the halls of academia and walls of the marketplace.  By me, and thousands of others.  Consider this your own private home study course.

2. College Success Secrets works for every student. 

Great students are made, not born.  Many believe success is for someone else, but with a simple desire to do better, anyone can implement this plan - from high school to graduate school.  Same with your major – it doesn’t matter if you actually are majoring in Underwater Basketweaving or getting your Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics.  If you’re trying to get paid doing one of those two things, or you haven’t a clue what to major in, you'll find answers here.  While your aim may be to become a successful student, just start from where you are today.  All the details necessary are here.

3. College Success Secrets is up-to-date, not dated or recycled material.

These are not the same old educational or career prep strategies your parents grew up with.  These are truly revolutionary ideas!  The information on job search, for example, is in-tune with the current economic climate and specific to college age.  It is the exact way the employment game is played, whether with part-time work, internships, or full time employment.  I've included information known only to those working in the employment marketplace. 

4. College Success Secrets promotes a balanced view of success.

If you only measure success by GPA or salary, what's here may not be for you, though I cover both in detail.  Likewise, if you’re satisfied with being average, this program is not for you.  The content here covers the whole person - mental, vocational, social, emotional, athletic, spiritual, and financial.  Consider it a detailed roadmap from the day you walk on campus until you’re well into your second job past graduation.  

5. College Success Secrets will end your confusion over what works and what doesn’t. 

Students, by definition, learn from making lots of mistakes - commonly called homework and tests.  Yet when this learning style carries over to other parts of their life they miss the tremendous value in learning from others.

Freshman or new college graduates are often flustered with the new environment they’ve been thrust into.  While developing a meaningful philosophy of life, they get stuck trying to follow the so-called "rules", rather than learning to make responsible choices.  When you understand this system, you will see how it all fits together.  Why?  Because it’s about using simple principles to identify what really matters to you and then sharing these things with the people in your life. 

6. College Success Secrets can be implemented with little effort. 

Look, I know you live in the real world and have many choices in how you spend your free time.  The nice thing is the learning curve is simply the time it takes to read the sections that apply to you, whether you have 5 minutes or a few hours.   Begin to use what you learn and the results will speak for themselves.  You need only your brainpower, a desire to see changes in your life, and small actions, one after another. 

Consider this your secret weapon.  Act carefree with your friends but know how to win at the game of life.  It’d be a shame for you not to have more success when other students do so easily. 

7. College Success Secrets does not promise great results with no effort, however.

You’ll spend your 168 hours per week of college doing SOMETHING.  But it doesn’t have to include an insane study schedule every week.  It doesn’t have to include reformatting recycled term papers - professors see right through this scheme.  It doesn’t include plastering the internet with your resume and waiting for your wish-list companies to call back. 

While hard work and trying your best is great advice, it can be misleading.  It's pretty simple really - do the right things, over and over and over, and you'll get the results you want.  

8. College Success Secrets does not tell you life after college will be without problems.

It should be a “crime” to pay for an education and only want your parchment with a gold stamp.  After all, only the most naïve student can possibly believe their degree is the ticket to a problem-free future.  Once you read this material you’ll finally understand the dramatic difference between graduates who really excel and those who don’t.  By referring to this guide regularly, you won’t have to wait until you’re an adult to figure out how the world around you REALLY works. 

I’d hate for you to follow the path of many graduates before you who get a few years down the road and are busy earning a living, but still very unhappy.  Worse yet, they end up working a minimum wage job in their late 20s because they never found a career they would naturally excel at.  Or, for one reason or another, they never experience the joys of an intimate relationship they may desperately long for.  

9. College Success Secrets presents an overall strategy for success.

This is more information than I’ve ever shared with any candidate or student.  Workforce veterans have spent hours on the phone with me learning these job search strategies.  I’ve shared the concepts about identity and character development with people in their 60s and they listened - intently.  The relationship tips would help most marriages and will absolutely work for casual or serious dating.  The academic content focuses on how to quickly learn and apply what you need to know, not just on here-today, forgotten-tomorrow subject matter.

You'll find the secrets some take years to learn, and most never do.  I can guarantee almost every student or job seeker you come into contact with does not have an overall plan in place for getting what they want from life.  Their efforts are sporadic.  So imagine the tremendous advantage you will have once you decide to put all your efforts behind a proven, strategic student success plan  When you start seeing results with the use of these ideas, the impact on your life will be so amazing you won't want to do it any other way.