Swarthmore Professor Timothy Burke, of Easily Distracted blog, has authored a couple of valuable posts for students. While Professor Burke most often posts about his area of expertise, Modern African History, he’s written some very insightful pieces for prospective and current College Students.

First is Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay . Professor Burke navigates […]

In my new series of posts, “Finding Work that You Love,”  I hope to share a process of finding a career that you really love.  Further, I’d like to stimulate thoughts and discussion around the way we express our true values and desires in our actions.  I believe this process is the same for reaching any goal or result […]

Over the holidays, I came across a very insightful post on the goalsguy.com site. Titled ‘The Ten Commandments of Goal-Setting,’ the post is a perfect accompaniment to your New Year’s Resolutions. Goals Guy nails the most important point in his first commandment, ‘Thou Shall Be Decisive.’
Success is a choice. You must decide what you want, […]

I came across this really cool free music service called Pandora. The creators of Pandora call it “a music discovery service designed to find and enjoy music that you’ll love.” By using the Music Genome Project’s database of hundreds of musical attributes or ‘genes,’ the service suggests music that’s similar to your tastes. You simply […]

Susan Kinzie’s Washington Post article, “Blogging Clicks with Colleges” from March 2005 is about how colleges and students are using blogs on campus. If you’re a blogger who’s a high school or college student, I’d love to hear about your experiences. Post a comment or send an email to me: blog at haydencoach dot com […]

In this week’s Carnival of the Vanities , Retire at 30 posted a very controversial piece about entitlement, work, delayed gratification, and today’s young adults.
Everybody would like $1 Million tomorrow, but how many people look at the world around them and ask what problems they could fix to create $1 Million in value? […]

Professor Vaughn Bell of Mind Hacks blog and contributor to the book of the same title has compiled a great list of essential sites for Psychology and Brain Sciences Students.  While some of the links he’s gathered are clearly aimed towards the high-level undergrad or grad student, a good number of them are helpful for high school students […]

Rosa Say is a wonderful Coach and Writer from Hawaii.  Her blog, Managing with Aloha, is written for Managers and Executives but often has wisdom that applies to all of us.  She’s written a wonderful post, My Aloha Virtue List, which is filled with a host of virtues she’s striving for during the month of […]

Purpose Why is what I’m working on important? What is the reason that I’ve chosen or been assigned this task? How does it fit into my larger sense of purpose? If it doesn’t fit, what can I change to make it purposeful?

Planning What are my general goals for my studies? What am I committed to […]