Reading Time: 5 minutes In search of new opportunities, a 16-year-old girl decided to leave her family and everything she knew behind to tread into the unknown. Late night Aug. 7, 2012, her parents drove her two hours from Pescara, Italy, to the closest airport in Rome, where she would begin her new life in America. “I had never […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The sixth annual student leadership and mentoring conference hosted by Student Leadership and Success Studies was held Feb. 3. The event was a six-hour long affair from 8 a.m. to an early close around 2 p.m. The event cost around $10 and included breakfast, lunch and priceless wisdom from students in various stages of their […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Women at UVU lag behind the national higher education enrollment headcount by 12 percent according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Tara Ivie, senior director for the Women’s Success Center, speculates that women are taking significant breaks from their college experience. She said that the university has a higher enrollment of females than males at UVU […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a common phrase, “it isn’t what you know, but who you know” that leads you to success. Perhaps it is over quoted, but that is because it is so applicable to every situation in life such as work, school or personal relationships. Friends make life easier partly by opening doors that you didn’t […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Believe it or not, successful people procrastinate. Success isn’t about always avoiding procrastination, but about picking your battles. Among the thousands of reasons to procrastinate, here are three common situations where you can avoid procrastinating. Reason 1: Someone asked me to do a last minute meeting or brief so I need to prepare for that […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes What the most successful people do before breakfast has already been published by Business Insider, INC, Life Hack and many other publishers multiple times. Instead of simply saying what everyone else is, here are three things you will find common in most of the articles out there and why it could be what you need […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Few things in life can bring people together and make all the evil and trivial things in the world retreat into the shadows like sports can. For the next two weeks, presidential politics, war, violence and economic fear will take a backseat to competition, sportsmanship, national pride and triumph of the human spirit. For many, […]