The Top Four Reasons to Regularly Update Your Resume

The Top Four Reasons to Regularly Update Your Resume

Resumes are often, perhaps, one of those things that a lot of people do not think about with too much regularity–until they are all of a sudden needed. They may suddenly be needed when applying for a new job; applying to college; or even just anything application-based in nature. This article, then, is all about the reasons for regularly updating your resume–irrespective of the reason(s) for doing so. With that in mind, let’s look at the top four reasons why…

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How To Run Over 1,000 Miles In a Year (A Follow-Up Guide & Reflection)

How To Run Over 1,000 Miles In a Year (A Follow-Up Guide & Reflection)

After running 1,000 miles in the calendar year of 2020, I felt like I had a pretty good template to build upon for 2021, but, of course, that did not mean that there was nothing else to learn about running (or about myself) in a year where I wanted to build upon that 1,000 mile-mark from 2020. Several things stood with me–in 2021–that I hope to highlight, here, including the following seven points: 1. Keep Moving and Standing: After running…

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Four Tips to Consider When Working With Late-Bloomers

Four Tips to Consider When Working With Late-Bloomers

Our society is often quick to embrace and celebrate prodigies and people doing noteworthy things at young ages. In youth-centric–or, some might even say, youth-obsessed–cultures, like, perhaps, the United States, people who take longer to develop, or take more time to find their footing in life, are usually not celebrated in the same ways as the young gifted learner, musician, or athlete, for instance. Because of this, late-bloomers can often be overlooked, casually dismissed–or worse yet, completely written off by…

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Nine Points to Consider When Working With Brand-New Students

Nine Points to Consider When Working With Brand-New Students

Every year, new students arrive to each and every school–many, at the beginning of the school year; others, arriving at different, various points as the year progresses. With this reality in mind, I wanted to take a look at several things to consider when helping new students get acclimated and comfortable in their newest educational setting. 1. Carve Out Adequate Time to Meet With the New Student(s): This may sound a bit naive, but when I was a brand-new counselor,…

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Five Reasons Why School Counselors Should Consider Keeping School Supplies and Food in Their Offices

Five Reasons Why School Counselors Should Consider Keeping School Supplies and Food in Their Offices

When I got my (first and current) school counseling job, one of the first things I decided to do was keep a designated space in my office for students to gather-up needed (free) school supplies or to grab a quick snack. Sure, this ends up costing several hundred dollars a year (probably similar to what a lot of teachers spend to stock their classrooms), but the pay-off is more than worth it in my mind. If you are a savvy…

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Super-Charging Your Student Loan Repayments: How to Pay Back Loans Quicker and Save Substantial Money (Part II of II)

Super-Charging Your Student Loan Repayments: How to Pay Back Loans Quicker and Save Substantial Money (Part II of II)

In continuing our discussions on paying back student loans (Super-Charging Your Student Loan Repayments: How to Pay Back Loans Quicker and Save Substantial Money) from last month, here are the final six tips, strategies, and things to perhaps consider: 7. Make Small, Incremental Increases (Whenever Possible): Maybe the best way to start-off our list is with an example: Once I decided to more aggressively pay back my student loans (if you remember from last month’s article, that was about three…

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Super-Charging Your Student Loan Repayments: How to Pay Back Loans Quicker and Save Substantial Money (Part I of II)

Super-Charging Your Student Loan Repayments: How to Pay Back Loans Quicker and Save Substantial Money (Part I of II)

Seemingly plastered over the news these days, it’s little secret that student loan debt is a big deal to a lot of people in 2021. With outstanding debt loads that can rival, or beat, many car notes–or even approach some mortgage payments–it’s a burden that is certainly felt strongly by many tens of millions of Americans. I, too, have felt that burden. However, recently, I was able to pay off my student loans in six years and three months’ time–shaving…

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My School Counselor Decision-Making Process

My School Counselor Decision-Making Process

As a school counselor–as with many other jobs–hundreds of decisions are typically made in each workday. Big decisions; little decisions; largely inconsequential decisions; and consequential decisions–and everything in-between. How can a school counselor approach the decision-making process? In this article I will talk about the approach that I like to take for myself, offering some tips and things to think about, along the way. When it comes to making decisions, I like to funnel things through four different categories: What’s…

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Book Review: I Wish for Change: Unleashing the Power of Kids to Make a Difference

Book Review: I Wish for Change: Unleashing the Power of Kids to Make a Difference

I cannot seem to remember the last time that I actually wrote a book review. Was it middle school? Elementary school? However long ago that it was, here I am again: Deciding to dust-off my book review skills for the first time since kids still rocked snap bracelets; fanny packs (back in fashion now, I may add) and ate Dunkaroos after school. I really did not set out to write a book review this month, to be honest, but by…

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One Year Into the Pandemic, This is What I have Learned: 13 Things in 13 Months

One Year Into the Pandemic, This is What I have Learned: 13 Things in 13 Months

We are now, officially, more than a year into the global pandemic known as COVID-19. When all is said and done, entire books and libraries will be devoted to all-things-this-pandemic, but for now, I just want to share thirteen things that I have learned from the past thirteen months. 1. Mantras Matter: I will admit: I had previously never been big on reciting mantras. But it only seems fitting that, as so much has changed throughout this time of COVID,…

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