Elements of Jay Etzel’s Ultimate Success Program for High School and College Students

Elements of Life Coaching

1. Live by purpose, design, and a sense of destiny
2. Live the abundant life
   • Appreciate the gift of life
   • Understand that life is a gift
   • Know what life is and where it comes from
   • Know who you are
   • Dare to live now
   • There are two ways to live: living fully or holding back
3. Establish core values around the gift of life
4. Keep your life clean, simple, powerful, and inspired
5. Keep your life powerful and inspired
6. Develop a theme of excellence and abundance for your life
7. Develop a balanced, holistic lifestyle that centers on mental, physical, spiritual, social, and emotional fitness
8. Build an inspirational firewall (consistent engagement in powerful activity)
9. Renew your mind and spirit every day
10. Lock into the abundance of each new day
11. Understand the need for constant inspiration
    • 25 reasons why you need inspiration
12. Pursue the best first
13. Maintain a clear emotional pathway to health and happiness
14. Structure your life around a few simple, life producing core activities
15. Maintain a clear physical pathway to health (develop a complete plan for physical health)
16. Enjoy the power of new beginnings
17. Utilize the 12 keys to spiritual success (faith, transcendence, redemption, etc.)
18. Develop a positive approach to life (enthusiasm, optimism, and expectation)
19. Develop a strong character and become a quality person (keys to having a strong character)
20. Build great friendships
21. Study the principles of health and life
22. Earn your free time
23. Use your free time creatively and productively
24. Balance your academic and extra-curricular schedule according to true fruitful activity
25. Never trade time for success
26. Be a quality person
27. Focus on what is essential
28. Practice the 21 keys to mental fitness
29. Live each phase of each day well
30. Read proverbs and become wise
31. Enjoy natural pleasures
32. Develop a book of dreams
33. Understand the counterforce of human nature
34. Understand and win the battle of spiritual warfare that every person encounters
35. Overcome your personal weaknesses and character defects
    • Inner dynamics of personal weakness
36. Learn and use the attributes of greatness
37. Understand that universal truths exist
38. Burst into each new day
39. Learn the 8 keys to remain in dynamic flow
40. How to deal with significant problems
41. Have regular empowerment times
42. Engage in positive change (experience a paradigm shift)
43. Develop a positive, enjoyable, and effective home life
44. Overcome temptation
    • The process of temptation
    • What temptation is
    • Effects of temptation
45. Learn the 7 keys to overcoming negativity of any kind
46. Stay progressive
47. Limit the use of social media, electronics, and cell phones for the purpose of better interaction
48. Be impelled by positive rewards
49. Be aware and overcome the shifts in positive energy (inspiration, enthusiasm, motivation, optimism, joy, and faith)
50. Learn to live with heart and soul
51. Improve the quality of your life
52. Put to use the power of positive action
53. Be selective and life affirming about your entertainment and media consumption
54. Pursue the best- put the light first in your life

Success Principles & Skills

1. Maintain strong motivation and enthusiasm
2. Develop and strengthen the personal characteristics of overall success
3. Remain highly structured and establish complete personal organization
4. Utilize your free time for recreation and great aspirations
5. Beat procrastination
6. Overcoming temptation that is work or school related
7. Overcome laziness
8. Strengthen and improve your mind
9. Challenge yourself
10. Overcome obstacles, setbacks, and delays
11. Understand the unity of truth
12. Follow project achievement protocol (how to do anything smarter and more efficiently)
13. How to achieve a goal
14. Goal setting and goal achievement
15. Avoid common distractions and timewasters of young people
16. Keys to overcoming disruptions, interruptions, and hindrances of work and progress
17. Overcome significant problems (should they come your way)
18. Understand the concept of creating clear pathways to success
19. Expertly use an agenda
20. Read quality books for pleasure and for growth
21. Learn to communicate effectively
22. Expertly manage time (include scheduling and planning)
23. Learn the power of prioritization
24. Be strong and flowing in transition
25. Maintain a strong work setup plan
26. Prepare for excellence
27. Become self-taught in the school of life

Educational Success

1. How to have a great school year
2. Understand the purpose of education
3. Know the value of education
4. Establish complete school work organization
5. Invest yourself in your education
6. Recognize the 25 benefits of a good education
7. Take control of your education and learning
8. Expertly manage your work responsibilities
9. Know and understand the core curriculum for each class
10. Thoroughly follow and know the order and flow of the class material and curriculum (know exactly where you are at all times in each class)
11. Anticipate the material to be presented before each class
12. Know what to expect from your teacher/professor (identifying patterns, systems, assignments, test schedules, etc.)
13.  Develop good communication with your teacher/professor
14. Get ahead of the learning and work curve
15. Have a good class, every class
16. Develop a Saturday morning study plan
17. Execute a consistent plan and schedule for studying and homework
18. Take effective notes
19. Expertly read and utilize your textbook
20. Utilize the internet for supplemental learning and knowledge
21. Keep a personalized terms and definitions notebook
22. Use project achievement protocol for papers and projects
23. Avail yourself to qualified extra help and study groups
24. Be comfortable in your surroundings
25. Be creative in your school work
26. Enjoy the process of learning and every hour of your class time, study time, and homework time
27. Make your learning interesting, vivid, emotional, and challenging
28. Personal characteristics of great learners
29. Understand how learning is accomplished
    • Understand the learning process
    • Develop an orderly pattern of learning
    • 7 core concepts of education and learning
    • Learn and practice systemic learning
    • Make your learning interesting, vivid, and challenging
30. Understand the 3 aspects of getting good grades
31. Interactive learning and active listening
32. The benefits of doing well academically
33. Execute a consistent, well planned out schedule for homework
34. Set yourself up to have great work and study sessions
35. How to enjoy every hour of school work (study time and homework time)
36. Follow project protocol for papers and projects
37. Have the correct vision for college (High School)
    • Identifying into the college that is right for you
    • Seven attributes and keys to getting into the right college (what will make you an attractive candidate for the college of your choice)
    • Seven goals of a liberal arts education
38. Selective use of outside instruction (tutors, afterschool help, study groups, student tutors, study partners)
39. Dealing with problematic teachers
40. How to be a great student in the eyes of a good teacher
41. Relating well to your teacher or professor
42. How to break down each individual subject (understand the nuances of English, math, social studies, science)
43. Taking personal time off of school (non-sickness related)
44. Dealing with difficult subjects
45. How to have effective class time and learn from your teacher
46. Quickness in getting to your work
47. Work ahead of the learning curve
48. Be aggressive with your school work
49. Taking effective breaks
50. Getting your work done before dinner
51. Have a positive attitude and approach towards your school work
52. Use a daily planner

Education Skills

53. Master core information first
54. Keep a personalized definition and terms notebook
55. Take concise notes from a textbook (optional)
56. Proper use of a review book
57. Read and utilize the textbook to its full potential (how to read a textbook)
58. Avail yourself to teachers, extra help hours, and review sessions
59. Learn how to prepare for a test and employ proficient test takings skills
60. Take purposeful, efficient notes
61. Overcome difficulties in learning
62. How to highlight a textbook properly
63. Comprehending lectures
64. Develop a habit of mental studying
65. Tips for specific study periods
66. Tips for busy students (athletes, performing artists, workers, etc.)
67. Dealing with substitute teachers
68. Employ proficient test taking skills
69. Expertly manage your education and work responsibilities

Health & Education

1. Optimal nutrition for learning
2. Remaining sickness free
3. Missing a day of school because of illness
4. How to handle being under-slept
5. How to still be effective while not feeling well during school