Zoomie To Be: How to Win an Appointment to the Air Force Academy

Today I received notification that The Download Planet.com awarded Zoomie to Be: How to Win an Appointment to the Air Force Academy with a 5-star award. 

What a nice surprise!  I didn’t know anything about this until I received my notification. 

Many thanks to my customers, to my affiliates, and to those who have worked with me to make Zoomie to Be such a great manual!

 Now that I’ve gotten this award, wouldn’t you like to receive some sort of reward as well?

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To your success,

Elizabeth

Here in the South, where I am currently located, we have been rewarded with snow both the day after Christmas and last week. 

As I watched the snow fall all day on Monday, a question crossed my mind.  How many inches of rain are in an inch of snow?

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Happy New Year!

I hope that you have an enjoyable Holiday Season, and I hope that 2011 is your best year ever!

Are you making any resolutions for the New Year? No matter what your answer is to this question, I wanted to give you a couple of things that you can take action upon during the New Year, starting right now.

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As you work your way though the Air Force Academy’s admissions process and as you work your way through high school, there is going to be one resource that you will have a limited amount of.

No matter what your academic or economic background, you will have a finite amount of time allotted to you to win admission to the Air Force Academy.  You’ll also have a finite amount of time that you are a student in high school.  Time is the one resource that puts you even with your peers, because there is only 24 hours in a day for everyone. (more…)

I’m currently reading Samuel Adams: A Life, by Ira Stoll.  The biography of one of America’s Founding Fathers chronicles the role that Samuel Adams played in declaring America’s independence from Britain and the leadership role that he played during the Revolutionary War and the post-war period that followed. 

Although I’ve just started the book, it reminds me of a very important principle.

•  Readers are Leaders. 

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In the previous post titled “Determinig your Acts of Initiative- Part III” we looked at developing your leadership ability through being willing to increase your flexibility when faced or requested to do an univiting task in answer to Question #4. , which is part of a discussion on increasing your odds of winning admission to the Air Force Academy by increasing your initiative.

This post is part of a series called “Determining your Acts of Initiative ,” which is part of a discussion on increasing your odds of winning admission to the Air Force Academy by increasing your initiative.

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In the previous post titled “Determinig your Acts of Initiative- Part II” we looked at developing your leadership ability through volunteering to take on additional leadership and administrative responsibilities in answer to Question #3, which is part of a discussion on increasing your odds of winning admission to the Air Force Academy by increasing your initiative.

In another previous post titled “Determining your Acts of Initiative,” I asked you a series of 5 questions to help you to discover 5 acts of initiative that you have taken within the past year.  I shared with you in that post thoughts on why your answers to Questions #1 and #2 are acts of initiative.

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In the previous post titled “Determining your Acts of Initiative,” I asked you a series of 5 questions to help you to discover 5 acts of initiative that you have taken within the past year.  I’ve shared with you the thoughts on why your answers to Questions #1 and #2 are acts of initiative.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then please visit a post that I wrote, titled “Have you been exercising initiative lately?”, and then check out the post “In what ways have you been exercising your initiative lately? ”

Even if you’ve come up with your 5 acts of initiative on your own, you’ll probably want to review the “Determining your Acts of Initiative” post so that you can catch up to where we are now.  No worries; this post will still be here when you get done reading.

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Okay, so if you are reading this post, I guess that you had a little bit of trouble coming up with 5 acts of initiative that you have taken within the past year.  So let me ask you a few questions to prompt you….

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In a previous post entitled “Have you been exercising initiative lately?” I wrote about how it was crucial to develop your ability to take initiative in order to develop your leadership abilities.  The Air Force Academy admissions department is looking for those who are consistently working to improve their leadership abilities. 

 Notice that I have the words “consistently working to improve” italicized and in bold face type above.  In other words, it’s not enough to work on improving your leadership abilities once in a while.  You must work to consistently improve your leadership skills on a weekly basis.

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