I recently gave a two-hour seminar based upon the manual that I wrote: Zoomie to Be: How to Win an Appointment to the Air Force Academy. It was very well received by both the participating students and their parents.
One of the first things that I did during the seminar is that I had each student fill out a questionnaire. Here are some of the questions that I asked:
- What is your current G.P.A.?
- What is your class rank? How many people are in your class?
- What is the average high school G.P.A. of the entering Air Force Academy Cadet?
Some of the participants had absolutely no idea how to answer these questions. They had no idea what their G.P.A. is, no idea about what their class rank is, and no idea what the average high school G.P.A. of the entering Air Force Academy Cadet is.
How will they get into the Air Force Academy, you ask?
I have no idea.
Just kidding. The whole reason that I had each student fill out the questionnaire was to see how clear each one of them was on what he or she had to do to win an Appointment to the Air Force Academy.
In the process, I also had to make them look at some hard truths about themselves, which isn’t always easy. It’s tough for us to look at our own faults sometimes, but it is also a very necessary step toward getting where you want to go. You can only create the right solution to achieve a goal when you correctly assess your current situation.
When you want to reach a goal, it is all about having clarity. For every major success that I’ve had in my life, it was because I had total clarity.
And for every single time that I’ve failed to reach a goal, although there may have been other factors involved that were beyond my control, lack of clarity or fading clarity on my part usually showed up too.
And that’s what I wanted to show my students. Getting into the Air Force Academy is long and complicated process. And it’s all about having clarity.
How clear are you in terms of where you stand in your own Air Force Academy admissions pursuit? Do you have a written, workable plan in place to get yourself admitted to the Academy?
You owe it to yourself to take a hard look at those two questions that I’ve just asked you, and to keep taking action upon them until you have total clarity about where you are now, and how you are going to get yourself into the Academy.
If you would like more tips and strategies, please check out my manual, Zoomie to Be: How to Win an Appointment to the Air Force Academy available in downloadable format at www.airforceacademyappointment.com or in paperback at www.lulu.com/content/364596.
To your success,
Elizabeth