How to mitigate the dysfunctional habits of collegiate life.

1. How to make collegiate life suck
less.

2. Nutrition:
Dont skip out on a solid breakfast every morning. This made a huge
difference for me. Low blood sugar is the anti-performance enhancing
substance. Go for 20g of protein.
Try to eat a green vegetable with all three meals everyday. (Whole
avocados in the morning are awesome.)
(http://www.lifehack.org/295682/5-unexpected-benefits-eating-
large-breakfast)

3. Sleep:
Get more of it. Seriously. Sleep deprivation wrecks everything inside of
your body and spirit. It is performance theft.

4. If you have an opportunity to travel
somewhere new, DO IT. Physical
possessions grow dust. Memories
are for a lifetime.

5. Career:
- GO to your professor’s office hours and pick their brains. You have
to pay an ungodly amount in tuition, might as well gain insights into
life/business/human relations/anything.
- Get as many letters of recommendations as possible. I got eight
overall and it gave me a huge leg up. They don’t get your foot in
the door, they kick it wide open.

6. More Career:
- Ditch the classic “30-second elevator speech”. They sound
contrived and bland and make us sound like a character from a
bad movie in 1997.
- Instead have a 15-second storyboard geared toward your purpose
and that comes off like a normal conversation. (Good) employers
don’t want a robot. Don’t be afraid to be your authentic yourself.

7. Social Circle:
“The key is to keep company only with people
who uplift you, whose presence calls forth
your best.”
- Epictetus

8. Mental Health
- If your campus has a free or low-cost mental health center, go sit
down with a counselor, at least once or twice. I cannot stress this
enough. Good mental health = good personal ROI.
- Physical activity
- Meditate
- (Rinse and Repeat)

9. Finally…
Take a deep breath… it will all be fine. Throughout my collegiate
experience, I suffered bouts of self-doubt and despair. I changed
majors 7 times (yes, seven). I could not imagine a better life now and
love my career, friends, family, and Higher Power more than words can
describe.