SUPPORT: Often The Missing Ingredient for Success

Here is a two-hour talk condensed in to three minutes.

My favorite is his acronym for C.R.A.P. :)

While this is spot on info, I find that what is often missing in these recipes for success is SUPPORT.

And when I say "support" I'm not talking about providing more information to consume. Seventeen different ways of saying the same thing, packaged in twelve different formats.

I'm talking about accountability from another person or other people. Most people understand forced-discipline, but very few possess self-discipline.

Helping another person stay accountable to their goals is one of the most time-consuming endeavors. It is much easier to write a book, give a talk, hold a seminar, than it is to actively mentor someone.

And it's much less confrontive to read a book, listen to a talk, attend a seminar, than it is to actively be mentored by someone.

Urban Prep - We Believe.

100 percent of school's first class college-bound
CHICAGO — For each boy, the new school offered an escape and a chance at a life that seemed beyond reach.
Krishaun Branch was getting D's, smoking reefer a lot, skipping school twice a week. His mother was too busy working to know what he was doing. He liked to fight and hang out in the streets; having relatives in gangs was his armor.

This is the beginning of an AP story I just read about a high school, started on Chicago's south side four years ago, with their first graduating class--ALL young men are heading to college.
Given the reality that only 1 in 40 African American males will finish college, Urban Prep having a goal to send 100% of their students off to college seemed far-fetched.
But when you have a vision, like the founder of Urban Prep, Tim King does, anything is possible.
As I watched the video of these young men, describing where they came from, what their mindset was, and then their transformation over the last four years, I am inspired.
It's a mini-lesson in success, including:
*the effect of positive self-talk
*the importance of dress
*the power of association
*the result of perseverance

Who knows what the future holds for these men? They may not all graduate college. Or they may not all be able to find their dream career afterwards. But I do know that they are different people, equipped with a different way of thinking, than who they would be without these experiences over the last four years.

Experiences of:
*being shown another way to live
*having a purpose, a goal, a target
*working hard and not taking anything for granted
*belonging, having a sense of community
*being valued, loved, and encouraged
*having others believe in them
and finally,
*believing in themselves.