Alas! Grab the popcorn because the third, and final, video to my motivational series is here! 
The teenage brain is wired to have difficulty controlling impulses, which is my getting motivated to do school work can be so hard. 

Check out some brain science I shared with my client that helped him come up with a fun anti-procrastination experiment.

Did you miss the first two videos of my motivational series? No problem- click here to see the first video, and here to see the second. If you like what you see, check out more tips to rock school here.

Last week I shared 5 different ways to tackle motivation with teens. This week we’ll look at one of them in more depth — the importance of figuring out where you want to go.

Goal setting is easier said than done, however, which is why many teens get tripped up with it. Watch the video to hear how a client and I did some troubleshooting around goals.

Tune in next week to hear my third and final tip on how to stay motivated. In the meantime click here for more awesome tips!

Do you (or any kids you know) struggle to get motivated about school? Chances are the answer is “Yes!”

Lack of motivation is a common complaint amongst the teens with whom I work. Here is how one of my high school juniors and I tackled the motivation question when he found himself struggling a few months ago.

Stay tuned next week for the next part of the motivational series. In the meantime, if you’re itching for more tips check this out.

With June here, you know what’s right around the corner? SUMMER VACATION!! 

A couple months ago I was talking to a client of mine — a junior in high school — about how he can have fun this summer AND do some activities that will be great on his college resume. We hit upon a PERFECT solution for him — I watched his eyes light up as we found an awesome summer experience.

Check out the video to find out what we came up with, and how you (or a teen you love) can create the same kick ass summer experience for themselves. 

Looking for more tips about how to get prepped for college? Click here.

Are you (or do you know) a student who’s struggled to find the perfect organization system?

If so, I have a solution for you! Forget the binders and portfolio folders and check out this trick. 

Cheesy as it sounds, it really does have my clients going gaga:

Want more creative solutions? I’ve got the place for you. Click here.

I know I normally talk to students, but parents this one is for you!

I’ve noticed a little pattern in most of the families I talk to and wanted to address this with the broader community.
This simple trick is something every family can do to help shift the school stress away from their student.

Itching for more awesome advice? Check out my Anti-Boring Approach to powerful studying.

Recently a young woman about to graduate from college called me desperate:
“I’m such a mess! I’ve almost failed out of school several times! I’m thankfully about to graduate, but now I’m scared that I’m too much of a disaster organizationally to live in the real world.”

I told her one sentence — the sentence that I tell all my new clients — and I could just hear the relief in her voice. EVERYONE needs to hear these words of reassurance, but especially students who struggle with learning differences.

Want more motivational to do better in school the anti-boring way? Check this out.

Do you sometimes feel you’re being ignored by your teacher? Or maybe you go to a study hall and you leave feeling you didn’t get enough attention?

If you’re feeling frustrated because you’re not getting the attention you need, perhaps this “no duh!” tip will help fix that problem (it totally did for my junior-in-high school client).

When working on school work, do you ever find yourself stuck about what to do next? (I know, stupid question, right?)

This came up in a session with a client the other day and we were able to find a sneaky solution! Check it out and if you’re itching for more tips, questions, and topics? Check it out.

How are your spreadsheet skills? As good as THIS 16 year old teen?

One of my daily delights includes teaching teens tiny technology skills (like how to create formulas in spreadsheets) and watching them do AMAZING things with their new knowledge. Check out how a client recently applied his new-found skill to a school project.

Excited for more tricks to help you become a better student and life navigator? Click here.

We all know that we shouldn’t be late to class or to work, but it’s a bad habit for many of us!
Harrison, a college student I recently befriended, sat down with me to brainstorm some ways to help YOU stop being late to class.

Want some more creative time management tricks and tips? You’ll find some useful ones here.

YOU! Yes, YOU! Stop making this mistake NOW!
So many of my clients try hard to be “normal” students. This often results, though, in a lot of pain and agony because they’re forcing themselves to go against the natural inclinations of their unique brains.
Do you identify with trying to force yourself to be someone you’re not, at work or school?

For more creative solutions to tricky study situations, click here.

I’m here to save you from a horrible communication situation my client was just in! Have you ever been too ashamed to speak up after forgetting to turn in key homework? That’s what happened to my client, and it cost him a grade.

If you’ve found yourself (or your student) in other sticky academic situations, click here and learn some tricks.

While I was talking with a client recently about his writing woes, I taught him a trick that I learned in English class back in the 1980’s.
You should have seen his face light up when I told him.

Check it out.

Do you ever make a plan, but then struggle to follow through?
This is one reason my teen clients give for why they don’t want to plan in the first place: “I don’t want to disappoint myself by making a plan I won’t follow,” they say.

Plans are meant to be made, I say, but not always followed! Click the picture below to see why it’s ok to cut yourself some slack sometimes:

Science tests can be particularly difficult to study for due to the high volume of material. A client of mine brainstormed some tips when studying for science tests in our last session.

Check out this video to see what we came up with: