Marlon Moore presented 7 techniques for surviving graduate school: 1. Cultivate a champion's mindset of refusing average, being dedicated, and determined. 2. Research and write your future by determining your goals and limits. 3. Stay balanced by using time wisely, writing goals, communicating with employers and family. 4. Develop discipline and self-control through knowing when to say no and understanding sacrifice. 5. Build a support network by volunteering, attending functions, and having the right people. 6. Create reachable goals with a mission statement and understanding failure is not an option. 7. Develop maturity through limiting spending, managing resources, and repaying student loans.

1. Surviving Graduate School Techniques
(The sky is the limit)
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2. Presented By: Marlon Moore
1994 Southern University, BS, Rehabilitation
1999 University of Texas Southern Medical Center,
Prosthetic & Orthotic Program
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3. 7 Strategic Concepts to Survive
Graduate School
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4. Cultivate the Mind of a champion
There is a certain mindset of a champion that will give him
or her that competitive edge over fellow classmates and
colleagues.
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5. #1 Cultivating the mind
Refusal to accept average
Dedication
Determination
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6. Research & write your future
This process begins with understanding how
relentless and tenacious you must be in order to
prevail over and future adversity.
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7. #2 Research your future
Determine your future
Know your limits
Save yourself time and money
volunteer
Participate remember its your future
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8. Balancing & Structuring
If you are to position yourself successfully, then you
must begin today to build a support system that is
based not where you come from ,or even what you
did wrong, but on where you intend to go.
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9. #3 Staying Balanced
Use your time wisely
Write down your goals
Communicate with your employer
Friends & Family
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10. Discipline AKA Self-control
Your achievement will be determine
by your ability to commit .
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11. # 4 Discipline
Know when to say no
Understanding saying no is ok
Sacrifice now for later
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12. Networking
Environment has much to do with results. If you are
to position yourself today for graduate school &
completion then you must begin today to build a
support system that is based on where you going.
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13. #5 Networking
Volunteer (Become what you want to be)
Attend Functions that will help your
grow
Be prepared: Ask yourself what you have
to offer to make lives better.
Have the right people around you for
where are going.
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14. Goals & Limitations
You cannot achieve what you cannot conceive.
What are the limits you have the power to remove
from you life.
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15. # 6 Creating reachable goals
Prepare mission statement
Graduation date
Be honest with yourself
Understand failure is not an option
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16. Maturity & Limitations
What are the limits you have the
power to remove right now?
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17. #7 Maturity
Put limitations on personal spending
Manage resources, regardless of what
size they are.
Credit will be causes of lot of your
misery. (repay student loans)
Plan, invest, save, build wealth, create
value.
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18. We no longer live in an economy where a person is trained for one career and
works at it for life. To avoid countless error and waist of time follow my
7 simple steps to survival
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