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Helping teens and young adults transition into adulthood, independence, and success!

 

 

Success is not measured by the goals in your life, but by the life in your goals!

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Self-Awareness

When adolescents and young adults develop their self-awareness skills, they improve their ability to understand their wants and needs. This increases their ability to evaluate their strength and challenges, enabling adolescents and young adults to effectively set, monitor, and achieve their goals.

Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is critical for supporting and strengthening motivation and resilience. Self-esteem is developed through an appreciation for ones talents and struggles. Nurturing a growth mindset is a foundation step towards having positive self-esteem.

Self-Confidence

I am reminded of the Little Engine That Could as a symbol of self-confidence. When adolescents and young adults can take those chances to explore various aspects of adulthood, they move toward greater independence and self-confidence. It is easy to see the roles resilience and a growth mindset have on self-confidence and goal achievement.

How Can I Help?

Welcome! I am glad you are here. I have something I want to share with you, and that’s my passion for helping teens and young adults prepare to conquer the demands of a highly complex and ever-changing world.

I believe that for success in this world, people need: a sense of who they are, a purpose or direction to go in, a plan for getting there, a way to evaluate their plan, and the skills necessary to edit and revise their plan if needed.

Teenagers and young adults are just coming into their own. They are uncovering and discovering who they are and what they want out of life. Many times, they lack basic skills to help them on their way. Skills such as self-awareness, goal-setting and evaluating, self-advocacy, avoiding thinking traps, nourishing a growth- mindset, effective communication, time-management

When these skills are missing, it can result in struggles at home or school, inability to find a job or keep a job, low self-esteem, lack of motivation, constantly being late or missing deadlines…

Through my personalized approach, I help teens and young adults:

  • Develop self-awareness to clearly understand their strengths and challenges.
  • Learn how to set goals and monitor their progress.
  • Create plans for overcoming obstacles.
  • Evaluate and reflect on their work toward achieving goals, editing and changing strategies as necessary.
  • Celebrate success!

Ann Welch, M.Ed.

Owner/Educational Consultant Personalized Educational Pathways, LLC

You are invited to join my private Facebook group, Teen Adulting where I am providing a place where parents, caregivers, and educators can collaborate to share resources to support teens and young adults in their transition into adulthood. I hope you will join this group and share your experiences, questions, and concerns.

What Are Their Hopes and Dreams?

Self-Awareness matters!Many teens and young adults know what they want for their futures but don’t know how to get there. Others don’t know what they want and have no idea how to figure it out. No matter where teenagers fall on that continuum, developing...

Tools for Time Tracking: Cultivating Accurate Self-awareness

In my last blog, I explained the importance of time tracking in developing self-awareness, or time-awareness, in teens. I recommended that teens use a log to chart their time. Because self-awareness is such an important skill for teens to develop, I thought I would...

How About Them Bears?!

Self-awareness is foundational to success. This is true for most things and certainly true for time management. What does time mean to you? What is the value of your time? Are you spending your time doing the things that matter most to you? How do you manage your...

If Eisenhower Were Alive Today

Can’t decide what to do next? President Eisenhower can help! Eisenhower’s approach to leadership, organization, and prioritization has been developed into a tool called the Eisenhower Matrix. If you conduct a Google search on the matrix, you will find a variety of...
An hour glass with the words "Friend? or Foe?"

Time: Friend or Foe

While the Rolling Stones sing “Time is On My Side” over and over in my mind today, I am struck by the application of those words in the topic of time management. I had been missing a key component in my usage of time management tools and strategies: a positive...

The Balance of Empowerment

Teens want a say. They have their opinions, and they want to share them. They want to feel empowered to think, believe, feel, and do anything and everything they want to! Some people suggest that parents should let their teens be empowered for everything. Some suggest...

Decisions, Decisions

What do you want your teen to know how to do? How can you teach them how to do it? An important skill for success in the 21st century is decision-making. While our teens make decisions every day from what to wear to who to hang out with, large decisions require more...

The Power of “Could”

How many times have you heard well-meaning (and not-so-well-meaning) people say, "You should ______" regarding your teenager? When it came to raising my boys, I heard it often. Looking back, I realize that while they were saying "should", the word I needed to hear was...

Iterations

Helping teens learn how to make decisions is key to their growth and our sanity. Teens by their very nature can be impulsive. Having the tools necessary to think things out, make decisions, and problem solve are essential. Often these tools work together as part of an...

Do They Know What You Do?

Does your teen know what you do? Do they know about your work? I wonder if they really do. Each time I “travel” with students on their journey of career exploration, I hear them report that they see their parents, family members, and family friends in a new light....

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