001. Determine Your Legacy. In this episode Rick Palo talks about starting a Life Plan. It’s a necessary document where you will plan out the major educational and career opportunities for the next 5-10 years. The first step is to have a Mission for your life, or determining your Legacy. The most important factor to your Legacy is to have high quality interpersonal relationships. To have the highest quality interpersonal relationships as possible you must have positive intentions, you must genuinely care, and you must make eye contact. Using this simple but not widely used strategy can turn complete strangers into treasured compatriots.

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Automated Transcript of Episode 001. Determine Your Legacy.

Speaker 0 00:00:04 Welcome to your life after high school, the show that helps first-generation middle school, high school students and parents prepare for upcoming college and career decisions. I’m your host. Rick Palo. Think of me as your personal private online college and career counselor. Getting prepared for college can get a little funky sometimes. So let me help you plan your life after high school. All right. We’re at episode
Speaker 1 00:00:28 One of your life after high school, I’m so excited. This is episode one is going to kick off a series of episodes that we’re going to make a life plan. I’m going to help you make a life plan for yourself. So if you’re a first-generation student, a middle school student, high school student, or you’re a parent of any one of those students, I’m going to help you walk through the process of making a life plan. And what is the life plan? Why do I need one? A life plan is a five to 10 year plan where you’re going to map out your educational and career opportunities so you can get prepared for them now. So you can take advantage of them when they come up in your life. A life plan does a lot of things for you. Number one, it saves you from wasting your time, because believe it or not, ladies and gentlemen, you may be in middle school.
Speaker 1 00:01:19 You may be in high school and you think you’re going to live forever, but you’re not. There is going to be a time when you will not be alive on this planet anymore. And, uh, um, right now, if you’re a teenager, you’re not seeing that right now. You think you’re going to live forever and you know, you’re indestructable, but you’re not. When you get to be a middle age or you get to be a senior citizen, you’re going to wish you had more time or that you, you had used the time you had in a little bit better way. So if you’re a kid ask your parents, do you wish you had more time? Or could you do things over again? And you’re probably gonna, they’re probably going to say yes, you know, so time is your most precious resource and your life plan saves you from wasting your time.
Speaker 1 00:02:00 The second thing that a life plan does for you, it saves you from wasting money. Money is your second most important resource next to time. Okay? Because, uh, why, why, why, why does a life plan save me money? Well, guess what? If you’re going to go to a training program where you can learn, have a certificate to be like a welder, or you want to get an associate degree, or you want to be a psychologist and get a college degree, guess what? You got to pay something called a tuition. Tuition is a fee for taking the class. And, uh, if you’re going to be in a college degree program, you’re going to take more than one class. You’re going to probably take four classes