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The PRESS Summarized in Three Steps
1. Take assessments to learn more about your personality, aptitudes, and interest, to see how they align with what's in demand.
2. Run your assessment results through AI to get recommendations about what careers would be a good fit for you. This should not be the final answer, it should be used to make your conversations in step 3 more focused and productive.
3. Talk to parents, career counselors, or other mentors around you for help taking concrete steps into the right career.
General Success (all of these posts are free)
This segment is a guide to help you identify and successfully adopt specific habits, knowledge, or skills that can be applied to make you more effective at just about anything you want to accomplish in life.
- Do you want to earn more money and be more successful?
If you're ever going to get anywhere with anything meaningful, you have to get started somewhere and sustain patient daily effort.
- Getting Started on the Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success
Take time to figure out a vision for your future, and then you'll be ready to take your first steps toward making it a reality.
- The Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success Segments
Read about the six segments of this roadmap to help yourself build a fulfilling long-term future that will make a real impact on the world.
Tell another person about your journey to be a successful person so they can encourage you and share helpful perspective.
- It All Starts with Organization
Learn how being organized makes consistently achieving great results much easier than you would think.
Does something you're trying to accomplish require a lot of planning, a little bit of planning, or should you just do it?
Blocking distractions and staying reminded of what you need to get done today will help you get the most important things done today.
- Process Goals vs Progress Goals
Avoid being overwhelmed by big goals by focusing on smaller goals that lead you to achieving the big ones one step at a time.
How much of your life are you wasting, maintaining, or building?
- Maximizing Success with Good Focus
Focused work helps you be much more productive. Block distractions, work slowly at first to emphasize quality, and build muscle memory to make great results start flowing effortlessly.
Don't automatically default to putting off a 5-minute task and letting it loom in the back of your mind for a month before you finally do it.
If you don't write down a great idea when you think of it, you probably won't remember it when you have a chance to act on it.
It's a great way to get used to not caring about judgment from others around you when you shouldn't. When you're not afraid to practice things due to fear of judgment, you can attain success that used to feel out of reach!
- A General Success Virtual Field Trip
About four hours of content from another good website to reinforce the concepts of this segment. Enjoy it and then continue back here!
Job Seeking (all of these posts are free)
This segment is a guide for how to effectively use job seeking resources to help you get a better paying job than you currently have. Start with the top post and work your way down.
If you have a high school diploma and you're making less than $18 an hour, you should be looking around for a better paying job!
- Get Ready to Manage Your Cashflow (free)
Set up a checking account, savings account, and credit card so you're well equipped for efficient basic money management.
Did you know your state and the U.S. Department of Labor both have websites dedicated to helping people find good employment?
- Using Your Job Seeker Account
Access information and tools to help you find the right work to start your career, pay your bills, and start investing money into your future.
- Completing and Reviewing Your Job Seeker Assessments
Answer basic questions about yourself and review links to information and resources that could facilitate your job search.
- Identifying Skills for a Better Paying Job
Find out what skills you have, both in and out of your current job (if you have one), to find the best fit possible based on all of your skills.
Find out what work you like doing, as you'll work harder, learn more, and produce better quality work, making you more successful.
Do your past experiences, learnings, or achievements make you an expert at things that an employer might find valuable?
This is the primary way to communicate detailed information about what you have to offer the next organization you want to work for.
- Documenting Experience on Your Resume
Harness everything you've learned and accomplished to get the best (and best paying) job possible.
Save time focusing on the content of your resume instead of having to spend time and effort on formatting.
- Setting Up Your LinkedIn Profile
More easily build your professional network, see more opportunities that are out there, be more visible to those looking to hire good workers into good opportunities.
- Standing Out with Cover Letters
Tell why you are the best person for the job that you really want.
- Applications: Introducing Yourself for a Job
Use every piece of your application to convince them to hire you!
With your education and experience, are you in the best (and best paying) job you can get?
Save yourself much time, money, and frustration by searching for jobs in efficient ways that will help you find good employment faster.
- Interviews: Meeting Your Next Boss
Prepare to make the best impression possible when people at the company you want to work at start to meet and get to know you!
- Don’t Do’s in Job Interviews
Learn what dangers to avoid in a job interview so all of your hard work preparing for it doesn't go to waste!
- Networking: People Helping Each Other
Connect people you know with resources, opportunities, and other people to help them be successful and they'll usually help you back!
- Creative Job Search Series: A Career Planning Overview
Plan out the next step of your career before it lands in your lap!
- Creative Job Search Series: How to Research Organizations for Work
Learn about a place before your interview to impress the interviewers with both your knowledge of their company and your diligence!
Career Building
This segment serves as a guide to help you learn habits, knowledge, and skills that are broadly useful across most occupations and careers.
Most content is part of the $15/month subscription.
- Starting Strong in Your New Job (subscription)
Set a tone for enduring success in the first weeks in your new job.
- Certifications for Career Advancement (subscription)
Gain important career field knowledge that will earn you more credibility with colleagues, improve your earnings, and open up more advancement opportunities.
- Find In-Person and Online Professional Mentors (subscription)
Learn from others who have gone before you to accelerate your learning at work. You'll advance further by doing this!
- Prepare to Become a Mentor (subscription)
Just as you should learn from others who have gone before you, be ready to pay the favor forward to those who need to learn from you!
- Structure Helps Creativity (subscription)
Clear away the noise and clutter that stops you from thinking clearly and you'll be surprised at how much easier it is to have good ideas.
- Career Tracks to Consider (subscription)
Knowing what common tracks exist can help you focus on what's best for you instead of trying to make yourself fit where you don't.
- Tying Your Work into the Bigger Picture (subscription)
Understand how your individual contribution helps your team or organization succeed and show anyone how your work matters.
- Work Wisdom from the Agile Manifesto (free)
Learn about working in a way that enables you to keep delivering work that delights your customers and helps them meet their needs.
- Staying On Top of Workload Change (subscription)
Most workers are asked to make changes to their work while it's in progress; learn how to adapt to changing needs in an orderly way.
- Don’t Be Frozen in Fear of Conflict (free)
Take charge of how conflict makes you feel through reflection and seeking wisdom from others who can provide you sound advice.
- Why Learn About Project Management (free)
Project management may be the most versatile skillset you can learn.
- Making a Party out of Project Management (part free, part subscription)
Read a story that explains project management simply but deeply enough to make an informed decision about pursuing it further.
- Why Learn French or Spanish (free)
French and Spanish are two of the best (and easiest) foreign languages for native English speakers to learn in the 21st century!
- How to Start Learning French or Spanish (subscription)
Practice listening and reading early to consume a high volume of language content, rapidly building vocabulary and understanding.
Financial Building
This segment offers key highlights for how to manage your money well.
Most content is part of the $15/month subscription.
- Get Ready to Manage Your Cashflow (free)
Set up a checking account, savings account, and credit card so you're well equipped for efficient basic money management.
- A Balanced Budget for Fun Now and Fun Later (subscription)
Put structure around how you manage your money to give yourself the best view of where it all goes.
- When to Care About Which Financial Instruments (subscription)
Know when to learn about each in detail depending on what major milestones of adulthood you're approaching or going through.
The sooner you start one and make regular contributions, the less money you'll have to put in. Or the nicer your retirement will be.
- Basic Investment Optimization Concepts (subscription)
Learn why a steady approach is the easiest way to invest successfully.
Stay tuned for new content being added to this section each week!
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Coming later in 2026:
Family Building
This segment will provide recommendations for developing a solid family and social support system.
Civic Contribution
This segment will explain the importance of helping others in society, both to fix problems and to make society a better place for everyone.