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Adulting or what you should know about in college: Resilience/Motivation

"Adulting" is the term many college students hear when they leave high school because they are faced with being on their own for the first time. Some come with a lot of life skills already. Others do not.

Books & eBooks

How to squeeze all the lemons

Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.- American Psychological Association

Often times when chaos hits, finals are coming up, and money is tight it can feel like life is hurling more lemons at you then you could possibly ever squeeze. Below are some books that can help you take a step back and reframe your perspective when life gets hard. Navigating through the hardships is far better then never facing them, even if you can't see it now someday you will. 

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