When you know that college is definitely the path you or your student wants to take, how can you harness the heart in this often stressful decision-making process? While you may not be able to eliminate stress and anxiety entirely, the decision-making process can be a time of creating lifelong tools of self-reflection and self-knowing that will support a lifetime of making heart-based decisions about path and purpose.
One way to help the transition from high school to college becomes a time of gathering self-knowledge, inspiration, and clarity of direction is to consider a gap year. Read Steven Mercer’s blog post on the benefits of taking a gap year (and why not doing this is his biggest regret when he applied for college) as part of an intentional transition to college.
