You are not your grades.
You are not your SAT score.
You are not the sports trophies on your shelf (or the lack thereof).
You are not the college you got into.
You are not your future career.
You are more than all that.
You are a complex, dynamic human being, and your life cannot be boiled down to a collection of letters and numbers.
You are not your grades.
Chris Loper has been an academic coach for Northwest Educational Services since 2014. Along with Greg Smith, Chris is the cocreator of Parenting for Academic Success (and Parental Sanity) – a five-part course offered every summer.
He writes the popular self-improvement blog Becoming Better, so if you liked this article, head on over to becomingbetter.org and check out his other work.
Chris also offers habit coaching, helping busy adults with habit formation and productivity.
In 2021, he published a humorous memoir titled Wood Floats and Other Brilliant Observations, a book that blends crazy stories with practical life lessons, available on Amazon and through most local bookstores.
He lives in Issaquah, WA, where he is the owner of South Cove Tutoring.