Make an effort to do more than what's expected of you at work or school! Brainstorm some simple ways you can show your motivation and interest in succeeding by going above and beyond expectations.

Advice

Go beyond expectations. 

Success is different for everyone. Brainstorm desired outcomes, achievements, and/or goals you have for your life. What are some steps you can take today to get closer to your definition of success? 

Career

Define what "success" means to you. 

Head for the mountains and give it a shot! If you can, get some friends to come with you. Do you think this is a sport you would enjoy? If not, think of another sport you would like to try! 

Day to Day

Go snowboarding.

Surfing, rock climbing, lacrosse, fencing, juggling? Pinpoint something you've always been intrigued by and then find a tutorial, class, or club where you can try it out!

Start a sport or activity you've always wanted to try!

Athletes

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Second Interest High-Point

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

First Interest High-Point

Third Interest High-Point

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Athletes and Sports Competitors

Athletes, Coaches, Umpires, and Related Workers

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers

Attend scheduled practice or training sessions.

Participate in athletic events or competitive sports, according to established rules and regulations.

Exercise or practice under the direction of athletic trainers or professional coaches to develop skills, improve physical condition, or prepare for competitions.

Maintain equipment used in a particular sport.

Maintain optimum physical fitness levels by training regularly, following nutrition plans, or consulting with health professionals.

Assess performance following athletic competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses and making adjustments to improve future performance.

Represent teams or professional sports clubs, performing such activities as meeting with members of the media, making speeches, or participating in charity events.

Receive instructions from coaches or other sports staff prior to events and discuss performance afterwards.

Badminton rackets

Balance beams

Baseball catching gloves

Bicycle motocross BMX bikes

Bowling balls

Boxing gloves

Competition javelins

Competition sailboats

Competition shot puts

Competition skateboards

Competition snowboards

Competition surfboards

Competition water skis

Core strengthening wheels

Cross-country skis

Cyclical variations in adaptive conditioning CVAC pods

Digital video cameras

Diving platforms

Downhill skis

Dressage whips

Elliptical trainers

Exercise bicycles

Fencing foils

Figure skates

Fitness balls

Fitness dumbbells

Fitness treadmills

Football training dummies

Football training sleds

Glute-ham benches

Golf drivers

Golf putters

Golf wedges

Gymnastics grips

Gymnastics rings

Gymnastics trampolines

Gymnastics vaults

Hammer throws

Horse bridles

Horse reins

Ice hockey skates

Ice hockey sticks

In-line skates

Lacrosse sticks

Laptop computers

Lower body weight machines

Metal baseball bats

Motion analysis equipment

Mountain bikes

Parallel bars

Personal computers

Ping-pong paddles

Pommel horses

Pool cues

Portable archery targets

Power stairclimbers

Precision archery bows

Race starting blocks

Recumbent exercise bicycles

Regulation basketballs

Regulation field hockey sticks

Regulation footballs

Regulation soccer balls

Regulation volleyballs

Relay race batons

Riding crops

Riding saddles

Road bikes

Row machines

Sculling boats

Softball bats

Speed skates

Spring diving boards

Squat benches

Squat racks

Stability balls

Sweep-oar boats

Swimming goggles

Tablet computers

Target shooting arrows

Tennis rackets

Therapeutic exercise bands

Therapeutic sandbags

Throwing discus

Track and field hurdles

Tractor tires

Uneven bars

Upper body ergometers

Vaulting poles

Vaulting springboards

Weighlifting analysis equipment

Weight plates

Weighted vests

Wooden baseball bats

Email software

Facebook

Motion analysis software

Twitter

Web browser software

YouTube

Olympic Snowboarder

<p>Continuing on to Vancouver, the Canadian team sits down with Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters Magazine. Later they interview Rob Feenie, owner and executive chef of Lumiere restaurant. In Whistler, the team interviews Ross Rebagliati, an Olympic snowboarder.</p>

Vancouver, Canada - Whistler, Canada

[MUSIC] >> The passion is just something that comes from within. It's like you're in love and you cannot control it and there's nothing that anyone can do to stop you. Well, I just turned 34 last week and I still don't have a clue what I would do if I didn't I'd always say snowboarding saved my life. I said, whatever it is that I do I wanna have to train for it, because I wasn't an academic, sports was my main thing. Along this whole time, also I had this fascination with surfing, which being from Vancouver there was no surfing. And then these guys, my best friends came home with two snowboards and I'm like, perfect. This is like exactly what I want to do. So that's when I kind of started snowboarding and I got really, really addicted to it and I sort of started switching over to this is what I'm gonna do for a living. It was a big risk, but at the same time, I don't really feel comfortable and even goes into my sports like, unless I am pushing the envelope. My idea is to basically find where your limit is and then that's your starting point. [MUSIC] Before I went to the Olympics, I heard like, oh, there's this rumor that a lot of Olympic Gold Medalists go into a depression after they win, because there's nothing that can match it. I'm just like, I don't know what they're talking about. When I stopped though, racing in 2000, a couple years after the Olympics, I was just getting kinda crazy. And I lost my focus on being able to train and everything, but then I didn't realize what was gonna happen, which happened to you after school was that I didn't have a focus anymore and I just didn't know what to do at all. Like here I am, everybody knows who I am. I'm like Michael Jackson walking down the street. What am I gonna get a job at the 7-Elven or the gas station to pay my bills? I just didn't feel comfortable being out in the workforce like that. So it was really hard for me to figure out like, okay, now this is the rest of my life. What am I gonna do? So that's when I got myself overextended financially. I was living by myself in a little cabin that I built on the property. So all of a sudden, I'm by myself in a cabin down by the lake, going through relationship issues where I got engaged and then I broke it off and having to deal with this money thing that was the dark period. [LAUGH] There were days where I'd be pacing up and down like, pulling my hair out literally, when's this going to end? It just seemed like it was never gonna end. I think it lasted like that for almost two years. >> What was that like and what did it take to get through that? >> Real lucky, basically, to get through that time. I can see that's when people start getting addicted to drugs and antidepressants and pain killers and start freaking out and doing stupid things and drinking and crashing their cars, that's when that happens. [LAUGH] I locked myself in a cabin down by a lake [LAUGH] and shot pictures of wildlife and painted some pictures. And yeah, I just tried to figure out who I was again after all that. And I think that no matter what you guys decide to do or whatever that there's gonna be things happening to you or around you that are gonna change the course of whatever you were trying to do and you just have to take a little detour. And if that's a year or six months or one week or ten years, it doesn't matter. Just keep focused on the big picture, I think is a good thing to do. >> I was wondering what your definition of success is. >> It's different for everybody. Success is what you make of it. So you really have to kind of decide for yourself what success means to you. I think as long as you're happy, I think then you're successful. And I think that you can have everything under the Sun and not be happy and not care about anything and just still want to drive off a cliff in your hundred thousand dollar range rover. It's good to not lose touch with how cool trees look when the sun hits them in the morning and stuff like that. When you're beat up on your life that you're just ripping out of your driveway, running over dogs and driving to work and can't even see the sunrise and you don't give a hell about anybody and it could be the nicest day outside. 

Interview

I was wondering what your definition of success is? >> It's different for everybody. Success is what you make of it. You really kinda have to decide for yourself what success means to you. I think as long as you're happy, I think then you're successful. And I think that you can have everything under the sun and not be happy and not care about anything and just still wanna drive off a cliff in your $100,000 Range Rover. It's good to not lose touch with how cool the trees look when the sun hits them in the morning and stuff like that. When you're so beat up on your life that you're just ripping out of your driveway, running over dogs, and driving to work, and can't even see the sunrise, and you don't give a hell about anybody. And it could be the nicest day outside. 

Simplicity

Success

Sunlight On Trees

Before I went to the Olympics I heard like oh there's this rumor that a lot of Olympic gold medalists go into a depression after they win because there's nothing that can match it. I'm just like [SOUND] I don't know what they're talking about. When I stopped though racing in 2000 a couple of years after the Olympics because it was just getting kind of crazy, and I lost my focus on being able to train and everything. But then I didn't realize what was going to happen, which happened to you after school, was that I didn't have a focus anymore. I just didn't know what to do at all. Here I am, everybody knows who I am. I'm like Michael Jackson walking down the street. What am I going to do, get a job at the 7-11 or the gas station to pay my bills? I just didn't feel comfortable being out in the workforce like that. So it was really hard for me to figure out, okay, now this is the rest of my life. What am I gonna do? So that's when I got myself overextended financially. I was living by myself in a little cabin that I built on the property. So all of a sudden I'm by myself, in a cabin, down by the lake going through relationship issues where I got engaged and then I broke it off. And having to deal with this money thing. It was a dark period. [LAUGH] There were days where'd I'd be pacing up and down like pulling my hair out literally. When's this gonna end? It just seemed like it was never gonna end. I think it lasted like that for almost two years. >> What was that like and what did it take to get through that? >> Lucky, basically, to get through that time. And see that's when people start getting addicted to drugs and antidepressants and painkillers and start freaking out, and start doing stupid things, and drinking and crashing their cars. That's when that happened. I locked myself in a cabin down by the lake, [LAUGH] and shot pictures of wildlife and painted some pictures, and yeah, I just tried to figure out who I was again after all that. And I think that no matter what you guys decide to do or whatever, that there's going to be things happen, happening to you or around you that are going to change the course of whatever you were trying to do. And you just have to take a little detour and if that's a year or six months or one week or ten years, it doesn't matter. Just keep focus on the big picture, I think is a good thing to do. 

Self-Reflection

Take A Detour

The passion is just something that comes from within, it's like you're in love and you can't control it. There's nothing anyone can do to stop you. Well I just turned 34, like last week, and I still don't have a clue what I would do if I didn't like I always say, snowboarding saved my life. I said whatever it is that I do, I wanna have to train for it. Because I wasn't an academic at all, sports was my main thing. Along this whole time, I also had this fascination with surfing, which, being from Vancouver, there was no surfing. Then these guys, my best friends, came home with two snowboards and I'm like perfect. This is exactly what I wanna do, so that's when I kind of started snowboarding and I got really, really addicted to it. And then I sort of started switching over this is what I'm gonna do for a living. It was a big risk, but at the same time, you can't I don't really feel comfortable, and even goes into my sports, unless I'm pushing the envelope. My idea is to basically find where your limit is, and then that's your starting point. 

Ross Rebagliati

Olympic Snowboarder

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