If you’re a 9th grader through college sophomore and you’re really serious about getting scholarships, I want to teach you something. I want to share something with you that I hope you remember for the rest of your life. Even God can’t move a parked car. Even God, the Almighty, can’t move a parked car [...]
I’ve been asked why I changed my website from Scholarships 4 All to Major Betz. The reason, quite simply, is that I wanted to change my focus. When I’m out there talking about scholarships, it’s with a totally different focus than when I’m talking about leadership. It’s different. It’s different because I’m talking about families [...]
When I’m traveling around the country and I help kids understand the value of getting scholarships and the necessary work behind it, I’ve come to realize there are two types of people. There are the Apathetic Team and the Go-Get-It Team. The Apathetic Team says, “Mom and Dad will take care of this. I don’t have [...]
Often, in my work with teens, it becomes very obvious that some are faking it. I’m talking about when they tell me and their parents they’re going to do something: they’re going to apply for xx number of scholarships, they’re going to do this, that, or the other. And then they don’t. They tell their parents and they [...]
What if you could go into the future and talk to the future you? Not the you that exists today but the you that exists 20 or 30 years from now, and seek advice and counsel from them. Do you think your life would be better? Do you think you would make better decisions today [...]
