Phone NO: 0419 415000
How to get control of your future
without wasting the next 4+ years
even if you presently have
little or no idea what, why or how!
Students Test Drive Your Future Experience (TDYF): 10 weeks +
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Why This Course is Worth Investigating...
- 1This will allow your spend your life doing something that you love
We find out where you are, clarify your wants and desires, realistically access your potential, and we guarantee that it will probably be a lot more than you think. - 2You have access to our Discord Server with other like minded students
Here you can discuss the course and complete many of the tasks as well as role play and practice skills such as making a presentation that can be published on your website and doing job interviews. - 3We will save you wasting years of your life and 10's of $1,000 of $dollars on courses that go no where.
Our contact base have the inside running and the tool to investigate what is on offer and inform you of the likely future outcome of heading down that path. Plus we will arrange a way for you to test drive good solid options. - 4We teach you many of the skills that are not being taught in conventional schools
You will learn about finance and money, critical thinking to allow you to spot the many scams and lies that are out there. As Bonus Content We will help you setup a professional CV and blog and show you how to produce podcasts and video to earn income and impress potential employees.
The Steps in the Course Are:
Following these 5 Steps in our Course will get you to where you desire to be.
* this timing would be based on interacting with the course for around 20 hours per week, we imagine that most people will take a semester to complete it at about 10 hours per week. It is fine to take a year or more. There are no time limits, you can work at your own pace, so you can master each component.
Step 1
Duration: week 1
Help you to get a firm grasp on who you are and what you want, BEFORE you start your college and career search.
Step 2
Duration: week 2, 3
Help your son or daughter make a well-calculated, well-researched plan for their university, college and career path.
Step 3
Duration: week 4,5
Help them actually put the plan to the test before they put it into action.
Step 4
Duration: week 6
Help them find a mentor, coach, or an accountability buddy.
Preferably all three.
Step 5
Duration: week 7
Help your son or daughter find a group of people to support them on their college and career path.
We look at all options apprenticeships, internships, online learning and setting up your own business to gain experience and test drive your future. This is often a better option than enrolling in a university or TAFE course and wasting tens of thousands of dollars and many years.
Bonus
Duration: week 8,9,10
Bonus content depending on interest. Critical Thinking Course, Making and publishing a presentation. CV writing and Interview Technique. Finance and running your own business. *
When evaluating your future direction and what it costs you need to consider all the costs. Opportunity lost is often not considered.
About the Authors Beth & Jim Hood
Beth completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Vermont and earned her Master’s Degree from the Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii. She is a licensed acupuncturist, a prolific writer and website designer, and wrote a career advice column for teen girls as the GPS Gal for a few years on Girlzone.com. If she had to choose only one item to bring to a deserted island, it would be her iMac.
Jim completed his undergraduate studies at Illinois State University and earned his Master’s Degree from Western Illinois University. He has worked in a wide range of fields (literally), starting his life in Hawaii as a humble goat herder before building a successful technology consulting company. For fun, Jim reads and listens to podcasts, incessantly, about peaceful/positive parenting, history, higher education, health, nutrition, primal/paleo lifestyles, personal development, productivity, and entrepreneurship.
Together, we have authored four books: Where’s the Map? Create Your OWN Guide to Life After Graduation, Test Drive Your Future, High School Student and Grad Edition, Test Drive Your Future, College Student Edition, and our first illustrated children’s book The Money Book for Kids (and the young at heart!)
In our spare time, we enjoy watching the sunset, swimming, and stand-up paddle boarding playing with our daughter Nora, reading her stories, going for walks, and exploring the world through the eyes of a four year old.
The Australian Version of TDFY is run by Colin Dixon BSc Dip Ed
Colin is a father of three and a grandfather of three as well.
He has a wealth of experience as a math science IT teacher and a business man.
He has setup this web page and is adapting the Hoods material for the Australian market.
You will get to know Colin when you book your appointment with him.
When Colin is not working on this project you will find him Kite boarding, you may find him on YouTube, playing duplicate bridge or at a Folk music festival.
Mesa Ningaloo Reef WA
This is What You'll Get
The course is divided into 5 sections that can be completed in 10 weeks but ideally this would take a semester of 16 to 18 weeks, plus bonus content. Informal learning would continue over the next 12 months with followup until the student had achieved what they wanted to.
You may wish to continue as a mentor or tutor.
We are offering you a complete learning experience using all the the internet has to offer. Along the way you will learn the skills to do what we do as well. These skills will set you up to be a consultant and run your own business if this is the direction you would like to head in.
This is only the beginning.
You will get more than you bargain for. You will see the world in a different way, the clouds will be lifted as everything becomes clearer.
On graduation you may like to enroll in our sister program for adults Autonomy.
What People Are Saying...
No One Talks To Kids This Way!
“I am so impressed! This is a GREAT gift to young people, and their families. NO ONE talks to kids this way! I don’t understand why it seems so few adults can talk with younger people . . . You hit them with all their senses flaring… it’s great. You take them seriously. But you don’t expect them to know more than they do. Beautiful!”
Joyce Reed, Founder and Director of College Goals, Former Associate Dean of the College at Brown University
I Think It Should Be Included In Every High School’s Guidance Office
“Jim and Beth Hood have once again created a clear and practical guide for introspection and planned action in Test Drive Your Future. I would recommend it to all of my gap year students and think it should be included in every high school’s guidance office. Although geared toward students, anyone can utilize the helpful outline to clarify interests and goals. The process of finding a passion can be life-long and Test Drive Your Future is a good reminder not to settle for less than true satisfaction in one’s work in the world.”
Holly Bull, President of Center for Interim Programs
I Wish This Had Been Around 40 Years Ago
“Test Drive Your Future is an enormously skillful, practical and heartfelt gift to those facing one of the most important decisions of their lives. I am particularly struck by the breadth of career-related factors evoked in helping students and graduates turn towards the career direction most true for them. I wish this guide had been around 40 years ago-my career trajectory would’ve been very different! Bravo Beth and Jim Hood.”
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Gavin Harrison, CPA, Spiritual Teacher, author of In the Lap of the Buddha
Straightforward and Engaging Tool to Help My Generation
“After years of listening to the adults in my life express their frustration, boredom, and anxiety about their jobs, I made the decision that I would spend my own adult life doing something that was genuinely worth my time and energy, something that I would walk away from as the end of the day feeling inspired and fulfilled by. Test Drive Your Future has increased my confidence in my ability to achieve this. I commend the Hoods for creating a straightforward and engaging tool to help my generation enter the ‘real world’ in a way that is satisfying and meaningful.”
Shivani Penberthy, Recent Graduate
Exciting and Interactive Format….Clarifying My Life Goals
“The exciting and interactive format and engaging questions set me on a path of clarifying my life goals. After working through it, I developed a clear focus and direction as to my next steps in life.”
Esther Khachatryan, High School grad, “Thinking Beyond Borders” Gap year participant
Brilliant Speakers
“When I heard Jim and Beth speak, I was impressed and delighted by their spunk, their authenticity and their skill in connecting with a young adult crowd. They are both brilliant speakers with a clear dedication to helping young people make fulfilling life choices. They’re the kind of people you want to influence your kids!”
Joyce Marvel-Benoist - Parent
Is This Course Right For You?
This course is not for everybody, you need to have a discussion with one of our teachers 1st to see if its right for you.
Who is this for
Who is this not for
Get a full refund in 30 days
The reported decline in thinking ability is occurring at a time when there are increasing shortages of qualified candidates for jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Indeed, a young adult whose brain has been “wired” to be innovative, think critically, and problem solve is at a tremendous competitive advantage in today’s increasingly complex and competitive world.
Try this online course risk free for 30 days and if you are not happy with us just send us an email and we'll refund your money, within 7 days no questions asked.
Jim Hood & Colin Dixon
Bonus Section
This is the Beta Australian Version of TDYF. You will only be able to join at the Special Low Price for a short time.
Access to a private Discord Group
This is a safe place to interact with other students, teachers, Mentors, Coaches and other content providers and you will have ongoing access access for many years to come.
Critical Thinking Course
Discovering and ordering facts of reality comprises basic, systematic Knowledge – not only the rules developed and applied to the ordering of word/concepts for verbal expression and communication, but our first contact with conscious order as such. This is the initial, self-conscious technique used in properly (discursively or sequentially) organizing a body of knowledge from raw, factual data for the purpose of gaining understanding (through logic) and; thus, also organizing the individual human mind. It is the foundation upon which all other “methods of organization and order” are built.
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Weekly conference call
There are weekly conference calls plus many additional events occurring on a regular basis.
You will be both participating and running calls. Breaking out into smaller groups following like interests.
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Personal Web Site
We will setup a full WordPress Website for you. There is a fee for the domain name and hosting server around $5 per month but no additional costs. We teach you set it up. * You need to have the web site for parts of the course and you should continue to keep it running for many years to come. If you already have a web site you may use this but we will not be able to support it. This is a skill you will be able to earn an income from, and we will show you how to do this if you are interested.
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