ONE DECISION CAN
CHANGE YOUR DIRECTION.
An interactive youth-development keynote and experience built around better decisions, stronger focus, personal responsibility, positive influence and protecting the future you’re building.
“You don’t have to have your whole life figured out. You have to protect your next decision.”
MORE THAN ANOTHER
SCHOOL ASSEMBLY.
The KLIF Youth Experience is designed to get students involved in the conversation instead of simply asking them to sit and listen.
Students listen, laugh, respond, make choices, debate scenarios and reflect on the decisions shaping their direction.
The goal isn’t to lecture young people or ask them to become perfect. The goal is to help them recognize what they’re choosing, what is influencing those choices and where those decisions can lead.
Separate from what destroys your future.
Elevate what builds it.
Keep Living in Focus™.
SEPARATE TO ELEVATE™
Your future is being built one decision at a time.
SEPARATE TO ELEVATE
A MINDSET SHIFT
The conversation does not have to end when the event is over. Separate to Elevate: A Mindset Shift by Clifton D. Sims gives readers a deeper look at the mindset behind the KLIF framework.
The book challenges young people and the adults guiding them to identify what is holding them back, recognize destructive influences, and become intentional about the direction they are building.
“The bars that hold you back aren’t always made of steel.”
Elevation is the decision.
BUILT FOR THE ROOMS
WHERE YOUNG PEOPLE GROW.
MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOLS
Assemblies, grade-level programming, student-development events and schoolwide culture initiatives.
ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
Direct and relatable conversations about choices, accountability, influence and direction.
YOUTH CONFERENCES
High-energy interactive programming for youth summits, conferences and leadership events.
ATHLETICS & MENTORING
Discipline, identity, relationships, goals, peer influence and future-focused choices.
COMMUNITY & WORKFORCE
Direction, readiness, decision-making and personal development for emerging adults.
COLLEGES & LEADERSHIP
Programming for young adults navigating independence, pressure, responsibility and future decisions.
BODY. MIND. CIRCLE. FUTURE.
Four areas. Four questions. One purpose: protect the direction you’re building.
WHO GETS ACCESS
TO YOUR FUTURE?
Your circle isn’t just the people standing beside you.
It’s the people, content, voices and influences that get access to your attention, emotions, thinking and decisions.
KLIF challenges students to ask: Is this influence helping me become who I say I want to become?
SEPARATE
OR ELEVATE?
Students work through realistic situations involving friendships, peer pressure, education, relationships, social media, athletics, discipline and future goals.
If it is destroying your future or pulling your life out of focus.
If it is building your future and moving you toward who you want to become.
Students don’t just hear the framework. They practice using it.
10 SECONDS
TO FOCUS™
Peer pressure, anger, fear and emotion can make a bad decision feel urgent.
10 Seconds to Focus™ gives students a simple reset they can remember when the real moment arrives.
Create enough space between the pressure and the response to make a better next decision.
WHAT IF THE PERSON
PULLING YOU OUT OF FOCUS
IS YOU?
The Mirror Round turns the conversation inward.
Instead of only looking at friends, pressure and circumstances, students are challenged to examine their own choices.
What do I need to stop doing?
What do I need to start taking seriously?
What is pulling me away from my future?
Who am I capable of becoming?
Accountability without humiliation: you still get to make the next decision.
A FRAMEWORK FOR
REAL-LIFE PRESSURE.
DECISION-MAKING
Think before acting and connect choices to direction.
PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Recognize personal responsibility for the next decision.
GOAL SETTING
Connect everyday behavior to the future they say they want.
PEER PRESSURE
Evaluate whether an influence is helping or hurting direction.
POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS
Think intentionally about access, loyalty and boundaries.
RESILIENCE
Reset after setbacks and make a better next decision.
SELF-AWARENESS
Notice patterns, triggers and choices that pull life out of focus.
DISCIPLINE
Protect the habits and decisions that support long-term goals.
HELP THEM PROTECT
THEIR NEXT DECISION.
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