Free Your Student from Depression, Discouragement, and Self-Doubt
all while
Equipping them to Conquer the Tests
…a new book to bring hope, healing, and healthy Conqueror’s Mindset thinking to your stressed out high schooler.
ATTN: PARENTS OF HIGH SCHOOLERS
Are you looking for a way to combat the noise of our performance driven, college rat race culture…and to instill in your student JOY, CONFIDENCE, VISION FOR THEIR FUTURE, and ZEAL TO GO PURSUE IT?
In More Than Standard, your student will:
Learn the surprising truth about what Jesus thinks about them. (Hint: It’s better news than you think!)
Get out of the toxic inner world of self-deprecation, self-doubt, and self-defeat.
Find new confidence to overcome challenging classes, tests, SATs, ACTs, and college applications.
Learn how to live in the CONQUEROR’S MINDSET so that they walk through life not as victims, but as world-changers.
Receive 7 crucial Mindset Strategies that will absolutely raise their SAT and ACT scores.
Hi, I’m Matt. I am a decade-long tutor and academic coach who has specialized in helping students raise their grades, achieve sky high SAT and ACT scores, and getting in to dream colleges…ALL WHILE MENTORING THEM INTO WHOLE-LIFE HEALTH AND WELL BEING
THROUGH THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL…BELIEVED CORRECTLY.
To the Parents of High Schoolers Who are Tired of the Tug of War…This is For you
Dear Mom. Dear Dad.
(From Matt Hallock, mentor and tutor who has ALSO felt a disconnect, a problem in our educational system…that is costing us our youth)
You, I am sure, are very familiar with this tug of war where, on the one hand, you want to do everything you can to promote your son or daughter into their future with all of the best possible tools, resources, schools, academics, etc.
But on the other hand, you don’t want them to be so caught up in the college and post high school rat race that they forget about Jesus, forget about a life of passionate and fiery faith in the power of the Kingdom, and they all but leave their relationship with Jesus behind.
And the challenge you face is guilt. The guilt of not knowing whether you’re being a good parent or not.
“If I encourage and challenge my student toward higher goals, hard work, diligent study…am I just contributing to the culture of stress, ultra-performance, and Godless rat race?”
–“Am I going to make my kid even more discouraged and unmotivated?”
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“But if I allow them the freedom to discover God’s calling on their life, are they just going be a deadbeat?”–
“Will I not be doing enough to equip them?”–
“How do I help them step into a life of Kingdom living in the power of the gospel AND spur them on academically?”
Now, what’s going on for your son? Your daughter?
I’ve worked with hundreds of high schoolers in all subjects and especially on their SATs, ACTs, and College Essays.
Over the years, I began to see a pattern among all of my students, no matter the grade level, no matter the subject, no matter the family’s income, demographics, etc.
The phenomenon of toxic self-damaging thinking was rampant. Sometimes the parents knew it, other times not so much.
And in all cases, the students were eager and thankful to be working with a tutor who actually understood them and their pain.
And it’s no exaggeration to say that just about ALL students—especially High Schoolers—battle toxic-death inducing thoughts that masquerade themselves as true…
When they are really lies from Satan designed to keep them from experiencing the abundant, victorious, conquering life of the Gospel.
Thoughts like:
I am too much trouble, and not enough “good.”
I am afraid of failure. I am afraid of success.
What I think doesn’t matter
I am worthless.
I need to ________ so that people will think well of me.
I am not worth love or attention or consideration.
What I want is too much to ask for.
I am stupid.
I am a bad test taker.
God is too busy to pay attention to me.I have to earn love by my performance.
I will never be free of ______
I’m not capable.
I will never truly thrive or succeed.
So we have this scenario of students who are struggling to find themselves, to know their God-given identity, worth, and destiny…
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And parents who want the best for their kids, but aren’t sure what that’s supposed to look like.
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All amid the competing forces battling for the souls of our youth.
To make matters worse, we have…
PROBLEM #1: A school system that consistently nudges–and in some cases SHOVES–our sons and daughters away from Jesus, the power of His Spirit, and the abundant victorious life found in the Gospel.
Not only does your student have to withstand the constant attack on their faith from all angles of society,
They also, if they want to go to college, have to brace themselves for an educational environment that just might aim to strip away their faith altogether.
PROBLEM #2: More often than not, a church culture that tries to combat problem #1 with weak, shallow, hollow religious platitudes, that all sound holy but that lack true power.
Like the verse, “Having a form of godliness but lacking its power.”
And it teaches kids that even though they were technically saved, they are still just “sinners saved by grace”, and have nothing at all that’s any good in themselves to offer the world.
In fact, it’s a miracle that God even likes them.
So it’s no wonder that despite all our hard work as parents to give our kids the best possible shot at success, they still end up depressed, discouraged, and victims of
their performance
society
what others think of them
and whether their future pans out or not.
This is Why I Wrote
MORE THAN STANDARD
To give stressed out, burnt out, maxed out high school students academic/college entrance/future planning support
All while reigniting hope and passion in a real live experience of the power of the Gospel.
To take kids from living as victims of the world around them,
To living as CONQUERORS, with a Conqueror’s Mindset, who are literally changing the world from the inside out.
Imagine what it would be like for your student to learn how to think and live from a Conqueror’s Mindset, especially as they are getting ready for their College Entrance Tests.
Imagine no longer having to choose between academic excellence and Kingdom-minded thriving.
Imagine your student being able to be trained into a healthy view of
themselves
their tests
their grades
there classes
their failures
their futures…
All while getting equipped to boost their SAT and ACT scores.
Welcome to the new book, More Than Standard, a fresh approach to SAT and ACT tests, College, the Gospel, and the power behind Jesus’s words, “The truth will set you free.”
In this 180-something page book, you’re going to find 24 short, potent, actionable chapters–each one leaving your high schooler with new powerful revelation that will remind them that they are not a screw up. They are not an utter failure. They are not worthless.
They are priceless.
Here’s the breakdown…
(By the way, the lessons in the book have transformed parents AS WELL AS students. That’s why it’s all in “you” language. I’m confident you’ll want to read it too!)
PART ONE:
Finding Our Bearings
Begin the journey of seeing the SAT, ACT, and college entrance in the right perspective.
Learn the REAL truth about what God thinks of you and why you’re destined for more than just a career.
Receive the gospel truth that pulls you out of fear and insecurity, and begins to give you hope for a thriving, powerful, confident life.
Confront the enemy dragging down your test scores (and your countenance): THE VICTIM MENTALITY
Learn the lesson of the Too Tall and Too Steep Slide, and be convinced once and for all that living as a victim will never do…even if you do excel on your SAT and ACT
Discover how you’ve been selling yourself short in your dreaming, in your planning, in your thinking, and in your performing.
Receive once and for all the “AHA MOMENT” when the light bulb clicks on and you finally see how you’ve believed in Jesus but you haven’t simply believed him.
Find answers on where your depression, anxiety, anger, lack of drive, and timidity ACTUALLY come from. (Hint: they are not just “how you are”…how you actually are is a NEW CREATION)
PART TWO:
How the Standard Way of Thinking Drains Your Life
PART THREE:
The Conqueror’s Mindset, Becoming More Than Standard
Discover, even for the first time, the REAL Gospel. The actual Good News. Leave behind the religious notions that you are still just a “sinner saved by grace,” and begin to understand your sainthood, your royal priesthood. Jesus moves you from Outcast to MIGHTY.
Learn the SURPRISING TRUTH about your worth. Think: treasure…not garbage.
Finally stop thinking of Jesus as though he were a fool.
Discover the time-tested secret to living with confidence and boldness, as a conqueror.
Learn the EXACT Step-by-step system for implementing the Conqueror’s Mindset
Connect DEEPLY with Jesus through the two-pronged CAMPFIRES AND BATTLEGROUNDS framework…so that the power of his truth begins to have a REAL effect in your REAL life.
Experience the REAL PRESENT ACTION of the Holy Spirit.
Weapon #1: Attack and Take Charge
Weapon #2: Think for Yourself
Weapon #3: Prepare Like a Conqueror
Weapon #4: Write All the Heck Over the Test
Weapon #5: Remember, You’re Dealing with a Standardized Test
Weapon #6: Don’t be a Good Student
Weapon #7: Use Systems
PART FOUR:
Seven Indispensable Weapons for Conquering the Test
Fair Warning…
I have to warn you. This book could very well change your entire approach to your kids’ schooling, college admissions, SAT and ACT testing, and even their future beyond college. Once you jump in to More Than Standard, and hopefully are able to persuade your student to read it as well 🙂 you are positioning yourself and your student for life as a Conqueror in connection with Jesus and his Spirit like you’ve never known it.
But the life of a Conqueror–no more living as a victim of all the storms that come against us–it won’t happen on its own.
This book is not going to do the work for you or your student. The revelation that you will receive must be put to work. You have to take action. Your STUDENT has to take action. Otherwise the same old standard way of thinking that most of the world trodges through their whole lives–it will just continue to wreak its death and defeat, stress and performance anxiety, as if nothing ever happened. And your student may find the job they want, get the test score they want to get into the college they want…but…
…they won’t really COME ALIVE.
After all, Jesus said, “I came that they may have LIFE, and have it more ABUNDANTLY.”
Fair warning: Once you read this, you will be responsible to implement its truths into your life and to help to encourage your student to do the same.
Fair warning #2: And once your student reads this, they will never be able to see their SATs, ACTs, classes, or challenges that come their way–the same ever again. They will have no excuse.
This is more than just an SAT/ACT book, study guide, or even a Bible teaching book
It’s a complete life-transformation book right at the intersection of academics and Jesus–of real life and faith. It’s a book that will get the core of your son or daughter to come online again so that the power of Jesus can start emanating out of them, enabling them to live joyful, victorious, powerful, NOT EASILY SWAYED, DEFEATED, OR DETERRED.
You and your student can step into a new level of miraculous, powerful living with Jesus.
Imagine, your high schooler won’t have to walk into a room and worry about what everyone else is thinking. Because they are no longer victimes, but conquerors.
Your son or daughter will become bold, and leave behind their discouraging mindsets, that keep them from believing they can conquer their tests, their applications, and their classes.
Your student will become an atmosphere-changer, even on TEST DAY!
Let them walk into test day proud that, no matter the coming score, the test did NOT defeat them. They are kicking butt and doing their best, knowing that in the process they are building a future.
And of course, watch your student’s test scores SOAR.
Equip Your Student to Stand Tall in a World that Needs Someone Exactly Like Them
As a High School student, myself, I used to feel like I had nothing to offer the world around me. I wanted desperately to be used by God to change the world and win souls for him, but I had this nagging, constant, underlying sense of inadequacy, shame, and complete inability to figure life out.
I was smart and excellent at school, but I’d still look around at the other kids feeling like they had something I didn’t…
Even though, the truth is, because of the Spirit of God–HEAVEN ITSELF LIVING IN ME–I had way more than most of them had. But I didn’t even know it.
I thought that, because I was a Christian, I couldn’t begin to pretend that I had anything of worth or value to bring to the table. That would have been proud or arrogant. Meanwhile I needed to grovel in my worthlessness because shame on me if I think that I can do anything good.
So I was self-conscious, fearful of people, afraid of failure, paralyzed by insecurity, and I had Jesus as my justification for all of those…SINS.
Had I read a book like this one, I would have been confident in my uniqueness, my gifts, my intellect, and my dreams–rather than timid and apologetic for who God had made me to be.
Had I read a book like this one, I would have known how to attack my SAT test, my tough classes, my AP tests, and my college applications…
From a position of STRENGTH rather than as a victim just hoping beyond hope for something to work out.
But if we can just give our students a TASTE of the life transforming power of the Gospel, the Gospel of the Kingdom, the CONQUEROR’S MINDSET that Jesus died to give us–then they can stop just playing Christian church-goer trying to balance their faith on one hand and College Entrance on the other. They can dig in and EXCEL at their tests and test prep (and everything else), knowing that IN ALL THINGS Jesus is with them, and they are bringing his presence to the earth…
…Even while sitting in the testing room for four hours on test day!
Jimmy
In the book you’ll find the story of Jimmy.
You won’t want to miss it.
He too needed this, in order to be able to stand with his head held high…Not in arrogance…
But in self-worth, security, and the love of the Father.
His story of going from an officially diagnosed alcoholic as a High School Junior(!) to a set free young man who knows his identity and his place in God’s heart–it’s one that will change anyone’s life. And his story, no matter how extreme, can be true for your son or daughter as well.
Here's What to Do Next
If this sounds awesome to you, and you’re ready to END THAT TUG OF WAR OF HAVING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN FAITH AND REALITY, then go ahead and
Click the big blue button to grab your copy of More Than Standard.
The “cost” of this book is $6.90, that’s it. In fact, it’s almost a GIFT 🙂
Your purchase is getting you the PDF version and the Kindle version…INSTANTLY–no waiting for the mail man.
INCLUDED BONUS #1: “How Jesus Turns Over the Tables of Your Soul, and Why That’s Amazing” — Audio Teaching
INCLUDED BONUS #2: “The Calm Powerful Parent Action Plan” — PDF REPORT
And in case you were wondering,
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You don’t even have to send anything back.
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No catch to this, just a connection that could lead to future work together
I know that this is very inexpensive, and I can’t very well feed my family of five by giving away books for just $6.90, so you’re probably wondering what’s in it for me.
I’m giving you this book as a way of giving you the best of what I’ve got. Making a great first impression. And judging by the feedback I’ve gotten, including the growing list of Amazon reviews, which I’ve screenshotted below, it should be a pretty LIFE-CHANGING first impression.
My hope is that you’ll love the book and that this will be the start of a good business relationship for years to come.
My hope is that you’ll continue to follow me and that you’ll even, when the time is right, be motivated to jump on a free consultation call to see if I’d be a good fit to coach your student into:
- higher SAT and ACT scores
- better English grades
- better Algebra, Geometry, or Precalculus grades
- better Spanish grades
- better Chemistry grades
- writing one, or many, life-changing, darkness shattering, door-opening COLLEGE ESSAYS
That said, keep in mind…
This is a LIMITED offer
I’m not going to make up a bunch of fake reasons as to why this is going to expire soon. I’m not putting a countdown timer on this page, because I can’t come up with a good HONEST reason why at the moment.
But I do know that I won’t be running the ads that brought you here forever. And I am going to be offering you a discounted deal on my SAT, ACT, and College Essay trainings, only available AFTER you purchase the book. Furthermore, you’ll have the opportunity to get one on one tutoring and test prep and college entrance coaching.
So grab the book now a) before I take the ads down and b) in case you want the option of working together more closely to help you navigate the academic and college entrance world.
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My son is a senior in high school and applying to several universities. After only several SAT tutoring sessions with Matt Hallock, he was able to increase his SAT score by 120 points with improvement in all three test areas. Matt Hallock is affirming, focused and patient. He was able to assess my son’s strengths and weaknesses quickly and foster confidence with sound advice and specific practice.
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The class is very helpful and he gives you everything you need to succeed but it’s completely up to the student whether they decide to use the online resources in their free time. You get out what you put in.
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ABOUT ME, MY QUALIFICATIONS
I am a husband to a clearly beautiful wife; a father to three beautiful girls; an owner of a lightning bolt of a dog (Cooper), a soft rabbit (Theo), and two faithful egg-laying ducks (Snowdrop and Lollipop).
I have served in church leadership many times.
I have taught Freshman English.
I have published two books with many more coming.
I run a podcast helping men be better men, like Jesus.
I have been tutoring and teaching the SAT for 10 years, helping dozens of students significantly, and sometimes drastically, increase their SAT scores.
I scored a 1340 on the SAT in high school with no training other than a book.
I accidentally scored a 1550 when I was interviewing for a job at a tutoring center. I told them I couldn’t tutor SAT math, and I ended up getting an 800 on the math and a 750 on the reading…thereby proving myself wrong 🙂
In high school I graduated with a 4.0+ GPA
I passed five AP tests: Lit, Calc, European History, US History, and Govt/Econ
I scored 5, 5, 4, 4, and 3, respectively.
I graduated cum laude from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
I have two slightly different colored eyes.
MY STORY: How I Began, and How I Developed a Heart to See Students THRIVE
Here's What to Do Next
If this sounds awesome to you, and you’re ready to END THAT TUG OF WAR OF HAVING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN FAITH AND REALITY, then go ahead and
Click the big blue button to grab your copy of More Than Standard.
The “cost” of this book is $6.90, that’s it. In fact, it’s almost a GIFT 🙂
Your purchase is getting you the PDF version and the Kindle version…INSTANTLY–no waiting for the mail man.
INCLUDED BONUS #1: “How Jesus Turns Over the Tables of Your Soul, and Why That’s Amazing” — Audio Teaching
INCLUDED BONUS #2: “The Calm Powerful Parent Action Plan” — PDF REPORT
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