Triumph! Straight-A Guide: Preparing for Success in Prison and Beyond
About this book
In The Straight-A Guide, Michael Santos reveals strategies that empowered him through 26 years in federal prison. He began serving that sentence in a high-security federal penitentiary when he was 23 years old. Readers will learn how a deliberate path led to his earning a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, becoming an author, and building an extensive support network while preparing for success in prison and beyond.He calls his strategy the Straight-A Guide. It’s a values-based, goal-oriented approach to making decisions and adjusting through the challenge of confinement. Those steps are methodical. They begin with defining success and setting clear goals.Michael tells us that he intended to emerge from prison with his dignity intact and with opportunities to prosper. By defining success in such a way, he could set clear goals to pursue along the way. A definition of success influenced the prison jobs he pursued, activities, the books he read and the friends he chose.Others in prison can pursue a similar path of defining success and setting goals. Then they can move forward with the right attitude and seeing aspirations. They can take action steps and hold themselves accountable. They can stay aware of opportunities and celebrate every achievement. Then, they can live gratitude, appreciating the blessings that have come their way.Michael Santos hosts the Prison Professors podcast and YouTube channel as an effort to help others understand how to get the best outcomes out of court, sentencing, and prison.