With Feeling: "I Will Pass the Social Work exam!"

Will you pass the social work exam? Depends upon who you ask. Your enemies, frenemies, and detractors may be rooting against you and doubt you can do it. Don't join them in their small-minded games! You can and you will pass the social work exam.

Repeat this to yourself: "I will pass the social work exam!"

I can't hear you! "I will pass the social work exam!"

With feeling! "I will pass the social work exam!"

Now, make it happen. Yes, you'll have to study. Yes, you'll have to refuse an invitation or two. Yes, it'll be a drag for a while. There will be practice tests, maybe study groups. You may have to take the exam more than once (no big deal!). There will be confusion and missteps and dejection and fatigue. But then, finally, you'll be ready, you'll go in, you'll endure the four-hours, the 170 questions (including some impossible-seeming ones), and at the end of it all, you'll hit submit. And you'll have your answer.

What's it going to say? 

Don't ask your inner doubter. Don't ask the haters. Ask your can-do, confident, social work warrior self.

The answer: pass.