Problem: Article: You only need a government press pass if you are covering stories dealing with crime scenes, exclusive press conferences, or another type of non emergency event with police barriers. Government issued press passes are typically reserved for officials in the media. These types of press passes vary in access and eligibility from state to state. If you're eligible for a press pass working for your blog in Kansas, things might be different in Chicago. Government press passes expire after an allotted amount of time. Check with your local agency once obtaining one. You can interview members of the government or police without a press pass. Do a quick search online to find out if your local city or town issues press passes. Some smaller towns don't have an office responsible for issuing out press passes. The passes are typically associated with your local police department. Only new agencies covering crime investigation or government press conferences need to do this. New York, for example, requires you to submit one or more articles or commentaries that's been published in a 24 month time period. You also need to prove that you've covered six or more in person stories. Most applications can be completed through the police's website. If you are a freelance news correspondent working for multiple agencies, you can still get a government pass. Write to your contacts at the separate news sources asking for proof of your employment. Some cities require three separate letters of identification. Other city agencies will only hand out government passes to reporters employed by an official news source. Your reference letters should include verification of completed assignments from a media outlet. Every city's police department has different rules for freelance reporters. Many cities won't accept applications and will only issue press passes through official news agencies. If you begin working for a news outlet, you should discuss government press passes to your superiors. You might learn that you'll receive one if you are assigned a story requiring one. Your agency will only give these out if they pursue events that require government passes.
Summary: Make sure you need a government press pass. File for a government press pass. Apply for a pass for freelancers. Get the pass from your news agency.

Problem: Article: If you have defined success as having achieved a specific outcome, you need to know what that outcome is. Think about your school work, or job or whatever aspect of life you're looking to succeed in. Do you want success to be measured at regular intervals or do you want success to be measured at the end of a project? For example, is success to you achieving 80+% on all of your assignments throughout the school year or straight A's in all of your exams at the end of the year? You decide your definition of success. Be sure that your outcome measures are attainable and realistic, if they are not you might end up feeling exhausted and fatigued as you will always be fighting a large uphill battle. Ask others for strategies on how to achieve your desired outcome. You should have a plan for achieving your goals. A benchmark is an ideal or standard that you set for yourself; it is essentially the best outcome that you would like to get for yourself. Make a calendar of your expected performance as indicated by the benchmarks you have chosen. For example, if you're trying to lose 16 pounds in two months, break it apart so that you have smaller benchmarks. Using the same example, you might put on your calendar benchmarks of two pounds per week over eight weeks. As another example, imagine that you're trying to obtain the outcome of becoming a top student in your class. Performance benchmarks you might set for yourself could be receiving an A at least two out of your exams and an A on at least four out of five of the class assignments. Leave space to add details of your actual performance. Mark your actual performance on your calendar under your benchmarks. Reward yourself if you met your target. It's okay to feel upset if you didn't manage to meet your benchmarks at any one particular time. Make sure your reward is in line with your performance. For example, if your benchmarks are set weekly, don't reward yourself with a shopping spree at the end of each week that you meet your goals. Keep things in perspective and save big rewards like this for when you succeed at the final overarching goal. Sometimes things happen that are out of your control. If this is the reason that you don't meet your target performance, know that you have not failed. If there is something that you are doing that is keeping you from achieving your goals, think of solutions to the issue. For example, if you are sleeping in and that's preventing you from studying as much as you would like to, ask someone you live with to make sure you wake up at a certain time. Given any setbacks that may have happened, reset your benchmarks for success if you need to. This will more likely happen if your benchmarks are set at regular intervals. If you have a major outcome as your definition of success (e.g., run 10k in 1 hour at the marathon in June) then you can easily change your outcomes along the way. You will need to change the amount of effort it takes to achieve your outcome but it is still likely that you will achieve your goal. Reset your benchmarks for performance outcome and carry on.
Summary:
Define your outcome. Outline performance benchmarks. Compare actual performance with benchmarks. Take setbacks into account. Reset benchmarks.