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Thursday, February 28, 2013

SSS
“Success is dependent on effort.”
-Sophocles, Greek dramatist
Reflection: In order for you to succeed in life you have to put in a lot of effort or else you won’t get anywhere. For example if you go to the gym every other days and you really try your hardest you will see great improvement but if you just go to socializes you won’t succeed.
Try your hardest!

 

How to Take on College Studying

How to Take on College Studying
Part 2
Choose Where to Study:
 Where you should study depends on the two factors: the environment in which you are best able to concentrate and      the types of work you are planning to do.
·       The best places to study have good light, a comfortable temperature and enough desks space-usually your dorm room, your apartment or the library.
·       For completing problems sets or brainstorming possible test questions, you may want to study with a group or at least in a setting where fellow students are available for discussion.
·       When you are reading book chapters or research paper, you are probably better off in a less social environment.
Improve Your Study Habits:
Here are simple steps you can take to help you get a handle on studying:
·       Have a routine for where and when you study.
·       Choose reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish for teach study session.
·       Do things that are harder and require more intense thought at your most productive time of the day.
·       Take breaks if you need them so you don’t waste time looking a material but not absorbing it.
·       Get to know students whom you respect and you can study with or contact to ask questions.
·       Keep up with the workload and seek help when you need it
Choose the Right!



Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Extreme Sportmanship

Extreme Sportmanship
Summary: There were girls runnning in coss country and since they have been training for months after months these girls wanted to win badly. Deb was the girl that got hurt running and Jenna was the winner of the race.
Relection: Deb lost:(

How to Take On College Studying

Part 1
Develop Good Study Habits.
In college, you’ll need to build on the study skills that you learned in high school. The demands of a college class are probably more rigorous than those you are used to.
You can succeed by knowing what to expect in college and how to handle it.
Think of college as a full time job, in which you spend 40 hours a week on class, labs, study groups and doing homework.
Be organized and using your time well are essential. Learn more about time management, and use the guidelines below to develop your study skills.

Decide When to Study
Work out about how many hours you need to study every day. Then make a schedule.
Figure out what blocks of time you have available through-out the day, in the evenings and weekends.
Consider what time of day you is most alert – there are mornings people and night owls – and try to schedule your study’s accordingly.  
Think about whether you do better studying for a few hours at a time or sitting down for a marathon sessions.
Choose the Right!

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

sss

SSS
"Choosing the right is always the right thing to do "
Alex Linares
Rflection: This quote by Alex is so true. for example i know this is true because mr.haymore is always saying it.

10 Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students
Tips 5-10
Tip 5. Review your notes every day.
Reviewing helps you reinforce what you’ve learn, so you need less time to study before a test.  You’ll also be ready if you get called on in class or have to take a pop quiz.
Tip 6. Get a good night sleep.
Your brain needs rest to perform at its peak. Lack of sleep makes the day feel longer and your tasks seem more difficult.
Tip 7. Communicate your schedule to others.
If phone calls or text message are proving to be a distraction, tell your friends that you are only available during certain times of the day and not to expect a response at other times.

Tip 8. Become a taskmaster.

Give yourself a time budget and plan your activities accordingly. Figure out how much free time you have each week before you add any commitments.

Tip 9. Don’t waste time agonizing.

Instead of agonizing and procrastinating, just do it. Wasting an entire evenings worrying about something that you’re supposed to be doing is  not productive, and can increase your stress.

Tip 10. Determine your priorities.

You can’t do everything at once. Establish the importance of each item. Then set realistic goals that are attainable.
Choose the Right!!!

Monday, February 25, 2013

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement
"It's better to be alone than to be in bad company"
ANON
Reflection: When my grandpa was alive this is something he always used to say. He would say it is spanish but still he would say it. He said because he wouldnt want to waste his time just being with people he didnt like so he would just not talk to them or be with them

10 Time Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students
Htpp://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/116.html
Tips 1-4
Organizing your life
Managing your time well is an important element of success—especially if you’re a student. If you set priorities that fit your needs and life style, you’ll have a better chance of achieving your goals. Here are some tips for taking control of your time and organizing your life.
Tip 1. Make a to-do-list every day.
Put things that are most important at the top and do them first. And don’t forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments. 
Tip 2. Use spare minutes wisely.
When you are commuting on a bus or train, use you time to get some reading done.
Tip 3. It’s ok to say no.
If your friends ask you to go to a movie on a Thursday night and you have an exam the next morning, realize that its okay to say no. Keep your short- and long term priorities in mind.
Choose the Right!

10 Time Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students
Htpp://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/116.html
Tips 1-4
Organizing your life
Managing your time well is an important element of success—especially if you’re a student. If you set priorities that fit your needs and life style, you’ll have a better chance of achieving your goals. Here are some tips for taking control of your time and organizing your life.
Tip 1. Make a to-do-list every day.
Put things that are most important at the top and do them first. And don’t forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments. 
Tip 2. Use spare minutes wisely.
When you are commuting on a bus or train, use you time to get some reading done.
Tip 3. It’s ok to say no.
If your friends ask you to go to a movie on a Thursday night and you have an exam the next morning, realize that its okay to say no. Keep your short- and long term priorities in mind.
Choose the Right!

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Student Success Statement
“Improvement starts with an I”
ANON
Reflection: This is one of those statements that shouldn’t be taken literally.  

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens
Habit 7
Part 2
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
3. Heart: always do what is right so your heart, your conscience, will feel peaceful, when you do the wrong, your conscience will prick you and create regretful sensations within your heart. When you do what you honestly feel, you won’t have any regrets. Your heart is your internal compass-it gives you direction and discernment. Just like a magnetic compass gives directions, even true north, you’re personal
compass, your heart, will point you in the true north, the exact directions and paths you need to trod. 4.
Soul: study scriptures and other sacred literature daily. In other words, feed your spirit because your spirit needs spiritual food just like your physical body needs temporal food to survive. Pondering, meditating, and reflecting are excellent Soul-sharpening activities. Try writing your thoughts feelings aspirations concerns and decisions in a diary journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions. Get into the habit of daily improving your body.
Choose the Right!

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Loyalty
The two girls that carried that other girl weren’t being loyal to their team.
                                                                                                -nuf said.
7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens
Habit 7 Part 1
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Teens should never get too busy living to take time to renew them. When teens “sharpen the saw” they are keeping their personal self-sharp so that they can better deal with life. It means regularly renewing and strengthening the four keys dimension of life-body, mind, and soul.
1.       Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruit, veggies, legumes avoid illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, tobacco products, tattooing. Exercise regularly and effectively. Getting plenty of rest at night. Get to bed early at night and get up early each morning. “Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
2.       Mind. Think positively. Read. Study. Think. Analyze. Seek to read a good book each month. Ask questions. Observe develop your mind through positive self-talk.
Choose the Right!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

SSS

SSS
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
Reflection: Helen Keller meant the with more people working on a project it can get done better and faster. for example if you doing a group project for a class its better if all of you work together put your best work up and together you would probably get the best grade EEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens
Habit 6
 Habit 6: synergize
Synergize is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better than either cloud alone. Through this habit, teens learn it doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, a higher way. Synergize allows teens to value differences and better appreciate others. Synergize is the reward, the delicious fruit you’ll taste as you get better at living the other habits, especially at thinking Win-Win and seeking first to understand. Learning to synergize is like learning
to form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You’ll be amazed at how much faster and farther you’ll go. Synergize doesn’t just happen. It’s a process. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is this: learn to celebrate differences.
A good band is a great example of synergy. Its not just the drums, or the guitar or the sax or the vocalist, its all of them together that make up the “sound”. Each band member brings his or her strengths to the table to create something better than each could alone. No instrument is more important than another.
Choose the Right!

Friday, February 15, 2013

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement
“So often in our in your quest to me more popular and to be part of the “in group,” we lose sight of things that are far more important.”
-Sean Covey
REFLECTION: WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO BE POPULAR THEY DO ANYTHING AND THEY TRY A LITTLE BIT TO HARD TO GET THERE. FOR EXAMPLE SOME KIDS TRY TO HARD TO LOOK COOL THAT THEY’LL JUST FAIL THERE CLASS JUST TO DO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING. OTHERS WONT DRESS FOR PE BECAUSE THEY WOULDN’T WAN TO BE SWEATY SO THEY RATHER GET AN ‘F’ THEN DO WHATS RIGHT.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens
Habit 5
5. Seek First to Understand, and then to be Understood
Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood? This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is: active learning.
Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are-a unique, expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you care.
Listen with your eyes, heart and ears. 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, of the tone and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).
Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather than when we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn.
Listen, really listen, for understanding.
Seek first to understand then to be understood – LISTEN.
Choose the Right!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers


7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers

Habit 4

4. Think win-win

Teens can learn to foster the belief that is possible to create an atmosphere of win-win in every relationship this habit encourage the idea that in any given discussion or situation both parties can arrive at a mutually beneficial solution. Your teen will learn to celebrate the accomplishment of others instead of being threatened by them. Win-Win is a belief that everyone can win. It’s both nice and thought all at once. I won’t step on you, but I won’t be your doormat either. You care about other people and you want them to succeed. But you also care about yourself, and you want to succeed as well. Win-Win is abundant. It is the belief that there’s plenty of success to go around. It’s not either you or me. It’s both of us. It’s not a matter of who gets the biggest piece of the pie. Their’s more than enough food for everyone. It’s an all you can eat buffet. Win-win always creates more. Perhaps the most surprising benefits of thinking Win-Win is good feelings it brings on. The true test to whether you are thinking Win-Win or one of the alternitivesis how you feel. Win-Lose and Lose-Win thinking will cloud your judgment and feel you with negative feelings.

Win-Win will fill your heart with Happy and Serene thoughts. It will give you confidence. Even fill you with light. Think win-Win or no deal.

Choose the Right?

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement
“You cannot do wrong and feel right.
It is impossible.”
Ezra T. Benson
Reflection: When you do something wrong you automatically feel bad, and there’s no way you can do bad and not feel the guilt. For example if you lie to someone you’re obviously going to feel guilty at some point.
Choose the Right!

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 3

Habit 3: put first things first

Habit three is all about WILL and WILL NOT power. This habit helps teens prioritize and manage their time so that they focus on and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first things first also means learning to overcome fears and being strong during difficult times. Its living life according to what matters most. Putting first things first deal with things that are:
Important or not important, urgent or not urgent, let’s look at the four quadrants of tie management.
Quadrant 1: Things that is important or Urgent
Quadrant 2: Things that is important but not urgent
Quadrant 3: Things that are not important but are Urgent
Quadrant 4: Things that is not important and not urgent.

1.Important & urgent
2.Important but not urgent
3.Not important but are urgent
4.NOT important and NOT urgent




Quadrant 2: is the ideal place to spend your time, doing things that are important but not urgent. Here’s where priorities come into play. The results for living quadrant 2 are:
Control your life

2.   Balance

3.   High performance

So in what quadrant are you spending most of your time? The key is to shift as much possible into quadrant a and this is accomplished by planning. Spend more time planning and incorporating the most important things first. Keep your eyes on the prize.
Choose the Right!

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“The only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which preceded all others is-‘form good habits and become their slaves.’ ”

Og Mandino
Reflection: this statement is so very true. Yes most definitely. Because it causing you to be successful yes most definitely. Very true. These habits lead to failure. OBEY the first last for example if there wouldn’t be not stop signs or law on how fast people can drive everyone would be crashing left and right.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 2

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

 If teens aren’t clear about where they want to end up in life, about their values, goals, and what they stand for, they will wander, waste time, and be tossed to and fro by the opinions of others. Help your teen create a personal mission statement which will act as a road map and direct and guide his decision-making process.
“Keep your eye on the prize.” Determine your desired prize and don’t quit until you have realized that achievements for your prize. Then set another prize, another goal or desire that you would really like to achieve. Begin with the achievement of your prize in mind.  Visualize and then realize. Start by having a target in mind; know where you are going.
One prize or goal you definitely need to establish for yourself is the prize of an honorable graduation from high school-which you can earn it with perfect honesty.
Choose the Right!