“Success is dependent on effort.”

-Sophocles

What I think that this statement means that without effort you will not succeed at all that’s all you don’t need nothing else to succeed all you need is effort. So if you have good grades it all depends on the effort that you put on it.

How on Take on College Studying

Part 2

Choose Where to Study

Where you should depends on two factors: the environment in which you are best able to concentrate and the type of work you are planning to do.

·       The best places to study have good light, a comfortable temperature and enough desk space- usually your door room, your apartment or the library.

·       For completing problem 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 fro discussion.

·       When you are reading book chapters or working on a research paper, you are probably beter 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 each study session.

·       Do things that are harder or 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 at material but not absorbing it.

·       Get to know students whom you respect and can study with or contact to ask questions.

·       Keep up with the workload and seek help when you need it.

Choose the Right!!!!

Studying Tips 

Reflection

Jenna won the sportsmanship because she did the right thing. Jenna helped out the other girl who had suffered an injury. She decided that she was going to help out the other girl that was in need and did that girl win the reward of CTR.  

I would of done the same thing because she helped her out and she got a good thing out of it. 

How to Take on College Studying

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/961.html

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 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.

Being 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 throughout the day in the evenings and on weekends.

·       Consider what time of the day you are most alert - there are morning people and night owls - and try to schedule your studying accordingly.

·       Think about whether you do better studying for a few hours at a time or sitting down marathon sessions.

Choose the Right!!!

“Choosing the Right is always the right thing to do.”

-Alex Linares

What I think that this statement means is that choosing the right will always lead you to some good path with or without company. CTR is another way for you to succeed and have a good life. So CTR not CTW. 

10 Time Management Tips for Students

Tip 5. Review Your Notes Every Day.

Reviewing helps you reinforce what you’ve learned, 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’s Sleep

Your brain needs rest to perform as it peak. Lack of sleep makes the dye seem longer and your tasks seem more difficult.

Tip 7. Communicate Your Schedule to Others.

If phone calls or text messages are proving to be a distraction, tell your friends that you are only available at certain times of a 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 evening 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!!!!!

“It’s better to be alone than to be in a bad company.”

-       Anon

What I think that this statement means is that why do you want to be with someone bad that doesn’t help you in all than when you are by yourself and you know that you’re doing good. Like with people that smoke, drink, and etc.

10 Time Management Tips for Students

http://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 lifestyle, 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 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 you’re commuting on the bus or train, use the time to get some reading done.

Tip 3. It’s oaky to Say No.

If your friend asks you to go to a movie on a Thursday night and you have an exam the next morning, realize that it’s okay to say no. Keep your short- and long- term priorities in mind.

Tip 4. Find the Right Time.

You’ll work more efficiently if you figure out when you do your best work. For Example, of your brain handles math better in the afternoon, don’t wait to do it until late at night.

Choose the Right!!!!!

“Improvement begins with I.”

-Anon

What I think that this statement means is that you improve yourself if you want to not if others want. It all begins with you and if you don’t decide to improve then it’s your fault. So improve yourself by yourself. 

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 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. You heart is your internal compass—it gives you direction and discernment. Just like a magnetic compass gives directions, even true north, your 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 dairy or journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions.

Get into the habit of daily improving your body (physical fitness), your mind, your heart, and your soul.

Choose The Right!!!

“If you do what’s right, you have no need to fear.”

What I think that this stamen means is that you have or should not have any fear when you know what’s right and you do what is right. There is no need for you to be a bad example and then denying it when others know it’s true. Just be smart and do what is simply right. 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

Habit 7: Sharpen the saw

Teens should never get too busy living to take them to renew themselves. When teens “sharpen the saw” they are keeping their personal self sharp so that they can batter deal with life.  It means regularly renewing and strengthening the four key dimensions of life – body, mind, heart, and soul

1)   Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruits, vegetables, legumes. Avoid illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, tobacco products, tattooing. Exercise regularly and effectively. Get 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. Then each week. Ask intelligent questions. Observe. Develop your mind through positive “self-talk”

Choose the Right!!!7 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 6

Habit 6: Synergize

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better than either could alone. Through the habit, teens learn it doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, a higher way. Synergy 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. Synergy 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. It’s not just the drums, or the guitar, or the sax, or the vocalist, it’s 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 instruments are more important than another, just different.

Choose the Right!!!!  

Valentine’s Day

On the February 14 we celebrate the love and passion that we have for anybody like husband, wife, kids, and etc. I like to have to have this day is because you get a lot of hugs from those that you really like and hang out and give out free smiles that you want people to be with or these that help you out when you are in the goods and bads. I really like these day to because i like to give out roses and bears to those that I think that are real friends and help me out in everything like best friends. I like to get things back in return and see what they get me because i think that they are really special and I’m so sneaky on what they get me. It also stay as a memory of those that help me out like last year I still have a chocolate rose, and a big teddy bear that my friends gave me from Stephanie and Taiz. I also like the fact that after school I’m going to go out with my friends to go eat and hang out with my love one. Also valentine’s day may not be that great either to others but as long as you have someone to hang out and to be around it’s all go d because at least your given your smile and love to a person that Is stuck to you. The last reason of Valentine’s Day is that you only have this day only one a year it’s not like very month or every two weeks. I really like this day as so many other people. SO I just wish that those that aren’t here right next time but I know that I’ll be next to soon will also have this same day that I’m having with them SO I guess HAPPPY VALELTINES DAY!!!!

	HAppy Valentines DAy!!!

 

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Habit 4

4. Think Win-Win

Teens can learn to foster the belief that it is possible to create an atmosphere of Win-Win in every relationship. This habit encourages the idea that in any given discussion or situation both parties can arrive at a manually beneficial solution. Your teen will learn to celebrate the accomplishments of others instead of being threatened by them. Win-Win is a belief that everyone can win. It’s both nice and tough at all 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. There’s more than enough food for everyone. It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Win-win always creates more. Perhaps the most surprising benefit of thinking Win-Win is the good feelings it brings on. The true test of whether or not you are thinking Win-Win or one of the alternatives is how you feel. Win-Lose and Lose-Win thinking will cloud your judgment and fill 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!! 

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It’s impossible.”

-Ezra T. Benson

 What I think that this statement means is that you always feel the pain either if it’s good or bad. They always have those times where you want everything to change back. So this is what I think that this statement means. 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 3

Habit: 3 Put first things first

Habit three is 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. It’s living life according to what matters most. Putting first things first deals with things that are:

Important or not important, urgent or not urgent.  Let’s look at the four quadrants of time management.

Quadrant 1: Things that are Important and Urgent.

Quadrant 2: Things that are Important but not Urgent

Quadrant 3: Things that are not Important but are Urgent

Quadrant 4: Things that are not Important and not Urgent  

1.       Important  & Urgent	2.       Important but not Urgent
3.       Not important but Urgent	4.       Not important and Not Urgent

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

1.   Control of your life

2.   Balance 

3.   High Performance

So, in what quadrant are you spending most of your time? The key is the shift as much time as possible into Quadrant 2 and this is accomplished by planning. Spend more time planning and incorporating the most important things first, things that matter most. Keep your eyes on the prize and reach for it.

Choose the Right!!!!!  

“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 precedeth all others is-‘form good habits and become their slaves. ”

-Og Mandino

What I think that this statement means is that you should go to the path that will lead you in the right direction not the path that will lead you to the failure. Follow the success not the door with there is failure because you have to succeed as the person that you are not the person that you’re not. 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 2

 Habit 2: Begin with the end mind

If teens aren’t clear about what 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 options of others. Help your teen create a personal mission statement which will act as a road map and direct and guide his decisions-making process.

‘keep your eyes on the prize.” Determine your desired prize and don’t quit until you have realized the achievement of your prize. Then set another prize, another goal or desire that you would really like to achieve. Begin with the achievement of your prize. Then set other 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 one goal you definitely need to establish for yourself is the prize of an honorable graduation from high school-that you will receive your diploma honestly and with integrity- that you earned it with perfect honestly.

Choose The Right!!!!!

“Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force.”

What I think that this statement means is that you do what you do and no one will be part of your life but you or the ones that love you. Whether you succeed or not it’s you and no one will force you!!!   

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 1

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your teen take control and responsibility of her life. Proactive people understand that they are responsible for their own happiness or unhappiness. They don’t blame others for their own actions or feelings. Proactive people realize that the ball in their court, that they are the captain of their own ship; that they are in control of their decisions, thoughts, choices, decisions, goals, actions, and priorities. Proactive people are self-starters; they don’t wait to be told what to do, they press forward with enthusiasm toward the achievements or their assignments, their duties, their responsibilities, their obligation. Choosing to do what is write is a proactive decision. Obey the rules. Obey the law. Obey the coach. Obey the school policies. Obey your parents. Obey the exactness, and great things will come to you. Be proactive and take the initiative.

Choose The Right!!

“Keep your eyes on the prize.”

-Anon

What I think that this statement means is that you choose what you want to win and then that will lead you to the major prize. But you have to CTR and be a good example. For example, if you want  to win some thing and your in a wrong path that will not lead you to anything good.

Ten tips for Student Success

St. Johns University

1.   Attend your classes. Remember in the words of woody Allen ‘Seventy percent of success in life is showing up’.

2.   Know your faculty. Make sure you know who your teachers are, when their office hours are and how to contact them.  

3.   Make sure the faculty knows you. Sit in the front of the classroom participate in class discussions. Consult with your teacher during office hours.

4.   Use daily planner. Note of the dates of exams, assignments, term papers, etc.

5.   Be organized. Prioritize your responsibilities. Manage your time. Remember everyone has the same 168 hours a week, only some of us use them better than others.

6.   Know your campus resources. Visit your academics dean office regularly. Become familiar with the service and programs offered by the counseling center, the freshman center, the career center, the campus ministry office and the student life office.

7.   Take care of your health. Get enough sleep. Eat well-balanced meals. Exercise regularly. Make informed and mature decisions about alcohol, sex, and drugs. Visit the health office as needed.

8.   Work only as necessary.  Try not the exceed 20 hours during a school week. If possible, work on campus. Apply for financial aid and loans if you need them. Manage your expenses very carefully.

9.   Get involved in campus activities. It will help you learn valuable skills, expand your social network and enhanced your self-confidence. Seek out opportunities to apply what you learn in the classroom.

10. Keep your eye on the prize. Clarify your goals. Know why you are in college in the first place. Visualize your success on a daily basis.

Choose The Right!!!!!

“You make your habits and your habits make you

What I think that this statement means is that you choose what you want to do and once it’s a habit to you you get it to you. Like if you are getting straight a’s for your whole life and then it’s like normal to you because you get used to it so basically that’s all. 

7 habits of Highly Successful Teens

For teens, life is not a playground, it’s a jungle. And, being the parent of a teenager isn’t any walk in the park, either. In his book, The 7 habits of Highly Effective teens, author Sean Convey attempts to provide” a compass to help teens and their parents navigate the problems they encounter daily.”

HOW will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life-changing decisions. As a parent, you are responsible to help them learn the principles and ethics that will help them to reach their goals and live a successful life.

While it’s all well and good to tell kids how to live their lives, “tens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say,” Convey says. SO practice what you preach. Your example can be very influential.

Convey himself has done well by following a parent’s example. His dad, Stephen Convey, Wrote the book The 7 habits of Highly Successful People, Which sold over 15 million copies. Sean’s a chip off the old block, and no slacker. His own book has rung in a more than respectable 2 million copies sold. Here are his seven habits, and some ideas for helping your teen understand and apply them

Choose the Right!!!

“Nothing is ever gained in doing what’s wrong.”

-Wilford Woodruff

What I think that this statement is that you will never get anything if you always choose the wrong. You will gain if you do what right.

Profile of a Student Success Profile

Part 3

… owns or has easy access to a computer with internet access and e-mail

You don’t have to be a computer expert to be successful online learning- but you must have access to a personal computer with reliable internet access, as well as a basic level of competency in using them. Owing a computer with internet access from your home is ideal but many students use the computer lab on campus or at their offices to complete their work.

…has basic computer skills and is willing and open to learning new ones

We said you don’t have to be a computer expert to be successful in online learning. However, there are some basic technical skills you should have mastered prior to enrolling online in an online course.

Choose the Right!!!

Profile of a Successful Student

Part 2

Work together. There are a number of ways you can ensure you get the most out of your educational experience. First, participate fully. Engage regularly in the discussions and be willing to share your personal, professional and educational experience. You can get to know your classmates through the dialogue this is created in course environment--- sometimes even better than in face –to-face class. And the same goes to your instructor, be sure to contact you’re professor-especially if you are having problems. He/she is still your instructor and will be there to guide you and assist you as needed.

Choose the Right!!!

“It’s not WHERE you live but HOW you live that counts. It’s not where you play the game but HOW you play the game that counts.”

What I think that this statement means is that you count with what you want to get and want to be not what you want it to be because there is no difference. You do what you think is the best but there will be no difference since there the same places but you have different surroundings that differ the place. :-)