Student Success Statement

 “Success is dependent on effort.”

Sophocles, Greek dramatist

 Reflection: I think that the statement shows is true, because the effort will make us successful.

How to Take on College Studying

Part 2

Choose Where to Study

Where you should study 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 dorm 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 for discussions.

-When you are reading book chapter or working on a 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 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 no 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!

Jenna Huff, high school student wins the Extreme “Sportsmanship” award from U.S Olympic Committee. What did she do?

 

Summary: There were 2 runners, Deb Guthman and Jenna Huff. Deb was running, she was close to the goal. When suddenly a part of Deb’s leg starting hurts her. She felt a lot a pain and Jenna helped her to finish the race. That was her opportunity to win the race, but she chose the right and helped Deb.

How to Takes on Collage Studying

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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 a college as a full-time job, in which you spend 40 hours a week on a 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 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 for marathon sessions.

 

Choose The Right!

Student Success Statement

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

Alex Linares

Reflection: I think that it is obviously true because the right is always the right no matter what.

10 Time Management Tips for Students

Tips 5-10

 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 at its peak. Lack of sleep makes the day 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 day and not to expect a response at others 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.

 Tips 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!

Student Success Statement

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

Anon

Reflection: I think that is true, because if you are with bad companies, your future could be bad.

10 Time Management Tips for Students

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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 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’re commuting on the bus or train, use the time to get some reading done.

 

Tips 3. It’s Okay 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 no. Keep your short–and long–terms 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, if your brain handles math better in the afternoon, don’t wait to do until late at night.

 

Choose The Right!

Student Success Statement

“Improvement begins with I.”

Anon

Reflection: You are your owner and you decide when you have to improve something. I think that the decision is yours.

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. Your heart is your internal compass–it gives directions 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 others literature daily. In other words, feed your spirit because your spirit needs spiritual food just like your physical body needs 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 (physical fitness), your mind, your heart, and your soul.

Choose The Right!

Student Success Statement

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

Anon

Reflection: I think that it is right because if you do right, you feel right and you no need to fear.

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 themselves. 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 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 al night and get up early each morning. “Early to bed early to rise makes 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 though positive “self-talk.”

Choose The Right!

Student Success Statement

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much”

Helen Keller

Reflection: I think that the statement is true because if there are more people the things can do better and faster.

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 this habit, teens learn it doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, a higher way. Synergy allows teens to value differences and better appreciate others. Synergy is the reward, the delicious fruit you’ll taste as you get better at living the others 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 though 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 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 instrument is more important than another, just different.

Choose the Right!

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habits 5

5. Seek First to Understand, and then to be Understood

Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustration in life is that many don’t feel understood. This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is: active listening.

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, one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-cloned individual. People won’t 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 know until they know 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, or the tome and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen. We have mouth and two ears. This mean we should listen twice as much as we walk. We actually learn 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!

Student Success Statement

“So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the “in group,” we lose sight of things that are far more important”

Sean Covey

Reflection: We don’t have to be like someone else or do specific things to feel that we are accepted.  We just have to be our real self. If we dress a specific kind of clothes because we want to be in a group that they wear it…if them really want my relationship they won't take care about what I wear.

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 mutually 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 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. There’s more than enough food for everyone. It’s 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!

Student Success Statement

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible”

Ezra Taft Benson

Reflection: I think that it is true because you can’t feel right when you did something wrong, because your conscience will tell you that you done was wrong. 

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 time. It’s living life according to what matters most. Putting first things first deals with 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. Nor Important but are 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 where 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 to 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!