5 Tips for Staying Motivated . . . Tips 3-5

5 Tips for Staying Motivated

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3. Set Attainable Goals

If you’re having trouble writing a 25-page paper for class because it seems like such a big job, don’t focus on that final number. Break the paper down and consider each section of your paper individually. You can handle any project in small chunks.

4. Find a Social Support Network

Create a group of people around you who want to help you succeed. Mentors can be teachers or family friends who can give you guidance and help you develop new skills. Counselors can help you with planning your courses and starting to explore colleges. You can also reach out to friends and peers who can motivate you by listening and sharing ideas.

5. Acknowledge Your Accomplishments

Give yourself a quick reward when you complete an assignment or task. Take a walk, send an email, get a snack. Then move on to the next project.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“When you believe you can—you can.”

-Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Believing in yourself is the key to everything! Once you believe you can accomplish something, you will. Your mind set can take you places it motivates you, a positive mindset is always great. If you keep putting yourself down saying you will not make the team in school you won’t, but if you believe in you will make the team in school you give it your all, you surround yourself with positive energy you will! It’s all in having confidence in yourself to be successful in whatever you desire. 

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

-Margret Thatcher

You should always try hard to discipline yourself to make the right choices. As you discipline yourself to make better choices you will gain a feeling of satisfaction, and earn pride. Nothing will feel better that knowing you are making the right decisions. Disciplining yourself to know what is right and make is the right decisions is like when you first learn a dance routine at first it is all over the place but as you practice it and discipline your mistakes it starts to look better. Not only that but you gain a satisfaction and pride in what you do.  

Selecting Your Courses Part 2 . .

Selecting Your Courses

Part 2 

The following subjects and classes are standard fare for success in high school and beyond, whether you plan to attend a four-year or two-year college.

English (Language Arts)

Take English every year. Traditional courses, such as American and English Literature, help improve your writing skills, reading comprehension and vocabulary.

Math

You need algebra and geometry to succeed on college entrance exams and in college math classes --- and in many careers. Take them early on. That way, you’ll be able to enroll in advanced science and math in high school, and show colleges you’re ready for higher-level work.

Most colleges look for students who have taken three years of math in high school. The more competitive one requires or recommended four years. Each school has its own program, but some of the courses typically offered are:

·         Algebra I

·         Algebra II

·         Geometry

·         Trigonometry

·         Calculus
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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

Goals

“In life as in football, you won’t go far, unless you know where the goalposts are.”

-Arnold Glasgow

Glasgow is comparing life as football, your goal as the goal post. Without a goal you can’t go far. You push yourself to keep going in life, when you remind yourself your goal. Life without a goal is like running with no finish line. You will jeep running forever without reaching a goal. With a goal set you motivated yourself to do your best to achieve it. Always jeep your goal in mind in order to achieve it and achieve it as fast as you can. 

Sportsmanship

Sportsmanship: Jenna and Deb

Summary: Two cross-country runs, Jenna Huff and Deb were going against each other to take their team to state champion-ship. Deb had been ahead Jenna the whole race, in the last lap Deb stops she had dislocated her growth plate. Jenna gets her assuring she is in front of her and helps her to the finish line, so Deb could win like it was supposed to happen.

Reflection: This is a great example of sportsmanship, and of choosing the right. Jenna had her chance to win the race, but as she said “I knew it was the right thing to do” she put aside her desire to win and helped her opponent finish the race. There are very few people in the world willing to lose something so important in helping others. Jenna Huff has set the best example for people/athletes all around the world. It is always better to show your good sportsmanship and help others out. 

10 Time Management Tips For Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students

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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.

Tip1. 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.

Tips2.  Use Spare Minutes Wisely.

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

Tip3. 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 to say no. Keep your short-and long-term priorities in mind.

Tips4. 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 it until late at night.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

-Helen Keller

It is always better to work together, in a group. United you can do things better and faster. As the saying goes “two brains worth better than one”. The other person can bring to the group what one cannot; more ideas that will lead to success can come out of working together. For example, it would take one person to do a group project around a week and a half, while if a whole group works together they may get it finished in a couple of days. Another example can be a person pushing a car, one person will take hours and will run out of energy, while if a group of people work together they can move the car faster with les exhaustion. You will get father and faster working together. You will accomplish many more when you join together. 

High School Graudation

High School Graduation--- Pleasure or Pain

The day of anyone’s high school graduation should be great accomplishment. You have gone through years and years of school to accomplish the first great step towards your future. For those who choose the right, give it their all in school will get to experience high school as a pleasure. For others who choose the wrong, and lack of it will be a pain… a pain that they did not get to accomplish such a goal with their classmates. Yet for some people you could work hard and make it to graduation, and one simple thing can ruin it. For example the daughter on Sharon Cooper, a mother arrested for cheering in her daughters graduation. Tears of happiness turned into tears of sadness for Coopers after seeing her mother arrested in a van. Graduation is a one in a life time experience that you should make a pleasure with choosing the right and following the right path. It only takes a few minutes to turn the pleasure of graduation into a pain, be wise and choose the right and keep high school graduation as a pleasure , an honor , and an accomplishment.