Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

Success is dependent on effort.”

-Sophocles, Greek dramatist
What This quote means is that that your success depends on the effort you put to your school and the way you want to try your best to  and put lots and lots of effort to be successful.

How to Take on College Studying Part 2

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

·      The best places to study have good light, a comfortable temperature and enough desk place-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 discussion.

·      When you are reading book chapters 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 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 !!!

How to take on College Studying Part 1

How to take on College 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 college as a full-time job, in which you spend 40 hours a week on class, labs, study group 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

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

-Alex Linares

What this quote means is that by you or someone choosing the right it will always be ok, as long as you’re doing the correct thing in your life. For example, if you are doing you’re studying and your friends tell you to go to a party you will say sorry but, no I need to study for my big Final Exam

10 Time Management Tips for Students Tips 5-10

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 it peck. Lack of sleep makes the day seem longer and your tasks seem more difficult.

Tip 6. Communicate Your Schedule to Others: If phone calls or text messages are providing to be a distraction, tell your friends that you are only available at certain times of 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 else at once. Establish the importance of each time. Then set realistic goals that are attainable.

Choose The Right!!!

Student Success Statement

“Its better to be alone than in bad company”

--ANON

What this quote means is that you do much better alone than someone who gives you bad advice or examples.

10 Time Management Tips for Students Tips 1-4

10 Time Management Tips for Students

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Tips 1-4

Organize 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.

Tip 2. Use Spare Minutes Wisely.

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

Tip 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 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, if your brain handles math better in the afternoon, don’t wait to do it until late at night.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement 

“Improvement begins with I”

       -ANON

What this quote means is that you have to Improve to be Important in life. because like Improvement begins with “I” well we beginners also begin with new things and throughout time we Improve !

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 7 Part 2

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 you won’t have any regret. Personal compass, your heart, your, 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.

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

Choose The Right!!!

Student Success Statement

         Student Success Statement

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

--Anon

What this quote means is that if you many good/great things in life you’ll have no rancor on something bad you never did. So always do right so you’ll never feel bad because of something you did Wrong.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 7

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

HABIT 7: Sharpen the Saw

Teens should never get too busy to take long time to review 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 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 Habits of Highly Successful Students

7 Habits of Highly Successful Students

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. 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 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 instrument is more important than another, just different.

Choose The Right!!!!!!!!

Student Success Statement

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

What this quote means is that just because you want to be “popular” or “cool” you choose the wrong and lose sight of the good, better things in your life. We can say like: smoke weed, drink, cheat, or many other bad HORRIBLE things to YOU and YOUR LIFE!! So CHOOSE The RIGHT always.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 5

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 5

5. Seek First to Understand, and Then to be Understood     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 tone feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent). Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk and 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 we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn.

Listen, really listen, for understanding. Seek first to understand, and then to be understood--- LISTEN.

                   Choose The Right!!!

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Habit 4

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 an atmosphere of Win-Win 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 is both nice and though all at once. 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. It’s both of us it’s not matter of who gets either you or me. There 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 feeling it bring on. The test of whether or not you are thinking win-win or one of the alternative is how you feel. Win-lose thinking will cloud your judgment and fill you with negative feeling.

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

Student Success Statement

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

--Ezra T. Benson

What this quote means is that if you do wrong you’ll never feel fine, okay, happy, etc., because it’s something you’ll have in your mind/conscious until you tell the truth to feel fright or clean all over again in life.

                                                                                                                                                                                

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 3

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 3

Habit 3: Put Things First

Habit 3 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 things first also means learning to overcome fears and being strong during difficult times. It’s living life according to what matters most. Putting 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 are Urgent	4.    Not Important and Not Urgent

Quadrant 2 is the ideal place to send 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 from 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!!!!!

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 precedent all others is-‘form good habits and become their slaves.’ ”

Og Mandino

Reflection: I think this quote means that you should only follow the path that will lead you to what you want not the path that will lead you to the other direction. I think this quote is trying to teach us to go in the right direction to life not the wrong.

           

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 2

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 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.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Weather I Fail Or Succeed Shall Be No Man’s doing but my own. I Am The Force.”

--Elaime Maxwell

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 1

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens   Habit 1

 Habits 1: Be Proactive

     Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your teen take control and responsibility for 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 is in their court, that they are the captain of their own ship; that they are in control, 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 achievement of their assignment, their duties, their responsibilities, their obligations. Choosing to do what is right is a proactive decision. Obey the rules. Obey the law. Obey the school policies. Obey your parents. Obey with exactness, and great things will come to you. Be proactive and take the initiative.

Choose The Right!!!

Ten Tips for Student Success St. Johns University

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 teachers during office hours.

4.   Use a daily planner. Note the dates of exams, assignments, term, paper, 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 you academic’s 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 if 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 enhance your self-confidence. Seek out opportunities to apply what you learn in the classroom.

10.                     Keep your eyes on the prize. Clarify your goals. Know why you are in (high school or) college in the first place. Visualize your success on a daily basis.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!