Student Success Statement

“Take care of yourself and everything else will fall into place.”

Coach David Diamont

If you take care of yourself and you choose the right choices, then everything that you want will come to you, when you try. But you also have to work hard and put a lot of effort for your wish to come true.

Ten Tips for Being

More Truthful

By Barbara A. Lewis

1.     Make a commitment to tell the truth

2.     Tell someone about your commitment

3.     Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation or reason

4.     Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.

5.     Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.

6.     Don’t indulge in little white lies or cover-ups.

7.     Watch out for silent lies.

8.     When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.

9.     Talk to yourself. Ask yourself, “How do I really feel about this? What’s the best thing to do? How can I keep my commitment to myself?”

10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth even when it’s hard to do

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 13

If you feel you do not naturally have all those characteristics, then do not despair. Each of them can be accomplished by your own application. You can use meditation and visualization techniques to initiate your vision, and they can certainly be learned both for that purpose and for each step you take to reach your goals, that of being what is right, and see yourself working hard to become outstanding, and you’re your dreams and vision will materialize as you pursue these objectives. Setting goals and objectives can be personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you apply yourself to doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily.

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 12

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What is important to you is that you, as you start to reach milestones in your ambitions, you appreciate your own achievements. It is a boost, of course, if others appreciate what you have done too, but appreciating yourself with strengthen your self-belief, and reinforce your determination to succeed. Some of the key characteristics you will find in those who are successful are perseverance, prepared to research, plan and work hard, practice a lot even when things do not seem to be going well, and an ability to recover and learn from setbacks. At the outset of whatever it is you are trying to succeed in, a strong vision of your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable targets can all play an important role.

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Being a Successful Student

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 11

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Whether studying or in general life, planning is an imperative skill. Here, we must strictly set the hours for studying, and should promote regularity in doing so. Don’t put off your studies to the last moment (just before the test), because in that moment you will be feeling stress and pressure, and both factors will prove disturbing for your learning; that’s the high price of procrastination. During the exam, it’s important to forget about panic and stress. And if you are planning for your thesis, you may find this post useful. Other planning tip I frequently give is that, when you are assigned a homework, try to solve it as quickly as possible, several days before the required date, but don’t try to complete it perfectly and don’t submit it immediately. I always recommend doing homework early, but deliver it at the last possible day.

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“Be Wise-Never Use Drugs or Alcohol”

Many people don’t understand that doing drugs or alcohol is bad for them. They are hurting their family and others that care about them. Their family isn’t going to like seeing them suffer after they get a disease. Until they get a disease, they understand that doing drugs or alcohol is really bad for them. They should already know what is going to happen to them if they do any type drugs or alcohol because there is other people that have gone through this already. Many people say “If I could go back in time, I wouldn’t do any of that. Know I understand why people always told me to stop.” People that do drugs or alcohol should learn from this people that wish they had never done that. They know how painful it is now, they learned the hard way. Drugs and alcohol can lead you to do many bad things that you never thought of doing in your life. You could hurt your family or others. You could hurt someone physically or mentally. You might hit your kids without knowing what you’re doing. Your kids can end up not liking you for what you did to them. You can also hurt them by saying many bad things that you don’t actually mean. You might ask yourself why do people do drugs or alcohol? Here is why because many think that is the easiest way to forget about their problems. But that is not true because it might help for a little time but the problems will always be there. It won’t make the problem go away. Another reason is because their peers make them do it and they don’t have the courage to say NO. Don’t do drugs or alcohol because you are hurting yourself and everyone around you. Remember say, no to drugs and alcohol. Do what is best for you and your family.          Say NO to Drugs and Alcohol

Highly Successful Students

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·        They prefer tasks with some degree of difficulty and novelty, which stimulate their learning skills.

·        They don’t apply the simple criteria of success-fail to their learning. Remember, they are focused into the learning process.

·        They know how to handle groups.

·        Finally, they work with passion.

Other chief habit is that of asking questions. We have to establish hypothesis and set concrete, realistic goals. After reading any text we have to ask several different questions related to its content, in order to verify if we have completely understood the text. It’s also important to try related such text and other areas of our knowledge. Again, linking ideas and concepts is a habit of highly successful students. So, link.

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 9

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·        They concentrate on the process of solving the task and understanding the involved ideas. Of course we are interested in getting good results, but the process is more important. A result is a very brief moment of life, while learning to develop processes is a skill that will last for the whole life.

·        They interpret and analyze errors as a way of increasing their learning, i.e., they try to learn from their mistakes. This way, they see errors and failures as opportunities.

·        They look for the required information in several channels (books, journals, newspapers, experts, internet, and so on.)

·        They consult experts and teachers frequently. This action provides a new perspective about the studied topics.

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

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·        Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspects--life within and life without; internal life and external life--and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world.

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 6

If you prefer to play videogames, then remember that making any game requires to prepare a detailed script including history, characters, goals and relations. Therefore, you could start writing down the script for your “dream” game. On the other side, you could imagine how the novel you are reading could be transformed into a videogame (start out by thinking which gaming genre fits the novel better: role-playing, adventure, action, and so on.) the basic idea is to find match points and links between our affections and our chores. And such links there always exist. Remember, to link ideas and concepts is the most important habit for successful students.

Successful students also exhibit other particular traits we should internalize:

·        They are always trying to discover better approaches in order to accomplish their tasks (adequate studying place, availability of resources, etc.) you may find my post on Pristine Home with Feng Shui useful for improving your studying environment.

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 5

2- Success is about achieving goals, and therefore is a relative notion. Highly successful students are those which set realistic goals, and attain them with the proper investment of resources. Thus, not necessarily the student with the best grades is the most successful learner. Now, we have stated what the successful student is like. Good.

2- If you have negative entries in your list of driving forces, it’s time to improve things quite a bit. First, identify other topics that you indeed like a lot, not necessarily related to studying. Perhaps you like pets, to cook or to play videogames. Now, try to establish associations or links between these favorite activities of yours and the subject of study that you dislike Literature (you perhaps think it’s utterly boredom) but love your humongous pit-bull “Casino Joe” then you could start thinking how your dog would fit as a character into that novel you have to analyze: what it’s role would be and how he would interact with other characters in the novel.

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Student Success Statement

“A CTR champion is a person who makes a great human out of himself.”

Noemi Trigueros

(HPHS Student 2010-11)

This statement is saying that every single person who chooses the right, will always be a great person and proud of themselves. If you choose the right you can also become a successful person because of the good decisions you made.

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 4

The body is related to the breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses, and mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires and understanding of one’s relationship to the external world and the relationship within oneself.

All human beings have inner potentials, but many people are not aware of those potentials and do not know how to use them to have a successful life. Those who are not happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make others happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others.

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 3

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Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the key to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspects—life within and life without; internal life and external life—and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world. Even one who has renounced the world has to understand the world relationship properly, because life itself is actually relationship.

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“The Harmful effects of Smoking”

 

There are many ways that cause people to die. Some of those causes could be cancer, diabetes, heart attack, and accidents. Smoking is one of the reasons why people die. Smoking is not good for you, it destroys everything inside you. It also brings you to your own death. Most people smoke to feel cool or to fit in but they don’t know that is wrong and it’s affecting their health. Another thing they don’t know is that they are also affecting everyone that is around them.

Diseases you can get from smoking:

· Emphysema

· Chronic bronchitis

· Lung cancer

· Kidney cancer

· Hypertension

· Atherosclerosis

· Chronic Heart Failure

· Coronary thrombosis (heart attack)

· Cerebral thrombosis (stroke)

     Some people probably start smoking because they have problems at home, school, or work. According to them smoking makes them forget about their problems. It might work for a moment but that won’t make the problem go away. Choose the right and stop smoking if you smoke. If you don’t never do it.

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 2

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If we are to succeed in life, we must hone our learning skills.

1.     The first step in this direction is to sincerely point out the driving force or motivation. Let’s relax, and start listing the reasons that impel you to study some topic, as crude as they may be. It’s possible that your list is empty. Don’t worry. It only means that you have not identified any reasons to study the chosen and very specific point (it’s for sure that you are an excellent learner in other areas of life.) if you don’t have any motivation to study, and please note that this list cannot be empty. Whether you found a huge list of driving forces or a list of reasons for not studying, the end product of this step comprises at least one item (a positive or negative force)

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 1

By Herrera

We humans are innate learners, as learning is the cornerstone for survival. We must remember, abstract and apply knowledge in diverse (and often harsh) environments in order to develop into and behaves as truly intelligent beings. In short, the adaptability and resilience we exhibit stems from learning. Now, a key issue is learning is the driving force behind it, I.e., the motivation or stimuli to learn. We can learn because of fear (we want to learn how to protect ourselves from danger.) We can learn just out of curiosity (our natural inquisitive behavior.) we can learn because we want to reach some social status (approval of others is a potent stimuli to learn.) We can learn simply because we love to learn new things everyday. There are plenty of reasons to learn and yours may easily be a mixture of these. Health and money are important things in life, but learning is the base for using them wisely.

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Student Success Statement   “Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.” Socrates This statement means that your name is precious. You must take care of your name as if it was an expensive jewel. Choosing the right will lead you to a good reputation.

How Successful Students

Prepare for Tests

Part 2

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8. Make summary sheets, flash cards, and practice tests.

9. Always carry some kind of pocket work and make use of wasted spare minutes by reciting and thinking about what you are learning.

10. Learn something new or difficult in you strongest intelligence, sense or in your dominant hemisphere. Reinforce it with as many different ways as possible.

11. Find a study partner or two in each class and routinely take turns teaching each other the material.

12. Prepare for each class as if there will be a pop quiz.                                           The single most important way to prepare for a test is to study many days in advanced. Study each day to prepare for a test that is coming in a few days or weeks. When you are prepared, you will do great on the test and you will be confident.

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