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my name is joaquin mendoza, i am currently attending HPIAM high school, i am a freshmen and i am required to use and uplode on this blog, this is not my choice

Wednesday, October 31, 2012


Student success statement

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

-Coach David diamond

 

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 you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.

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

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

7.    Watch out for silent lies.

8.    When you watch yourself lying, throw your mouth in reverse.

9.    Talk to yourself (ask yourself, “how do I really feel about this? What is the best thing to do? how can I keep my commitment to myself)

10.  Treat yourself to tell the truth even when its hard to do.

 

 

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

acquiring the habits of successful students


Acquiring the habits of successful students

Part 13

If 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 medication 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. Simply visualize your desired goals, that of being a star student, a champion of doing what is right, and see yourself working hard to become outstanding, and your dreams and vision will materialize as you peruse these objectives.  Setting goals and objectives can be a personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you apply yourself by doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily

Choose the right

 

Monday, October 29, 2012


What will I do to graduate from
high school

 

What I will do to graduate from high school is simple, I would:

 

1. Do my homework for all of my classes before the due date, but turn it in at the last possible second

 

2. Ask a teacher for extra credit even if I have a good grade in class, just to make sure that I have an A+.

 

3. Always be on time for classes because if I arrive late I will miss knowledge that I need for tests and homework.

 

4. I will make sure if there are any future projects, and if there are I will pair myself with someone smart.

 

5. I will study for all of my tests and projects, and I won’t study them at the last minute and I also won’t do them alone, I will study with others to make sure that I get a good grade.

 

6. I will join many clubs and after school activities so that I wouldn’t be doing things that I shouldn’t, be occupied, and put it on my résumé.

 

7. I will take good notes in class does that when there is a test I will have all of the information that I need so that I can get a good grade?

8. I will complete all of my volunteer hours before I need to turn them in before their due.

9. If I don’t understand something I will raise my hand and then ask my teacher if she could help me out.

And I continue to do all of these things and keep up my good habits, then I will surely get all of my credits for all of my classes and I will graduate from high school and then I will move on to college.

 

 

 


acquiring the habits of highly successful students


Acquiring the habits of highly successful students

Part 12

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’ve done too, but appreciating yourself will strengthen yourself belief, and reinforced you 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 in your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable targets can all play an important role.

Choose the right

student success

Friday, October 26, 2012


Be wise
Never use alcohol



 

 

 

    

 
    
    
    
    

    
    
 




 

Be wise
Never use drugs or alcohol

When people use drugs or alcohol they don’t have the same thinking mentality as when there sober:

1.        People who use drugs don’t have a sense of wrong or right, which makes them dangerous to be around.

2.        People who use drugs have problems that they try to run away from by using drugs, and they will escape from their grasp for  a little while, but once they become sober the problems will catch up to them again, but with more force this time.

3.        Drugs and alcohol destroy your body and they also destroy your mind as soon as you consume them

4.        Once you’re addicted to drugs, it’s hard to get away from them, and once you run out of money for drugs you will do whatever you need to in order for you to be able to buy the drugs that you want.

5.        If you consume alcohol or drugs you might lose track of time or just not have the need to show up to the places that you need to be at such as school or work.

6.        People who use drugs and alcohol have no judgment of good or bad, and are also very unpredictable which make them dangerous to be around.

 

So if you are doing drugs, you should stop because you might think that it’s cool, or you just like the effects of the drug, but in reality the only thing that you’re doing is killing yourself. If you haven’t done drugs, keep it up because drugs will destroy you emotionally, physically, and mentally. If you’re drinking alcohol you should stop because that liquid is a poison and all you’re doing when you are drinking this poison is slowly killing and slowly rotting your body

 

acquiring the habits of highly successful students


Acquiring the habits of highly successful students

Part 11

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 your studies into the last moment (just before a 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 for 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 homework. Try to solve it as quickly as possible. Several days before the required date, but don’t try to complete it perfectly or turn it in immediately. I always recommend doing homework early, but deliver it at the last possible day.

Choose the right

Wednesday, October 24, 2012


Acquiring the habits of highly successful
students

Part 9

·         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 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.

 

 

 

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

aquiring the habits of successful students


Acquiring the habits of highly successful students

Part 7

. Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for these keys, or do we have those potentials within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it’s divided into two aspects – life within and life without; internal life and external life – and we see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and I live in the wilderness doing nothing 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.

Choose the right

Friday, October 19, 2012

aquiring the habits of highly successful students


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 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 video games. Now, try to establish associations or links between these favorite activities of yours and the subject of study that you dislike. For example , let’s just assume that you dislike literature (perhaps you think that its utterly boring) but love your humongous pit-bull “casino jones” then you could start thinking how your dog would fit as a character into that novel you have to analyze: what its role would be and how would he interact with the other characters in the novel.

Choose the right

 

 

Thursday, October 18, 2012

srudent success statement


Student success statement

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

- Noemi Trigueros

Reflection: this statement means that when a person always chooses the right they become a great individual, because they do what they have to do and always do what they can to do things right.


 

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 of all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires an understanding of ones relationship to the external world and the relationships with 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 internally can never be happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make others happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others.

Choose the right

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

the harmful effects of smoking

“The harmful effects of smoking”

The harmful effects of smoking are:

1. You will have a change of getting cancer.

2. When you smoke you can get oral cancer and your mouth will start to fall apart and it will turn black and it will look nasty

3. You get through cancer

4. You will get lung cancer when you smoke and you lungs will be dry and nasty

5. Smoking kills your brain

6. When you smoke your brain gets affected and then you will have a stroke

7. You can have a blood clot when you smoke

8. When you smoke You will have a greater chance of dying

9. When you smoke it ruins your kidney’s]

10. You can tell if a person is a smoker because the tips of their fingers turn into a yellow color.

11. If you smoke you can get gum dieses and your teeth can fall out

If you are a smoker you are more than likely to have cancer or a dieses and you will suffer the consequences of your actions.

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aquiring the habits of successful student part 3


Acquiring the habits of highly successful students

Part 3

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 see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far 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 preform 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 word relationship properly, because life itself is actually a relationship

Choose the right

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Acquiring the habits of highly successful students


Acquiring the habits of highly successful students

Part 2

 

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 reason 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, then give me the list of reasons why you don’t 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 products of this step comprise at least one item (a positive or negative driving force)

Choose the Right!!