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

Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustrations 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 respected and valued for who they re—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 and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen. We have one month and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as 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!!!

10 tips for student success

10 tips for student success

1. Attend your classes remember in the words of Woody Allen’s seventy percent of success in life is showing up

2. Know your faculty. Make sure you know who your teachers are, when their  

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 papers

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6. Know you campus resources. Visit your academics dean office regularly. Become familiar with the services 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 as 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 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 this classroom.

10.Keep your eyes on the prize clarify your goals. Know why you are in college in the first place  

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

       “You make your habits and your habits make you.”

Anon

Reflection : I think this statement is trying to say do make good habits and your habits make you  better person. Choose the right.

Successful Students Part 9

Successful Students

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9.  . . . don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late-night, last ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour –a –night sessions for Friday’s exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn’t. Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like planting watermelon seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelon the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do It. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“The time is always right to do what’s right.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reflection: In this quote I think its saying that even though you make a mistake and do wrong you can always change and do the right thing.

Successful Students 3-4

         Successful Students

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3.… ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefit. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4.... learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

 Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not your enemy, you share the interests, the same goal-in short, you teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable player on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

            Choose The Right!!!    

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

Bryon

What I think this means is the heart is one powerful thing, because it tells you what to do. The main focus in that is how your character functions throughout your life. If your heart is full of kindness than it will treat others with that respect they give on towards you. But if your heart is filled with shattered darkness then you got another thing coming, because you will only show nothing else but a wrong human being.