Memorial Day

Memorial Day

       Memorial Day is a day on which those who died in active military service are remembered, traditionally observed on May 30 but now officially observed on the last Monday in May. Memorial Day is at the end of the month of May. A few ways to show honor on this day is to walk with the American flag and march showing respect to our troops that died during the time of war. What I would do on this day is to celebrate with family members and show honor and respect to our troops by doing the solute and the pledge of allegiance.

Ten Tips To Be More Truthful

Ten Tips To Be More Truthful

1. Make a commitment to tell the truth

      Sometimes we get into situations where we decide to make a mistake and blame someone else. It doesn’t feel to get the blame but sometimes it is worth it. It’s because we ourselves need to learn from our own mistakes and get taught a new lesson. A quote by Abraham Lincoln says,” Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” Telling the truth makes situations to be easily solved then lying. Always tell the truth because lying won’t get you anywhere and everything comes to light.

2. Tell someone about your commitment

       Telling someone your commitment is hard because sometimes you will do things that they will yell at your or get mad at you and you won’t like that. It’s actually the best thing you can do. Why? It’s because that person can help you out in life and make you successful for example our parents they want the best for their children. A quote by Dr. Steve Maraboli says,” Intent reveals desire; actions reveal commitment.” We make mistakes but there is someone to help us out of any situation. It’s okay to tell someone your commitment.

3.Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.
        When ever you are in a situation you would want to try to talk yourself out of it. It my take a while for someone to answer right away but you will studer. 

4. Be careful of when and how you exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.
        Think before you speak because you never know how the situation will end up once you speak. Its always important because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and especially someone who is really close to you. Words hurt more then punches to the face. Why? Punches just leave you marks and sooner or later the marks on your body or face go away. When words offend someone that person gets hurt from inside, the person's emotions break down from that moment, and there is no way to get that persons trust of happy side out of them. Be careful when you speak because you can hurt someone.

5. Be careful mot to twist the truth or leave out part of it

          When you get it trouble always explain how things happened because you want to solve the problem, not make it worse. You won't want to get blamed for something you did that someone else had caused. Sometimes people won't back you up and some do to be honest. Don't take advantage of people you know that will get your back because sometime that person won't be there to help you out. You should be able to back up yourself and give a firm explanation so that you don't get into more trouble.

6. Don't indulge in little white lies
            "Someday you will look back and know exactly why it had to happen."



7. Watch out for silent lies 
           "No matter how much the truth hurts, its always better than being lied to."






8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.
         "If you tell the truth, it becomes part of your past. If you tell a lie, it becomes part of your future."






9. Talk to yourself
           "Talking to yourself motivates you to get the job done."



10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth
            "You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself."



Reflection
            

Class/ Self Evaluation

Class/Self Evaluation

What I liked about this class was that we got to learn how to make our own website which is pretty cool. Also we learned new ways to do projects and pictures on the computers. Things that I didn’t like was that we didn’t get that much time on the computer and less time to do or even finish our projects. What I think that the improvements for this class should be have a new class order. Also have more time on the computer instead of talking and watching long videos that sometimes talk about things we know or we have already seen before. I actually did try my best but I just couldn’t make it to the level I wanted to be in this class but hopefully next year I can improve by looking at the mistakes I did in this class. To be honest I am committed to choose the right every day of my life because that’s what makes me successful in life. Choosing the right makes life easier and more positive. I always will choose the right. J

Glenn Cunningham

Glenn Cunningham

       This man achieved his main goal which was to be an Olympian runner. He has suffered when he was a little boy but that didn’t stop him from achieving his goal. He is a man that puts heart on his dreams and never gives up. What I can learn from him is that to never give up even if you have suffered in life. Accomplishing your goals is the mission and I want to accomplish them. I need to be more active and more positive about myself knowing that I can do it. Never give up is key and always think positive.

The Six Attitudes of High Achievers

“The Six Attitudes of High Achievers”

-John R. Noe

High Achievers…… 

1. Make no small plans

            You shouldn’t make small plans because if you want to succeed more in your future you must think higher. When you make little plans you can finish it in one day and it won’t be as fun. When you bigger plans you think more, you do more, and you won’t finish it in one day which is good because it’s a big plan. You want to challenge yourself so that in the future you would be ready to go and won’t need to do as much work people do now. Always think big so that you can achieve bigger things and have a better life.

2. Do what you fear

         It is better to do what you fear because the subject or item or discussion you fear of might happen again but you never know when. You should face your fear by not doing the same mistakes that led you there and be bold. Be confident about yourself because that’s what takes higher and higher in life. Be the type of person that can do things without having any type of trouble and be a leader as well. Facing your fears is what makes you a better person. Be strong and be positive every day in your life. 

3. Are Willing To Prepare

          Before someone goes to a higher grade every student or child prepares for it. Why? It’s because you don’t want to be the person that is behind and is missing a lot of work and has to catch up. When we prepare ourselves we will be on track and not stay behind. It’s better to be prepared because sometimes when you don’t prepare you want to get a whole load of work or papers in front of you and not knowing where to put them. Preparing yourself for school and work you will success and proceed and be ahead of others maybe but stay prepared. There are challenges in the world that one must face. Be prepares and choose the right.

4. Are willing to risk failure

          Success is found by those who are willing to fail. If you are one who is not willing to fail in a particular area of life, you will make sure that you have no opportunities to fail. Focus on accepting failure as a part of trying. You want to succeed in life. Its good to make failures because from that people know that you are learning little by little. You must avoid anything that will prevent you from succeeding in life. Take risk to achieve you goal in the future.

         

5.  Are teachable

Everyone must be willing to learn new things because then how will you succeed. When you are willing to learn something you will become successful. Why? The reason why is that when you want to learn something so that once you learn it than you make a living with it. For example how do you get your profession? Well you learn what you want to learn and with that info in your brain, that topic you learned for days, weeks, months, or maybe years will get you a job and in that job you will be successful. You must be willing to learn because if not what would you be in the future. 

6. Have Heart

          It’s good to have a heart meaning have feelings for others that will need something to happen in their lives. Sometimes when you do good things to others you might feel something that you will be proud of and might want to keep doing it. Be a good person and if not people will judge you and you don’t want that. Having a heart like that will help you live longer but you want to been known as someone special and know who you really are. Be a somebody with that heart of yours. Always choose the right and be positive and help others who are in need of a good heart.

Reflection

          I believe that all these 6 attitudes of high achievers will help me in the future and make me proceed. If I use every attitude every day of my life I myself think that I will have an easy life. I want to be a high achiever and I have to do so much that it takes time as well and need to have a lot of patience so that I don’t give up easily. 

Commitment

Commitment

A new attribute that I would like to talk about would be commitment. The word commitment means: the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity. To be commited means that you will do what you have to do and not let others down. A good quote that relates to the word commitment is,” there’s no abiding success without commitment.” This quote is really a fact because in real life commitment is needed to most in order to succeed. For example when I had a big project to do and be done in 1 week I had to be working on it everyday. I was commited to finishing that project. I felt that if I didn’t finish this project I was going to ruin all my grades and I was so focused to finish the project. I had finished 2 days before the presentation and I was glad about it. I was commited to finishing the project and there is my success in life and improve my grades by a lot which I needed. You must be commited when it comes to something big because if your not commited you wont finish and get a bad grade.

"Decisions determine destiny"

“Decisions Determine Destiny”

A new attribute or quote is “decisions determine destiny” by Thomas s. Monson. This quote to me is good advice because the decisions I have made have taken to places that I got to by accomplishing them and I say to myself what a great guy I’m going to be. An example would be me being an advanced bass player. When I first started to play the instrument I wanted which was bass I sucked at it. In sophomore year I started to take music class and I learned how to play to bass and my decision at that moment was to be a pro bass player. It took about 2 months for me to get the string and chords which I now know very well. Now I'm a good player and still practicing more to get to my destiny which is to play one day in a group.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

    “A man without a goal is a ship without a rudder”

-Thomas Carlyle

     I can relate to this quote because once I started high school I was way off and I didn’t feel like doing anything at all that year. I started off okay that year but then I lacked off and I didn’t think of any goals and it sucked but then I saw a quote that said, “you’ll never know unless you try”. The quote impacted me and that’s when I started to have goals and started to get active and one of my main goals was to have a goal in life.