Your Grades

"Excellent preparation precedes excellent grades."

Mr. Haymore

Students, when you are prepared, you will not fear; you will actually look forward to taking that quiz, test or exam because you know you will do well and enjoy the experience. But, if you are not prepared, you might even think of skipping school that day. You certainly won't look forward to that test period, and you will even be tempted to CTW and cheat. Don't put yourselves in this dilemma. Choose the Right by working hard to prepare, and you will enjoy yourself. When you are prepared, tests are easy. When you are not prepared, tests are hard, boring, difficult, distasteful, painful, and very unpleasant. Being prepared makes the experience delicious, and you will enjoy excellent grades; for excellent preparation precedes excellent grades. CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!

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Your Future

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

ANON

Have fun.

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Preparation Eliminates Fear

"When you are prepared, you will not fear."

ANON

Your Excellence: CTR

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence."

Vince Lombardi

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Obedience and Freedom

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"The more obedient you are, the more freedom you have."

Boyd K. Packer

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Enthusiasm

The following paragraph was taken from http://www.freetoasthost.org/Enthusiasm.html, a website for Toastmaster Clubs world-wide:

"Enthusiasm will empower you to do just about anything you want, but most of all it will help you do it exceptionally well.  The feeling of enthusiasm has amazing effects on the physical body as well.  Voice, posture, heart rate and energy, to name a few, are all positively affected when one is filled with enthusiasm.  Those around you easily detect this enthusiasm.  When another finds you enthusiastic about something, it is difficult for that person not to share some of your enthusiasm.  This is incredibly important when selling a product, service, or idea to others.  With enthusiasm, your success rate increases phenomenally."

"Enthusiasm makes the difference"

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Your Focus

"Focus or Fail"

ANON

Your Effort = Your Success

“Success is dependent upon effort.”

Sophocles

Your Learning

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."

William Hazlitt

Your Best Friends

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." (Henry Ford)

Ambition and Persistence

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

Bill Bradley
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Your Attention

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."

Richard Moss

The Winning Attitude

Students, I came across this poem, and I immediately thought of 'Attitude' that we are discussing and blogging about in class. I challenge all of you to change your attitudes to the "Winners" attitude, and, consequently, you will become and remain a WINNER.

Winners Are People Like You 

 Anonymous


Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, 
but they refuse to let fear control them.



Winners don't give up. When life gets rough, they hang in 
until the going gets better.



Winners are flexible. They realize there is more than one 
way and are willing to try others.



Winners know they are not perfect. They respect their 
weaknesses while making the most of their strengths.



Winners fall but they don't stay down. They stubbornly refuse 
to let a fall keep them from climbing.



Winners don't blame fate for their failures, nor luck for their successes.



Winners accept responsibility for their lives.



Winners are positive thinkers who see good in all things.
 From the ordinary, they make the extraordinary.



Winners believe in the path they have chosen even when it 
is hard, even when others can't see where they are going.



Winners are patient. They know a goal is only worthy 
as the effort that is required to achieve it.



Winners are people that believe in themselves. 
They make this world a better place to be.

Your Attitude

"Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."

Ralph Marston

Be Strong--CTR

"A strong man is like a waterfall--he channels his own path."
Jesse Stuart

World of Waterfalls

Think and Become

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think—we become.”

Buddha

Be Prepared

"When opportunity arises--preparation ceases."

ANON

The Good Life

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

Socrates

Olympic Gold Medal Winner-- A Perfect 10

Risk--Originality--Virtuosity         

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Perform an ordinary skill in an extraordinary way
 

Showing virtuosity means doing something with the ultimate proficiency and skill, showing that you are simply the best at what you do. The best way to become skilled is to work hard and smart. While we cannot control the amount of natural ability we have, we can control the amount of effort we put forth. Think about Peter's description of his daily training with Tim Daggett before the Olympics. They had a vision in their minds of what they wanted to accomplish, and how they were going to perform to reach those goals. Remember, PRACTICE MAKES PERMANENT... so practice right. What we do over and over again will become permanent behavior. If we approach each day with average effort, we will consistently get average results. But when we place a high enough value on something, we'll figure out a way to get the job done well. In order to apply the principle of virtuosity, we must always remember our ultimate goal, even if reaching our goals takes years to accomplish. And those final goals must be of great worth to us personally. By constantly keeping the Olympic Gold Medal in mind, Peter placed a great value on every workout. And there were big rewards for his little extra efforts. Virtuosity involves taking a common skill and working hard to perform the task better. Add your own flair. Let your own personality and unique qualities shine through. Risk using your own Originality to develop Virtuosity. Peter Vidmar's Webite Students, becoming an Academic Champion is just like becoming an Olympic Champion--both require working hard, working smart, and working together with other people. Both require having a vision in mind of what you want to accomplish and keeping this vision in mind until you achieve your desired vision.