Succeed Today

"You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Abraham Lincoln 

Goals

"Goals determine what you are going to be."

Julius Erving, Dr. "J"

What will bring you good luck?

The Secret for Good Luck

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

Thomas Jefferson 

Leadership

"Leadership is action, not position."

Donald H. McGannon

What Determines Your Destiny?

"Decisions Determine Destiny"

Thomas S. Monson

Trust Yourself

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

 Goethe

Your Work

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”

Buddha

Your Imagination

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein

The 4 C's

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

~Walt Disney~

Class of 2010

Congratulations to our Senior classmates. It has been great having you in our class this year. We wish you the very best that life has to offer. Remember to Always CHOOSE THE RIGHT. You will go far with CTR!! Let's keep in touch.

As you pursue your life's dreams, remember that if you Work Hard, Work Smart, and Work Together, then you will accomplish all that you set out to accomplish, and much more.

CTR Always!!!

CTR: Living Rightly

Socrates

"It's not living that matters, but living rightly."

Good Company vs Bad Company

"It's better to be alone than to be in bad company."

ANON

Bad company

A Championship Team

A Championship Team

"A championship team is a team of champions."

ANON

Helping Others

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life...we can never help another without helping ourselves."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Your Self-Defeating Behaviors

“Life’s too short! Pull the plug on Self-Defeating Behavior and turn on the power of Self-Esteem.”

--Abraham J. Twerski

Message to Students from Mr. Raul E. Correa, Principal

Raul E. Correa, CST to Students 1

Steve Haymore's Podcast

Character vs Reputation

John Wooden once stated that we should be more concerned with our CHARACTER than our REPUTATION. His believe was that our character is what we are while our reputation is merely what others think we are. In the book,"Becoming a Person of Influence," authors John Maxwell and Jim Dornan share more on the difference of these two words:

The circumstances amid which you live determine your reputation…
The trust you believe determines your character…Reputation is what you are supposed to be; character is what you are…Reputation is the photograph; character is the face…Reputation comes from one without; character grows up from within…Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community:Character is what you have when you go away.
Your reputation is learned in an hour;
Your character does not come to light for a year…Reputation grows like a mushroom; Character lasts like eternity…Reputation makes you rich or makes you poor; Character makes you happy or makes you miserable…Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone; Character is what the angles say about you before the throne of God.

(Taken from Bob Starkey's http://hoopthoughts.blogspot.com)

Always Choose the Right

China stripped of 2000 gymnastics medal for underage athlete

By Chris Chase

Follow Yahoo! Sports Olympic blog, Fourth-Place Medal on Facebook and Twitter.

"China was stripped of a team all-around bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics on Wednesday because it fielded an underage gymnast. Dong Fangxiao was discovered to be 14 at the time of those Games, two years younger than the minimum age requirement.

The medal will be given to the United States team which finished fourth in Sydney. The IOC has asked for China to return the medals "as soon as possible" so they can be reallocated to the U.S. team."

Students, how embarrassing; what a shame, how sad. China thought they were getting away with cheating, but no, it caught up with them even several years later. Dong Fangxiao is now about 24 years of age, and how do you think she feels? The glory and fanfare of winning the olympic medal is long gone, but memories of cheating and CTW impact for years long after the they occur. She should have been strong enough to CTR and not let the Chinese persuade her to CTW, but she was weak and fell for the temptation. Imagine how she feels today and how she faces people and what they think of her action. She hides her face in shame along with all the others who permitted this infraction. They knew about, but were too anxious to WIN, that they CTW. "The short term gain is not worth the long term pain."

Today, cheating is wide-spread throughout athletics, schools, families, communities and nations, and we need to do all we can to promote goodwill, that which is right.

Students, Always Choose the Right, CTR. If you CTW, you may get away with it for a period of time, but inevitably it will catch up with you, even if it's in the end. Individuals, teams, churches, businesses, schools, states, nations.....all must always do what is right--no exception. "True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right" (Brigham Young)

Small Precedes Great

"From small beginnings come great things"

A Proverb

Students, just think about it. Great things come from small beginnings. For example, from one small acorn a giant forest can result. From the small beginning of kindergarten one can become a high school and university Academic Champion. From little league one can go to the major leagues.  All great students started small, but they persisted by working hard, working smart, and working together and they became academic scholars and high achievers in school.