Class Evaluation

1. Some things I liked about this class were the free time
2. Some things I didn't like about this class were that the class was boring because we are on the computer all day
3. I don't know what to recommend to make it better
4. A highlight for me in this class was when we did the scratch projects and other projects because it was kind of fun
5. No, I did not do my best in this class because I was stressed about my other classes.
6. I do it often but sometimes I just don't have time for that or I'm just too tired to do anything when I get home
7. Yes I am committed to being a CTR person because I believe it will make me a better person and take me farther in life.
8. I learned a lot about computing and how it began.
9. I will always remember that we always read all life planning books 

Memorial Day

Memorial Day

Monday May 30

1. Memorial Day is the day when we remember all the soldiers that died at war.
2. Memorial day is celebrated on the last Monday of May
3. Some ways to celebrate are to clean cemeteries or decorate graves
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5. Every memorial day people have to pause at 3pm to remember and honor the fallen.

Becoming Your Best

Becoming Your Best

The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

1. Be true to character

2. Use your imagination

3. Apply the power of knowledge

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4: Never give up

Reflection: You should never give up on anything. This will make you become your best because you will push yourself to the limits all the time.

5. Find peace and balance


Reflection: When you are at peace you are a calm person and you are balanced this will help you live a happy life. this would help you be at peace with yourself and the others all around you. this is a very important thing too have in life this will help you a lot in life.
How will i apply this new principle: The way i would apply this principle to my daily life is by being a peaceful person 

6. Live the Golden Rule

Reflection: The golden rule means that you give what you get. If you get love and care you will love and care for other people. Everything that you do to other people will be done to you. If you are mean to people and you bully them, you will be bullied because everything comes back to you

7.Build and maintain trust

8.Quick to listen slow to wrath

Reflection:This quote is saying that anger can harm the person that is angry and all the people who you are angry at. The principle is basically telling you to listen quickly and not to get mad easily.

9.Lead with vision

Reflection: This principle tells you to lead with vision. This means that you have to lead with ideas of what you are going to do and how you're going to do it. For example, if you're doing a group project for school and you are the leader, you have to know what you are going to do and you have to have creative ideas on how to do stuff.

10. Manage with a plan

Reflection: This is basically telling you that if you don't have a plan you will not know what to do any things can go wrong. To prevent this you need to plan out what you are going to do. You need to plan out every single thing so when the time comes to do the project you will be ready and you will know what to do.

11.Do what matters most

Reflection:This is saying that you should do the things that are most important first. you have to do your priorities first and then you can do other stuff. For example, you should focus on your homework first and once you're done you can text your friends or go out.

12. Be accountable

Reflection; Being accountable means you have to be able to explain your actions. This means that you are responsible for what you do and what you don't do. For example, you have to be able to explain why you didn't do your homework and why you did something else instead.

Ten Tips For Being More Truthful

The Ten Tips

1. Make a commitment to tell the truth.
Reflection: We should always be truthful to ourselves first, in order to even give off trust to other people. With that we should promise ourselves to always be truthful. This builds your character. Builds ones solidness, and firmness

2. Tell someone about your commitment.
Reflection: Telling someone that we are committed to being truthful onto anyone, makes people see that there is truth being said. Telling someone you are committed shows your extent of truthfulness in you. People will admire your integrity for wanting to be truthful and honest. Being truthful to people around you will be something positively correct, and you would just feel right. Unlike you're being dishonest and untruthful, you feel a bad gut feeling inside.

3. Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.

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4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, and irony.

Reflection: You should be careful with when you exaggerate because some people might believe and if they find out the truth, they won't trust you; you will be known to be a liar.

5. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.
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6. Don't indulge in little white lies.
Reflection: This is trying to say that don't allow allow yourself to enjoy the lies. Don't become a liar and speak all lies. Always speak with the truth with whoever you are speaking with. The truth is way better than lies. We should all speak with the truth rather to get ourselves involved with lies which aren't truth. Lies are never good you can get yourself in a bad situation with others and yourself reason why we should always speak with the truth.

7. Watch out for silent lies.
Reflection: I think that we can all tell when someone is lying to us. If we really know the person we will be able to see when they are lying by what they do or how they say it. In my opinion i think that we should always speak with the truth. I see no reason why people should lie and say things that arent true. Always speak with the truth at all times. "You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you." TOM ROBBINS, Villa Incognito

8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.
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9: Talk to yourself

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10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth.\

Reflection: I will apply these 10 tips by not telling even the littlest white lie because it is still a lie. Also by so saying silent lies and instead tell the truth even if it means you don't get what you want.

10 Keys to Personal Power

The 10 Keys to Personal Power

Brian Tracy

Key 1: Clarity

"Have vision. Determine what you want to be, do or have in life in life. Have a sense of direction and know where you're going. If you do not have clear specific goals in life, you are doomed forever to work for others who do."
Reflection: People who have a clear mindset of their future are the ones to usually be the most successful in life. Those nebulous decisions that are in your life are the ones to blockading you to not being successful. Picture yourself doing what you want and do something about it. Just watching your goals pass by you is a waste of life. Humanity is all about being happy and pursing something you enjoy in life. Distancing yourself from that only makes things more unclear and somber.

Key 2: Competence

"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."

If you commit too doing something you would enjoy what you are doing and love the work. you must enjoy what you love doing if u commit too what you're doing for example you're homework or you're classwork or job these a some of the things you have to put in work to have commitment in them they are very important.

Key 3: Concentration
"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself "Is this the best use of my time?' before you start anything."

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Key 5: Creativity
"Except the fact that every human being is a genius. The hallmark of creativity is asking questions. The people who are most creative ask the most questions."
Reflection: Everyone has a different way of thinking. We cant have a group of ten people and include just one idea. There are multiply ways of solving a problem and depending on the person, that is how they will handle it. You cant make someone think like you, this world would be very banal if it did. Throughout history there has been many people who have become famous because they do not go how everyone want to. Those people are the ones to achieve something in life. They go outside of the box. In the moment they are seen as rebellious but are the ones to impact society and change how the community or society see things. So, expressing your creativity makes every individual special. There are multiple ways of expressing creativity, and that is showing yourself and what you are one the inside.

Key 6: Consideration
"The quality of your relationship with other people will determine your success in life."

"Develop the people skills you need to become a better communicator. Take courses in listening, speaking, etc."

"If you were to learn one new word a day, within 5 years, you'll be the best educated person in history."

Reflection: Take many things into consideration taking things in to consideration is a very good thing. this will later on help you in life by helping you in school or work. this is also probably gonna make you're life better and help many different ways. that is why you should take thing in too consideration.

Key 7: Consistency

"Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work."

"Be consistent in your relationships, your family, friends, your boss, your work. Be the person that people can depend upon. That if you say you'll do something you do it."

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Key 8: Commitment
"No success is possible without commitment. The ability to commit yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving all success."

"Become totally absorbed in your work. Be totally committed."

Key 9: Courage
"The fear for failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."

Key 10: Confidence
"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again."

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The Seven Habits

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Habit 1: Be Proactive

"Habit 1 is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that's why it comes first. It says, "I am the caption of my life. I can choose my attitude . I'm responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the driver's seat of my destiny, not just a passenger."

Quote: A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.
Robin S. Sharma

Reflection:what this quote is saying is that be proactive is good because if you want to be proactive you have to be a calm person and be in control of you're life and let someone else be in control of it. like the first quote said you have to be the front seat driver and not a passenger. this is what this quote is trying to say about being a proactive person.

Habit 2:Begin with the end in mind
"Control your own destiny or someone else will." - Jack Welch

 Reflection: Applying this habit is very beneficial in your life whether it is in class, at work, or in anyway particular. By this quote, Covey means to start your day with a mind set of what you want to accomplish that day. It makes a sculpture of how your day will be for the sake of how you want it to actually end. For example, metaphorically speaking you envision yourself climbing a ladder that you built, but when you actually start to build it and you choose wrong pieces to it, it will not help you climb. This is meaning if you chose to do thing the wrong way in your life choices it can put a pause for your goal and take longer to achieve. It would be better if you envision it and do everything right the first way around.

Habit 3:Put First Things First

"Organize and execute around priorities"

Reflection: In life we should always prioritize whats to our benefit for a good life. Its like the abc's, it has a order that it should be in. Our life choices should also be arranged because its for our future. For a teenager its hard not to resist the outside world that has many fun and exciting things. But for us that is hard. Putting school first and doing your work is one of those choices that we should put first because its our future that it holds. Lets say, one night you have a party they invited you to and everyone's going, but you have to do your homework too. This is one of those choices that determines your future. This is the type of priorities you put in your life. My teacher says "two marshmallows" which is a figurative language that says "we give you one marshmallow now and you can eat it or not eat the marshmallow and later on you get  

   another marshmallow meaning you get two for waiting. 

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

"Think win-win or no deal"

Reflection: Reflection: I believe what the quote "think win-win or no deal" means that you have to think of a way in which everyone comes out winning in the situation rather than just one winner. If one person gets the win, then it wouldn't be a fair deal. I ponder on this because everything should be paid by effort and not by a number or trophy. Its good to think about the success of oneself but showing your character by being caring shows better sportsmanship than anything else. Even when your enemy kicks you down, you shouldn't do the same. You should help them up, yes many people are very resilient to what happens in their life but being revengeful isn't a satisfying feeling. It just makes a hole deeper. A situation would be that there are two race track runners, Bob and David, both who work extremely hard to get first place. Unfortunately, there is only one winner and that is Bob. David becomes very jealous that he doesn't get recognition and only Bob does, even if they work equally as hard. The right thing for Bob to do was accept the win but a win for David too even though he did not come first materialistically. Moral of the story, take a win-win or no one will.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
"diagnose before you prescribe."

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A doctor before prescribing any type of medication, needs to look and diagnose, to make sure the medicine prescribed is the correct one for the kind of sickness or need its intended for. If given the wrong prescription to the person without a diagnose they can have severe health problems or can die according to what is needed. This example goes for any situation in a person. If you give someone advice they don't need or incorrect, then that person's life ethics or morals can go down a drain because of the wrong advice one gives. We need to understand ones life in order for them to understand us. It is better to understand the person than to be understood in the wrong conditions.

Habit 6: Synergize
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1=3)"



Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Four dimensions of renewal: Physical, mental, spiritual, social/emotional

Three Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

Three Fundamental Techniques in Handling people

Technique 1:Don't Criticize, condemn or complain.

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive"

• Technique is trying saying that instead of complaining you should show graduated for what you have be grateful and thankful because not that many people have a lot of the things that some of us have they are less fortunate

Technique 2: Give honest and sincere appreciation

"The big secret in dealing with people"

•  This is trying to say that the best way to deal with people is to be honest with them. show appreciation to them when they are talking and do not interrupt them. Be a good listener because if you're kind to them they will be kind back. they will also be listening to what you have to say. This is one of the easiest and the big secret in dealing with people

Technique 3: Arouse in the other person an eager want.

"He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot , walks a lonely way."

• When talking to someone you should always leave a mark on them to make them remember you. When you’re gone they will feel a type of emptiness inside since you were so nice and understanding to them. Talking to them again will arouse an eager to talk to you more and be around you more. 

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