Thought for Success: Setting The Sails For Change

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Thought for Success Setting The Sails For Change

• by author
• Herbert Harris

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Putting Your Life In Order

• 1. What were my goals for this class?2. Am I
  happy with my performance this semester?3. If
  so, Why?4. If not, Why not?5. What could I have
  done to improve my performance in this class?6.
  What will I not do again?7. What must I do to
  improve my performance in this class?8. What
  will happen if I do improve my performance in
  this class?9. What will happen if I dont
  improve my performance this class?

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Your Academic Performance Affects Your Financial
Aid

• When you do not meet satisfactory academic
  performance you may be put on probation or
  suspension.
• Using the Center for Student Progress can
  significantly enhance your ability to perform at
  or above standard.

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Enhancement Assistant

• There are 3 Enhancement Assistants in the Office
  of Student Diversity Programs. These people are
  there to guide you to resources that can help you
  to be successful on this campus.
• You may reach them by calling [phone].

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Study Groups

• Dont try to do this thing alone.
• Partner up with others and study together.
• Two brains are better than one.
• Four eyes and ears are better than two.
• We are all in this thing together so lets join
  forces.

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Dont Give Up

• Its when things go wrong that you must not quit.
• We represent a people who survived slavery and
  second class citizenship, surely we can survive
  the educational process!

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Take a sheet of paper for each class on your
schedule.

• Write the first class being studied at the top of
  the page and answer the above nine questions with
  respect to that particular class.
• Once you have answered the above nine questions -
  in writing, you should have a good idea of what
  you must do in each class to make it through the
  semester successfully.
• These responses should form the basis for the
  learnings and personal adjustments you must make
  to be successful this semester.

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Face the Facts

• The first basic learning is that you cant wait
  until there is a problem to start performing well
  in the class.
• You should always "Face the Facts.
• Regularly review and evaluate where you are in
  each class.
• Determine the personal adjustments you must make
  right now.
• Write them down on a separate sheet of paper for
  frequent review.

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WAKE UP!!!Be Responsible

• The second basic learning is that you must take
  full responsibility for all aspects of your
  present life in order to change them.
• This is your "wake up call."  If you keep doing
  what youve always done, youll keep getting what
  youve always gotten.
• Once you take full responsibility for every
  aspect of your life, you can ask yourself, "What
  were the thoughts, habits, and associations that
  brought about the results I am now experiencing?"
  
• For example, your challenge may be tardiness. You
  are always late for everything. Ask yourself,
  "What happens when I am late?" Write it down.

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Dont waste time fighting alligators. Drain the
Swamp!

• "What does not happen when I am late?
• Write that down also.
• List what happens when you are on time.
• Which is better?
• Rather than blaming other people, circumstances,
  or conditions for your present situation, take
  responsibility for finding a ways to overcome in
  spite of them.

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If you dont fix it, it will stay broken.

•  The third basic learning is for things to get
  better, you must get better.
• Recognize and acknowledge your situation.
  Determine the areas you need to work on to get
  better.
• Commit to do the work.
• Do it until it is done.

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There is Power in Prayer

• ---Prayer for growth and improvement, Help me to
  be better than I have been. Help me to be as good
  as I can be. Help me to be as great as you want
  me to be. In your name, Father. So be it, Amen.

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Twelve Universal Laws of Success, 2nd Edition by
Herbert Harris

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  Universal Laws of Success, Second Edition,
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