...you're scared of academic failure, make sure you know yourself because knowing what your goals are and how to accomplish them and to know what resources are available will help you succeed. Going back to school can be terrifying, especially after being out school for so long. You, like myself, are probably telling yourself that you can’t do it. You haven’t been in school in so long; things have changed so much. We all hate the thought of failure; the truth is you won’t know until you try. There are things you can do to help yourself prepare for returning to school, and I’m going to go over some that I have learned along the way. The most important thing you need to know when returning to school is yourself. You can’t be successful if you don’t know your strengths and weaknesses. By taking a look at yourself, you can get a grasp on what areas of learning you might struggle with and what part of learning should come easy. There are many factors that can influence how we learn. These factors can include your behavioral characteristics, how much life experience you have, which of your senses are most predominant and whether or not you are self-directed in your learning (Reuter, 2000). For instance, I know that I need to be shown a few times, then I need just to dive in and try it myself. If I don’t get that hands on experience, all the telling me in the world doesn’t make a difference. Knowing this, I have become better even in my career. Understanding how you learn helps...
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...If you’re a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it was hard to make yourself settle down and study, even when an important exam was coming up. If you’re like most students, you put off studying until the very last minute. The night before the exam, you’ll stay up all night cramming, getting little or no sleep. In the morning, you’ll drag yourself out of bed, wake yourself up with lots of coffee or sometimes some cigarettes, and go into the exam feeling exhausted, stressed out and nervous all at the same time. You’ll find it hard to focus or think, and you’ll be cursing yourself for not starting to study sooner. And not surprisingly, unless you’re blessed with natural brilliance, or you happen to know the subject matter extremely well, you’ll probably do terribly on the test. If this is your typical method of studying, you already know it doesn’t work. Every time you go through this ritual, you tell yourself that you’re going to smarten up the next time you face a big exam. Next time you’ll start to study weeks in advance, you say. But instead, you keep repeating this crazy pattern. Why does this keep happening? And what should you be doing instead if you want to get better marks? Well in this study, it will not just evaluate each student’s performance in studying, but also try to know what improvements they should do as well as show correlations about several things that affect their studies either into bad ones or good ones. If you have...
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...Know Yourself Know yourself: The truth will set you free is a book written by Shahreen Kamaluddin, Personal Empowerment, 2000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, 136 pages. Reviewed by Padmaja Padman. Reading a book is among the pleasure thing that people would like to do for their free time. It can bring enjoyment and relaxing whenever you feel bored. To read the title of this book ‘’know yourself’’, my heart tremble and I was emotionally interested of it. In my past life, I used to be dependent emotionally and mentally as well. I did not have time to think about myself, how I want to be in this world. Becoming mature, I keep thinking about that but the problem still whish way I should pass in order to build myself and love it. I believe that this book will benefits me and allow me to live in harmony and freedom because, knowing myself will help me to get out any kind of miserable that could cross into my life. This is why I made the decision to choose this book and review it. Shahreen Kamaluddin is the author of this book ‘’Know Yourself’’. The book is talking about self-knowing. Her objective of writing this book is to help people to set a better thought in order to live a happy life and be able to achieve their goals. Shahreen Kamaluddin is an old woman about 50year of age originally Malaysia. She has a small family, two sons and one daughter. During her life, shahreen kamluddin, keeps thinking about self-awareness. She has a passion of human and she would like to let human knows on...
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...I don't but, you still hit my phone up And baby I be movin' on And I think you should be somethin' I don't wanna hold back, maybe you should know that My mama don't like you and she likes everyone And I never like to admit that I was wrong And I've been so caught up in my job, didn't see what's going on But now I know, I'm better sleeping on my own Cause if you like the way you look that much Oh, baby, you should go and love yourself And if you think that I'm still holdin' on to somethin' You should go and love yourself And when you told me that you hated my friends The only problem was with you and not them And every time you told me my opinion was wrong And tried to make me forget where I came from And I didn't wanna write a song Cause I didn't want anyone thinking I still care I don't but, you still hit my phone up And baby I be movin' on And I think you should be somethin' I don't wanna hold back, maybe you should know that My mama don't like you and she likes everyone And I never like to admit that I was wrong And I've been so caught up in my job, didn't see what's going on But now I know, I'm better sleeping on my own Cause if you like the way you look that much Oh, baby, you should go and love yourself And if you think that I'm still holdin' on to somethin' You should go and love yourself [Instrumental] For all the times that you made me feel small I fell in love, now I feel nothin' at all And never felt so low when I was...
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...students might choose online classes. Some people don’t like to be in a classroom because they don’t feel comfortable with a lot of students around them. It might be hard for them to study a lesson or concentrate on their work in the classroom when there are people around. Also you might think online classes are easier, because you just have to sit by yourself and follow the instructions whenever you want and anytime you feel like. Sometimes when you learn by yourself, you get tired. You need some break and you can easily be distracted by any sites on internet or anything similar to it. When you go to school or college you get a schedule and you follow it. You don’t really skip your classes unless you don’t want to attend one of them. You know that you have to be in class and nothing really can distract you from studying. Attending your classes, listening to a teacher I think is more interesting that just staying home by yourself with just a computer. You can find some teachers boring but some of them you’ll actually enjoy and it makes your lesson more interesting. I think attending a class is better than just staying home by yourself with the computer monitor. There are a lot of different courses you can do online and for some students it might be the right choice. Like for example there are some classes that you have to attend in the afternoon or in the evenings. If you don’t really like it you can just take them...
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...JaKia Russell Expository Essay 2 The new generation has a different aspect on self-respect now. People no longer have the save respect for themselves as they did centuries ago. It is something that you can see everywhere you go and in everything you do, you will always see self-respect or lack of self-respect somewhere. Have you ever noticed that the self-respect has changed dramatically in younger and older people today? People do not realize the real meaning of self-respect today and that is a sad situation. If you don’t have respect for yourself who is going to respect you? What exactly is self-respect? Self-respect is when you value yourself whether it’s your mind; way of thinking, or the way you carry yourself. Self-respect would be having proper esteem or dignity of your character. By that I mean your character is defined by your own moral values how you came up in life has a lot to do with this. When you look at what is going on in the world today, you can see all kinds of people with the lack of self-respect for themselves. On the Internet, on the streets, no matter where it is that you may go. For example: on the internet you will find teenage or some women who claim to love themselves so much but they degrade themselves over the internet by putting unnecessary pictures of themselves on websites for attention. This is not self-respect at all. Self-respect is based on what you do and can be an ongoing effort. It is not about what you did in the past it is really...
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...to get around to studying. You might find however, that the subject matter is a lot harder to understand than you thought it would be, and all of a sudden there’s no time left to ask someone to explain it to you. If you’re a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it was hard to make yourself settle down and study, even when an important exam was coming up. If you’re like most students, you put off studying until the very last minute. The night before the exam, you’ll stay up all night cramming, getting little or no sleep. In the morning, you’ll drag yourself out of bed, wake yourself up with lots of coffee or sometimes some cigarettes, and go into the exam feeling exhausted, stressed out and nervous all at the same time. You’ll find it hard to focus or think, and you’ll be cursing yourself for not starting to study sooner. And not surprisingly, unless you’re blessed with natural brilliance, or you happen to know the subject matter extremely well, you’ll probably do terribly on the test. If this is your typical method of studying, you already know it doesn’t work. Every time you go through this ritual, you tell yourself that you’re going to smarten up the next time you face a big exam. Next time you’ll start to study weeks in advance, you say. But instead, you keep repeating this crazy pattern. Why does this keep...
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...Spanish can help you better understand and appreciate the culture and can also help broaden your English vocabulary. Spanish is everywhere! About four hundred million people in the world are Spanish speaking. In four continents Spanish is the official language and is the “mother tongue” in twenty-one countries. Hispanics account for about forty percent of the population growth in the United States. There is approximately thirty-five million Spanish speaking persons in the U.S. today. Approximately...
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...Introduction This book is a reiteration of Sun Tzu’s philosophy from the ancient book The Art of War which is one of the oldest and most successful books on military strategy. It influenced eastern military thinking and emphasized the most efficient way of gaining victory with the least amount of conflict. The original text is purposely made obscure and difficult to understand, so that Sun Tzu remained employed, as the king would need him for interpretation. Although it has a mixture of profound philosophy and detailed tactical prescriptions that are great for battles about 2500 years ago, the book is also useful today. The teaching of Sun Tzu is powerful: it will not only instruct us, but also reveal where we stand and how to approach a problem, how to deal with adversity, and how to handle the whims of fate. The author, Chin-Ning Chu, perfectly applied Sun Tzu’s theory to integrate our styles and personal philosophy into every action we take. She provided examples, references, and anecdotes that were not available in the original book The Art of War. This book is written particularly for women because women have the ability to negotiate and they are able to be modest and understand that silence is golden. This book will guide us to use the full spectrum of the strategies that are contained in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War with a holistic approach to winning. This book contains 13 chapters and our team covered chapter 1 through 6. Book Summary Chapter...
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...Aarati Poudyal Anaka Mittal Engl 1302- 31004 4th Dec 2014 1. What are your expectations of this semester? What do you expect of yourself? Of others? What do you think your classes will be like? Job, family, friend. Expectation is a big thing for me. I have learned in my life not to have expectations from anyone else but from one self. So, the only expectations I have kept from this semester is to gain good grades. As, I am an international student and living in the United States of America from two years, being separated from my family. I have struggled a lot to be able to be in the situation that, I am living right now. So, I need to fulfill all of my expectations which I have seen in myself and my family too. This semester I have promised myself to give my 100% in my studies. I expect myself to work really hard to maintain my good grades and GPA. If possible, then I will try to get four out of four GPA because I will only get good scholarship from the universities if I will have GPA is very low. Maintaining my GPA too will help me finding good job in my near will help me finding good job in my near future and I’ll have a bright and independent future with me. This will help me to make my family happy which is the only wish of mine in this life time. 2. “Happiness depends upon ourselves”- Aristotle. “What is your definition of happiness? Explain with example. Are we alone responsible for our happiness? Why or why not. How can we contribute to others? For me...
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...Main Source (Blog) : Before you can lead others, you need to manage yourself By Dan McCarthy on September 24th, 2015 Source: http://smartblogs.com/ It's often discussed that what makes a good leader, and what are the main attributes an effective leader should have. There exist several articles published on this topic "Key Leadership Attributes" which explain the key qualities that every leader should try to follow and manage before leading others. I chose " Leading yourself before you lead others" topic as it encouraged me to survey and understand how can we become an effective leader, as if we are not able to manage our self first than we cannot manage others. I feel that Dan McCarthy article on “Before you can lead others, you need to manage yourself” motivates me to understand basic requirement what a leader should know and learn to manage within himself before leading others.When we talk about a team its development only starts with the development of the team leader. Leader in an organization is responsible to set goals, set priorities and achieve success. Also he/she plays an important role in motivating others and are considered as a role models for others. According to Dan McCarthy, "Leadership is leading yourself before you lead others", which means that leaders must first identify the leadership traits and understand how to develop his/her own skill sets to properly prepare for larger leadership roles and continued success in current role. This matter of thinking...
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...someone you know is trying a new method and it just isn’t working, don’t get frustrated. Just get back to the drawing board and research new...
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...Once you have that, the outer confidence will show, and this will be noticed by people. So look at your strengths, and what makes you feel good about yourself - it may be your a good problem solver, or listener. Whatever it is, use these strengths to make people notice you.Look to others for inspiration. You may have a favorite sports figure, actor, or any kind of role model. Ask yourself why you look up to this person so much, and then try and base your actions on how they live their lives. By living the same way as your hero, you'll soon feel better, knowing that you're being the same as someone who instills confidence in you.Don't be shy. This may seem like a contradiction if you're already lacking confidence, but it needn't be. If you're passionate about something, or knowledgeable, don't be afraid to share that and talk about your given subject. Believe it or not, people will listen to someone if they know what they're talking about, and they won't see a lack of confidence but a knowledgeable personable expert.Look after yourself, both physically and emotionally. It's a well known fact that if you feel uncomfortable about your appearance (overweight, unfit, etc), this will show in...
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...you are wondering how do you become a better communicator in the work place. Well hopefully this letter of advice will help you gain the confidence and understanding in communicating in the work place. This advice is also good for those in relationships as well. So hopefully what I write about will help you out as much as possible. No matter how old you are or what you think you know it is always good to get advice on communicating not only with your coworkers but your friends and family. There are various barriers that can cause a person to cram up and not be a good communicator. Always remember that you are not alone when it comes to communication situations that you fear you will not do well in. Not everyone is a good communicator. It is always good to get some advice or hear so good advice to even better yourself as a person. To be a successful employee in any company, you need to first understand that there are some barriers and principles to becoming a great communicator in today’s workplace. Once you are able to understand that there is some principles and barriers you will grow as a great individual who learned new ways to communicate better with other people that they will be working with from here on out. Trust this will not be easy, you will have your downfalls when it comes to things but when it’s all said and done, you will hopefully be a great communicator in today’s work place and you will be able to understand yourself and others as well. Principles of...
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...published on this topic "Key Leadership Attributes" which explain the key qualities that every leader should try to follow and manage before leading others. I chose " Leading yourself before you lead others" topic as it encouraged me to survey and understand how can we become an effective leader, as if we are not able to manage our self first than we cannot manage others. I feel that Dan McCarthy article on “Before you can lead others, you need to manage yourself” motivates me to understand basic requirement what a leader should know and learn to manage within himself before leading others.When we talk about a team its development only starts with the development of the team leader. Leader in an organization is responsible to set goals, set priorities and achieve success. Also he/she plays an important role in motivating others and are considered as a role models for others. According to Dan McCarthy, "Leadership is leading yourself before you lead others", which means that leaders must first identify the leadership traits and understand how to develop his/her own skill sets to properly prepare for larger leadership roles and continued success in current role. This matter of thinking is simply, and doesn't allow to become stale. Always looks for ways to better yourself which will translate into the better performance of your teams and organizations.. He argues that you can't lead if no one follows you and followership is not conferred by a title, and it can't be forced. In...
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