I didn’t attend the AEP workshop this term, so I chose to do a report on a reading instead. One of the previous terms, I did a report on the time management reading. This time, I chose the reading about concentration. I found this reading through the AEP website. It is originally from the SFU Student Learning Commons. They provided a number of different readings on various study- related issues student faee as university students. Each reading involves some kind of self- assessment through check
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Advising Paper #1 Once I had gotten the assignment about the advising paper, I went straight away and made my appointment as soon as possible, listing various types of questions to ask my advisor on the day of my appointment. I had gotten all my supplies ready, including my folder which had heaps of paper so I could jot down notes during the meeting. I also brought a list of my short term and long term goals to share with my advisor. I met with the chemistry advisor, Dr. Borgford in the chemistry
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Activity 1 1. What Characteristics do you believe a positive role model in the workplace should demonstrate? A positive workplace should demonstrate the following 10 characteristics according to Cox(2002) These are: 1. Uncompromising integrity 2.High energy 3.Good at working priorities 4. Courageous 5. A committed and dedicated hard worker 6. Unorthodox and creative 7. Goal Orientation 8. Inspired and contagious enthusiasm 9. Staying level headed 10. A desire to help others grow
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Writing Skills II Definition Pattern October 13, 2011 Define A Successful College Student Many students new to college do not know what it takes to be successful in the college environment. They understand good and bad grades in a general way, and they sense that they should attend classes, but that is where their knowledge begins and ends. College students must learn that becoming successful requires good study skills, time management and most importantly motivation and self discipline.
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one indication of higher performance and lower stress and anxiety (Forbus, Newbold, & Mehta, 2010). How I decide to use my time will show how important my goals are to me. If I procrastinate, it may lead to failure as studies have shown that procrastination is related to poor academic performance (Klingsieck, K. B. (2013). Students who procrastinated were more anxious and stressed across the entire semester and were more agitated before a test (Klingsieck, K. B. 2013). Time is something you can
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time management; it allows me to schedule necessary time to ensure I’m able to complete all assignments. To prohibit procrastination I should have a study environment that is most effective which means finding a place that I will be able to study and do assignments where I will be the only one occupying this space at that time without any distraction which can lead to procrastination. No distractions meaning no TV, cell phone, or radio. This area should be neat and clean and free of clutter, should
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Sutton Procrastination 1. Procrastination the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before a deadline. Procrastination I found yourself putting off important tasks over and over again, and Im sure many people procrastinate to some degree – but some are so chronically affected by procrastination that it
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2014 MARY THOMAS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT PROCRASTINATE There are many ways to avoid success in life and the number one cause is procrastination. Procrastinators sabotage themselves. They put obstacles in their own path. They actually choose paths that hurt their performance. First, we must ask what exactly procrastination is. According to dictionary.com, procrastination, pronounced proh-kras-tuh-ney-shuhn, is the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring
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with having to work all day attend school after gives me a very limited amount of time to finish and complete assignments. That’s one thing that be fixing this semester because procrastination has been my friend for far too long. Another challenge I would say is a big factor would be as previously mentioned procrastination I put tasks off for long periods of time, school being one of those tasks and it has caused some pretty good opportunities to slip away from me. Even though I have some challenges
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Dillan Middlebrooks English 848 Chris Dowling 09/29/2014 Part of being human If there’s one thing that we all could use more of it would be self-control. Look at the least successful people you know and the most successful. The one thing that makes these two types of people different is their ability to do the right actions and do them continuously. Recently I read The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.it first explains that willpower is an instinct, like stress, that protects
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