Advice For Middle and High Schools Students
It is
better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an
opportunity and not be prepared .
Whitney Young Jr.
Whitney Young Jr.
Thoughts have power; thoughts are
energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan
Taylor
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
You can't be successful all by yourself. Other people make you successful. That's why you have to focus on other people,
not yourself.
Al Ries & Jack Trout: HORSE SENSE:
Everyone has a purpose in life . . . a unique gift or special talent to give
to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we
experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate
goal of all goals.
Deepak Chopra
"It is not the brightest who succeed . . . Nor is
success simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own
behalf”. It is, rather, a gift. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities
- and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them."
Malcolm
Gladwell
10,000-Hour Rule, the key to success in
any field, is simply a matter of practicing
a specific task that can be accomplished
with 20 hours of work a week for
10 years.
Made popular in Malcolm Gladwell's
book Outliers, the 10,000 hour rule was derived from a study by Anders Ericsson, a psychologist who
researched the success of violinists at the Berlin Academy
of Music.
Winners
Winners do the things they are suppose to do, when they
are suppose to do them, whether they feel like it or not.
Losers
Losers would rather have their way and fail, than to do
what is right and succeed.
Pay yourself first
and save some money!
Investing just $50 a month consistently over 25 years grows
to $47,868 (assuming an average
annual return of 8%).
A few reasons why you
should continue your formal education for as long as possible!
An associate college degree is better than a high school
degree, and so on.
Is college worth the cost? A must see video!
Half of Americans
could not come up with 2,000 dollars in order to deal with a routine emergency
Fifty million Americans are poor and another 50 million have been characterized “near poor,” which means they can feel the awful
flames of poverty licking at their heels. That’s almost a third of the entire
U.S. population.
http://thegrio.com/2012/05/21/obama-romney-both-shy-away-from-the-plight-of-poor-kids/
Have a attitude of gratitude!
You have to let it all go, fear,
doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind!
Morpheus
The Matrix
Marc Sims
