Class Evaluation
1. Some things i liked about this class is us having free time. Another things i liked about this class is us having to learn about ways to make our lives much more happier and successful. I enjoyed how we learned links and about different coding and stuff. I like how we have a  life planning book. The life planning book helps us organize our future.

2. Some things that i dont like about this class is that we mostly do the same thing every single day. We never do anything new on our agenda. I dont really dislike much of this class because over all its an excellent class.

3. I recommend doing new things on our agenda every day and sticking to the same thing every day. I also recommend more free time. Another suggestion is maybe having us suggest things we want to learn about towards computers.

4. The highlight for this class for me is probably our life planning goals book. The life planning goals book. My life planning goals book will help me make my life much more organized and much more efficient. My goals book will help me make my life much more easier and also help me make my goals in life much more organized.

5. I honeslty could of done better but i tried my best and thats all that matters. Trying my best in this class is the best thing i could of done and also managed my things that i needed to do for some other class and still manage to keep up with this class. I can and will try much harder next semester,

6. Yes, I do write in my goals journal for five minutes daily. I write about a page each goal. I don't have enough time to get to the Sharpen the Saw part but when I do, I write enough. I also don't have the time to report but I am writing in my goals journal when I can.

7. I am very committed to being a CTR student. I think being a CTR student/person will get me far in life. I follow all the ways that will help me become successful in my future. Not only that but, I am seeing myself become a better person so the ways are really affecting me for the better. 

                                                       The 10 Keys to Personal Power
                                                                     Brain Tracy
  KEY 1 CLARITY:    "Have vision. Determine what you want to be, do or have 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."

                   Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor. That’s why we say that "Success is goals, and all else is commentary." People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. This is true everywhere and under all circumstances.You could even say that the three keys to high achievement are, "Clarity, Clarity, Clarity," with regard to your goals. Your success in life will be largely determined by how clear you are about what it is you really, really want.Write and Rewrite Your Goals. The more you write and rewrite your goals and the more you think about them, the clearer you will become about them. The clearer you are about what you want, the more likely you are to do more and more of the things that are consistent with achieving them. Meanwhile, you will do fewer and fewer of the things that don’t help to get the things you really want.

KEY 2 COMPETENCE:

Competence is the point in your life when you become successful. Becoming competence is setting your life up with goals and being able to achieve them. Doing so can help you better yourself in life and doing other successful things.

KEY 3 CONCENTRATION:Concentration is a key. Concentration is the ability to focus without getting distracted by any thoughts, noises or anything else. Concentration helps you Control of your thoughts, gain inner peace, free your mind from annoying thoughts, improve your memory, improve your ability to study focus and conserve your energies, work more efficiently, improve meditation, 

and much more. Some exercises to help you concentrate can be as little as counting the words in a paragraph more than once without getting distracted. After you have mastered a paragraph then move onto 2 paragraphs then move onto possibly a whole page in a book.

                            KEY 4 COMMON SENSE:

Train your mind
Think things through

Listen to your intuition 

Learn from set backs

                       Common sense is something you need to have prior to concentration. Common sense is being able to do things one at a time. Concentration is a state, in which one’s whole attention is engrossed in one thing only, and being oblivious to everything else. During concentration, the mind focuses on the object of concentration, and only one thought occupies the mind. The whole energy of the mind becomes concentrated on this one thought. The ability to command the mind and control the attention is not common, and requires training. Most people lack the ability to control their attention and focus the mind exclusively on one subject for any length of time. They can’t command their mind to concentrate, whenever they want to. However, concentration is not uncommon activity. It happens almost everyday, to almost everyone, but it is more of a spontaneous and uncontrolled ability.

                                KEY 5 CREATIVITY
"Expect the fact that every human being is genius. The hallmark of creativity is asking questions. The people who are most creative ask the most questions."
                       The most important part of  creative thinking is your ability to generate ideas.  And the greater the quantity of ideas that you generate, the greater the quality your ideas will be.  The more ideas you have, the more likely you are to have the right idea at the right time. But generating ideas is only 1% of the equation. Your ability to come up with an idea, to test it and validate it, and then to implement it through creative thinking and execute it in your life to achieve results is the true mark of genius. Every single time you originate a new idea, write it down, make a plan for its implementation through creative thinking and then take action, you are behaving like a genius.  And the more you manage your creativity in this way, the smarter you will become.  And the smarter you will become, the more you will achieve in every area of your life.  Your future will become unlimited.

                          KEY 6 CONSIDERATION
"The quality of your relationships with other people will determine your success in life."
"Develop 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.''
                            They express caring, concern, and compassion with their employees, treating them like members of their corporate family and making them feel happy and secure in their work. At the same time, they are absolutely crystal clear with regard to tasks, outputs, and the responsibilities of each person. All employees know exactly what is expected of them to do the job well.

The friendship factor is developed with the three Cs: consideration, caring, and courtesy. These are the normal behaviors of excellent managers toward the people who report to them.
                         Key 7 Consistency:  To be consistent is a very good quality because consistency means to always do something your best and to always keep it that way. A person who is consistent never lowers there capability they always try to do something at there best. They give it their all. A person who is consistent is stable they know what they want and what to do in order to get there. Although consistency is very hard for some people to get hard work and always making sure you try your best to stay consistent will make it much easier in the long run. 

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."
 The key to being committed is doing all the things you can actually say and do. Doing what you actually can and doing what is right is most likely doing what you are committed to can make you do all the things in life you actually wanna do. Being fully committed means all the time and dedication towards not only 1 thing, but maybe several things you want to do.   

                  KEY 9 COURAGE:
                         "The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."

There are two parts of courage. The first is the courage to launch, to begin, to step out in faith with no guarantee of success. This is an essential part of courage that you can develop with practice. The second is the courage to endure, to persist in the face of disappointment and temporary failure.

Your job in business is to develop the courage to do whatever is necessary to fight the fire, solve the problem, and get through the crunch. This is the hallmark and the test of true leadership.

Crunch Point Actions Identify some person, situation, or action that you fear; resolve to confront it immediately and get it behind you. Whatever decisions you would make if your survival was at stake, make them now. As Shakespeare wrote, “Take action against a sea of troubles, and in so doing, end them.”

KEY 10 CONFIDENCE:

"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again".

               
                   The third thing parents with happy and confident children do is speak to them in a certain manner. The way you speak to your children is the single greatest factor in shaping their personalities and self-confidence.The foundation of self-confidence is self-esteem. Self-esteem is defined as how much you like yourself or how much you respect yourself. When children are growing up, they have no self-concept, they have no idea of themselves, so they take on their whole beliefs about themselves from a young age by the way they are treated by the most important people in their lives, their mother and their father.

So if you want to have a great impact on your children, constantly feed them positive reinforcement.Never criticize your children. Never blame your children. Never complain about your children. Always tell them how wonderful they are. Always build them up. Always be understanding if they have problems in life.Always tell them how good they are and how smart they are. Do this so that the most important person in their life is always laying down a psychological foundation of self-esteem that will lead to the self-confidence they will need when they grow up. Raising well-rounded children can be tough especially in today’s hectic world… The good news is, if you are a dedicated parent and provide them with the tools they need to succeed, you will not only ensure they will be healthy, but that they will also be happy and self-confident.

                               REFLECTION :
These keys benefit me by becoming a better person. Becoming a better person meaning obtaining a certain amount of confidence. The 10 keys to personal power is truly becoming a way or lifestyle for me. Involving these into my daily lifestyle is gonna change it to becoming a habit.

                                         Dr. Covey
                CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY
Dr. Covey explains on how to find yourself and your person within. Finding your person within and doing your finding your principles. Explaining your principles to yourself can make you a better person within yourself. Covey explains something about the tip of an ice burg. The ice burg is the truth about your excellence and how you came to achieve it. Achieving it came with facing new challenges everyday and facing them. The success was the good part, but people dont see the struggles  you need to face. "Its beauty in the struggle ugliness in the success"

Free Lance 

Homecoming 2016 my junior year what a great time. I went with my girls Viri, Karmille, and Natalie, and of course my other friends Chino, Alonso, Jared, and many more. Homecoming was such an amazing but the deans kicked us out. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO KICK US OUT OF OUR OWN HOMECOMING LMAO. Don't get me wrong i do know what we did and how we were acting but how do you expect us to have a homecoming with out doing some pretty fun stuff ! That's like Thanksgiving why are you going to make all that food and expect us not to eat it or even nibble on it. People need to understand that some of us like to have fun.

                                THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE



Habit 1: BE PROACTIVE
        Being proactive comes from your attitude and the way you chose to act. The way your attitude is set up you can chose to be a good proactive person. Being a proactive person makes you chose your happiness or unhappiness. Doing a proactive thing can boost your own self esteem and can help you do stuff correctly. I can be a proactive person by doing all the things i desire but with a good attitude and a perfect happiness. Having to be a proactive person can make you be a efficient person and it can also help you do things in the long run of doing things. Having to be reactive instead of proactive can really boost  your mentality levels or even make you wanna succeed in life.

Habit 2: BEGIN WITH IN MIND 

"Control your own destiny or someone else will." (Jack Welch)

"When you know where you intend to end up, you know where you are now" (Covey)

You have to control your own life or else someone else will. You have  to live the life of design. If you live the life of deign you can design your life however you want it to be. If you go by living the standard life you will never know how and what to do in your future or in your present life. Living the life you desire rather than having someone else tell how you how to live your life. When you have control over your life you can do whatever you want and make anything happen. When you design your life you can be whatever you want in life rather than having someone tell you how to live your life.

Habit 4: THINK WIN-WIN

"Think win-win or no deal"

Think win-win, making plans and organizing ideas can help you be successful. Many things in life can make you successful, it depends what and how you do it. Doing it the right way can help you win. Thinking has to be the first step into making successful moves. You never know whens the right move you just kinda have to go for it since its just like a chance.

Habit 5: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD

" Diagnose before you prescribe"

Find the situation before you address it. Understand what is going on around you and the situation you are in. Finding out the situation and then address it and make sure you understand it and make ideas or suggestions out of it. Making suggestions out of it can make you understand around you. Understanding around you makes you know whats going to happen. 

HABIT 6: Synergize

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

The outcome of several things wont be the final result you expected. The outcome you expect isnt the outcome that will turn out to be. This can also mean 2 heads are better than 1. 2 heads are better than one means you need create and cooperate. It means to be open-minded and finding new solutions to new problems. This is a process. It doesn't just happen over night. You need to search for new ideas to old ideas and also know your experiences and bring them to the table. Together those ideas can create better ideas than one would individually. Using this habit can help us discover things we are not able to discover on our own. This is the idea that a sum is better than just one like 1+1=3. When people being to interact with other people the ideas being to collaborate in different ways and it can gain new insight.

HABIT 7: Sharpen the saw 

   As you renew yourself in each of the four areas, you create growth and change in your life. Sharpen the Saw keeps you fresh so you can continue to practice the other six habits. You increase your capacity to produce and handle the challenges around you. Without this renewal, the body becomes weak, the mind mechanical, the emotions raw, the spirit insensitive, and the person selfish. Feeling good doesn't just happen. Living a life in balance means taking the necessary time to renew yourself. It's all up to you. You can renew yourself through relaxation. Or you can totally burn yourself out by overdoing everything. You can pamper yourself mentally and spiritually. Or you can go through life oblivious to your well-being. You can experience vibrant energy. Or you can procrastinate and miss out on the benefits of good health and exercise.

REFLECTION

I will apply these to my daily life style everyday. The one i will apply the most is habit 7 sharpening the saw. I think i will apply this a lot due to the fact that i can accept and also make good out of challenges and face them. I will learn to balance my life and renewing myself and the things around me, 

FREE LANCE WRITING
 I am excited about spirit week. Today is Monday and we have pajama. Some kids came dressed up in pajamas. I did bring my pajamas because it is cold and i wanted to wear my uggs. My uggs i haven't worn in such a long time so i had to wear them, and i also felt like it was appropriate for pajama day. The whole point of the spirit week is to be ready for the Legacy game.  

     Free lance
I heard about a shooting in my neighborhood, i know it was a 20 year old man. The man was killed at 2:30 am on the 111 bus stop. The man was fatally shot and was killed during a shooting on albany street. This can tell us how much danger i am in my own city. I dont want to go outside and feel unsafe in my community. I want to feel safe walking outside my home.