Class Evaluation

1. What I like about this class is that we always learn from the good and bad how as a student we can better our lives by choosing the right. I also like the fact that we have 5 minutes to right and think about some goals that we have in mind.The best part about this class is that we use computers and it helps us out a lot because we learn new things that are going to helps us in the future.                                                                                                                                                     
2. What I didn't like about the class was how some of my class mates would talk back to Mr.Haymore many student wouldn't listen to him and would do whatever the want. I also didn't like the fact that we would get dismissed by roles.                                                                                    
3. My recommendation to improve the class would be talk about what the class learn five minutes before class end. Give others an opportunity to speak and not just chose the ones you want to speak.Teach the class more about computers and less about CTR because it's a computer class.   
4. I do read my life planning journal because that is my motivation to put my fullest it to school. This journal had impacted my life in a good way because now I have reasons to work hard and never give up. At first I thought it wa a wast of time but now that I realize it's a good way to motivate yourself.                                                                                                                                 
5. I am committed to being a CTR person because I know I'm going to benefit a lot from that. I know I'm going to get more job opportunities and I will succeed in life if i stay as a CTR person.Many people think it's easy to become a CTR person but it really isn't because you always need to make sure what you're doing is the right way to do things.                                            
6. What i learn from this class was that a CTR person will always succeed no matter what because they always chose the right. This is something I'm going to past down to my friends,siblings,and parents.I also learn HTML it a quote that helps you do an essay on the computer.                                                                                                                                                   
7. I will always remember to Choose The Right!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 The Psychology of Winning : 10 Qualities of a Total Winner

Denis Waitley

 Quality 1:  Positive Self-Expectancy 

"Life is a self fulfilling prophecy. True winners go into every event expecting to win.

Reflection: When you what to really win you must keep that in mind and be positive and always think as if you are going to win all the time. You must also train and master the subject that you want to win because that is what true winners do. Self-efficacy theory maintains that self-efficacy expectancy, a belief about one's ability to successfully perform a behavior, is independent of outcome expectancy, a belief about the likelihood of the behavior leading to a specific outcome.

Quality 2: Positive Self-Motivation 

"True winners dig deep and find motivation inside themselves to get through that tough task or to learn a new skill.".

Reflection:Self motivation is the best motivation you can ever have because only you know your limits. This motivation will never come from no one but your self because no one can motivate you as much ass you can.Ability to do what needs to be done, without influence from other people or situations. People with self motivation can find a reason and strength to complete a task, even when challenging, without giving up or needing another to encourage them.

Quality 3: Positive Self-Image

True winners are confident and view themselves as competent, valuable human beings.

Self image is how you see yourself. This may be how you see yourself physically or your opinion of who and what you are which is normally called self concept. It is important as it affects your self esteem and confidence.

Self image includes:

• What you think you look like
• How you see your personality
• What kind of person you think you are
• What you believe others think of you
• How much you like yourself or you think others like you
• The status you feel you have

Quality 4: Positive Self-Direction

You gotta have direction if you are going to go anywhere. True winners know where they are going. Their sense of direction comes from the self and not from outside influences like parents or friends.

Self-direction gives you flexibility to choose the mix of supports and services that are right for you so you can live the life you want. With self-direction, YOU choose your services, the staff and organizations that provide them, and a schedule that works best for YOU. Each person is unique. Self-direction empowers people to design supports based on their unique strengths and needs. It gives you more control over the funding used to buy your services. 

Quality 5: Positive Self-Control

Total winners can sacrifice immediate pleasure for a gain in the future. Delayed gratification is of immense value in reaching your goals.Quality 5: Positive Self-Control

Total winners can sacrifice immediate pleasure for a gain in the future. Delayed gratification is of immense value in reaching your goals.
Self-control separates us from our ancient ancestors and the rest of the animal kingdom, thanks to our large prefrontal cortex. It is the ability to subdue our impulses in order to achieve longer-term goals. Rather than responding to immediate impulses, we can plan, evaluate alternative actions, and, often enough, avoid doing things we'll later regret. The ability to exert self-control is typically called willpower. It is what allows us to direct our attention, and it underlies all kinds of achievement. There is significant debate in science as to whether or not willpower is a finite resource. Studies demonstrate that exercising willpower makes heavy demands on mental energy, notably on reserves of glucose, the brain's preferred fuel, creating ego depletion. It's one reason we're more apt to reach for that chocolate chip cookie when we're feeling stressed than when we're feeling on top of the world. Recently, scientists have failed to replicate some of the studies underlying the concept of ego depletion, and more research is underway.

Quality 6: Positive Self-Discipline

You have to discipline yourself or else someone else will discipline you into doing what they want you to do. Total winners have the power to discipline and take control of their lives.

The ability to control one's feelings and overcome one's weaknesses; the ability to pursue what one thinks is right despite temptations to abandon it.Discipline show what kind of person you are and it tells a lot about you.

Quality 7: Positive Self-Esteem

Your mood and outlook on life affect the way you see the world and how you interact in it. Total winners are positive, powerful people who make people feel good and provide a good vibe to those around him/her.

We all know that self-esteem sometimes referred to as self-worth or self-respect, can be an important part of success. Too little self-esteem can leave people feeling defeated or depressed. It can also lead people to make bad choices, fall into destructive relationships, or fail to live up to their full potential. Too much self-esteem, as exhibited in narcissistic personality disorder, can certainly be off-putting to others and can even damage personal relationships.

Self-esteem levels at the extreme high and low ends of the spectrum can be harmful, so ideally, it's best to strike a balance somewhere in the middle. A realistic yet positive view of yourself is generally considered the ideal. But what exactly is self-esteem? Where does it come from and what influence does it really have on our lives?

Quality 8: Positive Self-Dimension

Total winners like in the present. They know that now is all there is. They don’t get caught up in the past or worry about the future. They simply handle the business that they can handle which is the stuff going on today, now.
This study examines four dimensions of self-defining. memory (specificity, meaning, content, and affect) and their relationship. to self-restraint, distress, and defensiveness. The development and valida- tion of a protocol for measuring specificity, meaning, and affect in self-

Quality 9: Positive Self-Awareness
Total winners are aware of their power. They understand that they can be anything with enough effort and determination.

Self-awareness is the key cornerstone to emotional intelligence, according to Daniel Goleman. The ability to monitor our emotions and thoughts from moment to moment is key to understanding ourselves better, being at peace with who we are and proactively managing our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.

Quality 10: Positive Action

Total winners take positive action in their business and with their friends and family. They are uplifting and motivating individuals who inspire the best from themselves and other

Reflection:Positive action is when an employer takes steps to help or encourage certain groups of people with different needs, or who are disadvantaged in some way, access work or training.Positive action is lawful under the Equality Act. For example, an employer could organise an open day for people from a particular ethnic background if they’re under-represented in the employer’s workforce. This wouldn’t be unlawful discrimination under the Act.The effects of the program range from increased academic achievement to dramatic reductions in problem behaviors. These results have been replicated in diverse settings and feature the most rigorous efficacy study designs available. A positive action would be choosing the Right all the time and never choosing the wrong no matter what.

 

The Pyramid of Success

John Wooden

25 Blocks 

Block 1: Industriousness

"There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning."

   

Reflection:

Block 2: Enthusiasm

"It is the engine that powers all blocks of the Pyramid. It is why I chose Industriousness and Enthusiasm as the cornerstones of my Pyramid of Success. It is where everything begins."

Reflection: Enthusiasm is hard work, but hard work is not enough. It must be ignited, lit afire by something that will raise it to the extraordinary level required for success. That 'something' is your Enthusiasm which infuses hard work with inspired power that all great competitors have.It's the power of yourself to accomplish something that you really want and won't give up until you accomplish your goal.If you really what to run that extra mile you must have enthusiasm to push your limits and go far." Your energy and Enthusiasm stimulates those you work with." - John Wooden 

Enthusiasm is having the spirit of always going to your fullest and run that extra mile just because you want to be an over achiever and prove yourself that you can do it and do what you say you can. 

Block 3: Friendship

"Comes from mutual esteem, respect and devotion. Like marriage it must not be taken for granted but requires a joint effort."

Reflection: Friendship is a boned that you chose with someone that you trust and that will always have your back. Friendship is more than just having a friend it's a strong relation that can only be broken by you or that one person.You might have  a  lot of friends but out of all those friends you have tat on friend that is always there for you and that the friendship that you need.

Block 4: Loyalty

"To yourself and to all those depending upon you. Keep your self-respect."

Reflection: Loyalty is a big aspect of life because it's a strong feeling towards someone that you support. Loyalty is part of our higher nature and it is also part of the nature of leaders who achieve higher goals. Loyalty from the top inspires Loyalty from below. It is a most precious and powerful commodity and it starts with the leader. "A leader who has Loyalty is the leader whose team I wish to be a part of. This is true almost everywhere. Most people, the overwhelming majority of us, wish to be in an organization or part of a team whose leadership cares about them, provides fairness and respect, dignity and consideration."-John Wooden

Block 6: Ambition 

Reflection:  Ambition is when you work hard to achieve something. It can also be the path of success
to show initiative. 

Block 7: Self-Control

"Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgement and common sense are essential."

Reflection:

Block 8: Alertness

"Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve."

Reflection: Alertness is when you are aware of what's is going on around you.

Block 9: Initiative

"Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it." 

Reflection: Initiative is the ability to act. Simple as that. You must prepare thoroughly in all ways. If you have done that you must then summon the wherewithal to apply Initiative. In order to be a leader you must have and show 

Block 11: Sincerity

Reflection: Sincerity is when you are honest to a friend you never do things behind his/her back. In other words you are a straight up person and you show the same respect to any other person around you. Also can mean when you do everything with love and don't  think about it twice you know it's a good cause so you just do it .




Block 12: Adaptability 

Reflection: Adaptability is when you adapt to an environment that you are not familiar with.This show how much you are willing to give up for some one or something. This is a big step in life

Block 13: Condition

"Mental-Moral-Physical. Rest, exercise and diet must be considered. Moderation must be practiced. Dissipation must be eliminated."

Reflection: Condition is a very important aspect of our life. This is important because it's not just a physical thing but a mental thing as well.

    

Block 14: Skill

"A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail."

Reflection: Skill is not something one is born with you must develop the skill you want. In order to develop the ability you want you must delicate time and have passion for it. For example a football player must stay in condition and practice and sometime the football players give up things because they have passion for what they do. Skill is a knowledge of the ability to be prepared for whats coming at you. A skill is not hared to develop if you put your time and hard work to it. Any skill takes time to master it and is something that no one can take from you .

Block 15:  Team Spirit

"A genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all."

Team spirit 

Block 16: Honesty (in thought and action)

"Honesty is the best policy." (Ben Franklin)

Reflection: Honesty is very important because it show what kine of person you are and if you are trust worthy. There are ways to hedge many things in life, ways to cut corners and have no one be the wiser, but honesty simply is not one of them. The truth only has one story. You either are honest, both with yourself and with others, or you aren’t. You can be dishonest with others and get away with it, both with blatant lying and with misrepresenting yourself, but even if no one realizes you are being dishonest, you yourself know. It can be easy for some to fool others, but we never truly fool ourselves, at least not in the long term. When we lie to ourselves, there may be a thin veneer of conscious belief in the lie covering a whole lot of hiding from the truth. We convince ourselves quickly and with practice, it can become hard to know when we are engaging in self-deception. People with active addiction become very good at self-deception, and as addiction grows, realizing that no one believes the lies you are telling to yourself and to others becomes harder and harder

Block 17: Resourcefulness (proper judgment)
 “Make the most out of what you have.” (Anonymous)

Reflection: Resourcefulness is to have the ability to think fast and to be clever. This is a very hard skill to develop.Children learn to use and apply knowledge as they gain skills in planning, organizing, decision making, and problem solving. Together, these skills are the building blocks of resourcefulness -- the ability to find and use available resources to achieve goals. When students imagine multiple outcomes, set objectives, experiment with new approaches, and negotiate challenges, they make important connections between knowledge and goal achievement. They become conscientious creators of their own futures. 

 Block 18: Poise

"Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation."

Block 19: Confidence 

Reflection:As a student with a learning disability, confidence has always been half the battle. It has proven time and time again to be the difference between success and failure. I’ve seen my fair share of both. Most times, this confidence has been transient. I’ve found it difficult to maintain that well of aplomb because it draws not only from my academic career but from my life outside of it as well.Unfortunately, these are not quite separate entities. When I struggle in one area, I find that struggle digging its way into the other; conversely, when I succeed in one area, I generally flourish in both. Prolonging that confidence in both my work and my personal life has been difficult, and is likely something I’ll be dealing with for the rest of my life. I’ve seen what happens when I can find it in neither, and it’s integral that students with learning differences need to have the confidence that they’ll succeed.

Block 22: Competitive Greatness

" Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a difficult challenge."

Reflection: Competitive Greatness is having a real love for the hard battle knowing it offers the opportunity to be at your best when your best is required.

The great competitors I have played for and against, taught and admired all shared a joy in the struggle itself - the journey, the contest and competition. The tougher the battle the better.

Block 23: Integrity (purity of intention)

Reflection:Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, or moral uprightness. It is generally a personal choice to hold oneself to consistent moral and ethical standards.

In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Integrity can stand in opposition to hypocrisy, in that judging with the standards of integrity involves regarding internal consistency as a virtue, and suggests that parties holding within themselves apparently conflicting values should account for the discrepancy or alter their beliefs. The word integrity evolved from the Latin adjective integer, meaning whole or complete.In this context, integrity is the inner sense of "wholeness" deriving from qualities such as honesty and consistency of character. As such, one may judge that others "have integrity" to the extent that they act according to the values, beliefs and principles they claim to hold

Block 24: Faith (through prayer)

Believe and Achieve. Positive belief.

Reflection: This definition of faith contains two aspects: intellectual assent and trust. Intellectual assent is believing something to be true. Trust is actually relying on the fact that the something is true. A chair is often used to help illustrate this. Intellectual assent is recognizing that a chair is a chair and agreeing that it is designed to support a person who sits on it. Trust is actually sitting in the chair.Understanding these two aspects of faith is crucial. Many people believe certain facts about Jesus Christ. Many people will intellectually agree with the facts the Bible declares about Jesus. But knowing those facts to be true is not what the Bible means by “faith.” The biblical definition of faith requires intellectual assent to the facts and trust in the facts.





Final Reflection:
The Pyramid of Success has made a difference in my life. I learned many new way to become a better person and how to succeed in life.As a student with a learning disability, confidence has always been half the battle. It has proven time and time again to be the difference between success and failure. I’ve seen my fair share of both. Most times, this confidence has been transient. I’ve found it difficult to maintain that well of aplomb because it draws not only from my academic career but from my life outside of it as well.Unfortunately, these are not quite separate entities. When I struggle in one area, I find that struggle digging its way into the other; conversely, when I succeed in one area, I generally flourish in both. Prolonging that confidence in both my work and my personal life has been difficult, and is likely something I’ll be dealing with for the rest of my life. I’ve seen what happens when I can find it in neither, and it’s integral that students with learning differences need to have the confidence that they’ll succeed