1. My most motivating goal/dream in my role as a student is to have a grade-point average of 3.2 and higher while also having a side activity like an internship/job/position in a club.

2. Some personal qualities that would help me achieve this educational goal/dream would be being persistent, determined, willing and thrilled to pursue and accomplish it.

3. (Persistent, Determined and Thrilled)

4. Three versions of my personal affirmation:

– I am a determined, persistent and thrilled student.
– I am a determined, persistent and thrilled student, molding my path to success.
– I am a determined, persistent and thrilled student and I will surpass my expectations.

5. The sentence I like best from Step 4:
I am a determined, persistent and thrilled student, molding my path to success.

6. Three paragraphs, one for each of the three qualities in my affirmation.

– The time I was most determined in my life was during my junior year in my high school career when I began to notice that I’ve maintained above a 90 for 3 consecutive quarters and was possibly going to be on Principal Honors (95+) for the year while having 3 AP classes.

– A moment in my life where I would consider myself to be persistent would be when I wanted to buy a car and was working at Trump Links Golf Course while attending the SEEK Summer Course. I was bringing in enough money for the car but not for obtaining luxury items. I was persistent in not spending my money on those items and putting it all in my savings for my car which I acquired later in August.

– Finally I would consider my self most thrilled when I see the results of my effort in work being positive. That pushes me to do more in that type of work and thus excelling.

1. One of my long term goal is to become successful in the field that I will be going in and as well as completing each semester with a fair/good average.
2. Some personal qualities that would help me achieve this goal are I am persistent, hardworking, intelligent, responsible, reliable, organized and friendly.
3. Three qualities that seem the most essential for me to achieve my goal as a student are hardworking, persistent, and organized.
4. A. I am a hardworking, persistent, organized woman.B. I am a hardworking, persistent, organized woman, making my dreams to reality.   C. I am a hardworking, persistent, organized woman, and I am learning to love myself.
5.  My preferred affirmation to myself is that I am a hardworking, persistent, organized woman, and I am learning to love myself.
6. -The first quality from my affirmation is hardworking. A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was when I came to New York from Haiti and worked so hard when I had to do homework or exams because I didn’t understand the language and all of this hard work got met to where I am right now.-The second quality from my affirmation is persistence. A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was every summer I used to spend my vacation in the U.S and I didn’t completely understand English but there were certain shows that I enjoyed watching so I kept watching those shows that I just enjoyed seeing the images and the actors and the more I did that, the more I got to understand the show.
7. The third quality from my affirmation is organized. A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was since childhood that I was always taught to be organized or even I got that quality from seeing how things are need to be done. Having a little schedule of the things that need to be complete and checking them off at the end of the day is rewarding to me.

1. My  most motivating goal as a student is to receive at least a 3.4 gpa or higher.
2. Personal qualities that would help me achieve this educational goal or dream is my persistence, hard working, the fact that I am extremely responsible, organized, and confident.
3. The three qualities on my list that seems the most essential for me to achieve my goal as a student is definitely being responsible, hard working, and organized.
4. I am a responsible, hard working, and organized woman.
   I am a responsible, hard working, and organized woman making my dreams reality.
   I am responsible, hard working, and organized woman, and I love myself for that.
5. My preferred affirmation to myself is….. I am responsible, hard working, and organized woman, and I love myself for that.
6.      I am a responsible, hard working, and organized woman. I am very organized.  Because of this I always have my agenda book and mark everything that is due, when it is due, and what i need to do. I have everything organized in my school bag and in my folders.  I always make sure each assignment I have to hand in is as organized and neat as can be.
   I am a responsible, hard working, and organized woman making my dreams reality.  I am very hard working.  I try my best on all my assignments, tests, and midterms.  I study my hardest. I spend most of my breaks in the library at times just to get work done. I try not to slack in any of my classes and if I do I catch myself and bounce right back.
   I am responsible, hard working, and organized woman, and I love myself for that. I am very responsible. For example, one school morning I had to go to the emergency room in Bellevu hospital and as soon as I got out instead of going home, I went to class.  I know my role as a student and I know missing classes isn’t an option so I try my hardest to attend every session of each of my classes.

1. Write a one-sentence statement of one of your most motivating goals or dreams in your role as a student.

To have a 3.5 or above GPA.

2. Write a list of personal qualities that would help you achieve this educational goal or dream.

Persistent, hard-working, organized, motivated, strong

3.Circle the three qualities on your list that seem the most essential for you to achieve your goal or dream as a student (from Step1).

(Persistent, hard-working, motivated)

4.Write three versions of your personal affirmation.

A) I am a motivated, persistent, hard-working man.

B)I am a motivated, persistent, hard-working man, creating my dreams.

C)I am a motivated, persistent, hard-working man and I will succeed.

5.Circle or highlight the sentence from Step 4 that you like best.

(I am a motivated, persistent, hard-working man and I will succeed.

6.Write three paragraphs- one for each of the three qualities in your affirmation.

A) The moment when I was most motivated was when my brother gave money to my parents after he started working and I wanted to become like him. I want to pursue a higher education so I could have a good job and give back to my parents.

B)A moment in my life when I was persistent was when I wanted to buy myself a laptop. My goal was to reach $2,000 and I did this by having a budget and following it. I was persistent in not spending money on unnecessary things to achieve my goal.

C) I am hard-working when it comes to something I am passionate about. I want to achieve a higher degree to become successful and one way I am doing that is by working hard every day and studying whenever I can.

Journal Entry #12

1. My most motivating goal as a student is to graduate with a gpa higher than a 3.0
2. Intelligent, determined and persistent
3. All three are most essential to me
4. I am an intelligent, determined and persistent man
   1. I am an intelligent, determined and persistent man creating my dreams
   2. I am an intelligent, determined and persistent man and i love life
5. I like the second sentence best
6. Intelligence is my most important qualities in life. A specific example of this quality in my life would be my years in high school. If it wasn’t for intelligence, many things would be different now. I probably wouldn’t be in Baruch. It also helped me gain some college credit whilst being in high school which can be helpful later on

Determination is what makes my intelligence helpful during my academic carreer. In high school, it helped me stay on top of things as well as continue to keep focuses even during the summer. Right now during college, it really helps me to study and do some homework over the weekend which i did not do in high school.

Persistence is what led me to going to Baruch. An example would be when i was taking the SAT’s. Since i was planning on going to Baruch, i knew my math score had to be high. So i was persistent in taking the SAT over again to make sure i got the highest score i could possibly get. That one of the factors that got me into Baruch.

• Did my hw for 2 days

• Picked up my little brother from after school
• Went early to my english class

*Quadrant II (Important and not urgent)

• Practiced Dj
• Went to work with my dad
• Cleaned my room
• Cooked dinner

*Quadrant III (not important and urgent)

• Went shopping

*Quadrant IV (not important and not urgent)

• Went to eat 10below ice cream
• Surfed Facebook, and chatted
• Played online video games
• Skate with my cousins

*Quadrant II (Important and not urgent)

Study at the library , going to tutoring, cleaning my room, eating dinner with my family

*Quadrant III (not important and urgent)

Eating outside with friends, cleaning my room

*Quadrant IV (not important and not urgent)

Played online games, Watched a movie with friends, Watched Youtube videos, Played soccer in the park, Skyping with my friends, spent an hour shopping online

15 actions that I have taken in the past two days:

1.  Studied for Midterms
2. Went to the bank
3.  Went on social media
4.  Hung out with friends
5.  Talked on the phone
6.  Watched T.V.
7.  Played foosball
8. Did homework
9. Went out to eat
10. Listened to music
11. Did chores in the house
12. Played games
13.  Read
14. Went to the library
15. Text

                                      Urgent                                                               Not Urgent

Important

Quadrant I                                                                                Quadrant II

• Studied for midterms (2 hrs)                                    Went to the bank (2 hrs)
• Did homework (2 hr)                                                    Did chores in the house (1 hr)
• Read (1 hr)
• Went to the library (2 hrs)

Not Important

Quadrant III                                                                            Quadrant IV

• Talked on the phone (1 hr)                                        Went on social media (all day)
• Hung out with friends (3 hrs)                                    Watched T.V. (3 hrs)

Played Foosball (1 hr)

Went out to eat ( 3 hrs)

Listened to music (1 hr)

Played games (2 hrs)

Text (all day)

What I have learned concerning my use of time

What I learned about my use of time is that I spend the majority of it on things that won’t benefit me in the long run. I need to cut back on social media and texting because these are things that I am on throughout the entire day. I spent the next most amount of time on quadrant I. This is a good sign because it tells me that at least I’m not throwing away all my time. Although I spend most of my time in quadrant IV, I believe that I will still be able to achieve my goals and dreams. I’m still focused on what’s important and things such as social media won’t throw me of course.

Miguelina Ortega

Ilse Junod

FRO 1000

27 October 2015

Journal #13

• Write a list of 15 or more specific actions you have taken in the past two days.

• Started and completed Citations Assignment for theatre that was due that day

• Wrote my third required blackboard post for theatre
• Went to the Rubin Museum of Art
• Went to the doctors after the Rubin Museum
• Went home to eat
• Went to work
• Stayed up late
• Washed my hair
• Flat ironed my hair
• Activated a card for my mom
• Searched up a video for my mom
• Set up my homework
• Go to Work
• Get started on homework

• Using an entire journal page, draw a four quadrant chart.

• Write each action from your list in Step 1 in the appropriate quadrant on your chart.

• Write about what you have learned or relearned concerning your use of time.

What I relearned about my use of time is that I spend time that I am free doing things that are not important. I work late in the afternoons which leads to me waking up extremely late. In waking up late, I lost a few hours that I could have used to do homework. Instead of doing homework, I just go on my social media accounts, read or I am usually running errands or doing something for my mother. In doing this I learned that I always stop what I am about to do or am currently doing for my mother because she always needs my help for helping. I also relearned that I leave my assignments for the last minute which is not healthy since it leaves me stressing and rushing to complete the assignment and turning it in on time.

Journal Entry 13

Several actions that I have taken in the past two days are:

• I did my homework
• Studied for midterms
• Watched You tube videos
• I ate
• I showered
• I went to the bank
• I went to a shoe store
• I helped my brother with his homework
• Changed the clocks in my house
• I Did my laundry
• I slept
• I cleaned my room
• I bought tickets to a concert
• I went to visit my aunt
• I was active on social media

B+C) *Quadrant I (Important and urgent)- I studied for midterms (2 hrs), did my homework (2 hrs), sleeping (8 hours), showering (30 mins), doing my laundry (2 hrs), changing clocks in my house (5 min)

*Quadrant II (Important and not urgent)- Working on Homework (essays) that are due in further weeks (1hr), cleaning my room (90 mins), eating (35 mins), going to the bank (30 mins), helping brother with Homework (20 min), visiting my aunt (4 hrs)

*Quadrant III (Not important and urgent)- Checking my social media every few hours,

*Quadrant IV (Not important and not urgent)- Watching YouTube Video’s several times a day during Homework breaks, going to the shoe store (1 hr), buying tickets to a concert (5 min)

1. D) After looking back and reflecting on the decisions I made on how I spent my time these past two days, I realize that for the most part I in fact do try my best to get things done. Of course, I also made myself become aware that there are still many things I can do to improve my time management skills. I understand that by removing many of the things I did, especially items belonging to Quadrant III & IV, I would be making it easier for myself by creating more time+ opportunity in getting my school work done. For the most part, I believe that I did an okay job in balancing out the Urgent/non-urgent things . However, I still want to improve, since  I am always feeling like I don’t have enough time to do everything I want to get done. From here on, I will try to be more self conscious of how I spend my time, especially when having important assignments due. I am sure that this will result in great improvements regarding my work ethics.