1. One of my goals as a student is to graduate with at least a 3.3 GPA.
2. Personal qualities that will help me achieve this goal: I’m relaxed meaning I won’t let myself get stressed out, persistent, intelligent, and hard working.
3. 3 most important qualities: Persistent, hardworking, and intelligent.

4.  Three versions of personal affirmation.

• I am a persistent, hardworking, and intelligent man.
• I am a persistent, hardworking, intelligent man chasing my dreams.
• I am a persistent, hardworking, intelligent man, and I will be great.

5. I am a persistent, hardworking, intelligent man, and I will be great.

6. One example of my persistence was when I didn’t give up on myself when I got injured. I hurt my foot playing football on the streets in 2013 and I was required to go to rehab. Even though the pain was excruciating, I pushed myself to not give up and eventually my foot got better.

One time my brother needed me to do some urgent work that he wouldn’t be able to complete due to his busy schedule. I worked from morning to night to complete this task.

One time where I displayed my intelligence was in high school when the geometry regents were coming up. I struggled in geometry so I made the right choice to attend tutoring and I dedicated many hours to studying. By doing this I passed the regents and I would not have able to if I hadn’t made the right decision.

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

I’d like to maintain at least a 3.2 GPA.

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

Persistent, hard-working, responsible, and reliable

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 responsible, hard working, and organized woman.(B)I am a responsible, hard working, and organized woman making my dreams reality.(C)I am responsible, hard working, and organized woman, and I love myself for that.

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

I am a responsible, hard working, and organized woman making my dreams reality.

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

(A) I am a responsible, hard working, and organized woman. I consider myself a responsible student because I always make my schoolwork my priority. For example, I always prefer to stay in on weekends and get my work done, rather than going out with my friends. In addition, I also consider myself hardworking because I always manage to get my work done despite obstacles that may get in the way sometimes. As for organization, although there are days where Im not the most organized person, in the end I know where I need to be, what I need to get done, and how much time I have to complete my assignments. ( I write everything down in my planner)

(B) I am a responsible, hard working, and organized woman making my dreams reality. I’d say as a freshman In college I still don’t have a complete sense of what I’d want to do, but of course, I have a few ideas. Having these qualities are essential to helping me complete my undergraduate studies and in the process, help me figure out what it is I want to do. I want to be able to become the first college graduate in my family and make my family proud. I’d also like to set a good example for my younger brother.

(C) I am responsible, hard working, and organized woman, and I love myself for that. I strongly believe that a positive mindset can take you a long way. Referring to a quote one of our mentors shared with us, “If you can believe it, your already halfway there.” Im constantly reflecting on the progress I make and the work I complete. Even when I may not do my best, I try and look for motivation to help pick myself up and just keep going.

1.
Watch TV
Phone Call
Went to Chipotle
Hung out in the cafeteria
Exercise
Study
Do homework
Listen to music
Ate chocolate cake
Paint my nails
Go to a party
Buy Dominican food

2.
Quadrant 1 Urgent/Important
-Do homework (4 hours)
-Exercise (2 hours)
-Study (2 hours)
Quadrant 2 Not Urgent/Important
-Hung out in the cafeteria (2 hours)
Quadrant 3
-Phone call (3 hours)
Quadrant 4
-Watch TV (5 hours)
-Went to chipotle
-Listen to music
-Eat chocolate cake
-Paint my nails
-Go to a party
-Buy Dominican food

3. What I learned from organizing the activities I do in the 4 quadrant system is that I don’t prioritize homework and studying as much as I should. I spend most of my time in quadrant 4 than in any other quadrant. I find it interesting how I do things that aren’t urgent nor important just to pass time rather than doing school work and trying to stay on track.

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