Tag: teenagers

Note to Student #1: We are Counting on You!

Student,

Set academic goals, and set those goals high. Take full responsibility for your actions and your results. “Google” has made prolonged ignorance inexcusable. If you can’t gain an understanding from your classroom teacher, go online and find the teacher, video, article, or blog post you need.

Make sure you practice self discipline. Become obsessed with self improvement. Read and read a lot! Manage your time well and keep going, even when (not if) there is adversity and strife in your personal life.

I believe in you. You have a purpose. You are here for a reason. You are reading this for a reason. It’s time and the time is now! Get busy, because our school, our city, our state, our country, our world is counting on you! We need you to be at your very best.

Regards,

Mr. Guest

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Successful Students vs Poor Performing Students.

90% of the human population have roughly the same IQ.

5% are above the norm.

5% are below the norm.

Almost ALL of us are born with the same intellectual capacity.

Question: Why do some students succeed and some students fail?

Answer: HABITS

Successful students aren’t born “good at school.” Successful students establish good “Academic Habits” early on, and then those habits carry them through college and beyond.

Top 5 Academic Habits (In order of Importance)

  1. Good Behavior – “Sit Down, Be Quiet and Listen!”
  2. Specific Homework Spot and Specific Homework Time.
  3. Complete All Math Homework – Every Problem, Every Assignment and then do more!
  4. Study – Know how to Study and Retain Information. Then, the student actually applies the Study Habits they know by studying and studying often.
  5. Perseverance – When problems or work is confusing, successful students have the habit of “pushing through.” Successful students understand that some work will be difficult. Moreover, successful students know that they are smart enough to figure it out if they just keep trying. Successful students don’t quit.

Poor performing students often want to succeed. Poor performing students often care about their grades. Unfortunately, poor performing students just haven’t built the same habits as their successful classmates.

Ultimately, we are all slaves to our habits. We become what we repeatedly do. We have to be insanely intentional about our everyday actions. We have to be insanely intentional about the habits we form.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

 

 

Step Into Your Greatness!

The secret to stepping into your greatness is simple: TAKING STEPS!

Even if your steps are small, those small steps represent action! To step into your greatness, you must take steps – you must take action!

We can visualize and dream all day long, but until we take action – our dreams are just “make believe.” Until we take action our dreams are just “fairy tales.”

You are not a character within a children’s book! You are real! And this is real life! You were born to create! You were born to build! You were born to achieve greatness!

Step into your greatness – today!

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Need versus Want

This message does not apply to us all. But, it does apply to most.

The reason why we are not where we should be in our lives is quite simple:

What we want to do with our time is in direct conflict with what we need to do with our time.

Read versus Netflix?

Write versus Snapchat?

Math versus Madden?

Study versus Sleep?

Need versus Want!

We should do more of what we need to do and less of what we want to do.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Sharks and Killer Whales.

Life will have its difficult moments. That’s life.

So, keep your head up and get your bread up ($).

You can be an ocean or a mud puddle.

Be an ocean.

Don’t be a mud puddle.

Mud puddles are small, shallow, and people walk through them.

Oceans are deep, strong, and guarded by sharks and killer whales.

Toughen up. Be an ocean.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Stop Playing So Much!

You have no idea how much control you have.

Unless you have terminal cancer, a severe disability, or you live in a 4th world country – you have complete control over your future.

Please stop waiting on good things to happen to you. Wake up, and make good things happen!

If you want better grades, study smarter and study harder – consistently.

If you want better income, work smarter and work harder – consistently.

If you want better relationships, love smarter and love harder – consistently.

What do I mean by “smarter?” Figure out how you can accomplish what you want, and then sprint toward it – every single day!

Stop playing so much! Stop waiting! Think, then get to work!

Pray for Our Cell Phones

imageLord, save us from our cell phones for they have taken over our lives.

Our cell phones have replaced our alarm clocks.

Our cell phones have replaced our cameras.

Our cell phones have replaced our calendars.

Please don’t let our cell phones replace our  friends.

Please don’t let our cell phones replace our families.

In your name we pray, Amen.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas. 

 

Blend Out.

True Story.

A freshman student. Female. Very unpopular. Walks by a group of upperclassmen who by all appearances were within the “in crowd.” As she walked by, one of the popular students said something, and the rest of the group began to laugh and snicker.

The disfavored student stopped. Turned. And spoke up for herself.

I didn’t hear the entire conversation but I saw everything – almost in slow motion. By the time I made it to the scene to end this drama, I heard the freshman conclude – “Stop trying to blend in, blend out!”

Unknown to the young student, her wise words inspired me and totally changed the trajectory of my life.

Inside a Great School, everyone learns. Everyone.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Don’t Waste Your Time

Student- any person who studies, investigates, or examines coursework thoughtfully. (Dictionary.com)

The Teacher’s Duties:

The teacher is responsible for exposing you to new information.

She shares information.

She asks questions.

She answers questions.

She may spark a conversation with you to talk about the information.

She will test you over the information one day soon.

At this point, her job is complete.

The Student’s Duties:

The student’s job is to listen, take notes, ask questions, and learn.

Second, the student should take his butt home and study.

He should study everything the teacher talked about.

He should study everything he wrote down in class.

He should study everything that was discussed.

He should make sure he is ready for the upcoming test.

Bottom Line:

If the student does not study – the teacher wasted her time.

If the student does not study – the student wasted his time.

If the student does not study – it all was a waste of time.

If the student does not study, he really isn’t a student at all (See definition above) but, a child looking to be spoon fed by his babysitter. Yet, he left daycare a long time ago.

It’s time to grow up.

It’s time to be a student.

Please don’t waste your time. Study!

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.