Ways to Be

9 Ways to be Happy and Make Something of your Life

                                     

1. Be Grateful
Being grateful means feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness. Being grateful shows others that you're thankful and happy with what you have no matter how bad anything can be. You have to be grateful for even the smallest things that you have because not many people have what you have and would wish to live like you. So, there is no reason why you should ask for more and more because at times, your parents aren't able to get you exactly what you want because of money reasons. Some people (mostly kids/teens) don't know how to appreciate the things they have and were blessed with and instead, complain because they wan't to live an elegant life with expesnive things. What they don't realize is that there are children and adults out there who live on the streets and would kill to have a home like you. They would kill to be in your shoes. "Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between." People don't realize that what they have is everything. Parents work so hard to give you things because they love you and want you to be happy. I, myself, am a person who wants things but then I ask myself if I actually need it and most of the time it's a no so I leave it behind. I know nowadays kids want what everyone else has to make them look cool and hip but it shouldn't have to be that way. Thank god that you have the clothes you have and the food that's put on your table everynight and an education because not all people were blessed with that kind of stuff. Some people have to dig in the trash for food and clothes and things they need to survive. Things come easy to you and it's time to start thinking about it. Be grateful for everything you have.

Class Evaluation

1. What I liked about the class was that I got to learn how to do more things on the computer and I learned how to make my own website.

2. I didn't like the loud people because it distracted me and I found it really rude.

3. How you can improve the class is a little more free time. Well if the class was good.

4. A highlight was that I got to do an excel and it taught me a lot.

5. Yes, I did do my best in this class.

6. Yes, I have a reminder on my phone for when I have to read and write in it.

7. I am committed to being a CTR person because choosing the right leads to a good life.

8. I learned that doing the right thing makes you a better person and it influences others to be good too.

9. I will always remember how to the student success statements and how each one taught me that being a good person and choosing the right is better.

Last Lecture

“You will go far with CTR”

-Mr.Haymore

CTR means choosing the right. Choosing the right means doing the right in all situations. When you choose the right all the time, you become a good person. You do good in school, help other people out, do what you’re supposed to and succeed. If you choose the right all the time, there’s no way you’re going to fail. You’re doing the right all the time and that’ll get you to where you need to be. You’ll have an amazing future and nothing can really go wrong from that. If you choose to do the right/good thing all the time, 24/7, everything that comes to you will be good and right. Choosing the right also has to do with having a good personality. The more good you are, the more good people you’ll have in your life. Nothing wrong can come from that. Tell the truth, be responsible, help others out, do good in school. If you do all those things, you will succeed and live the life you deserve. I will choose the right. I will tell my kids to choose the right and influence them to be good people. Spreading the word of choosing the right will make the world around you even better.

The Ultimate Choice

The Ultimate Choice

Of all the choices you will ever make, one choice supersedes all others-the ultimate choice. This one choice will help you to always make correct decisions for the remainder of your life. This one choice, The Ultimate Choice, is your keystone for being the best student and person you can possibly be. This one choice will forever affect you for good more than any other choice.

THE ULTIMATE CHOICE IS:

To be a CTR Person- to ALWAYS CHOOSE THE RIGHT 24/7 !!!

The ultimate choice is to be a CTR person 24/7. When you choose the right, you always make good decisions. Now if you chose to make bad decisions, what good will come out of it? There’s consequences for everything. Even when you choose the right. When you make bad decisions, the consequences are bad. You do good, the consequences are good. You do bad, the consequences are worse. Choosing the right all the time will make your life so much better. You become a good, honest, reliable person with an amazing personality. That’s the kind of people other looks up to. Influence people to be the best person they can be. It’s more likely you’ll succeed and live a good life. An example of choosing the right 24/7 is go to school, work hard, pay attention, get home and get you homework done. Choosing the right isn’t just for school. Let’s say you’re on a bus and see an elderly or a handicap person who didn’t get a seat but you did. What’s the right thing to do? Keep your seat or let them sit down. They need the seat more than you do. So choose the right because god works in mysterious ways and will reward you.

Beautiful Character

Character

If there is beauty in character,

there will be harmony in the home.

If there is harmony in the home,

there will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation,

there will be peace in the world.

Conclusion:

If there is beauty in character,

there will be peace in the world.

When someone has beautiful character, their life and maybe everything around them will be beautiful. These people are usually the ones to be positive about everything. If you’re a positive person, it’s more likely that the people around you are positive and that includes the people in your home. The more positivity you share, the more people will pick up on your personality and start to act more like you. They’re not really copying you but you’re influencing them and making them a beautiful person too. The more people in the world who are influenced by a person with beautiful character, will make the world beautiful and positive.

Ending Malaria

Professor Adrian Hill is creating a well-crafted "potion" of ingredients which, when combined inside a vaccine, could prepare our immune system to attack biological invaders. This could protect us from a range of diseases such as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. This will be a new class of vaccine that will probably, hopefully eliminate all diseases. He is testing these vaccines on people. He’s also trialled in Ebola vaccines and his institute has one in development for Zika. Professor Adrian Hill however, sets his heart on finding a cure for malaria.

Hill is targeting the cellular arm of the immune system. This is the home of the CD8 T-cells and these cells are also known as the killer cells. Killer cells have the ability to kill any cells that are infected including cancer cells.

His latest formula is called the prime-boost approach. This formula has a combination of two viruses that have been given the DNA of the malaria parasite. Hill and his team believe that this is the winning formula. It has protected 100% in mice that had malaria when before it was only protecting 20%.

Honor/Cheating

Lost with Dignity                             Won by Cheating

Malik Stewart was wrestling a boy (Mitchell McKee) who wanted to win the match to make his father who has cancer proud. Malik lost but he lost with honor. Instead of throwing a fit and being a sore loser, he went to go congratulate Mitchell and he even went to go give Mitchell’s dad a hug. Whereas, Roman Chapa cheated in the horse race. He noticed that he was losing and wanted to win so bad that he shocked his horse so that it would go faster. He cheated and got caught and now he looks bad. Lose with dignity. That’s the best kind of winning you can get.

Sophocles

“I would prefer to fail with honor than win by cheating.”

-Sophocles

He’s saying that he would rather lose knowing he tried or did his best than to win knowing he cheated and did the wrong thing. It shows how mature you are when you lose and you’re still a good sport about it. If people know you tried your best then you’re a winner in their eyes and yours. If you won by taking the easy way out and cheated then that doesn’t do you any good. Sure you get called a winner but that doesn’t really make you a winner. You just have the title winner. You know deep down you don’t deserve that title and the guilt is worse than you losing.

Memorial Day Weekend

This Memorial Day weekend I had went camping with my friends and I went hiking with family. My friends and I left Friday night to Crystal Lake. On Saturday, we went on adventures, played sports, we ate good food, we built a tent and made smores. Saturday night, me and two friends came back home. On Sunday, I ran errands with my sister. On Monday, I woke up at 5:20 and me, my brother, my sister and my sisters friend headed out to San Diego. We went to San Diego to hike up to Mount Woodson in Poway to see the Potato Chip Rock. It took us about 30-45 minutes to get up there because it was up some really steep hills. Once we got to the rock there was a line to take a picture on it so we left and headed back home.

Memorial Day

1. Memorial Day is a day on which those who died in active military service are remembered.
2. The purpose is to honor the men and women who died while serving the U.S. military.
3. Memorial day was originally celebrated on May 30th but it is not celebrated on the last Monday of May.
4. Some ways you can show honor and respect to those who have died in battle are;  you can visit a veteran’s cemetery or war memorial, take cookies to a nearby veteran’s hospital, go to a Memorial Day parade, etc.

Memorial Day used to be known as Decoration day because it was established as a day for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. The official flower of Memorial Day is the Poppy. This is the official flower because poppies grew in abundance in the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. It bewildered some as to how the flowers could grow in such a landscape.

To show respect and honor to veterans I plan to volunteer to feed them and to help make care packages to them and their families.

Dan Dierdorf

“If I’ve got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I’m going to succeed.”

-Dan Dierdorf

Dan Dierdorf

He’s saying that if he has the right ideas and the right goals and does the right thing to pursue that goal, everything else in his life will come at the right time. Everything good will fall into place and he will succeed from that. Setting a good/right goal is important. The way you pursue it is also important. You can’t take shortcuts because that’s kind of like cheating. Do all that you need to in order to achieve your goal but make sure it’s the best and right thing to do. You’ll end up succeeding in the right way. Everything along the way is going to be good and will affect your journey in a good way and eventually you’ll be successful in whatever you do.

Wellness Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: The main duties of a wellness specialist are to educate the public on how to improve their daily choices, prevent illness or access local resource.

Salary: The average salary is was $53,100 in 2012.

Education: They often have a degree of in a related discipline such as nursing, fitness or sports medicine.

Demand for this Profession: They expect the wellness field to grow by 37 percent between 2010-2020.

Reflection: I wouldn’t like to be a Wellness Specialist because there’s not much they do. I want to be running around and being active. All they do is explain and advise you what’s good for you and stuff.

An Internal Phenomenon

“The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity (self-worth), integrity, and self-esteem.”

-Dr. Laura Schlessinger

When you do a good deed, do you do it for the reward or do you do it because you know you’re doing a good thing? Some people do things and don’t expect a reward out of it. Those are the truly good people. Some people do it out of knowing they’re getting something in return. The best feeling is knowing you did something good and that is the best reward. Feeling good inside and knowing you made someone happy or just doing a good thing. Does there have to be a reward? Does getting something in return encourage people to do the right thing? It honestly shouldn’t. Why does it matter if you get a reward for doing something good? Just knowing you did something good because you wanted to is the best feeling/reward you can receive.

Sports Medicine

Duties and Responsibilities: Their responsibility is to examine patients and diagnose sports-related injuries and conditions. They prescribe medication and treatment to heal and restore normal function. They also monitor patient recovery and adjust treatment according to patient response.

Salary: The median salary is $162,788.

Education: In order to work as a sports medicine you require a Doctor of Medicine Degree or Doctor of Osteopathy degree.

Demand for this profession: The projected job growth between 2012-2022 is by 18%.

Reflection: This job sounds interesting but I would not like to work in this occupation. Although it seems like an interesting job, I wouldn’t know how to help people who are injured in a sport. So, this isn't the right job for me.

Phillip Rigg's Four Success Tips

1. Work Hard.
2. Follow your passions. Do things you are interested in doing.
3. Don’t chase after money.
4. Serve others. Do good things for others, and good things will come to you.

When you are interested in doing something you should commit to it especially if it’s a passion of yours. All these tips work well together. Follow your passion and work hard for it. When you love doing something, you don’t really pay attention to what you get in return. You’re so passionate about it that you just do it because you love doing it. That’s why you shouldn’t chase after the money. If you love doing something, does what you get really matter? Not really. Sometimes your passion can affect others. If it affects others, make sure it affects them in a good way. Help them. Have a good passion that does good for others. Make others and yourself happy by doing what you love.

World Records

World Records #1

1. Tallest Man living
2. This record is held by Sultan Kosen who measured 8ft. 2.8in
3. The world record was set on February 9, 2011

World Records #2

1. The longest time in an abdominal plank position
2. This record is held by Mao Weidong who set the time of 4 hours and 26 minutes
3. This world record was set on September 26, 2014

World Records #3

1. The longest head of hair
2. This record is held by Xie Qiuping who’s hair is 18ft. and 5.54in.
3. This record was set on May 8, 2004

My favorite world record would have to be the hairiest teenager. I’m fascinated by this because I didn’t know that someone had their whole face covered in hair especially a girl.

If I wanted to break a record it would be to eat the largest pizza or something having to do with pizza because I love pizza.

Indian Youth

“You knew what i was when you picked me up.”

The indian youth walked up the mountain and saw a snake. The snake told the youth to pick him up because he was cold and hungry and asked for the youth to take him down. The snake promised not to bite him if he helped him. The youth was being kind and generous and took him down. When the youth put the snake down the snake bit him and told him he knew what he was when he picked him up. An example of this can be drugs/weapons. When you do drugs you know what they do. You know the consequences and the side effects of doing them. It’s your job to do what’s right. When you pick up a gun and accidentally shoot someone, who is to blame? You can’t blame the gun. You picked it up, you knew what it could do, you knew the harm it would cause. When you do drugs you can’t blame the person who gave them to you or the drug itself. You knew what the drug would do to you but you still chose to do it. No one is to blame but yourself. You need to be smart about that stuff.

The Right Thing

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

We make decisions all the time. Everywhere we go we make decisions even if we don’t plan to. When you do make a decision, make the right one. If you plan to do something bad, forget about it. Make the best and right decision. Do the thing that’ll make you a better person. If you choose to do something bad, what good comes from it? You’re only hurting yourself and others. That’s not making a good decision. When you make the right decision, it benefits you and others. So the best thing to do is make the right decision even in the worst case scenario. Some good will come from it.

Nothing

“Nothing is ever gained in doing what’s wrong.”

-Wilford Woodruff

You never get anything from doing what’s wrong. When you get in trouble for doing something bad, you don’t get rewarded. That never happens. When you cheat, you don’t get a medal. Instead you get in trouble. Nothing good ever comes from doing bad. It’s better to do what’s right and feel good about it and gain something that way. Whatever you gain may not be big or all that special but you know deep down inside, you did good. You chose to do the right and it made you feel better about yourself.

Softball

Lately I've been trying to get into a sport. I've always wanted to join softball but I'm too scared to go to tryouts or practice. I know I'm good at playing but I feel like I might not be what they want or what they're looking for. So I feel like I'm going to get turned down and not get accepted on the team. This year I was thinking about joining cheer but I feel even worse about it. I don't have the skills for cheer. People say I have the looks and that I'm loud so that may help me get in but looks don't get you everywhere. It's not all about looks. I'm not flexible, I don't know how to do flips or a cartwheel or a split. I feel like I've given up. I feel like I got everyone's hopes up. Not only am I not allowed to go to practice for not having my physical done but I can't go to tryouts either because I have to go to a graduation that same day. If cheer doesn't work out for me, then I'm going to work for softball. I will train over the summer and not only during the summer but up until season starts. Even then I'm not going to stop training. I've been told that I'm good at softball and all that stuff so I'm going to go for it. It's not only for me but also for my mom. I had gotten her hopes up last year when I told her I was going to tryout for softball and never did. I'm going to do this for her. I know if I made the team she'd be so proud. So I'm going to try my hardest and do everything I can to be an amazing player. 

Do the right thing at the right time

“It’s A GREAT MOMENT when someone has character to step up and do the right thing at the right time.”

-Pam Knox

Pam Knox

It’s good to speak up when you need to. Let’s say there’s a fight going on and no one’s saying anything but letting it happen. That’s probably the right time to step up or speak up. Or maybe when someone drops money on the floor and they don’t realize it. Pick up the money and hand it back to the person. You’re doing the right thing at the right time. Don’t let people pressure you into not stepping up because you might look like a goodie goodie. Do the right thing and step up. It’s better to do right and feel good about it rather than to let it happen and feel guilty about it all day.

Speech Pathologist

Speech Pathologist

Duties and Responsibilities: They diagnose and treat individuals who suffer from stutters, as well as vocal and cognitive communication impairments. They also help those whose speech is affected by emotional issues, various learning disabilities and physical impairments, such as a cleft palate.

Salary: They make $70,810 annually.

Education: They have to have a master’s degree in speech-language pathology.

Demand for this Profession: The projected job growth from 2012-2022 is 19%.

Reflection: I would like to work in this occupation. This topic interests me because I’d like to know how to help people with speech problems such as stuttering.