:: Counsellor Tips

Students Success Tips › Make clear, specific goals that you understand and want. › Make your goals realistic and attainable. › Account for limitations and barriers to attaining your goals. › Set long term goals, but use short term goals to help you reach them. › Build on your strengths, knowledge and skills. › Challenge yourself to stretch and grow. › Outline a clear action plan with deadlines. › Get the resources, information, and support you require. › Share your goals and plans with others › Stick to your goal . › Celebrate successes. Give your self rewards. › Use daily, weekly, and semester calendars to keep track of appointments and assignments and to plan how you want to use your time. › Review your lecture and reading notes within 24 hours after you take them. › Keep all your class materials syllabi, notes, papers, exams, and homework in a v 3-ring binder. › Establish a regular study routine, and study during daylight hours. › Begin preparing for exams from the first day of class. › When you need help, as everyone does from time to time, Motivational Quotes The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. - Napoleon Hill Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. - William Shakespeare A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. - Oliver Goldsmith Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh We will either find a way, or make one. - Hannibal It's not the having, it's the getting. - Elizabeth Taylor Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. - Ben Jonson Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. - BhagavadGita A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. - Mahatma Gandhi Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. - Lee Lacocca I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. - Abraham Lincoin Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. - Jawaharlal Nehru We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present action, so we have to know how to act. - Swami Vivekananda