CTR ///

“ You will go far with CTR” - Mr. Haymore
Reflection: I totally agree with this statement. I think that it should be very important to everyone because it's basically telling you that when you choose the right, you gain and gain and gain. I think that it all has to do with the type of person you are and the things you do. You will find success when you do the right things and it leads you to good things. On the other hand, when you do something bad, you have to deal with the consequences that it brings you. I believe that when you are a person who always chooses the right things and that makes the effort to be a good person, you achieve more because then it shows you are more determined.

The Ultimate Choice // Haymore

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 the good more than any other choice.
The Ultimate choice is to be a CTR person - to always CHOOSE THE RIGHT 24/7.
Mr. Haymore
Reflection: I think that this ultimate choice is what makes our lives better because we live it to be genuinely happy. I think that if we always choose this choice then we will have benefits and not bad consequences. Being a CTR person means to always do whats right even if it gives you temporary bad consequences. Being a person that does the right thing alll the time will lead you to success.

Eight Reasons to Tell the Truth

Eight Great reasons to tell the truth - Barbara A Lewis

1. Telling the truth lets everyone know what really happened. There’s less chance of misunderstanding, confusion or conflict.
2. Telling the truth protects innocent people from being blamed or punished
3. Telling the truth allows everyone to learn from what happened.
4. You usually get into less trouble for telling the truth than for lying (and getting caught)
5. Other people trust you more when you tell the truth.
6. You don't have to tell( and remember) more likes to keep your story straight.
7. You gain a reputation for being truthful - a trait most people value
8. Telling the truth helps you feel secure and peaceful inside.

Reflection: I think a lot of people can learn from these eight reasons to tell the truth because it explains why you shouldnt lie. I think that my favorite one would be number six. I think that it is very true because one you lie once, to keep your first lie, you begin to make up more lies. I think that soon after you start lying a lot, you begin to make it normal but you will get caught sooner or later.I think the one that is most important here is the last one number eight. I think its the most important because its about how you feel after you’ve told the truth. It says Telling the truth helps you feel secure and peaceful inside. I think that its important because when you have told the truth, you don't have to worry about getting caught because you know you have done the right thing.

Goals ///

“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

Reflection: I think that the more you think about your goals and if you try to achieve them you will succeed little by little.I think that since you are making the effort to try and be successful everything slowly goes into place because you’re doing what’s right. I believe that when you try your best as something, you are most likely to succeed. Its good to constantly make goals because you work hard to accomplish them and you are way more successful with them.

Four Success Tips / Phillp Riggs

Phillip Riggs' 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.

Reflection: I think that when you follow these four success tips, you become so much better. I think the first one, Work Hard, means that you always have to try your best. I think that when you give your work the best you got, you can achieve more because you are actually working. I think that the second one, following your passion means that you have to be interested in your job. I believe that you shouldnt have a job only for the money, because you’ll end up hating it. I think people need jobs they actually enjoy working in because they can look forward to their job and be happy and not so stressed out. I strongly believe that when the only thing you do is chase money, you will eventually become stressed out because you arent enjoying it as much as if you had a good job you liked and pays well. The last one means that what goes around comes around. Basically like good karma, I think that you can be good to others and eventually good things will come back to you.

Karl G Maesar

“I have been asked what i mean by ‘word of honor’. I will tell you: Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, every so thick, reaching ever so fat into the ground. There is a possibility that in someway or another i might be able to escape, but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can i get out of that circle? No, never. I’d die first.”

Karl G Maesar

Reflection: I think that when you give your word, you need to keep it, because you agreed upon saying it. When you are about to give your word, you should think about it because you cannot say otherwise after. I think a good example would be if my bestfriend told me that she wouldn’t do a certain thing. If she says she wont do it, she is committing to keep her word. If she does it, she did not keep her word.

Tyler Haws

“ I trust that my hard work will pay off”

-Tyler haws

Reflection: I think that Tyler haws is very right. I think that when you try hard for something you want to accomplish, and if you put your mind to it, you can achieve it. You can do anything when you  really work for it. Whenever you do something good for it, you are closer to reaching your goal. If you want something big, and it’s gonna take time to get there, you need to try your best and hope that it makes you closer into getting to your goal. It also takes your focus and determination.

Cheating //

“ Many think that the short term gain will be worth the long term pain, but it isn’t. In addition, using steroids is cheating, and there is nothing worse in sports than a cheater, don't do it.”

• George Mitchell

Reflection: I think that this statement is very true. Because you might enjoy something for a while, but if you cheated, its gonna hurt you and come back to you later in life as bad. I think that in order to enjoy something like you should, you shouldnt cheat. I think that most people forget that just because you got away with something when you cheated, it wont turn bad sooner or later, but it will.People should learn how to do things right and actually earn what you wanted instead of cheating your way into success and happiness. Because if you cheat one day, you will feel guilty deep inside,and sooner or later, things will begin to fall into place.

Cheating

“ I won’t cheat.”  -Dale Murphy

Reflection: I think that Dale Murphy is a person with good character for putting this out there. He is right about not cheating because there is always consequences for everything. Not cheating means not doing anything to break rules. You cannot cheat your way into success because you will get caught. I think that it’s great to work your way into what you want but never by cheating because if you do cheat, you do not deserve that success in your life.

Good Quality People

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."

- George Washington

I  agree with this statement because it shows that associating with people that do bad things, says a lot about you too. When you hang aroumd people that are bad influences on you, it makes you look like one of them, It's better to hang out with people of good quality because that way you are more free. You dont have guilt or you're not afraid of what people think about you. You start making good decisions once you're influenced by good deeds. You should hang around with people that are good because they lead you to success and victory more than other type of people.

CTR//

" If you do what's right. if you live the right way, you'll be taken care of."

-Rachael Castillo

 Living life right has many pros, such as not worrying if something bad will happen to you. You won't live with fear or guilt within you. When you live choosing the right, you are way happier and positive about everything. I think this quote means that it's kind of like Karma, when you do something good/right, you get something positive in return. If you live life making bad desicions then you kind of have negative things coming your way. Doing whats right is way better because you get to enjoy life. Sometimes doing whats right might have some consequenses, such as telling the truth and accepting it. Even tho you might get into trouble its always better tochoose the right and never try to do wrong.

GoalPosts in Life

" In life as in football, you won't go far, unless you know where goalposts are."

-Arnold H. Glasgow

I understand this statement because of how Mr. Haymore explained it to us. I think that this is great because we need to make goals for ourselves to keep up motivated and going on with life. If we dont have goals then it's stopping us from achieving different things such as being happy and being successfull. If you don't make goals you won't have something to look foward to and you'll be choosing the wrong. When we make goals for ourselves, we start finding way to get there, just like in football, you try go as far as you can. There may be obstacles but if you put your mind to it, you can achieve it.

Ben Carson

" I hated poverty. Poverty is more of a choice than anything else, and i can change that. It depends upon how hard i want to work, and i decided that i would change it."

Dr. Ben Carson

Reflection: This statement is so strong. I think that because you might hate something, not knowing you can change that. If you want something, you need to work hard for it.I think that when you want something or are tired of the same thing, you want to make a change in your life. That change will only come when you're determined to work a lot harder for whatever it is you want.

" You can't be right by doing the wrong, you cant be wrong by doing right."

- Thomas S. Monson 

Reflection : I think that this statement is very true. I agree with him because you can never be right by doing wrong. Doing wrong means you'll end up wrong and be doing other wrong things. You cant be wrong by doing right. So either you do something right and you are right, or you do something wrong and you're wrong. I don't think that you could ever be wrong when you do something right because you're not doing anything wrong.There is no right in doing wrong because all you're doing is living life in a negative way. For example

Lead your Life

"It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the RIGHT WAY, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you."

-Randy Pausch

Reflection: I love this quote because it tells you to do the right thing. It's motivation because you get to know that if you work hand on living right you get success in return. When you start choosing the right, your karma takes care of itself meaning , you good luck , future and destiny will be positive. When he says "The dreams will come to you, I think he means that after you lead your life the right way, you won't have to work as tough to reach your dreams, because you've shown that you're capable of following your dreams already.

Responsibility

"Take responsibility for YOUR OWN body, mind and spirit for your own physical, mental and spiritual well-being."

-Mr. C. S. Haymore

Reflection: I think that this is really true because you are the one who has to take care and are the only one responsible for your own body mind and spirit well being. I think that to do this you have to stop doing bad things such as smoking and other stuff that might cause problems to your body and other functions of your body. If you choose bad things then it's only you that is responsible for that. If something bad happens to your body mind and spirit you cant blame someone else because your actions led up to those problems. Taking responsibility means learning how to deal with the problems alone and knowing how to solve them for yourself. To be a great successful person you need to make sure that these three are in good shape and balanced. 

Success

"Success is not an accident. Success is actually a choice. Are the habits you have today on par with the dreams you have of tomorrow?"

-Alan Stein

Reflection: I think this quote means that you just don't get success out of nowhere like it was a mistake. I think that when you want success you have to make the CHOICE to follow your dreams/goals. You choose what to do to earn success and be successfully. For example: if you want to get straight A's on your report card, you'd have to work on it. You won't just magically get good grades. You have to make the choice to actually do your work and turn it in on time. If you're slacking off then how do you expect to get good grades in the future? Success is not an accident and you have to work hard to get what you want and truly deserve it. It's kind of choosing the right, where you do the right things to get to your goal. If you do the wrong things you're not getting any close to what you're planning on achieving.