WHY ARE YOU GETTING POOR GRADES AT SCHOOL?

Dr. Myles Munroe said “Success is predictable! Failure is also predictable! Success is a result of decisions.” That means you can literally design, plan and predict your academic success. The reason you are getting poor grades at school, failing and falling behind is that you have not yet decided to excel, plan and take consistent progressive actions to get the best grades at school.

Why are you getting poor grades at school?

There are two basic reasons why you are not getting the best grades at school.

·       The first is your desire.

·       The second is your decisions.

·       The third is your habits.

Develop a Strong Burning Desire to Excel

Napoleon Hill said, “The starting point to all success is desire.” The starting point to your academic success is a strong, compelling desire to achieve high and better grades. If you can’t cultivate this desire, nobody can help you.

You need to have a drive to excel; a drive to be the best; a drive to achieve more; a drive to be excellent; a drive to get the best results in any subject of study. You must be obsessed about becoming the best and being at the top in all your academic endeavours.

Highly Successful Students have a strong burning desire to be the best. Unsuccessful students have no burning desire to become the best. It is this lack of desire and drive for success that makes them to get poor grades at school.

Decide to Get the Best Results in All Your Academic Endeavours

Enough is enough! You must get to the top. You’ve got to have a strong burning desire that drives and compels you to move up and achieve your academic goals. But more importantly, you have to decide to make it big!

Success is determined by decisions. You have to decide that you want to get the best grades in every course of your study at school. And when I mean, “Decision”, I mean “I will do it or I will die”. I mean, “No Excuse is Acceptable”.  I mean, “I cannot but to get the best result!”

To decide means you have resolved to achieve the best grades and you are willing to do all that it takes to achieve those results. It means you are willing to go the extra mile to achieve those results. It means you are willing to go against the normal rule and code to achieve your results.

Develop the Habits of Successful Students

Successful students have a set of habits that keeps them at the top. When you develop the habits of highly successful students and maintain those habits, success will follow you like your shadow and you can’t get rid of it.

Your habits, attitudes, way of life, core beliefs and behaviours play a critical role in your academic success! The more you build successful habits and eliminate unsuccessful habits, the better you become and the better your results.

Please, if you have any questions or suggestions on this post, “Why are you getting poor grades at school?” leave it in the comment section below!

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WHY DO SOME STUDENTS SUCCEED WHILE SOME STUDENTS FAIL?

Why do some students succeed while some students fail?

How amazing it is when you have students of the same age range in the same class, with the same teacher having the same text books but different grades after exams! Doing well at school is not a magic. It is a process and when you follow that process, you cannot but to produce the result.

After being a successful student myself and studying student’s academic performance for over five years, I realized that why some students succeed while some students fail is simply HABITS! The difference in core values, beliefs, attitudes and habits is what differentiate student’s academic performance!

Successful students will be successful despite the school they are attending.

When I was attending Kpong Methodist Junior High School, I was among the top 5 in class. When I was in Manya Krobo Senior High School, I was among the top 5 in class. When I was in Entrepreneurship Training Institute, I was among the top 5 in class. Nothing changed as along as my habits, core values, attitudes and beliefs did not change!

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According to the 90/10 rule of the Pareto Principle, 90% of the reasons students fail at school is internal while the remaining 10% are external. If students deal with the 90% of the internal reasons, the 10% external will automatically deal with itself!

So the question of why some students succeed while some students fail has to do with habits, beliefs, attitude and core values! Once students change their habits and attitude towards schooling and studying, their academic results will also change. As simple as that!

In conclusion, to succeed at school, all you have to do in the whole world is to develop the habits of successful students and let them dominate your life, as long as these habits dominate your life, success will flock to you like bees to honeycomb despite your academic conditions.

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THE 7 COMPONENTS OF INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE

To lead and manage yourself, you’ve got to develop the 7 components of intrapersonal intelligence. Intrapersonal Intelligence is simply the ability to understand, manage and lead yourself well. The 7 components of intrapersonal intelligence form the foundation for personal and career success.

In order to succeed in your personal and career life, you have to know yourself. Somebody said, “ Know Thyself”. You can’t lead yourself, without understanding yourself and you can’t understand yourself if you don’t study yourself and finally you can’t study yourself without the 7 components of intrapersonal intelligence.

So what the heck are the 7 components of intrapersonal intelligence?

1.    Self-Awareness: this is simply how well you know yourself. It’s you ability to study and know your strengths and weakness. Highly successful people have a high sense of awareness. Because they know who they are, what they like, what they don’t like and where they’re going in life. It guides them to lead themselves well.

2.    Self-Reflection: To know yourself, you have to review your thoughts, intentions, feelings and abilities. By constantly examining yourself, you’re able to know who you are and this help in your daily decision making.

3.    Self-Control: This is the ability to make yourself do the right thing, whether you feel like doing it or not. You control and discipline your feelings and simply do the right thing.

4.    Self-Motivation: To achieve success in life, you need to be motivated from within to do things. You need a vision and a purpose to drive you to do things. Purpose oriented people are highly self motivated people who become leaders and entrepreneurs in the world.

5.    Self-Confidence: To do what must be done, you need confidence and bravery. When you know who you are, you’re brave and that gives you the courage to excel in whatever you’re trying to do.

6.    Self-Esteem: Many people in life look down on themselves with inferiority complex. The think and feel that they’re not “Good enough!” So they don’t achieve much in life. So achieve greater levels of success, you must develop your self esteem and have superiority complex.

7.    Self-Responsibility: If you know yourself, you have self-confidence. These give you the ability wake up and take full responsibility for your life. You make no excuses, you blame no one, but what you do is to simply take responsibility and change your life and circumstances.

By developing the 7 components of intrapersonal intelligence, you will build the foundation for your personal and career success. This will give you the winning edge in your life and in everything you do.

Written By Francis Sabutey,

Content Writer & Maketer,

Accra-Ghana.

INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE-THE KEY TO SELF-MASTERY

Becoming successful in the career world is not just about your academic results. To succeed in the real world, it takes more than being brilliant and academically wiz to make it. You need high level intrapersonal intelligence.

 Intra means “within” and personal means “self”. So intrapersonal intelligence simply means the ability to look within oneself and manage one's feelings, emotions, outlook, thoughts and motives. Interpersonal intelligence simply makes you smart and wise in leading and managing yourself.

We all know that in life if you don’t manage your feelings, your feelings will manage you. Students with high intrapersonal intelligence understand their feelings, thoughts and motives. They are clearly aware of their strengths and weakness likes and dislikes, they also have a clear idea of what they want to do in life.

Intrapersonal intelligence is the key to self mastery. Self-mastery then is the key to personal and career success in life. Aristotle said, “I count him braver who overcomes his desire than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self.”

 The reason you are where you are in life is “your-self.” If you can conquer and master your-self, then you can master the challenges of your life! But you can’t master your-self without developing your intrapersonal intelligence.

Intrapersonal Intelligence has 7 components which are well developed in students who make it in school and in the real world. The components entail the following:

1.    Self-Awareness

2.    Self-Reflection

3.    Self-Control

4.    Self-Motivation

5.    Self-Confidence

6.    Self-Esteem

7.    Self-Responsibility

All students who are looking up to surviving and thriving in this challenging world must develop and master intrapersonal intelligence. Once you master yourself, you can then master the challenges of your life and finally be successful.

Written by Francis Sabutey,

Content Writer & Marketer,

Accra-Ghana.

HOW KEEPING A JOURNAL HAS CHANGED MY LIFE

Two (2) years ago when I was in third year in the University, I kept a particular green notebook as a journal where I documented my prayer requests, thoughts, feelings, plans, goals , life experiences with the various lessons I learnt from them and many other things of great importance to me. In the course of time, it got filled up, thus I left it and got another book for a journal.

Recently, something happened to me. I had to move to a new residence because of my work. During the period of parking and moving some of my belongings, I came across this old green journal of mine. 

Quickly I picked it and began to go through it. Wow!!! It was a nice time having to flashback on my past though it slowed down the parking I was doing.

In going through it, I saw that God had answered most of my prayer requests and that He deserved my thanksgiving.

Secondly, I realized how slightly I had gone off track with regards to some of my plans and aspirations. Immediately, I resolved in my mind the necessary steps I needed to take in order to align myself with what I had written and voila, the girl is back on track.

Lastly, my face beamed with smiles as I read my past life experiences and the lessons it taught me. The feeling was good.

This is just a few of the many reasons of keeping a journal.

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Six Things Keeping a Journal Will Do for You

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1.    Keeping a journal gives you the avenue to write out your goals. The importance of committing our desires to paper cannot be understated. It provides the opportunity to articulate them clearly and makes their achievement appear closer.

2.    Health wise, research has proven that keeping a journal improves ones cognitive functioning such as brainstorming, clarity in thinking and being articulate in speech. This is based on the reason that, the act of writing accesses our left brain which is analytical and rational.

3.    In addition to that, if an individual is struggling with stress, depression or anxiety, keeping a journal can help in gaining control of ones emotions leading to an improvement in the emotional and mental health of the individual.

4.    It also provides accountability. Keeping a journal allows you to track your progress, see how far you have gone and refocus you. Moreover, success attained can be quickly forgotten and so is failure thus having them documented in a journal gives you the chance to refer to them later.

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5.    Nonetheless, it also accelerates one's learning process in life. By writing down your thoughts, achievements, goals, experiences and others, you are taking an additional few minutes to process both what you have learnt and what you want to do and engrain it into your brain or memory

6.    Lastly, keeping a journal is like writing your story.  Thus if rightly shared, can inspire others.

Do you need a motivation to keep a journal? Then think about the following;

“You are a better student when you take notes”

“The shortest line is mightier than the sharpest memory”

“A journal is a friend you can confide in anywhere, anytime and any day without being objected or rejected”

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Written by Yayra E. Dordoh,

Journal Designer & Producer,

Accra-Ghana.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DIARY AND A JOURNAL: KNOW WHAT TO USE!

         

        

Today a lot of people are confused about what exactly a journal and a diary is. Though they are synonymous, there are some differences between them.

Diary

From one dictionary definition,

 a diary is a book with spaces for each day of the year in which one can write down things to be done in the day or the future.

Cover Page of an Open Diary
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With this definition, it is not surprising to see that most books produced and sold on the market as diaries have the year in review written on them boldly and the book pages have the corresponding dates and days of the year already printed in them. Some of the books even have the times of the day in them.

This points out that diary writing is more of a day-to-day writing. It takes into consideration date and time.

An Open Diary 

Now, in a diary, one can record anything ranging from experiences of the day, work schedule for a period( ie. it serving as a planner), just to mention a few.

Journal

A journal on the other hand is a book used to record of  of great significance. Any book of ones choice can be used to serve this purpose. This means that , in order to keep a journal one doesn’t need to get a particular or a specific book. Once you get a nice notebook (either small or big), you are good to go.

In a journal, one can record things of value ranging from one’s self assurances, goals, plans and aims. Thus a journal can be use to evaluate the

A journal or a Note Book

life of an individual. Nonetheless, it is also used to record one’s thoughts and reflections.

This makes journaling more topical, topical in the sense that notes of specialty comprising of academics, profession, business or marriage are written in a journal. For instance, an individual can write in his journal his academic goals or marital reflections for future evaluation.

Another thing is that, one can write in a journal whenever there is the desire. And the order of writing isn’t date or time bounded( this means that notes written in them need not necessarily be in chronological order ).

An open Note Book
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With these little clarification of what a diary and a journal is, you are good to decide on what you need.

Written by Yayra Dodoh,
Diary & Journal Designer & Producer

INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE: GETTING ALONG WELL WITH OTHERS

You can’t achieve success on your own. It takes a team to make a dream work. It takes cooperation to make a team work. And it finally takes interpersonal intelligence to develop a high level of cooperation between teams. To achieve your dream in life, you cannot but to develop your interpersonal intelligence.

To be successful in life, you need to learn to relate well with yourself and others. Your ability to understand the feelings of people, their mood changes, body language, intentions, the words they speak and precisely use that information to deal wisely with them is defined as your interpersonal intelligence.

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People with high interpersonal intelligence are good at making and maintaining friends; they socialize a lot and are able to steer interactions between their peers and groups. They understand the emotions and feelings of people and are able to respond appropriately.  They enjoy being with others, make people feel high esteem by listening patiently to them and communicating appropriately with them verbally and non-verbally.

These people with high interpersonal intelligence tend to be class prefects in school, SRC Presidents, teachers’ favorites, and leaders in the corporate area.  They tend to take on careers that deal with human contacts such as teaching, manager, nurse, doctor, trainer, coach, counselor, motivational speaker, consultant, receptionist, police, and pastor.

Written by Francis Sabutey,

Content Writer & Author of “ 7 Habits of Highly Successful Students”

Accra-Ghana.

THE MAC LAB: Moral, Academic & Career Success Program for Students

About

The MAC LAB is an initiative of Living Purpose School to enhance the academic, moral and career (MAC) success of students.

The MAC LAB contains of series of programmes designed to help students to develop their moral character, excel in their academics and enjoy a successful career life.

The MAC LAB runs the following programs geared towards enhancing the moral, academic and career success of students.

·       Moral Excellence Program

·       Academic Success Planning Program

·       Career Planning Program

·       International Conference for All Students in Africa( ICASA)

The maiden program to run alongside the book (7 Habits of Highly Successful Students) is the Academic Success Planning Program.

Mission

To enhance the moral, academic and career success of students.

Vision

To build strategic alliance with corporate institutions and NGO’s to run the MAC LAB Programs in the junior high, senior high and tertiary institutions in Ghana.

Objectives

·       Motivate students to learn through actionable high value contents.

·       Educate students on innovative learning strategies.

·    Teach students to develop successful habits crucial for their academic. and career success.

·       Coach students about their future career and starting their career life.

Guide students to find their life purpose, maximize their potentials and achieve their visions and dreams for life.

UNCOVER THE SECRETS BEHIND EXTRAORDINARY ACADEMIC SUCCESS

It’s true that every serious student attending school desires to do very well. Yet academic success does not come because we want to have success. Academic success comes to students who find the right strategies and techniques and apply them diligently to their academic life.

Francis Sabutey, Founder & CEO of the Living Purpose School has written a great book, 7 Habits of Highly Successful Students designed to enhance the academic success of students. Really, the contents of the book reveal, unveils and unfolds the secrets behind extraordinary academic success.

 7      Habits of Highly Successful Students by Francis Sabutey contains the following:

 Chapter One: 4 Kinds of Students

The Successful Student

The Mid-Range Student

The Least Successful Student

The Unsuccessful Student

The Habit Difference

Chapter Two: The Power of Habits

20 Indiscipline Habits of Students

How Habits Operate

How to Eliminate Bad Habits

Successful Habits of Highly Successful Students

Chapter Three: The Power of Habits

How Self-Discipline Affects Academic Success

How to Develop Self-Discipline Needed to Achieve Academic Success

Chapter Four: The Habit of Respecting Authorities

How Cooperative Effort Improves Academic Performance Students

How to Show Respect to Your Parents

How to Show Respect to Your Teachers

Living in Peace with Your Parents, Teachers, Elders and Peers

Chapter Five: The Habit of Healthy Living

The Four Devils of Good Health

The Ten Habits of Healthy Lifestyle

Chapter Six: The Habit of Effective Organization

The 7 Organizational Skills Every Student Must Master

Chapter Seven: The Habit of Effective Time Management

How Well Are You Managing Your Time

7      Time Management Tips for Students

Chapter Eight: The Habit of Effective & Consistent Studies

Study Habits of Highly Successful Students

Five Kinds of Study Strategies

Developing Consistency in Studies

Chapter Nine: The Habit of Effective Preparation & Test Taking

The Three Test Taking Skills Every Student Must Master

30 Tips to Use When Preparing for Tests

30 Tips to Use When Taking Tests

10 Tips to Use When Evaluating & Learning from Tests

TESTIMONIALS

7 Habits of Highly Successful Students has been read and approved by many people

“Very insightful & effective,”

 Patch Xiong, Operations Director of Elevate Church & Author of Dead Promise, USA.

“This book would be a guide to all students who are hungry for academic success,”

 Joseph Ofangbe, Executive Director of Young Visionary Leaders Int.

“This book is a guide not only to students, but also for people who wants to have success in their career,”

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