ACADEMIC INTELLIGENCE & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE—TWO KINDS OF INTELLIGENCE EVERY STUDENT MUST DEVELOP

Basically, there are two kinds of intelligence that influences academic, career, marital and social success. The more you develop these intelligence, the higher your success rate in doing very well in life.

School is a preparatory ground for real life in the real world. The essence of school is to groom, prepare and develop students to become responsible people in the future and make great exploits in life.

In order to build a strong and thriving future life, there are two kinds of intelligence every student must focus on developing to become successful in his or her academic, career, relationship and social life: Academic Intelligence & Emotional Intelligence.

Academic Intelligence, IQ can be developed. It is simply an ability built into us by God. As human beings we have the ability to learn, think, reason, memorize and remember. No other living thing can do this. Why? They don’t have this ability.

Every student has an academic intelligence. Your job as a student is to develop that intelligence. Academically intelligent students are simply students who have developed their academic intelligence. Thus, they do very well in their academic life.

Academic Intelligence

Well, what’s academic intelligence? It’s simply your ability to read, understand, study, learn, analyze and memorize information. Academic intelligence deals with your ability to acquire, understand and keep records of information. And every student has that ability! You just have to develop it!

The essence of the Living Purpose School is to enhance the academic performance of students which means we have to help students to develop their academic intelligence. This is often done through the Academic Success Coaching Program.

The following are 10 ways to develop your academic intelligence.

1.     Be punctual and regular in going to classes.

2.     Take notes in class while the teacher is teaching.

3.     Preview the lesson before going to class.

4.     Ask questions in class to gain more understanding.

5.     Read and study your notes after the lessons.

6.     Make notes from notes given in class in your personal studies.

7.     Commit to a consistent, undistracted and effective personal study.

8.     Join study groups and learn with other peers in the group.

9.     Pay attention in class while the teaching is teaching.

10.  Prepare effectively for next lesson, quizzes, exams, tests and exams.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence, on the way round is the kind of intelligence that supports your academic intelligence. Your academic success can be built as you focus on developing yourself. Research has shown that 90% of success in life is Emotional EQ and 10% is academic intelligence, IQ.

Academic intelligence focuses on developing your rational brain. Emotional intelligence focuses on developing your emotional brain. Psychologists have discovered that we often feel and act before we think. That places emotional intelligence on top of academic intelligence because your feelings determine your actions and your actions determines your results.

SO what’s emotional intelligence? Emotional Intelligence, EQ is your ability to perceive, evaluate, control and express emotions. It has to do with your ability to understanding feelings and handle it appropriately.

Feelings such as anger, greed, jealousy, envy, fear, faith, happiness, joy, bitterness, high self sense of worth, empathy, courage, boldness and the like are fundamental to success in every sphere of life. The more you understand and handle these emotions well, the higher you’ll go in life.

The following are 10 ways to develop your emotional intelligence.

1.     Spend time in solitude daily and examine your life.

2.     Give adequate time to mediation and reading something from the Bible always.

3.     Join religious groups and youth clubs on campus.

4.     Be active in groups and focus on being a leader.

5.     Read on leadership and focus on practicing leadership values and virtues.

6.     Learn to listen to the feelings behind the words people speak.

7.     Seek to understand why people do what they do, not to be understood.

8.     Engage yourself in discussions and relating with people.

9.     Master courage and ask questions confidently in class and groups.

10.  Learn to control your feelings and motivate yourself to do difficult things.

As you do these things repeatedly, little by little, slowly you’ll be developing your academic and emotional intelligence. The more you develop your intelligence, the more you’ll improve in your academic, career, relationship and social life.

Seek to be a student of information and emotions and as long as you study these things, your academic and emotional intelligence will grow. This growth will affect every area in your life and you’ll achieve astounding success in life.

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7 WAYS TO UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL

Every human being born into this world was born with a potential to make a difference in a particular field of life. That potential is the golden treasure the Almighty has deposited into him/her. The job of the person on earth is to discover and unleash his/her potential!

All that you will be; all that you’ll ever be is hidden inside you. The stems, roots and fruits of a seed proceeds from a single seed. That means the potential of the seed is trapped in the seed itself. Your greatness, your future and your glory is all hidden in you!

The very first step and last to become the best of you is to discover and unleash your potential. Once your do this, you’ll find that your life is becoming better and better and you’re going higher and higher!

There are 7 ways to unleash your potential and become the best of you!

1.    Discover Your True Self

To unleash your potential and become and the best of you, you’ve got to discover your true self. You must come to know who you really are. It’s ok to know other people and to learn from them, but do you really know yourself?

Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are you capable of doing? What on earth are you here for and finally, where is your life going to?

You must discover your self-identity and Source, God. You have to also discover your capabilities. If you can develop one of your talents and become the best at it in the whole world what would it be? What is the purpose and mission of your life?

2.    Invest Time, Money & Energy into the Development of Yourself

There’s only one important thing in your life. What’s it? That’s you. To be successful and become the best of yourself, you must invest in yourself.

You have to invest your money into education, training and development of yourself. The Latin word educo of the English word educate means, “to develop from within”. If you’re going to develop from within you, you must invest your time and energy into learning and working on yourself.

The more you work on yourself, the better you’ll become. The more you invest in yourself, the more valuable you’ll become. And the more valuable you become the more value you provide and the more in-demand you become, making you successful!

3.    Pursue Excellence

If you want to unleash your potential, you must always strive to be excellent in what you do. Excellent simply means to excel. Whatever you do, try as much as possible to do it to the highest standard and levels of success.

The more you strive for excellence, the more you bring the best out of you.

Source: Board of Wisdom

4.    Continuously Improve

If you are going to unleash your potential, then you must continuously improve. You have to develop the habit of continuous learning and continuous improvement. The more you learn, the more you acquire the knowledge and the understanding to make improvements on what you have done.

Without the key of continuous improvement, in fact you’ll become obsolete. To stay relevant in your field, you must learn new things and be abreast with the last, modern ways of doing things. You of course have to invest in different kinds of research and on-the-job training.

5.    Have Integrity

Without integrity, you cannot unleash your potential. To be the best, you must first be the best person. That means you have to “become brutally honest with yourself”, says Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks.

You have to tell the truth and live the truth. “You can fool some of the people some of the time. But you can’t fool all the people”, said Steve Jobs. To unleash your potential, you live in truth with yourself and with others. Remember, life is about people. So deal truthfully with them!

6.    Multiply One Talent

The key to maximizing and unleashing your potential is to first of focus on one talent. Develop that talent to the apex. In the course of the development, that talent will stir up other talents and abilities n you that you have no idea of.

So focus on one talent and become the very best at it. As you do these, other hidden potentials in you will also be unearth to fruitfulness.

7.    Get the Assistance of a Coach or Mentor

The essence of coaching is to help bring the best in you. What a coach does is to improve the performance of his/her clients. The coach focuses on unleashing the hidden potential of his/her people.

Find the area you want to develop in, get a coach or a mentor that can help you to develop and improve in that area. Remember, every great star has a great mentor and coach behind his success.

The whole essence of life is for us to discover and unleash our potential. Your potential is simply a latent, untapped and a hidden ability inside you. It’s who you can be but are not right now! What if you could be the best in what you, how would you be?

Success in life is all about unleashing your potential. Once you focus on you: discovering and unleashing the potential in you, success will flock to you like bees to honeycomb.

7 HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS

What set of habits do you have? Are your habits keeping and pushing you to the top or keeping and pushing you to the bottom? Success is a daily thing! Success comes through the things we do on daily basis!

Students in a class can be put into four categories: the highly successful students, the mid-range students, the least successful students and the unsuccessful students. Successful students have a set of habits that keeps them at the top and the unsuccessful students have a set of habits that keeps them at the bottom!

So what are the set of habits that successful students have? What are the set of habits that keeps and pushes successful students to the top?

Ok! Let’s now look at the 7 habits of highly successful students.

1.    The Habit of Self-Discipline

Self-discipline is the first and foremost habit that every successful person has; be it in school, work, sports or in politics. Without self-discipline, you are not going anywhere! If you can’t discipline yourself to do what it takes to be successful, then you’re not going to be successful!

Self-discipline is your ability to make yourself do what must be done; at the right time whether you feel like doing it or you don’t feel doing it! It’s the single most important factor that guarantees your academic and career success!

Successful students discipline themselves, to take notes in class, engage in personal studies, prepare adequately for tests and exams, pay attention in class, honour their parents and teachers and many more! These things make them successful and give them the winning edge over others in the class!

Read more about it here: How Indiscipline Affects the Academic Performance of Students.

2.    The Habit of High Self-Esteem

Every successful student has high self-esteem. They don’t have low self esteem! I’ve come to realize that the level of your self-esteem directly affects the level of your productivity! When you have low self esteem, you will tend to have low results. When you have high self-esteem, you’ll tend to have better results.

Your self esteem is the way you think and feel about yourself. If you think you’re worthy and deserving to become the best in a subject, that mindset and emotional feeling will empower to become the best in that subject.

At the same time, if you think that you’re a failure and you can’t make it, that mindset and feeling will reduce your morale to study and make it! Thus, your own evaluation of your abilities defeating you!

High self esteem is derived primarily from an inspiring mission for studies. You must have a great why for being in school and studying. When I was in college, my mission was to: “To learn, understand and apply to work so I could become the best in what I do”

As a result I’m always motivated and inspired to learn. I study hard and have deeper understanding of the subject. Thus, I perform better than my friends in class!

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3.    The Habit of Healthy Living

“A sound mind is in a healthy body” as they say, successful students first of all live a healthy lifestyle. Health is wealth. Without health, a successful student can’t even have the peace of mind to study his books, go to classes and do well in school.

Successful students have the habits of eating good foods; taking balanced diets. They take a good rest about 6 to 7 hours per night. They abstain from caffeine which weakens the body and does not make their mind alert.  They also abstain from alcohol and smoke which destroys the body.

They exercise regularly and keep their bodies fit and strong. They take the right medications to keep them strong and active. They obey all healthy living rules and take their health seriously.

Source: Stanfield

4.    The Habit of Effective Time Management

“You get what you spend your time on,” said Mark Zukerberg. Successful students are excellent time managers and unsuccessful students are poor time managers. Excellent time management requires you to set goals and devote your time and energy at doing those things that will lead to the accomplishment of your goals.

Successful students have study time tables, calendars, note books for recording assignments given in class. They report to class early and leave late. They use time wisely by investing in things that will help them to reach their academic goals and dreams.

Read more about it here: 7 Time Management Tips for Students

5.    The Habit of Effective Organization

Successful people are organized people. So successful students know how to organize school activities, home, entertainment, social activities and religious meetings! They live a well-balanced life because they organize their activities well.

They set their priorities straight and stick to them. They organize their activities in their order of sequence and importance. They focus their energies on achieving those things they have planned to achieve. As a result, they emerge as winners and the successful in school!

Read more about it here: 7 Organizational Skills Every Student Must Master

6.    The Habit of Effective & Consistent Studies

Every student must study. It’s from the word “study” that we have the word “student”. The more you study and the more effective your studies, the more successful you will be as a student. There’s no miracle about this.

Successful students have a study schedule that they use to study. They don’t study because they feel like studying. They have planned their studies and organized it in a professional manner. They make it effective by ensuring that they are not distracted and disturbed by any other activity during study periods.

Read more about it here: 7 Study Habits of Highly Successful Students.

7.    The Habit of Effective Preparation

The very last successful habit of successful students is effective preparation. Brian Tracy, author of 100 Unbreakable Laws of Business Success said, “Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation”.

Successful students form the habit of effective preparation. They are proactive. They prepare for class. They prepare for their personal studies. They prepare for quizzes and tests. They take ample time to revise their notes thoroughly before exams. They don’t just prepare, they prepare effectively!

As a result of these things they excel and end at being the top! To be a successful student, all you need to do is to cultivate the habits that successful students have. Then you let those habits be your masters and rule your life. The more those habits dominate your life; the more success will dominate your academic and career life!

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