It has been a grueling quarter for some students at Sinclair. The weather has been up and down. We have seen more rainy days than sunny days. It even touched 40 degrees once!
That said, we’re inching closer and closer to being done. Not just the Clarion, but everyone!
We are close–can you touch the finish line?–but we are not finished yet. As the horse racing announcers like to say, “down the stretch they come!” It applies to us, too!
The time has come for us to knuckle down and succeed in these last few weeks. It takes more than just words, though.
To really succeed we need to each envision success and lay claim to it. Too often, we get a grade we don’t like and we find ourselves giving up.
Don’t give up. Instead, envision yourself getting the grade you want. Envision yourself obtaining your goals.
Then, study! Do the work!
It’s called the self-fulfilling prophecy, and we believe in it wholeheartedly. It goes something like this–you are what you think you are. If you envision failure, then you will fail and the same goes for success.
If you don’t believe you can do it, then you won’t. If you believe in yourself and do the work, you aren’t guaranteed of anything, but your odds just went way up!
There are a few more weeks until the end of the quarter. Defeat and laziness should never cross your mind.
Instead, work hard for what you want. Study harder for the physics or math test. Realize that you must want to succeed because nobody is going to do it for you.
Life has a way of throwing us curveballs. It can knock us down to rock bottom and force us to make the necessary changes. You have to take everything in stride, though.
As Jay-Z would say, “Brush the dirt off your shoulder…” Brush defeat off your shoulder!
Take defeat and throw it out the window, throw it in the trash. Let defeat know that it will not rule over the end of the quarter and that you will succeed. Easier said than done, we know!
These moments of stress and struggle are the building blocks for life. This is the real world! Do you think it gets easier once you have a piece of paper with your name on it hung on your wall?
Let us spoil that one. It doesn’t get easier. This is only the beginning.
So get started. The end of this quarter means the beginning of another real soon.