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7 Tips For Time Management

June 26, 2019

Everyone knows that snow melts. Whether you have some fun, build a snowman, and have a snowball fight, or you just sit by and watch, the snow will always melt. This same idea applies to time. You can use it to accomplish your tasks and create something awesome, or you can watch it tick by. Similar to snow, no matter how you use it, or if you even use it at all, time melts away. Might as well figure out how to use it to your advantage, right?

This first half of navigating high school and getting into the swing of things has given me the opportunity to develop ways to succeed and dominate the next two years using all I have learned! So, as the new school year draws closer and closer, I wanted to start sharing some helpful tips I’ve learned throughout my first two years of high school such as time management, study strategies, reducing stress, and more.

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Starting A WordPress Blog And Finding Your Blogging Groove

April 12, 2018

I’m extremely excited to be speaking at WordCamp San Diego about starting my blog and finding my groove, my frustrations and hurdles, how I overcame them, the many tips I’ve learned along the way, and the tools I use.

I started blogging when I was ten years old, almost five years ago. I thought it would be fun and I wanted to share the fun things that my family and I were doing. Also, my mom blogs a lot for fun and for work and she encouraged me to get started.

When I first started blogging, I used tons of adjectives—I mean A LOT of them— in every post and it sounded a bit silly. My early posts also had exclamation points after every single sentence, sometimes two, three, and four of them because I was I was only ten and I thought everything was AWESOME!! Fabulous!! So cool! and Totally amazing!

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Begin With The End In Mind

Begin With The End In Mind

August 28, 2015

In my last post you learned about Habit One, Be Proactive. Now I want to share with you, Habit Two, Begin With The End In Mind.

Habit #2: Begin With The End In Mind

This focuses on planning ahead and setting goals, doing things that matter and make a difference, be an important part of your class (or company) and contribute to their mission and vision, and look for ways to be a good citizen.

Some examples of using this habit are:

  • If you know you are going to be busy later in the day or week, get your work done early.
  • Pick out what you are going to wear for the next day if you’re not a morning person (like me).
  • Get a planner to write down your schedule and what you need to do.

Here’s a quote that represents this Habit really well:

I think about how the choices I make will effect my future, and I think about if the consequence of my actions will be positive or negative before I act.

Stephen Covey

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Life is like a camera.
Focus on what's important
Capture the good times
Develop the negatives
And if things don't work out
Just take another shot!

Word Swag
Choose To be Happy or Sad

Move On Or Let It Go, It’s Your Choice

August 1, 2015

Sometimes things aren’t always perfect. Let’s say you’re playing with a sibling or friend and they make you mad, you can either:

  • Sit out, pout, be mad at them, and have no fun.

OR

  • You can just move on, forget about it, and have fun.

Any time you feel like like you want to sit out and pout, first think to yourself, “Will I have the most fun doing this?” The answer will be NO!

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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Taylor Swift

Latest Blog Posts

  • Looking Back and Looking Forward With a Senior Sunrise
  • Participating In My First “High School Musical”
  • Competing at the FBLA Northern Section Leadership Conference
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  • Participating In The Annual Sacramento Historic Archives Crawl

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