"Shift Happens 10% of the Time"

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopler by Stephen R. Covey

Knowledge is the quickest and safest path to success in any area of life. Stephen Covey has encapsulated the strategies used by all those who are highly effective. Success can be learned and this book is an excellent way to learn how to do that.

As the title of the book implies, Covey describes the seven habits of highly effective people and techniques for adopting the seven habits. Covey makes clear that an individual must make a paradigm shift before incorporating these habits into his/her own personal life. A paradigm is essentially the way an individual perceives something. Covey emphasizes that if we want to make a change in our lives, we should probably first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors. He applies different examples via family, business, and society in general.

This book's focal point is on an approach to obtain personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Covey points out that private victories precede public victories. He makes the example that making and keeping promises to ourselves comes before making and keeping promises to others.

The above video descrides an attitude is 10 percent what happens and 90 percent reaction. To achieve the transformation a peoson must first seek, to tap into the other person's hearts first and then focus on their thinking. People think they work for money…where in fact they are coming to work to get the money to spend on their dreams, goals, and families etc. When you tap into that perspective and there is an adjustment in the other peoson's thinking, attitude and performance. Human nature ensures everyone wants to be loved or appreciated and some people have not learnt how to achieve that at work.      

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Ways A Positive Attitude Can Help You Each Day Of Your Life   
Connie Limon

Research shows a positive attitude may:


* Delay the ageing process;

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Homeless People A Forgotten Part Of Community (The Fayetteville Observer)
Derrick Adams died in an abandoned house in Fayetteville sometime before Christmas. He had been dead at least several days - maybe even weeks - before his body was found Christmas Eve.
UHV Unveils New Forensic Psychology Graduate Program (The Victoria Advocate)
The University of Houston-Victoria will begin offering a new master of arts degree in forensic psychology this fall after recent approval by the University of Houston System Board of Regents.

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* Fight the common cold;

* Help you find a job regardless of low employment rates.

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Commentary: Dover Senior Keeps Supporting Team Despite Being Sidelined (The Times-Reporter)
Dover High senior Stuart Ramsell has kept a positive attitude in a negative situation.
Illini Face No. 15 Wisconsin Needing Resume-enhancing Victory (The Pantagraph)
CHAMPAIGN — A sellout crowd, a do-or-die attitude and a bellyfull of nerves figure to greet the Illini basketball team Sundayafternoon at the Assembly Hall.

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If you want to stay strong and show fewer signs of frailty as you get older in years try keeping an upbeat view of life. Researchers at the University of Texas say our genes, physical health and psychosocial factors play a role in how quickly we age. They believe there is a connection between the mind and the body, which helps to dictate how well or not so well we age. They found that those people who had a positive outlook on life were significantly less likely to become frail as they became older in years. More research is required to pin down exactly why there is a link. The speculation is that positive emotions may directly affect health by altering the chemical balance of the body. It may very well be that a positive attitude helps a person to have better health and be more successful in life, which in turn helps slow down the aging process.


Smile Away the Common Cold


Studies show people with a positive attitude produced fewer signs and symptoms of the common cold. This is probably because people with healthy attitudes tend to practice and promote healthy lifestyle habits.


The study appeared in the July issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. The study reports that people with a positive attitude, who are energetic, happy and relaxed, are less likely to catch colds than people who are depressed, nervous or angry.


Researchers hope their findings will lead to more studies about how a positive attitude affects health, not only in fighting the common cold, but also to ward off other illnesses.


Keeping a positive attitude as well as eating your apple a day might just the right medicine to help you fight off the common cold.


A positive attitude can help you find a job even in the hardest of times.


The Georgia Institute of Technology study reveals how certain personality traits affect job-search behavior. Those with positive attitudes are more likely to look harder jobs and consequently experience more success finding jobs. Some of the personality traits were:


* Optimistic, upbeat and positive attitude job seekers view the job loss as an opportunity to improve their position.


* Higher in self-esteem and self-efficacy, those with a positive attitude are more confident in their ability to search for a job.


* They are generally extroverted people.


* They are more conscientious, organized and concerned with follow-up.


Some tips on how to obtain and keep a positive attitude:


* Read positive material every day.


* Listen to uplifting audio programs.


* Spend time with people who are positive.


* Use positive language.


* Pursue your passions in life. If you are passionate about something you will get excited about it, come alive and bubble over when you talk about it. Decide what your passions in life truly are.


* If you hate what you are doing all day, it is hard to find and keep a positive attitude about anything. You will probably be one of the first to get the sniffles!


* You don't have to quit your job that pays your mortgage to pursue something you are passionate about. Do it as a hobby on the side.


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The Just Wait Teen Program

The teenagers of the Just Wait Teen™ program  are exposed to the information and research concerning their Happiness, their Temperaments, their Talents, their Attributes, their Gifts and how to maintain long term relationships. The Just Wait Teen™ program  is life enhancing program, not a substance rehabilitation program. Although its' objective is to give the teens tools and understandings to reach 21 years - substance free.

This Program was developed by the Just Wait Foundation a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation to prevent drug, alcohol, and tobacco problems among teenagers. The Foundation provides one-year scholarships (two semesters) at a Community College or $1000 award to teens that completes the 4 year Just Wait Teen™ Positive Youth Development Program, obtains a GED, or graduates from high school - alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. The Just Wait Foundation has arranged to use of 80 acres to raise fruit and vegetables to finance the scholarships

We offer free training for any person or group that wants to start this program in their community.

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The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment

The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment must be the most astounding psychological study ever performed, or at any rate ranking right up there with some of the experiments done by Stanley Milgram.

Who would ever guess that a brief observation of a four-year old alone with a marshmallow would be an excellent predictor of college entrance exam scores — twice as good a predictor as IQ test scores? In one of the most amazing developmental studies ever conducted, Walter Michel of Stanford created a simple test of the ability of four year old children to control impulses and delay gratification.

Children were taken one at a time into a room with a one-way mirror. They were shown a marshmallow. The experimenter told them he had to leave and that they could have the marshmallow right then, but if they waited for the experimenter to return from an errand, they could have two marshmallows. One marshmallow was left on a table in front of them. Some children grabbed the available marshmallow within seconds of the experimenter leaving. Others waited up to twenty minutes for the experimenter to return.

In a follow-up study (Shoda, Mischel, & Peake, 1990), children were tested at 18 years of age and comparisons were made between the third of the children who grabbed the marshmallow (the "impulsive") and the third who delayed gratification in order to receive the enhanced reward ("impulse controlled").

The third of the children who were most impulsive at four years of age scored an average of 524 verbal and 528 math. The impulse controlled students who scored 610 verbal and 652 math! This astounding 210 point total score difference on the SAT was predicted on the basis of a single observation at four years of age! The 210 point difference is as large as the average differences between that of economically advantaged versus disadvantaged children and is larger than the difference between children from families with graduate degrees versus children whose parents did not finish high school!

At four years of age gobbling a marshmallow now v. waiting for two later is twice as good a predictor of later SAT scores than is IQ. Poor impulse control is also a better predictor of later delinquency than is IQ.

Obviously there's a strong correlation between IQ and impulse control. People who do well in life have lots of both, and vice versa for those who don't do well.

Sociologists have regaled us for years with their theories as to the causes of poverty: lack of education, structural causes, racism. But it seems that, at least where opportunity exists, the reason for differences in income and wealth is that the poor have high impulsivity.

The Just Wait Teen Program

The teenagers of the Just Wait Teen™ program  are exposed to the information and research concerning their Happiness, their Temperaments, their Talents, their Attributes, their Gifts and how to maintain long term relationships. The Just Wait Teen™ program  is life enhancing program, not a substance rehabilitation program. Although its' objective is to give the teens tools and understandings to reach 21 years - substance free.

This Program was developed by the Just Wait Foundation a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation to prevent drug, alcohol, and tobacco problems among teenagers. The Foundation provides one-year scholarships (two semesters) at a Community College or $1000 award to teens that completes the 4 year Just Wait Teen™ Positive Youth Development Program, obtains a GED, or graduates from high school - alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. The Just Wait Foundation has arranged to use of 80 acres to raise fruit and vegetables to finance the scholarships

We offer free training for any person or group that wants to start this program in their community.

Contact Us    Copyright 2009  - 2010 & Developed by  Just Wait Teens

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