Monday, September 20, 2010

Leadership Examples

"They wanted an education.The University wanted to get rid of the deadbeats. Competition became tough" (pg901) is something I personally can relate too when I was reading about Tom Jones. Just like me, he was also a slacker even though I did't do some of the crazy things he did but I did got a lazy in high school and now a part of that is still here with me now in college. I am trying to find the spark in my college life where it can lead me to finally get serious about being at this university. Its true that competition here is tough. Majority of my friends are taking college really seriously unlike me. Luckily for Jones he has found a motivation for him to do his best and reach his potential at UT. Now as i read his life I too am trying to find this motivation where I can be just as serious as he is


"His health collapsed. His marriage fell apart. He failed courses and eventually dropped out of school. But Herman Sweatt had accomplished what he set out to do. His legal justic and equal opportunity to his home state's flagship university"(pg 949). As I read this I was shock in amazement as too what Sweatt had to go through but as I read on I was even more amaze that everything he did, no matter the good and bad that happen, ended up making his goal come true. I believed every body should have a goal that they can strive for just like him. I'm not saying that you have to pick a goal where you might lose everything just to reach it but I am saying is that you should have a mind set to accomplish something that is worth getting. I have lots of goals in my life and some i manage to achieved while others ended in failure. Goals are something great to have and when you reach those goals its just feels great. Point of the story is that nothing is impossible with right mind set. As long as you try and have determination you might end up making history like Sweatt did when he integrated the University of Texas.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sancho

"As far as i can find out, Old Sancho lived right there on the Esperanza" (pg.147) is a quote that almost everybody can related too.What we called home is the place that we feel most comfortable with and just like Old Sancho who did everything he can to go back to his home, we too have a place like this. No matter where you are in the world you  will always have that one special place. People tend to forget this place because they feel like they want to explore and move on to new experience but home is the place where you grew up on, where you can relax they way you want to, and where you have people that cares for you. Old Sancho has this place too and that is at the ranch where Kerr and Maria live. So as a longhorn can remember his home "we" the longhorn at UT must remember where our home is as well




But for those who really enjoy the trill of being on your own tan you are like a mustang who loves to be "Sweep away, wild with sheer life, and free, free, free, free of all confines of time and flesh"(pg 179). As people gets older they tend to want the option of being independent and leave home to explore the life of being by themselves. Just like a wild mustang, people tend to do one of two things and that is to go wild or slowly calm down and be more domesticated. Mustang can fun freely or let a person ride on their back. People can make crazy choices or follow the ideal path of what society plans out for you. People can related to either one of these 2 creatures, "Longhorn" the simple animal or "mustang" the out going animal as well as many more




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Mustang-http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.uvm.edu/~ezurlo/mustang1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uvm.edu/~ezurlo/totalframe.html&usg=__1eRAnX7iO3YBupTytNBTqxfDptQ=&h=367&w=550&sz=59&hl=en&start=39&zoom=1&tbnid=Nc6dXvzM_iGrfM:&tbnh=160&tbnw=209&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmustang%2Bhorse%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D642%26tbs%3Disch:10,938&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=521&ei=XLuNTPmZB9ChngekuMXMDA&oei=E7uNTPKCJIaKlwfn-fFg&esq=9&page=3&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:39&tx=89&ty=45&biw=1280&bih=642
    




   
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Time Management

"Right out a plan for your self. Make a schedule." (p.90). This is something majority of people these day lack. And as a result we have bad time management. Without a secure schedule, you will say you want to do something but end up doing something else because you didn't really plan out your day. You just say what you would do but a lot of time things can happen that will make you change your mind. An example of this is me telling myself that I would do my homework when i get to Houston but end up doing other things. If I had plan a schedule for myself and follow what I plan then i wouldn't have to struggle trying to do all my work at the last minute. Making a plan can also benefit you by reminding you what exactly you need to do on a day to day basic. At the same time it can help you with time management. Planning out your day will help you make sure you do what you need to do and have time to do it.

 

"To say yes to important priorities,you have to learn to say no to other activities" (p.156). With time management you have to learn what is more important. As human beings we all like to take the easy path so when we are faced with an easy fun choice or a hard busy choice, we tend to go for the easy one. As a result,  our time management skill tends to be really bad. As this quote mention, we have to learn when to say "no". If we learn to say "no" to things we know we shouldn't be doing then our time management skill would be a lot better. If i learn to say no to some things then I wouldn't have to struggle sometimes with my time management too. If we learn to combine these too rules together, everybody would have a day where it can run smoothly because they are doing what they are suppose to.



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