Chris Paul

Chris Paul 

Chris Paul story showed loyalty because he never gave up on himself nor his grandfather. Chris had said that his grandfather was his role model into achieving his goals. Chris dedicated 61 points in his basketball game for his grandfather because he was committed to be the best of him. He did not do it just because he wanted to beat the record he did it to show his grandfather after he died that he will always be his motivation. Even though this story was sad and hard for Chris to talk about when his grandfather died the good thing is that he still have faith for himself and his grandfather. What I learned from Chris Paul story was that if someone you love dies that shouldn't bring you down, but it should help you grow to a better strong person. 

Internet Society

Reflection: 

This website shows the audience about connecting the world with different societies. As I'm observing the website I read that they have missions to promote a better open development because the internet is for everyone to learn and explore. This website includes stuff about technology, governance, and policy. Meaning they try to promote new things that are beneficial for the citizens.What I found interesting is that they give education/leadership,and grants/awards.They also have events and meetings around the world to build a better society. In 1970 the TCP begins all the way to 2010 its being progressing all around the world. There are also many chapters that explain issues about whats going on , but most importantly they help to achieve the issues. 

John Wooden

Coach Wooden site.

Pyramid of Success:

Block 1: Industriousness

"In plain and simple English this means hard work. Very hard work. There is no substitute for very hard work. There is no substitute for very hard work when it comes to success." 

Reflection: 

Industriousness means to be a hard worker. This block from the pyramid is important because hard work doesnt come naturally you have to work hard for you can become successful. Also, because you would not have trouble being independent because you dont need no one to remind you what to do. A hard worker shows a lot about your character. For instance, it shows how competitive you are, committed into always finishing, and you do not let anything get in your way in completing your goals. Many people say that hard work pays off and my understanding from that is that i agree because if you know you really worked hard for something you want to achieve it turns out to be great. This is why i will be working harder every time i want to achieve something.

Quote:

" I was obligated to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

by: Joahnn Sabestian Bach

Reflection; This quote is telling the reader that with industrious there is always you are always going
to succeed. 

Block 2: Enthusiasm

"It is engine that powers all blocks of the Pyramid. It is why I choose Industriousness and Enthusiasm as the cornerstones of my Pyramid of success. It is where everything begins."

Reflections: Enthusiasm means that when your pumped up into doing something or excited because your going to do something. For example, your trying out for dance competition and some of the people are nervous or shy but your on it you could be nervous but your so enthusiastic does not get in the way. Also, it important to have this characteristic because you can inspire others to have enthusiasm. It it build a very good bond with others because maybe there not having a good day and you can change there mood.Lastly say you friend is playing and there is a game and she nervous and that does not let her focus, so you need to help her out by motivating her. 

Quote: "Nothing great was never achieved without enthusiasm."

Reflection: This quote means that enthusiasm is an important part of you

Block:3 Friendship

Reflection: Friendship is important because friendship can become something more then a friend.The truth is life is better with friends. Friends can you bring you up to become a better person. Also, you will have the best memories with them.Such as meeting new people, getting to know each other, and trust. Friendship is an important role for a human character it can lead to having feelings with another person because you know how they are. If you need a hand your friends will come by and they would help you.



Quote; " I met you as stranger took you as friend ,I hope we meet in heaven where friendship never ends."

Reflection: I picked this quote because it means that when you meet someone you will never want to break the bond you both created.

Block: 4 Loyalty 

Reflection: Loyalty is important because it's similar to trust. Another word similar to loyalty is faithful. Being loyal to your friend, relationships is important because you wouldn't want to hurt the person feelings. You can not betray friends either nor talk about them behind there back in any negative way. You have to make sure that they trust you and when you say "I promise" you'll keep that promise. Being loyal means that you have to be determine on what you say to the other person because if you fail they might never believe you, and maybe they wouldn't want to be with you anymore. Also, you have to be committed to your friends because what if one day they really need you and your not there how you promise.Another example is that when your friend is being bully and everyone is doing it just because and you join instead of helping her out that is not loyalty because you stand next to her because you care. 

Quote: "Loyalty is rare , if you find it keep it."

Reflection: This quote is saying that loyalty you may not find any where but if you find it you should keep it.

Block: 5 Cooperation

"With all levels of your co-workers.Listen if you want to be heard. Be interested on finding best ways, not having your own way."

Block:6 Ambition 

For noble goals.

Reflection: This block is telling the audience that in order to be ambitious you have to be positive and strong about your goals. This is important role of a humans character because what if one of your friends are not ambitious and they need a hand in order for someone to give them that push. Being ambitious is important because no matter what happens you will always try your hardest in order to succeed in life. Ambitious has a purpose in every one its what ever it is of your goals that you want to achieve by yourself or with a loyal friend. Say you want to achieve on your skills on playing basketball that would be called ambitious because if you really wanted to improve you will desire this goal and achieve it. I will make sure that i will be ambitious with my goals because i would not like if if i gave up. 

Quote: "Ambitious is believing on yourself even when no one in the world does".

Reflection: I choose this quote because you should always stay positive even though everything is going bad because you should encourage yourself.

Block 7: Self-control

" Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgement and common sense are essential."

Reflection: This block means to control yourself into wanting to do something, but you should not because it's not a good thing to do. For instance, when a teacher hands out a test but they tell you not to turn it around and you are anxious to turn it you need to have self control. Also, when your the only one who finished the exam and your bored and your trying to do something that makes noise however you know you would get in trouble because your gonna distract your classmates. Another example is when your angry and your trying to wreck or punch the wall you should have self control because you will hurt yourself.I think it will be best to breathe in and out 3 times or grab a pillow and cover your mouth and scream to get it out of your system. That's why its important to have self control because it shows that you can control your emotions. 

Quote: "If you learn self control you can master anything."

Reflection: I choose this quote because it's true because if you do not know how to control your temper then people would not want you to do anything.

Block 8: Alertness 

"Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve." 

Reflection: Alertness means that you need to stay aware on what you need to get done. Such as an assignment being do and your responsible to turn in your assignment on time. Also, when your determine on doing your work and following instruction to succeed faster on your goals. For instance, say your boss tells you and the other employees to do a project of trying to change something for solutions, the boss assignment is due next week. Its a competition for promotion you have to be alert on how long it going to take you and aware on the stuff you need. Alert is also being on it on your goals because ones you lag on your goals its going to be easier to be careless. 

Quote: "Alertness, awareness mindfulness are keys to meditation."

Reflection: I choose this quote because alertness leads to new things everyday in life.

Block: 9 Initiative 

"Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it." 

 Reflection: Initiative is being independent and if you make a mistake its okay because you will learn from it. Many people are independent it can be a single mom, or dad, and living on your own. Being initiative can lead to being happy or sometimes life can hit you hard. For instance, say that you are living alone and you pay all the bills, but everything is to much for you. However, it shows that you are responsible and you are showing those who think cant do it alone that you can. It also shows that you are brave and not afraid of the world. Because being showing fear is not an option you need to show that you can do it with or without anyone. Initiative is also similar to taking risk because your not afraid to fail at all. When you do fail its okay if you learn from your mistakes and if you change them. Initiative is important because you can be initiative and not be embarrassed to fail.

Quote: "initiative id doing the right without being told." -Victor Hugo

Reflection: I picked this quote because if you do stuff without being told means that you are responsible.

Block:10 Intentness

"Set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations. Be determine and persistent. "

Reflection: If you do not know what intentness means, it means that your persistent and your focus on whatever it is your achieving.For instance, everyone has a goal to achieve and its sky diving you need to be intentness by focusing on saving money or the transportation. Also, if you need to pass a test you need to concentrate on whats you been learning in class or what would help you study for you can pass a test. Another example is when your in a sport and you coach tells you that you at least need to reach at 32 points if you don't after you will be conditioning twice as usual. This helps you know that you need to practice on what you need help on. Being intentness helps you be determine on your goals because its important to achieve your goals with all your hard work.




Quote: "It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest."

by: Chuck Berry

Reflection: I picked this quote because you will achieve if you put your mind to it. 

Block: 11 Sincerity

"Keep friends''

Reflections: Sincerity is being generous with others who you do know or not know. Being sincerity is important because that's when you will meet new people. For instance your new at campus do not know where is your first class, and you meet some one to show you around that's being sincerity.Also, when you ask your friends if you can barrow money and they give you more than that because they were nice enough to help you and they were not selfish with there money. In life many people are sincerity and thats great because they spread the choosing the right to help one another. 

Quote; "Don't claim your sincere, just be it." 

Reflection: This quote means that you dont need to hide being sincere.

Block: 12 Adaptability 

To any situation

Reflection: Adaptability is important because is like saying your use to on focusing on completing your daily schedule . Also, by you have to get use to on your new job or when you move in, in a new community. For instance, I got a job and it's my first job i was excited ,but not how i was before in the first day. What they have me doing is going to houses to hand out flyers for citizens to vote for there city council, and clerks. Furthermore, i have to get use to walking for 5 hours straight and looking for the addresses they assigned me and it hard because sometimes i get lost because i dont know the streets, but it does help me get experience on knowing the  streets. 

Quotes: " Adaptability is the simple secret of survival." 

 Reflection: This quote means that adapting is a key to succeed. 

Block:13 Condition

"Mental -Moral -Physical. Rest ,exercise and diet must be considered. Moderation must be practiced. Dissipation must be eliminated." 

Reflection: Condition is affecting the way in which people live or work with safety or well- being. 

This means that whatever it is your working on your being determine on your achievement and you know what your doing. Also, it can mean that your conditioning on sports to prepare your to be fit and healthy. Its important to condition yourself on life because you will better yourself in stuff that you will be moving forward. Because life moves on with or without and you have to make sure that every time it counts because your conditioning yourself to become a better person. Furthermore, thats what people need to be condition of not slacking off , to always be organized on there plans for there week because ones you slack off it be easier to being lazy. Thats why its best for you to be determine and not complaining on the life style they choice. 

Quote: "Everyone needs help that's a human condition." 

Reflection: This means that many people get stuck and don't know how to get out of there problem that's why they need more role models to teach them how to me condition and determine. 

Block: 14 Skill
"A knowlegede of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail."
Reflection: This block is that you need to have skill in order to be condition on things you need to succeed. Skills is important because without skills you wont be good at what your doing. For instance, people who work at a fast food there were condition to be doing the hamburgers and that practicing turns into a skill because they already know what to do and they work fast. Also, when you have a skill on doing something that you are really good at then it should be easy for you to get something out of i t.



Quote" Continue to study and learn new things."
Reflection: This quote can encourage many people to study something and really understand it because if you didnt understand then you didnt learn.


Block:15 Team Spirit 
"A genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all."

Reflection: Team Spirit is important because your team need to motivate you into bettering yourself. Because you guys are a team that all created and bond its like your second family. Without team spirit you will be struggling on stuff you need to get help on. Team Spirit is something that everyone should have because it will help them feel better on doing stuff and you feel that your team will never fail. It can your family cheering for you on one of your last games to show support. Also, when your in a fun game such as playing checkers, bingo, dodge ball, basketball ect, your family and friends and team mates will support you.


Quote: " We're all in this together"

Reflection: This quote is saying that whatever it is you and your team mates are going through you will get out together.

Block:16 Honesty
 "In thought in action"

Reflection; This Block is important because honesty is a way of showing that you are committed in a team, relationship, work,and friends. For instance, at work say your working foe a magazine and you being selfish about it you betray your own company by giving ideas to another brand magazine. That shows that you are not being honest to yourself nor work. In a relationship you need to be honest to each other because then you wont have  any trust and your relationship would end up dying just like a flower without sunlight and water. Also, you have to be honest to your family because what if your being bullied and you dont have friends to tell you have to be strong  and  honest to your family because there the ones who are going to be there for you. You need to be honest to your friends because you wouldnt want them to find out something you said behind there backs. Thats why its important to to be honest to yourself and others.




Quote: "Being honest never hurts anyone, but being a liar only hurts you"
Reflection: This quote means that when you lie you hurt yourself because your becoming someone your not and it's easier for you to lie.

Block: 17 Resourcefulness



Block:18 Poise 
" Just be yourself. Being at ease in any situation." Graceful and elegant baring in a person.

Reflection: Poise means an graceful person that appreciates anything they have. Also, an action you do that is simple and a really good idea that works out the way you want it. For instance having a good appearance on stuff or how you dress. Having good well manners by not judging books by there cover. Meaning that you will not change your way to






Block:19 Confidence 
"Respect without fear. May come from being prepared and keeping all things in proper perspective." 
Reflection:Confidence is a important role for a human character. Its important because when you have confidence is like your own world turned into a big pile of cloud 9. Because you feel very accountable towards the stuff you will succeed in. Also, in stuff that you want to accomplish for example, having the bravery to talk to your boss into giving you a promotion because you dedicated so much into your position and not only you helped your boss set new ideas for things to turn out great. Without confidence you be tuck in a world that is not expected of everything is giving by hand. What i mean by that is that many people have the idea that everything is easy and everything is expected to be given in hand or there use to things led o to an easy way out. Confidence is also important because it builds you courage and makes you think positive. Such as, I can do it. I believe in myself, i can't back down, keep on going, never give up ect. All of this positive quotes inspire people and will get them to succeed. This is why i think confidence is important.




Quote:" Self confidence is the best outfit, rock it and own it."

Reflection: This quote means that when you feel confident you own it and motivate yourself and imagine yourself achieve it.


Block: 20 Reliability 
Creates respect

Reflection: This block is telling the reader to be reliable on things you say for instance you telling your friend that you'll be volunteering and you never showed up. Being reliable is important because you will earn respect and trust and also you will become a better person. You will succeed in life because everybody will want you to do the work becaause they know that you will do it and try your best. Also, say that you and your classmates are doing a project and its time to go home and they tell you to hold on to the project because they trust that you will be here and you will keep it safe. Also, they will respect you because they know you are a hard working person who keeps on achieving. 


Quote: " A person who lacks reliability is utterly useless"

Reflection: This means that if you cant rely on a person you shouldn't even tell them to do you a favor.

Block: 21 Fight 
Determine effort
Reflection: This doesn't mean the one you get into problems and try to cause kayos with other people you don't,but the one who fights for what they believe in. When you fight yourself you may be fighting for others too , but they are too afraid to stand up for themselves. How the African american's stood up for themselves when the white were treating them like animals. For instance, when you fight for something that you believe in and encourage others you will get what you want and so will they. Fighting for something such as getting a promotion or fighting for your equal rights. Many people all over the world fight for what they want and it's hard because there is a lot of hard things for the process in order to achieve of getting what you want you need to be determine and confident that you will achieve whatever it is.




Quote: " You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life."
Reflection: This quote is telling me that there is going to be days where you would want to give up, but really the thing that should keep you moving is you imagining yourself fighting for what you want.

Block:22 Competitive Greatness 
" Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a difficult challenge."

Reflection: When you are competitive is a good thing because it shows that you will try your hardest on never giving up. Also, say your in any kind of sport championship and there you determine whether you are competitive or not. Being competitive shows a great characteristics of yourself it shows that you are prepared of anything coming your way and you can handle anything. For instance say that your playing basketball and your team is losing form 4 points away and you had set your mind before that at least score 20 points before the end of the game. That is being competitive because your stepping your game of proving yourself that you can achieve with the help of yourself and others. It's also a great feeling that you know your being competitive and playing smart having fun without rubbing it on others people faces. IT will also get you more friends and jobs because who wouldnt want to higher a person who keeps on trying and developing.



Quote: " Perform your best when your required. Your best is required each day."

Reflection: This quote means that its a must that you bring your competitive each day because you will succeed in life.

Block:23 Integrity 
" Purity of intention."
Reflection: Integrity means the quality pf being honest,and having strong morals principals moral uprightness. In order to be integrity is that you need to be determine on you stuff and truthful to yourself that you believe in yourself. Integrity shows that you are attentive on the stuff you want to achieve. For instance, you can build integrity by developing relationships that will help you because you gave a good character of being honest. If your not honest with yourself then your probably not honest with others. Its important that your honest with yourself because it will help you understand more about you and you will have many more friends because they know that they can count on you. Furthermore, its important  because if your in a relationship and your not honest with them it can lead to bad things so is better if your honest so you would not harm one another. Also, it can help others by you showing the right.


Quote:
" Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching."

Reflection: This means that you do not need to pretend and show that you do care when other people are around. No matter where you go show integrity to yourself and others.

Block: 24 Faith 
Believe and Achieve

Having faith is believing in yourself that you can achieve your goals. It can be having faith in others such as a mother to a son having faith that they can be reunited together. It can also be an example of the future for instance a couple who has faith in each other promising they will make it in life together by pursuing there dreams. Another example is trusting yourself to do something such as rock climbing and believing that you will get to the top of the mountain. On the other hand, it also can be religion wise how Moises had faith and his people who did not give on god because they knew that he will come and save them from being slaves to those in Egypt. Adding on, still today people are religious and have faith on Jesus and God because many of us pray to the lord for forgiveness, or a thank you to the lord for everyday giving them life and foods or even blessings all because we have faith. Above it all, faith is important to me because thats when you know you can trust yourself into achieving your goals.


Quote: "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy". 
By:  Norman Vincent Peale

Reflection: This quote means that inorder to succeed your goals you need to believe in yourself.

Block: 25 Patience
good things take time 

Reflection: Having patience is the most important thing that everyone should have because you can control yourself on waiting. Many people are not patient on stuff they want to achieve that is one of the reasons why they fail. You can be patience towards love, job, goals,education, friends, family etc.,if you have patience with one of this things you will be more than happy that you waited. For instance, say that your waiting on a call for the job you got interviewed, but you start having no patience and you start making a scene. Also, when you get pulled out of class to talk to your counselor and there are other students waiting too ,so you just leave out of the room. adding on, if you been an relationships before and none of them seemed to work out they way you both wanted and you start thinking that your not good enough or you are getting tired of waiting for that someone to sweep you off your feet. In my opinion i think if you have patience you will succeed and already have others goals that you want to accomplish. 

Quote: "Patience is bitter, its fruit is sweet".

Reflection: What the quote is trying to tell the reader is that yes having patience can be hard and stressful. However, when you wait and keep on waiting to achieve one day it will come and you will be very happy that you had patience not giving up and laziness.

Pyramid of Success Final Reflection

Reflection: Each word means something positive that implies examples in life. It can be beneficial to everyone because it will help you in life and will make a difference. For instance, Skill is very because it means you master something and your good at. Such as having the skill on talking in front of an audience. The one that implies to me is loyalty because once i promise something i know that i would not break it. Also, because i do not betray others for others. I think that everyone should consider in learning about the words because everyone deserves to  succeed in life. I would incorporate this to people because I care for each and every one of them and i would advice them to do there best because i wouldnt it want them to fail . Above all the blocks teach you to become a better person with yourself and others which is why its important to to imply them into your life.