Weekly Plan

Prepare an (approximately) 200 word summary of the textbook material you have read this week on Chapter 6. This summary should be entered in your learning journal this week.

Perform a critical analysis of each reading using critical thinking techniques from this week’s readings.

2. List three specific insights (new ideas or concepts) you learned from this chapter—include a quotation from the book for each: Insight One: Growing up I always knew that we should take into consideration on how we practice our Disciplines but I never really put it into perspective and how easy it could control

What is your new goal? What do you hope to achieve? Set yourself targets that will improve your performance in the future.

2.What do you think this book’s message is? What is it trying to teach? Use specific examples from the book to support your answer.

Weekplan is a weekly planner app with more 300,000 users. It's based on Dr. Stephen Covey’s four quadrant model. Most time management systems are good at helping store the tasks you need to do, but Weekplan is different—it helps you not just prioritize your tasks but also motivates you to do these tasks through daily reminders and notifications. It also allows you to mark tasks as important or urgent. By the end of the week, you can clearly see where you spent most of your time. It even provides quadrant view, goals, a journal, reminders and integration with Google Calendar.

The work of Harlow and Deci, however, brought a different perspective to the table. The idea that people can be motivated internally by things that cannot be seen or touched was a startling new concept. Intrinsic motivation, or Motivation 3.0 as Pink calls it, was officially born. Motivation 3.0 suggests that “I want to do something” because the sheer act of doing so is personally satisfying and deeply meaningful on a much grander scale. Intrinsic motivation, as the name implies, comes from within an

I still am confused on why they don’t bring it up during the book and that intrigued me. #2. What things are you doing to help you understand the book?

2. Based on the readings from weeks one and two, choose one passage written by one of the authors we’ve read. Identify the author and the title of the work. Then analyze the passage you chose in terms of its significance and historical impact. You should explain why it was chosen, look at the details provided in the passage, and explain in detail what the passage suggests about the work as a whole including its value to American history as well as to American literature.

It is safe to assume that at any given time, you will struggle to make time for yourself amid your busy schedule. There are too many things to do, places to be, and people to tend to. What ultimately happens is that you end up neglecting the most important person which is YOU.

Is being busy a bad thing? Tim Kreider believes it is. He states that people are overscheduling themselves which is unnecessary and silly of them to do. Kreider begins his argument in his article “The ‘Busy Trap”, by asking how many times we respond with “I’m busy” when asked how we are doing. Living in today’s society it’s the normal thing to be busy to the point of exhaustion. In fact, Kreider states that people who are working full time jobs or crazy hours are not those who say that they are busy. Being tired is what makes people feel like they are busy. For example, a mother working at the local grocery store, gas station, and recreation center will tell others that she is doing well when asked about how she is doing. On the other

Whether in our personal or professional lives, we all say it. For most of us, we throw the term around so easily that we don’t even realize we are doing it. At this point in your day, I’m sure you have either said it to someone, or someone has said it to you (maybe even a few times). What am I talking about you may ask? That tiny little four-letter word we use to describe our plate being too full, our never-ending to-do list, or the act of juggling multiple tasks at once – I’m talking about being “busy”.

Qualitative Analysis I believe that I had a lot of success with my goals in the past few weeks. My goals were to finish my homework the day it is assigned and keep in touch with my family and friends and don’t lose the bond that we had. My steps for my first goal were to write everything down in my planner as it is assigned, make a schedule of when assignments are due in chronological order and to check off when the HW was completed. I made sure to follow each step, which helped me stay organized, however, there were many times when I didn’t write them down, which made it hard because I had to ask others what the homework was just in case.

Usually when someone wants to lose weight, they are eager to get it off as fast as possible. Waiting around for months for the pounds to drop away is not a pleasing thought and they want something to happen right now. Luckily, there are many different diet plans to lose weight fast that do give results.

Question # 1: Leaving aside assignment 6 (Gibson/Key) what reading(s) did you find most compelling this week, and why?