1. Please open your agenda to October 7th
Be Prepared!
Please open your agenda to October 7th

2. The Agenda is Your Key to Success: The Six-P Formula
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance
Turn to your neighbor and tell them the Six-P Formula
5 times quickly

3. How does the Agenda help you reach your Six-P Potential?
Why is it important to use an Agenda?
What purpose does the AMS Agenda serve?
What creative ways do you use your agenda to be organized and prepared for the week?

4. Surveys shows that students who use their agenda consistently have higher GPAs than students who do not.
Why do you think this is?
How can someone use the Agenda to SET GOALS?

5. MOTIVATE YOURSELF INTO ACTION
Develop a positive mental attitude about your AGENDA
Look at the agenda as a tool for meeting your goals.
Use your agenda to organize your daily life.
Keep a positive attitude about keeping your agenda. Step it up!
Think and journal continually about goals. This is what your agenda is for!

6. Step it Up! Color Symbol Image: Creating Visual Connections in our Agenda
How could our Mustang Round Up class use a color, symbol, and image system to create reminders in our agenda?
What should color be used for?
What kind of symbols could we use?
What images could be used as friendly reminders?
Turn and Work: With a partner turn and work out a system using a color- symbol-image system in your AGENDAS. Be prepared to use your agenda to present this to our class.

7. Share
After you and a partner develop a Color, Symbol, Image system for agenda use be prepared to share.
Presentation:
We chose these COLORS to represent:
We chose these SYMBOLS to represent:
We chose this IMAGE to represent:
As you develop your system complete your agenda with weekly details. Put this system in your own Agenda.

8. Day Two: Eat That FROG Open your Agenda to October 8
If you had to create a HEADLINE for this week of your life what would it be? This could be about something you are learning, an important event, even something you are struggling with…
(A headline is like a title to the newspaper: Extra Extra Read All About It!)
If you are comfortable share it with us.

9. Make A List! There is a great rule for success: Think on paper!
Goal Setting
Look over your agenda
Add details to your agenda- after school events
Set deadlines in your agenda- use your favorite Color-Symbol-Image idea from yesterday.
Check off things your completed in the agenda
Make a TO DO LIST
Organize the list into a plan
The power of written goals is stronger and more attainable than a goal that is not identified!

10. Now that you have a list of things to get done how do we go about getting it done?
Have you heard of EAT THAT FROG? While we watch this video think about what Eat That Frog means…

12. Look over your agenda list:
What is your frog? The thing you DO NOT want to do.
What kind of symbol could you come up with as your frog?
What should you do with your frog?

13. Helpful hints on getting things done:
The following slides are metaphors. After reading the slide be prepared to explain what the rule is a metaphor for.

14. The First Rule of Frog Eating
If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
What does this mean?
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
Think of this as a test. Treat it like a personal challenge. Resist the temptation to start with the easier task.

15. The Second Rule of Frog Eating
If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for very long.
Take action immediately
Develop Habits of Success
Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time.
Whenever you complete a task of any size of importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.
The completion of an important task triggers the release of endorphins inyour brain. They give you a natural “high”. The endorphin rush that follows successful completion of any task makes you feel more positive, personalbe, creative, and confident.
The Three D’s of New Habit Formation
Make a decision to develop the habit of task completion.
Discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over until they become automatic.
Back everything you do with determination until the habit is locked in and becomes a permanent part of your personality.
Visualize yourself as you want to be.
Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future. Your self-image, the way you see yourself on the inside, largely determines your performance on the outside. All improvements in your outer life begin with improvements on the inside, in your mental pictures.

16. “Swiss cheese” your tasks
SLICE AND DICE THE TASK
“Swiss cheese” your tasks
You will find it easier to do a single, small piece of a large project than to start on the whole job

17. Take action immediately
USE THE ABCDE METHOD
Think on paper
A – must do’s – frogs
B – should do’s
C – nice to do
D – delegate
E – eliminate
Take action immediately

18. SINGLE HANDLE EVERY TASK
Once you get going, keep going
By concentrating single-mindedly on your most important task, you can reduce the time required to complete it by 50 percent or more
Self-discipline is the key

19. Headline: Be Prepared Write a HEADLINE about being prepared.
Include a helpful hint you want to share that you learned these past two days. This could be about using the agenda, creating a color system, or even eating a frog!
Be prepared to share your Headline as a Ticket out the Door today.