Demotivators (Part 2)

So I couldn't get enough of these so I decided to post another five.

Demotivators (Part 1)

Yes, these are exactly what you didn't want to see. I got a couple of good laughs out of these. To see more, check out the Demotivators Website.

Rhetorical Notes

General Conference is a great arena for rhetorical analysis. In fact, the importance associated to each of the prophetic messages gives us strong motivation to analyze and evaluate.

Each speech inspires and teaches us in different ways. Tone, presentation, oratory eloquence, +

What the ethos?

Say what? When I first heard the word ethos I had absolutely no idea what my English teacher was talking about. It seemed like some crazy word that people make up in order to veil what they really mean. Ethos later came to mean the moral character, or credibility of an author. This made much more sense to me.

Whether we realize it or not, the world is full of ethos in so many different ways. Public speakers need to build up their reputation with an audience in order to be the most effective. Writers need to target their audiences in ways that are insightful and wise. When a person has no ethos with us we simple disregard their comments as useless or dumb. Ethos is everything. What many people label as their "reputation", "legitimacy", or "character" is just another way of saying their "ethos." If you take away a person's positive ethos, their arguments no longer become legitimate. This was just one of the many things that I learned this semester in my writing class.

Thoughts on... sleep

What's sleep I ask myself? I haven't gotten enough of this the past couple of days. I heard people say that the optimal amount of sleep varies from person to person, but for me pretty much ANY sleep would be most beneficial. I think that I probably should be getting at least eight hours a night in order to stay at an optimal brain functionality. If only there were more hours in the day. How great would that be?

Imagine with me for just a second that we had an unlimited amount of time to finish homework comfortably and then sleep until our hearts content. We would never have to worry about being late to anything. On the other side of this argument, it seems that such a world with unlimited hours might be unproductive. I would probably oversleep and do too much of nothing. Although my exhausted body may say, "please take a moment and rest" I also know that too much sleep can be a bad thing.

I guess that the important thing to remember about sleep is this: sleep while you can, but wake up when the alarm goes off. The end.

How-to... NOT procrastinate (Top 10)

These are ten suggestions to do what I have never really been effective at doing. They say that most illnesses have remedies. Well, I suppose that these suggestions could help each of us avoid the pitfalls of procrastinating. Many of these ideas came from my own knowledge and a few came from the internet. Here they are (not in any particular order):

1. Prioritize your assignments.
2. Organize your time between work and leisure.
3. Assign time for each assignment and focus your efforts on specific tasks.
4. Control your environment so that you can focus on your task.
5. Face your fears.
6. Start with the hardest task of your day.
7. Don't blow a project out of proportion.
8. Just take the first step.
9. Just make a decision; any decision.
10. Stop thinking. Start doing!

Note: 5 - 10 came from the site The Positivity Blog

Thoughts on... procrastination

I've learned from experience that procrastination is never a good idea. The more often you do this, the less sleep you get in the long run. There have been many times in my life that I've procrastinated doing something important thinking to myself that, "I still have tomorrow", or "I'll get it done later." The ambiguous "later" syndrome can plague us all if we don't watch out. Sometimes "later" comes sooner than we had planned for and we find ourselves writing a ridiculous amount of blog posts to get credit for a semester-long assignment. A person's worst nightmare is to be caught unprepared for an important moment. Just imagine the amount of sadness and regret that the world will have at the day of judgment. I'm sure that many put off their much needed repentance because they take time for granted and think that they will always have another day to do this.

Essentially, procrastination is gambling away your time. Some people are still able to finish their necessary projects after procrastinating them but usually this is done at a much higher cost than it would have been otherwise or with weaker results. I don't know about you, but I never work very well when I'm tired or after studying for many consecutive hours. That's why it isn't wise for me to save all my studying for the day just before the test. Without beating this topic too much into the ground, I just want to finalize by reemphasizing the moral of this story: Don't disillusion yourself by thinking that procrastination is okay because in the end you will still have to do the work and put in the time.