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Growth Mindset

Build Up My Purpose I really love doing acronyms.  They're just fun to think up, and creating one hurts my head.  My Acronym is BUMP, Build up my purpose.  We have so many bumps in our lives, we end up getting upset or angry at why we keep having bumps.  However, we forget that bumps make us stronger and they build our purposes in life.  Without bumps, life is too easy, and we don't have anything to work towards.

Learning Challenge: Time Challenge

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At the beginning of the course, I planned to do most of my work, around 4 hours, on Tuesdays, and the rest of the work on Saturdays.  The reason for this is that I don't have any classes to go to on Tuesdays, and it is a good break day.  However, because I view it as a break day, I tend to usually have fun on Tuesdays, and I end up not doing the work on Tuesdays.  I think it would be better to allocate only a couple hours to Tuesday and the remaining hours to Sunday. Day Calendar

Tech Tip: Wordcounter

I really think that this tool is really useful.  I'm used to using the wordcounter website, but that gets a little tedious.  It's just a lot easier to have an extension to word count instantly.  It really depends on how much I write.  If I can get into the groove of writing something, then I'll usually write a lot, and then I will end up writing the maximum word count.  But if I can't get into the groove, I'll usually end up writing the minimum.  It all really depends on my mood