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Fun Facts: How to Conduct Yourself Beautifully

Always call before paying a visit.

Put your phone down when having a conversation. If you are on your phone while someone is speaking to you, it shows how important a role this device plays in your life,and  how bored you are of what’s happening.

If you’re walking along with someone and your companion greets a person you don’t know, you should also greet them.

Your shoes should always be clean.

Avoid meaningless talk on the phone. If you need someone to talk to, it’s better to meet with them in person.

If someone offends you, you shouldn’t return the favor or raise your voice to the person who insulted you. Don’t sink to their level. Just smile and leave the ill-mannered company.

A man should never touch a woman without her permission. This means that it is unacceptable to: hold her hand, touch her during a conversation, and push her or take her hand above the elbow (unless a man is helping her to get into or out of a car, or cross the street).

If someone calls to you rudely, you shouldn’t answer. Be a model of good etiquette and polite social manners.

The golden rule when using perfume is moderation. If you can still smell your perfume in the evening, everyone else is already tired of it.

If you’re forgiven after you’ve apologized, don’t touch the offensive subject again just to say you’re sorry. You should try to avoid such mistakes in the future.

Avoid laughing and talking too loudly, as well as staring at people — it’s insulting.

Don’t forget to thank your loved ones, relatives, and friends. They help you not because they

Let’s respect each other!

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The Art of Failing

This art of failing is not all about failing in your exams but at this stage, that’s a part of it. Have you asked yourself why you have three terms? It’s not only because there’s so much to learn, it’s also because it’s important to see your results, know where you didn’t do well, and get better at it. This is the art of failing, that everything might not work out the first time but that you are strong enough to get up and try to be better.

Take Thomas Edison for instance, his teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything.” And he was fired from his first two jobs for being “non-productive.” We also know that he made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Today not much is said about his thousand unsuccessful attempts but every time we touch a light switch, we remember that it was invented by him. When he was asked how it felt to fail, Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps”. This is the art of failing, that every time he failed, he recorded the steps he took so that he would not repeat the same mistakes.

There are a whole lot of successful men today who have failed and will continue to fail but every time they do, they know they have eliminated the way that will not work and will eventually find one that will. As a result of this, I advise you to try out different things. You need to experience life to be sure of what you have passion for. What do you do during your free time? If you love numbers, why not get a job helping your parents or extended family members balance accounts or keep records at their businesses. The trick is to gather as many mentors and resources as you can right now so that when you’re older, you would have tried a lot of things, failed at some too, enough to know what you are most happy and great at doing.

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Basic First Aid

The first Four basic rules of First Aid are: The

Assess the scene

Evaluate the scene

Assess safety

Prioritize care

 

Also, Check for medical alert tags

Do head-to-toe check

Move only if necessary

 

If the victim is not Breathing-

Administer CPR:

Lay the person on his or her back

Give chest compressions

Tilt head slightly

Breathe into the person’s mouth

Continue until EMS personnel arrive

 

 If the victim is Bleeding-

Stop the flow of blood

Wear gloves

Cover the wound

Apply pressure

If a body part has been amputated, put it on ice

 

If the victim Faints

 Check for breathing

Administer CPR if necessary

Call emergency personnel if more than a few minutes

If conscious, lay the victim down with feet elevated

 

If the victim has epileptic seizures-

Remove victim from hazards

Check for breathing and nothing in the mouth

Keep comfortable.

 

 If the victim has a heart attack

Call emergency personnel

Make victim comfortable

Loosen tight clothing

Check for medication

Keep victim still

Don’t give stimulants

 

If the victim is choking

Ask the person to speak or cough

Deliver 5 back blows

Perform abdominal thrusts

Repeat sequence of back blows and abdominal thrusts

 If abdominal thrusts don’t work

Try a finger sweep of the throat

Call emergency personnel

 

Electrical Shock

Don’t touch!

Turn power off

Call emergency personnel

Remove person from live wire

Check for breathing

 

Heat Exhaustion

Move to cool place

Lay victim down

Elevate feet

Loosen clothing

Give fluids

Apply cool compresses

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February Newsletter

Can you believe it’s the second month of the year already? Believe it or not, you’ll blink and the year will be over. This is the best time to review your goals for the year to be sure you’re not wasting time. I’ve heard that it takes 21 days to learn a new habit or break and old one.  This means that all you need to make a real change is determination every day for the next 3 weeks. If you think you’ve not achieved anything yet, don’t fret, you have 11 more months to go. All you have to do is review your goals and make sure they are attainable. In previous posts we’ve talked about working around your preferences. If you have chores to do at home, work it into your personal timetable, if you prefer to read one topic early in the morning, wake up in time to read and get to school.

Very soon, continuous assessment tests for the term will begin. If you start to read now, you will become familiar with the topics when you are faced with them in a test. If one of your resolutions was to learn a skill, now is the time to plan and practice because practice makes perfect. Always have a strategy for whatever you want to do. Pace yourself and celebrate all your small successes.

That been said, I thought that I should share with you some important life skills. Life skills are those skills everyone needs to live a healthy, happy life. They are effective at ensuring that one knows how to effectively deal with life’s issues.

This month we are going to be dealing with three skills. They are:

(A)Identifying your passions

(B)Basic first aid

(C)The art of failing

At first glance, these might not seem like skills one needs to excel and be happy in life but they are very necessary to ensuring you can deal with life’s issues. Join me on the blog as we explore these further. Have a great weekend and an awesome month!