It’s a good discipline to head up to the front row just because it is harder to tune out when you’re right there in front.Īlex: Absolutely. There is a correlation to where you sit in the classroom and how much you get out of the class.īob: It is a little easier to focus and to concentrate. The front row is usually the stronger students who want to learn and are there to be motivated. It made the difference between, in many cases, a B or a C, and even times, I lucked out, an A. It helps someone who can get distracted by something else.ĭennis: My concentration would go up. Find a way to be there, be near the professor.
Go sit on the front row-ĭennis: -of the class. Absolutely right.ĭennis: I’m convinced a part of my success in college was tied to one very fundamental principle. Amen to that.ĭennis: You’ve got to have a different game plan as you go to college because if you don’t, there are enough distractions and enough people who do have a plan for your life-ĭennis: -who’ll pull and tug you in all different kinds of directions.Īlex: Absolutely right. (audio clip from the Wizard of Oz begins playing)ĭorothy: Toto, I have the feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.Īlex: You’re not in Kansas anymore. These are my priorities.” In other words, schedule your priorities otherwise, the urgent will tyrannize you.ĭennis: What you are saying is to all incoming college freshmen: This is the time I have for reading my Bible, taking care of my soul, going to church. This is time I have for sleep, taking care of my body. This is when I’m going to be studying for my classes.”Ĭarving all that out and then, saying, “This is my time that I have for recreation and for fun. “This is when I’m going to be in the library. I’m going to make sure that I get seven to eight hours of sleep at night.” You’d be surprised how many students burn out for lack of sleep. The schedule is not just, “This is when I’m in class.” It is, “This is when I’m having dinner with my friends,” which is an important thing to do.
How are you going to balance your work load, your job, your sports?” Helping them with some of the skills that I talk about in Chapter Two there of making a schedule. You have 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I think in high school a part of it is helping them to own their decisions. This is great!”īob: There’s some discipline that-I’m trying to think as a parent, “How do we help our kids cultivate these kinds of disciplines so that when they are on their own, some of that may kick back in?”Īlex: Yes. Bob: -I can go to the movies on a Tuesday night!īob: I remember going out and going, “It’s a Tuesday.
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