Phillips Friday Focus
January 12, 2018
Happy New Year! 20 tips for a Positive New Year
1. Stay Positive.
2. Take a daily "Thank You Walk." You can’t be stressed and thankful at the same time. Feel blessed and you won’t be stressed.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and less foods manufactured in plants.
4. Talk to yourself instead of listen to yourself. Instead of listening to your complaints, fears and doubts, talk to yourself with words of truth and encouragement.
5. Post a sign that says "No Energy Vampires Allowed."
6. Be a Positive Team Member.
7. Don't chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you.
8. Get more sleep.
9. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control.
10. Look for opportunities to love, serve, and care.
11. Live your purpose. Remember why you do what you do. We don't get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.
12. Remember, there's no such thing as an overnight success. Love the process.
13. Trust that everything happens for a reason and expect good things to come out of challenging experiences.
14. Implement the no complaining rule, if you are complaining you aren't leading.
15. Read more books than you did in 2017.
16. Don't seek happiness. Instead live with love, passion and purpose and happiness will find you.
17. Focus on "Get to" vs "Have to."
18. The next time you "fail" remember that it’s not meant to define you. It’s meant to refine you.
19. Smile and laugh more. .
20. Enjoy the ride. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy it.
-by Jon Gordon
Latino Family Literacy Project
What's Ahead...
January 15- School Holiday
January 17- SST meetings,Writing /Spelling UIL here on campus, 4th grade GT day
4:00 teacher meeting
January 18- 8:05 Support Staff meeting, room 41
January 19- 3rd grade GT day, Positive Behavior Bashes (TBD, we will make sure 3rd grade GT is back to school before their bash)
January 20-UIL Meet
January 23- Latino Family Literacy Project Kick off, 5:30-7:30,National Reading Day, DEAR time and Character Parade
4th grade parade- 8:30
3rd grade parade-1:40
January 24- 3:45 Rice baby shower
January 29- 3:30 CIP meeting, 2nd formative review
January 31- 4:00 teacher meeting, ELPS training must be completed
February 2- 3rd grade GT day
February 5-9-TEA visit to KISD
February 6- 4th grade Writing Benchmark
Happy Birthday!
Jan. 16- Becky Boccaccio
Jan. 17- Kori Acevedo
Jan. 27- Kim Dabbs