June 27, 2006 Newsletter
Hey,
The professor, aka, Mr. Williams, asked me to write the newsletter this week. I never wrote no newsletter before, but here goes.
See I got this friend who’s working on his GED. Only, he ain’t really working on it, if you know what I mean. He a procrastinator. Lots of talk, not much action. This newsletter is for Dwayne (and everyone else too).
My advice, Dwayne, is first start with the easy stuff. Take a practice test and see what you do best on and then study first for the tests that you can almost pass. Don’t do the hard ones first cuz you will get discourage fast. See, you want to get some success cuz that makes you feel good about yourself and then you want to study harder. You can even go and take one or two of the tests you think you can pass and get them out of the way. Feels good knowin you got less to do.
Okay, now here’s my biggest advice: passing the GED isn’t about learning the stuff, it’s about how bad want to do it.
If you really want it to happen it will. You know this to be a fact. When there was something you really, really wanted in your life, it happened didn’t it? If you really, really want to pass the GED, you will. It’s that simple.
This may sound too easy cuz we get to thinking about all the stuff we gots to learn. Like algebra and geometry and history and such. And when we start looking at it from what we don’t know, it be a lot. But I don’t worry bout that. I just keep my mind on what I’m going to get with the GED. See, I’m going to use my GED to go to college. I know I can do this if I really want to. And that’s all it is. You see what I’m saying?
So D-man, time to get off your butt. Get it dun.
If you have some ways you motivate yourself, let me know. You can send me an email, or post a comment to the blog, Leonard’s Newsletters.
And if you liked this newsletter let me know and maybe Mr. Williams will ask me to write some more.
Until next time,
Curtiz
