December CompassPoint Newsletter Hi CompassPoint! It's December and the year is wrapping up. Final exams, college application deadlines, and many important events are coming up. Keep up the great work in this last stretch before 2012 ends!
As you may already know, CompassPoint held a Panel Event, "Unconvetional Paths," at Lynbrook High in November. The event was a huge success and had over 130 attendees. Special thanks to Kristin Stephens, Luke Segars, and Wila Zhou for serving on the guest panel. Check out pictures and memorable quotes from the event on our Tumblr!
Other than that, take a break with the articles, videos and quotes below. Finish strong and happy holidays everyone!
December Tidbits...
1. 10 Quotes That Can Change Your Life We see motivational and insporational quotes everywhere, but how much do they actually mean? Take a look at these quotes, try them out, and and see if they can actually change your life.
2. If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This by Peter Bregman "People say the hardest part about meditating is finding the time to meditate. This makes sense: who these days has time to do nothing? It's hard to justify." However, what people don't realize is that meditation is actually linked with willpower and your capacity to resist urges.
3. Try Something New for 30 Days by Matt Cuts In this TED talk, a Google engineer asks if there's something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just... haven't? His suggestion: Try it for 30 days.
4. Want to Craate a New Habit? Get Ready to Break It by Joel Gascoigne If you're trying to build a new habit, chances are you're going to break it. More than once... And that's okay. Gascoigne insists that it's fine to fail along the way - as long as you're prepared for it.
A Quote a Day...
If you don't design your own life, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."- Jim Rohn
