SAL Master Challenge EXERCISE #1

 

SAL Master Challenge

Homework Exercise #1

Self-action leaders are JOURNALERS

Journal writing is one of the most beneficial, therapeutic, and valuable practices and habits you can ever engage in your life and career. I first started journaling on January 1, 1987, when I was only seven years old. I have been an enthusiastic and prolific journaler ever since, penning thousands of pages in all sorts of different diaries and journal records and lists. The blessings to my life and career from doing this have been many and varied. For example, it has bolstered and strengthened my memory, improved my self-esteem and self-image, and helped me to become the writer I am today. 

As you prepare to begin your study and application of SAL, it is vital that you obtain a personal diary to accompany you on your journey.

The first SAL Challenge exercise is to obtain a notebook, or save an electronic text file on your computer, where you can begin your personal SAL-Journal. This diary will accompany your reading and study of the SAL Textbooks and your completion of the SAL Master Challenge.

Throughout the SAL Textbooks, you will come across an image of a hand with a feather pen. Underneath this image it will read: In Your Journal. 

In Your Journal

This image will be followed by a journal writing question or prompt, which you will be required to answer or otherwise complete as part of your SAL Master Challenge. In addition to answering these specific journal prompts and questions, we encourage you to reflect in your journal at the end of each chapter—or at any other point throughout your study of the SAL Textbooks. The purpose of this journal is to record inspiration and other thoughts, feelings, questions, ideas, dreams, aspirations, concerns, fears, frustrations, goals, etc.

Before beginning a new journal entry, always record the DATE. Doing so will increase the value of the journal to you in the future. It will also bolster memory recall.   

Lastly, use your journal to record unfamiliar VOCABULARY words you come across in the SAL Textbook and beyond. Then, with the help of a dictionary, write down the word's part/s of speech, etymology, and definition/s. Finally, creatively compose a practice sentence using each new word.  

Self-action leaders are hard workers. They also value education. As such, they strive diligently to become highly literate and numerate. Lastly, they are effective communicators who are culturally literate and possess a high degree of personal refinement and professional polish. Keeping a journal and expanding your vocabulary are key personal academic pursuits that will help you to achieve these worthy states of being.

TASKS to COMPLETE

1).  Obtain a personal diary or journal.

2).  Read President Theodore Roosevelt's speech, Citizenship in a Republic, and record your reflections thereon.

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I have completed the SAL Master Challenge, EXERCISE #1

Your initials:__________         AP initials:__________

 

—Dr. JJ

Monday, November 27, 2023

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

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