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Self-regulation and success

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There are numerous factors that need to be taken into account if you will be able to achieve your goals and be successful. One of the key factors is self-regulation. Your ability to influence yourself and to develop your ability to control your actions, your emotions, and even what you think will enable you to adapt to new challenges and situations, control the urge to act on impulse, and ultimately to achieve your goals. To be self-regulated, you first need to decide what the goal is. Then you have to do what it takes to move yourself toward that goal while keeping track of your ...

Feds overstepping in education curriculum

Letters

To the editor: Our federal government is overstepping…it should have no control over curriculum in higher education, or K-12 public school curriculum. I have four children and served 12 years on a K-12 school board.  There have been complaints about curriculum recently, ie ‘sexual’ content concerning gender identity. This can be an uncomfortable subject for people. However, it is an undeniable part of today’s society. For children to navigate well in today’s world, they need to have basic information about their world and society. Today is not the world of 25-50 years ...

Say something, do something

Letters

To the editor: On Jan. 20, President Trump took the Oath of Office: a promise to faithfully execute the duties of the presidency and preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. The rule of law is intended to apply to everyone in this country, regardless of race, political affiliation, gender, ethnicity, religion, immigrant status etc. But, under President Trump our checks and balances are disintegrating into authoritarianism. With the stroke of a felt pen and dramatic signature for all to admire, Trump has issued 130+ executive orders. His message: I am dictator/king and make ...

Embrace our laws

Letters

Editor’s note: The following letter was published on April 17. Due to the beginning of the letter cutoff during editing, it’s being re-published. To the editor: Thank you, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, for having a course called “Totalitarian Political Patterns” way back in the last century. It was taught by a professor originally from an East European country, who had held a high elective position there until ousted by the communists. We students of Russian language and culture and/or of politics, generally, learned to become more aware of the signs of a slide ...

Both political parties should be happy

Letters

To the editor: Apparently Democratic voters are not in favor of President Trump’s policies regarding our illegal immigrants and our governments management and bureaucracy. There’s no need for division on these topics. Let’s just back up a few years and see how some of our former favorite Presidents framed their opinions on these important issues. Lets do a Google search regarding illegal immigrants. Type in the search bar: “Video of President Clintons 1995 State of the Union speech on lllegal Immigration.” In later years Hillary echoed Bills speech in her campaign, then ...

Old Iron escapes the scrap guy

Columns

Three springs ago, a despicable derecho ravaged our region. We eventually engaged a scrap iron guy to haul away some of the wreckage the storm had created at my parents’ farm. It was gratifying to think that the steel from our ruined grain bins was going to be recycled, perhaps into new grain bins. Like many farms, ours had a quantity of dilapidated equipment — a wrecked car, an ancient Case combine, other miscellaneous junk — that had been placed into long-term storage in the shelterbelt. I told the scrap guy exactly where these items could be found, instructing him to just ...