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Principal’s

Something we are often advised to do in things go wrong, stay positive, and refer back
life is to have goals and targets, and to follow to your original plan.
our dreams! However, making these goals is Staying positive actually has multiple
not as easy as it seems. What targets should benefits too. It not only assists us with staying
we set? Are they obtainable? Where should we on track to accomplish what we want, it also
start? This is where the EAC’s slogan for this helps us to spread love, which brings me to
year comes in handy, ‘Think Big, Start Small’. our school slogan for this year, ‘Stay positive,
Thinking big is important; it forces us to push spread love’. During times of hardship, it is
ourselves and stretch our potential, which is easy to take out frustration on others and Message
imperative if we want to flourish. Research create villains to blame. Does this help us in
shows that having specific goals and targets the long run though? Or does it create a train
in life that are also challenging lead to higher of negative thoughts that not only hamper our
performance. However, we need to learn ambitions, but are also harmful to our mental
to walk before we can run. While having a state? 1 Corinthians 6:14 says “Do everything
challenging goal helps to drive us forward, we in love.” Let’s keep our minds buzzing with
cannot reach it straight away, we need to start positivity, and continually spread love around
small. Taking these small steps helps us to the campus, to our friends, to our family, to
gradually work towards our end goals, making everyone in our country and to people all
it easier to not only keep track of progress, but around the world. Life is easier when it is done
to also overcome difficulties. with love.

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Let’s take a look at the 5 wave of COVID-19 I would like to finish by thanking and
that we experienced earlier this year. Before congratulating the Clover editorial team for
then, many people had various goals and their hard work and dedication. I am sure they
targets in their lives, but for some the pandemic ‘thought big’ with their goal of creating Issue 19
based restrictions meant they could not meet of the Clover magazine, but ‘started small’ with
them. Should they have given up? Well, the each article, one by one. They have clearly
idea of ‘thinking big and starting small’ builds worked together to accomplish their task, which
the concept of patience, and when difficulties no doubt required a lot of love and positivity
arise, taking small steps makes navigating within the team, while utilizing a variety of skill
these obstacles much simpler and more sets to enhance the quality of this publication.
achievable. There is nothing wrong with having
an ambitious goal, in fact, it is encouraged, but Enjoy your read!
remember that you need a plan to get there. All the best,
Start small, be patient and you will reach it. Do
not let bumps in the road get you down. When Constance Cheung,
Principal 3