Transcript Chapter 9
Academic Survival Staying On Course to Your Success Presentation based on: On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and Life, 3rd Ed., Skip Downing, author. Staying On Course Successful Students Struggling Students Gain self-awareness, consciously employing behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes that keep them on course. Make important choices unconsciously, being directed by selfsabotaging habits and outdated life scripts. Staying On Course Successful Students Struggling Students Adopt lifelong learning, finding valuable lessons and wisdom in nearly every experience they have. Resist learning new ideas and skills, viewing learning as fearful or boring rather than as mental play. Staying On Course Successful Students Struggling Students Develop emotional intelligence, effectively managing their emotions in support of their goals and dreams. Live at the mercy of strong emotions such as anger, or a need for instant gratification. Staying On Course Successful Students Unsuccessful Students Believe in themselves, seeing themselves as capable, lovable, and unconditionally worthy human beings. Doubt their competence and personal value, feeling inadequate to create their desired outcomes and experiences. Staying On Course Seven Tenets of Success 1) Personal Responsibility – the ability to make wise choices that keep us on course without interfering with the rights of others to do the same. Staying On Course Seven Tenets of Success 2) Self Motivation – Choosing meaningful goals and dreams so as to generate a powerful inner drive. When we visualize our future life, we are much more likely to make our goals and dreams a reality. Staying on Course Seven Tenets of Success 3) Self-Management - Our ability to effectively manage our efforts in achieving our goals and dreams. We consistently do what is important, we manage our time well, and stay committed to our goals and dreams. Staying On Course Seven Tenets of Success 4) Interdependence - The realization that success requires growth from being a dependent child to an interdependence adult. We realize that we can create most of our goals and dreams through our independence, but acknowledge that we can increase our level of success by building mutually supportive relationships with many others. Staying On Course Seven Tenets of Success 5. Self-Awareness - Developing an awareness of the scripts that we write for our lives and consciously uncovering self-defeating patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion, as well as our limiting core beliefs. Staying On Course Seven Tenets of Success 6) Lifelong Learning – Developing awareness of our preferred learning style so we maximize our efforts to learn in college and beyond. We develop a monitoring system for checking our progress toward our goals and making any necessary corrections. Staying On Course Seven Tenets of Success • Emotional Intelligence – Realizing that we are responsible for creating our inner and outer world, we recognize our emotions and develop strategies for dealing with strong emotions. Staying On Course Successful individuals realizes the need to make wise choices in all situations and develop a positive, core belief that we can achieve anything that we desire. We simply must Believe in Ourselves!