Strategies for Success

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In oneself lies the whole world, And if you know
how to look and learn, Then the door is there And
the key is in your hand. Nobody on Earth can give
you Either that key or the door to open, except
yourself J.Krishnamurti, author and philosopher
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Strategies for Success
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Measuring success

• How do we measure success in our society?
• Success vs. happiness

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Success or Happiness?

• Success is getting what you want,
• Happiness is wanting what you have.

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Defining success from your perspective

• Think of a time when you were successful
• Academic or non-academic success
• What did you achieve? In this case, what defined
  success?
• List at least 3 things that lead to this success
  be very specific

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Are you a successful student?

• Fill in the Are you a successful student? form to
  find out

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Attributes of High Achievers

• A passion for excellence
• Perseverance to follow through
• Unshakable self-confidence
• Able to influence and create a bond with other
  people
• A positive mind-set that sees all problems as
  opportunities

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Attributes of High Achievers

• Self-discipline and the ability to concentrate
• The ability to set goals, to plan, and to direct
  activities
• The desire to push limits, succeed at new goals,
  and strive for self-actualization
• The desire to make a positive contribution to the
  world

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Self-assessment
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What is self-assessment?

• Are you a successful student? form
  self-assessment!
• Getting to know yourself
• Strengths and weaknesses
• Habits
• Beliefs and values

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Why do we self-assess?

• Self-assessment and the art of automobile repair
• Fixing whats broken
• We know what the big problem is but we have to
  look deeper for answers to the question why?
• So you want to improve your reading? How does
  self-assessment help?

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When to self-assess

• Every time you want to
• change
• try something new
• Repeatedly throughout your life.

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What does it have to do with success?

• Ultimately, you are aiming to find out
• Why I can or why I cant
• Why have I been or have not been successful
• Where Im at
• Its not about putting yourself down

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Lets get physical

• Write it down!
• being active, physically performing a task
  (rather than just thinking about it) can make a
  big difference to your success

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Strategies for Success
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Another way?

• Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump,
  bump, bump, on the back of his head ... It is,
  as far as he knows, the only way of coming
  downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there is
  another way. If only he could stop bumping for a
  moment and think about it.

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- from Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926