How to Stay Successful in School

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How to stay successful in school

By caroline pearson Cg-100 karen hill
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Taking the first steps

• What is success?
• Success is staying on course to your desired
  outcomes, and experiences, creating wisdom,
  happiness, unconditional self worth along the
  way. Having potential doesnt guarantee success,
  you have to work for it in order to achieve your
  goals.
• Quality of our lives is determined by the quality
  of the choices we make on a daily basis.
  Successful people stay on course to their
  destinations by wisely choosing their beliefs and
  behaviors.
• People with high self esteem know that no one is
  perfect. Successful people accept what cannot be
  changed. They take action to change negative
  habits into positive ones.

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Self Talk

• Which category are you in?

• Inner Critic a role that judges us as
  inadequate. Blames us for whatever goes wrong in
  life, and finds faults with anything about us.
• Inner Defender the flip side of the inner
  critic. Instead of judging ourselves, inner
  defender judges others.
• Inner Guide The best choice! The inner guide is
  a wise inner voice, making the best of any
  situation, and finding possible solutions for
  mistakes.

• Self talk determines the choices you make at each
  fork in the road, so kick the stinkin thinkin!
• Notice inner critics, especially in bad
  situations. Raise your self esteem by offering
  positive explanation of the problem, question
  importance of the problem, and offer evidence
  that your judgments are incorrect.

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Wise Choice Process

• The wise choice process will empower you to take
  full responsibility for creating your life as you
  want it to be despite the inevitable challenges
  life presents.
• Whats My Present Situation? Identify your
  problem and make it a creator outlook!
• How would I like my situation to be? Goals and
  future outcomes.
• What are my possible choices? Create a list of
  possible choices to your problem
• Likely outcome of each choice list outcomes to
  your list of choices.
• Which choices will I commit to doing? choose the
  best choices to the list to commit yourself to
• When/How will I evaluate my plan? Create a
  scheduled plan to give yourself goals with your
  situation.

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Discovering Self Motivation

• V x E M

• (Values x Expectation Motivation Scale
  yourself 1-10 )This concept says that your level
  of motivation in college is determined by
  multiplying your value score by your expectation
  score, to see how high your motivation score is.
• Value isnt found only in outcomes, its also
  found in experiences. Practice what you wish to
  be!

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How to set a goal

• Heighten motivation that accompanies personal
  meaningful goals. Once you identify life roles,
  think of long term goals for each one.
• Dated Motivated goals have deadlines
• Achievable Motivating goals are challenging, but
  realistic.
• Personal Motivating goals are your goals, not
  someone elses.
• Positive Motivating goals focus your energy on
  what you want rather than what you dont want,
  such as distracting side projects.
• Specific Motivating goals state specific thought
  out plans, with measureable terms.

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Mastering Self Management

• Acting on Purpose Do important actions before
  they become urgent. Harness the power of Quadrant
  II.
• QI Not the best, and not the worst, people in
  this quadrant just need to work on a schedule to
  better their time.
• Q II Best place to be, successful students rank
  in this quadrant.
• Q III and Q IV Worst place to be, victims rank
  in these quadrants, and need to work on reaching
  Quadrant II

Quadrant I (important, and urgent) stress, develop ulcers, and nervous breakdowns Quadrant II (important, not urgent) rich full life, find creators!
Quadrant III (not important, urgent) activities not important to our goals Quadrant IV (not important, not urgent) time wasters.
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Helpful Tips

• Get contact cards from students in all of your
  classes
• Seek help from instructors
• Create a project team
• Start a study group
• Manage your time wisely (with a schedule)
• Make goals
• Eat a healthy breakfast to keep motivated
• Take notes
• Study
• AND BE ON TIME ?