1. Looking Toward the Future

2. Thinking Positively About Your Life and Your Future

3. Powerful Tools for Success
Optimism
Hope
Future-Mindedness

4. Beliefs: Personal opinions about yourself, your life and the world around you

5. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Our expectations influence our behaviors
The behavior causes our expectations to come true

6. For Example
If I believe I am not good in math, I may not do the assignment or may even avoid taking math
If I believe I can be good in math, I can take the steps needed to be successful

7. Robert Rosenthal Did experiments on the “self-fulfilling prophecy”
Animals
School children
Positive expectations led to positive outcomes

8. Positive Self-Talk
The thoughts or silent inner voice in our heads

9. Negative Thoughts Can be toxic to the body
Can cause biochemical changes that lead to depression

10. Positive Thoughts Build good self-esteem
Help us to become confident in our abilities
Help us to achieve our life goals

11. Pretend you had 3 wishes. What would they be?

12. Using your wishes, write 3 affirmation statements.

13. Affirmation Statements
Start with “I”
Include your name
Are written in the present tense

14. For example: I, Marsha, am relaxed. I, Marsha, am healthy.

15. Share one of your affirmation statements with the class.

16. Guidelines for Increasing Positive Thoughts
Monitor your thoughts. Are they positive or negative?
When you notice a negative thought, imagine rewinding a tape and recording a new positive message.

17. Guidelines for Increasing Positive Thoughts
Start the positive message with “I” and use the present tense
Make your affirmation stronger by visualizing what you want to achieve
Repeat positive thoughts to yourself until they become a habit

18. Visualize Your Success

19. Athletes Use Visualization
A good way to practice
Helps you to pre-experience events in your mind
For example, pole vaulters imagine the perfect jump before they make it

20. Visualization We create all things twice Make a mental picture
Create the physical reality by taking action

21. For example: In building a house we Create a blueprint or plan
Then we build the house

22. As a college student:
Visualize yourself in your cap and gown walking across the stage to receive your diploma

23. Exercise: Visualize Your Success Draw a picture, make a list or write some sentences. Share with the class

24. Hope for the Best
Believing that you can be successful helps you to be successful
Hopeful students are more successful

25. Words are powerful

26. Ladder of Powerful Speaking

27. For example, if I loan you the money, will you pay it back?

28. I should pay it back.

29. I might pay it back.

30. I want to pay it back.

31. I intend to pay it back.

32. I promise to pay it back.

33. Will you marry me and be true to me?

34. I should.

35. I might.

36. You know, I really want to.

37. I intend to.

38. Yes, I do. I promise.

39. Will you finish your career paper on time
Will you finish your career paper on time? Be careful about the language you use.

40. Life is a Dangerous Opportunity

41. The Chinese Word for Crisis Has Two Characters:
Danger
Opportunity

42. What is the danger? What is the opportunity?

43. Every adversity has the seed of a greater benefit or possibility.

44. What Are Your Values?

45. Values are:
What we think is important
What we feel is right and good

46. Where do we get our values?

47. Values come from:
Parents
Friends
Culture
Church
Media
Society

48. Assignment: My Personal Coat of Arms
What your like about yourself
Your greatest achievement
Your most prized possession
What you value most in life
A symbol of your personality
Three words to be remembered by

49. Some samples

54. Steps to Happiness Express gratitude Cultivate optimism
Avoid over thinking and social comparison
Practice acts of kindness
Increase flow activities

55. Steps to Happiness Savor life’s joys
Commit to accomplishing your goals
Take care of your body

56. Secrets to Happiness Martin Seligman
Identifying, cultivating, and using your personal strengths in work, love, play, and parenting

57. Happiness = S + C + V
S is your set range (50% of happiness is determined by heredity)
C is your circumstance (8-15 % of happiness)
V is what is under your voluntary control (40%)

58. What are some examples of factors under your voluntary control?

59. Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
Steven Covey

60. Be Proactive
Accept responsibility for your life

61. Begin with the end in mind
Know what is important
What do you want to accomplish in your life?

62. Put first things first
Set priorities

63. Think win-win Seek solutions that benefit everyone
Focus on cooperation rather than competition

64. First seek to understand. Then be understood.
Listening is the first step in effective communication

65. Synergize The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Working together as a team, you can accomplish more than each member can accomplish separately

66. Sharpen the saw Invest time in yourself to stay healthy: Physically
Mentally
Spiritually
Socially

67. Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs
Believe that you can make a difference in the world and inspire others to do the same
From The 8th Habit, From Effectiveness to Greatness by Steven Covey

68. More Secrets to Happiness

69. Secrets to Happiness Happiness can’t be bought
Happiness is more internal than external
Happiness is not determined by age, race, gender or income
Happiness won’t arrive in the Publisher’s Clearinghouse envelope

70. Secrets to Happiness
Happiness depends less on things than on our attitude toward the things we have
Happiness is a ‘hookable” habit

71. Make a decision to choose happiness

72. Find small things that make you happy and sprinkle your life with them.

73. Laugh more. Laughter produces a relaxation response.

74. A good joke beats a pill for a lot of ailments.

75. Learn to think like an optimist. Assume you will succeed.

76. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones.

77. Do things that use your skills.

78. Fill your life with things you like to do
Fill your life with things you like to do. Remember the 20 things you like to do?

79. Get enough rest.

80. Exercise to feel good and to cope with anxiety.

81. There are no substitutes for fresh air, sunshine and exercise.

82. Reduce stress.

83. Close relationships are important.

84. If you don’t do anything else in life, love someone and let someone love you.

85. Keep things in perspective. Will it matter 10 years from now?

86. Exercise: Happiness Is . . . . Share Your Ideas

87. Learn to Laugh at Life

88. Have a laugh at life and look around for happiness instead of sadness
Have a laugh at life and look around for happiness instead of sadness Red Skelton

89. The physical act of smiling makes you feel happier.

90. If you do not feel happy, smile and pretend to be happy.
Smiling produces seratonin which is a neurotransmitter linked with feelings of happiness

91. So, smile and be happy. Use your creativity to make some positive changes in your life.

92. Keys to Success: You Are What You Think

93. What we believe is true, comes true
What we believe is true, comes true. What we believe is possible, becomes possible Henry Ford

94. Watch your thoughts;. they become words. Watch your words;
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny Frank Outlaw

95. Grand Essentials of Life

96. Grand Essentials of Life
Something to do (that you like)

97. Grand Essentials of Life
Something to do (that you like)
Someone to love

98. Grand Essentials of Life
Something to do (that you like)
Someone to love
Something to hope for

99. Use the tools in this book to create your success.

100. This is not the end of the course but a new beginning.

101. CONGRATULATIONS
Future
Graduates

102. Review the Keys to Success in this book
Review the Keys to Success in this book. What is your favorite one and why?

103. Measure Your Success Complete the exercise.
Pick up the one you did the first day of class.
Compare your results. Is your score higher?
Staple the two exercises together and hand them in.

104. Place these in the envelope: Visualize Your Success Happiness Is
Place these in the envelope: Visualize Your Success Happiness Is Intentions for the Future Put your name and address on it.

105. Turn In: Letter Course Evaluation