exploring values, attitude, and motivation
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Exploring Values, Attitude,and Motivation
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Idea #1 Values, attitudes and motivation
are personal characteristics and
thought patterns that influenceability to become self-reliant orself-sufficient.
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Why Is It Important toUnderstand Values, Attitude and
Motivation?They influence ability to reach
goals
They effect self esteem (and viseversa)
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Values Ideals
Customs
Institutions Respect
Excellence
Usefulness Esteem
Cleanliness
Freedom
Education Cruelty
Crime
Blasphemy
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Attitude Manner, disposition, feelingTendency or orientation of mind
Positive attitude Negative attitude
Group attitudes
Position or posture of the bodyThreatening attitude Relaxed attitude
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Motivation Causes a person to act in a certain
way
Incentive
Goal or object of a persons actions
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Mission Statement What is a mission statement?
Who usually has a missionstatement?
Do you know any missionstatements?
Can individuals or families havemission statements?
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Idea #2 Identifying, clarifying and acting on
values is one key to effective life
management and includes a step-by-step process.
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Identify, Clarify, Act on
Values Identify & prioritize guiding principles
Identify & prioritize values
Write a mission statement Identify & resolve conflicts between values
and behaviors
Publicly affirm values
Use values to guide decisions & goals
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Values Dost thou love
life? Then do not
squander time.For that is thething life is madeof.
Benjamin Franklin
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Resolving Value Conflicts Postpone some things for later
Sequence activities
Trade off with spouse or significantother
Develop a new support system
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Publicly Affirm Values Tell other people what you believe or value
When you choose, choose the thing you say youvalue
Stand up for what you believe in
Plan and schedule time to do things you value
Choose a job that supports your values
Set goals to demonstrate your values
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Idea #3 Attitude may be the single most
influential factor in determining life
satisfaction (happiness).
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Positive Attitude Do you have to have a positive
attitude before you can behave in
positive ways?
Do you have to have positive
experiences before you candevelop a positive attitude?
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Positive Attitude Attitude and behavior are part of a
self-fulfilling cycle.You can change your attitude and
your behavior will change
You can change your behavior and
your attitude will change
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Idea #4 Definitions of success are personal,
and impact my attitude.
Understanding what motivates meis the first step in defining successfor myself.
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Self Esteem Achievement
Recognition
Power
Possessions
ControlWhy do you work? How is it
connected to self esteem?
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Self-actualizationThe very best we can be
Moving outside self to look at world
Contributing to society,environment, religion, creativity,etc.
Dedicated to a cause, movementor belief
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How do you define
success? My definition of success is
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Idea #5 Identifying distorted thinking styles
and automatic thoughts can help
improve my attitude, ensurebehavior consistent with prizedvalues, and provide insights into
the factors that motivate me tosuccess.
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All or Nothing Everything is black or white,
nothing in between
Perfect or total failure Small mistakes become total
failure
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Over-generalization A single negative event becomes a
never-ending pattern of defeat
Always and never are oftenused
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Mental Filter Single negative detail obscures the
whole event
Even overall positives becomeoverwhelmed by negatives
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Discounting the Positive Positive experiences are rejected
because they dont count
Takes the job out of life, becausethe positive never matters
Leaves a person feeling
inadequate and un-rewarded
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Jumping to Conclusions Interpreting things negatively when
there are no facts to support it
Mind reading concluding whatsomeone really meant withoutchecking it out
Fortune telling predicting thatthings will turn out badly withoutproof or evidence
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Magnification Exaggerates importance of
problems and shortcomings
Minimizes importance of desirablequalities or events
Also called the binocular trick
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Emotional Reasoning Assuming that negative emotions
reflect the way things really are
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Victim Statements Should, must, have to, ought
to used to justify
hopes/expectations Assumes you must use policing to
motivate or make myself behave Shoulds directed at self lead to guilt
and frustration Shoulds directed at others lead to
anger and frustration
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Labeling Extreme form of all-or-nothing thinking Assumes that a person is what a person
does, even if they do it once Label becomes part of my character, so
nothing can be done about it Leads to feelings of hostility and
hopelessness
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Personalization and Blame Person feels responsible for an
event that isnt in that persons
control Blames self for things that go
wrong, even when its not my fault
Assigns responsibility, motives, orcontrol to other people when itdoesnt totally belong to them
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Idea #6 Personal choice or control and
accountability are critical to
achieving self-identified successgoals.
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Happiness Results From Belief that your destiny is in your
own hands
Orientation away from oneselftoward the rest of the world
Having an open mind Willingness to be open to new
solutions.
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Happiness Is
Not Having What You Want
But Wanting What You Have
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Life Is Like a PatchworkQuilt
If you borrow your definition
in life from somewhere else,youll never be able to get itall to fit together.
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Choice & Control I chose to do what I am doing
No one forced me into it
I am satisfied because of mychoices
I am well-adjusted with my choice
I can change my choice when Iwant to
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My Choice
A Slave Is Compelled to Go
the First MileA Free Man Chooses to Go the
Second Mile
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Explanatory StylesYour habitual way of explaining
bad events
Is a habit of thoughtYour style stems directly from
whether you think you are valuable
and deserving or worthless andhopeless
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Explanatory Style Permanence
Pervasiveness
Personalization
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Permanence People who give us easily believe
that the causes of bad events are
permanent People who resist helplessness
believe the causes of bad events
are temporary
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Pervasiveness Universal explanations for failure
Give up on everything
Specific explanations for failure Give up in that one part of their lives March stalwartly on in the others
Permanent & universal causes for
misfortune Helplessness Despair Collapse under pressure
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Personalization Blame self for failure
Internal style
Low self-esteem
Blame external events Do not lose self-esteem
Like themselvesTake responsibility for own actions