thinking positively about the future chapter 14. imagine your future
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Thinking Positively about the Future Thinking Positively about the Future Chapter 14 Chapter 14
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Imagine Your Future
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Let’s Visualize Your Future
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As a college student:
Visualize yourself in your cap and gown walking across the stage to receive your diploma.
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Exercise:Visualize Your Success
Draw a picture, make a list or write some sentences. Share with the class
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Powerful Tools for Success
Optimism
Hope
Future-Mindedness
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Believe in Yourself
If we have positive beliefs about ourselves, we will feel confident and accomplish our life goals.
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Beliefs:Personal opinions about yourself, your life and the world around you
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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.
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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• Our expectations influence our behaviors.
• The behavior causes our expectations to come true.
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Robert Rosenthal
• Did experiments on the “self-fulfilling prophecy.”
• Positive expectations led to positive outcomes.
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Positive Self-Talk
• The thoughts or silent inner voice in our heads
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Negative Thoughts
• Can be toxic to the body• Can cause biochemical changes
that lead to depression
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Positive Thoughts
• Build good self-esteem• Help us to become confident in our
abilities• Help us to achieve our life
goals
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On a sunny beautiful San Diego day you are walking on the beach and suddenly to stub you toe on something in the sand.
You look down and see something is stuck in the sand. You bend over and pick it up. You brush off the sand off, It’s a lamp!
Affirmations
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The lamp tells you it will grant you 3 wishes with the following conditions.
1. You cannot wish for money2. You cannot wish for more wishes3. It must be for you4. It must me realistic
What three wishes would you wish for?
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Change the wishes to affirmations
Example:
The wish: I wish for good health.
The affirmation: I enjoy having good health.
Share your affirmations statements with the class
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About Your Life and Your Future
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Guidelines for Increasing Positive Thoughts
• Monitor your thoughts. Are they positive or negative?
• When you notice a negative thought, imagine rewinding the message and recording a new positive message.
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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.
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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
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Visualization
We create all things twice.Make a mental picture.
Create the physical reality by taking action.
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For example:
• In building a house we– Create a blueprint or plan– Then we build the house
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Hope for the Best
• Believing that you can be successful helps you to be successful.
• Hopeful students are more successful.
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Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
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Be Proactive
Accept responsibility for your life.
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Begin with the end in mind.
• Know what is important.• What do you want to
accomplish in your life?
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Put first things first.
Set priorities.
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Think win-win.
• Seek solutions that benefit everyone.• Focus on cooperation rather than
competition.
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First seek to understand. Then be understood.
Listening is the first step in effective communication.
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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.
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Sharpen the saw.
Invest time in yourself to stay healthy:
Physically
Mentally
Spiritually
Socially
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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.
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Understanding Life Stages
• Understand the present.• Take a glimpse into the future.
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What is your life stage?What comes next?
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Erik Erikson
• Human beings pass through 8 stages in a fixed order.
• Each stage is a turning point.• The outcome of each stage is
positive or negative.
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Stage 1: Trust Vs. Mistrust
• Age 0-1• If caregivers are consistent and caring, the
child learns to trust the world as a safe place.• If the infant is abused or mistreated, he or
she will learn that the world is an unsafe place.
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Stage 2: Autonomy Vs. Shame and Doubt
• Ages 1-3• Children learn to feel competent by
feeding themselves, using the toilet and playing alone.
• Or they learn to doubt their abilities.
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Stage 3: Initiative Vs. Guilt
• Ages 3-5• Children learn to plan their activities within
their parents guidelines.• Or they develop guilt over their misbehavior.
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Stage 4: Industry Vs. Inferiority
• Ages 5-11• Children learn to meet the demands
of teachers, parents and peers.• They learn that effort
leads to success.• Or they develop a
lifelong feeling of inferiority.
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Stage 5: Identity Vs. Role Confusion
• Ages 11-18• Children learn about their identity (personality,
interests, values.)• They also learn about the world of work.• Or they develop confusion over their role in
life.
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Stage 6: Intimacy Vs. Isolation
• Ages 18-40• A person develops a loving, committed
relationship • Or the adult becomes isolated from others.
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Stage 7: Generativity Vs. Stagnation
• Ages 40-65• The adult contributes to future generations
through raising children, helping others, developing products or coming up with creative new ideas.
• Or the adult becomes stagnant and self-centered.
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Stage 8: Integrity Vs. Despair
• Ages 65+• People reap the
benefits of all they have done.
• They realize that life is temporary.
• Or the individual struggles to find meaning in life.
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Another Life Stage Theory
Daniel Levinson
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Daniel Levinson
• Adult development• Stages alternate between stable and
transitional periods.• Stable periods last 6-7 years during
which people pursue their goals and establish a structure.
• Transitional periods last 4-5 years and adults change the structure.
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What is Your Stage?
• 17-22 Transitional• 22-28 Stable• 28-33 Transitional• 33-40 Stable• 40-45 Transitional• 45-50 Stable• 50-55 Transitional• 55-60 Stable
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Another Theory:Gail SheehyAuthor of Passages andNew Passages
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Provisional Adulthood 18-30
Two opposing goals:Exploration-Who am I?
Desire for stability
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Provisional Adulthood 18-30
Age 30 is a turning pointFeel confident in making choices without help from parents
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Provisional Adulthood 18-30
• Challenges– Changing views on marriage– Drugs, guns and violence– Gap between rich and poor– Rapid changes in the world
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First Adulthood 30-45
• At age 35 ask, “Is half of my life over?”
• The beginning of mid-life crisis
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What is mid-life crisis?• A major transition in life in which we
question what we did in the first half of life
• Adults often make major changes in their lives
• What changes haveyou observed in adultsgoing through mid-lifecrisis?
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What is mid-life crisis?
• Half of life is not over.• Half of life lies ahead.• A gateway to a new
beginning of second adulthood
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Second Adulthood Ages 45-85
Begins with the resolution of the mid-life crisisAge of Mastery 45-65
Age of Integrity 65-85+
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Age of Mastery 45-65
• The apex of life• People have a sense
of mastery and have experience with living.
• Age 50 is the youth of second adulthood.
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Successful Aging
• Determine what isimportant in life.
• Take an active partin life.
• Find what you enjoyand do it.
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Age of Integrity 65-85+
• Have learned how to live life• The retirement transition• Make contributions to
family and community
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Health and Wellbeing in the 60’s +
• Mature love is more important than money or power
• Continued growth and excitement about life
• Exercise is the most important factor in retarding the aging process
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Exercise: Lifeline
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TURN YOUR PAPER SIDEWAYS
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Start with your birth date
1995
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Add 100 YearsLocate Today’s Date
19952095 OR LATER2016
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What significant events happened fromyour birthdate to the present time?
19952095 OR LATER2016
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What significant events will happen from today forward? When will youfinish your degree?
19952095 OR LATER2016
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Write 2 Statements:
I discovered that I _________.
Share.
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Finding happiness in your life.
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Steps to Happiness
• Express gratitude.• Cultivate optimism.• Avoid over thinking and social
comparison.• Practice acts of kindness.• Increase flow activities.
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Steps to Happiness
• Savor life’s joys.• Commit to accomplishing your
goals.• Take care of your body.
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Secrets to Happiness
Martin Seligman
Achieve happiness by identifying, cultivating, and using your personal strengths in work, love, play, and parenting.
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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%)
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What are some examples of factors under your voluntary control?
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More Secrets to Happiness
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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.
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Secrets to Happiness
• Happiness depends less on things than on our attitude toward the things we have.
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Make a decision to choose happiness.
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Find small things that make you happy and sprinkle your life with them.
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Laugh more. Laughter produces a relaxation response.
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A good joke beats a pill for a lot of ailments.
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Learn to think like an optimist. Assume you will succeed.
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Replace negative thoughts with positive ones.
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Do things that use your skills.
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Fill your life with things you like to do. Remember the 20 things you like to do?
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Get enough rest.
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Exercise to feel good and to cope with anxiety.
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There are no substitutes for fresh air, sunshine and exercise.
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Reduce stress.
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Close relationships are important.
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If you don’t do anythingelse in life, love someoneand let someone love you.
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Keep things in perspective. Will it matter 10 years from now?
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Exercise:Happiness Is . . . .Share Your Ideas
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Keys to Success:You Are What You Think
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What we believe is true, comes true.What we believe is possible, becomes possible. --Henry Ford
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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
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Grand Essentials of Life
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Grand Essentials of Life
Something to do (that you like)
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Grand Essentials of Life
• Something to do (that you like)• Someone to love
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Grand Essentials of Life
• Something to do (that you like)• Someone to love• Something to hope for
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Use thetools in this book to createyour success.
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This is not the end of the course but a new beginning.
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Review the Keys to Success in this book. What is your favorite one and why?
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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.
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