Choices of Successful Students
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CHOICES OF SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS
From On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and Life, 5th Edition, Skip Downing
Successful students . . . Struggling students . . .
- Accept personal responsibility: seeing - See themselves as victims; believing that what themselves as the primary cause of their happens to them is determined primarily by outcomes and experiences. external forces such as fate, luck, and powerful others.
- Discover self-motivation; finding purpose in - Have difficulty sustaining motivation; often their lives by discovering personally feeling depressed, frustrated, and/or resentful meaningful goals and dreams. about a lack of direction in their lives.
- Master self-management; consistently - Seldom identify specific actions needed to planning and taking purposeful actions in accomplish a desired outcome. And when they pursuit of their goals and dreams do, they tend to procrastinate.
- Employ interdependence; building mutually - Are solitary; seldom requesting, even rejecting, supportive relationships that help them offers of assistance from those who could help. achieve their goals and dreams (while helping others do the same).
- Gain self-awareness; consciously employing - Make important choices unconsciously; being behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes that keep directed by self-sabotaging habits and outdated them on course. life scripts.
- Adopt lifelong learning; finding valuable - Resist learning new ideas and skills; viewing lessons and wisdom in nearly every learning as fearful or boring rather than as experience they have. mental play.
- Develop emotional intelligence; effectively - Live at the mercy of strong emotions; such as managing their emotions in support of their anger, depression, anxiety, or a need for instant goals and dreams. gratification.
- Believe in themselves; seeing themselves as - Doubt their competence and personal value; capable, lovable, and unconditionally worthy feeling inadequate to create their desired human beings. outcomes and experiences.