<p> CHOICES OF SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS</p><p>From On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and Life, 5th Edition, Skip Downing</p><p>Successful students . . . Struggling students . . . </p><p>- 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. </p><p>- 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. </p><p>- 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. </p><p>- 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). </p><p>- 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choices unconsciously; being behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes that keep directed by self-sabotaging habits and outdated them on course.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. </p><p>- 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. </p><p>- 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. </p><p>- 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.</p>