A course in self management - Strategies for College and Beyond.

1. A Course inA Course in
Self-ManagementSelf-Management
Strategies for College andStrategies for College and
BeyondBeyond

2. Career SuccessCareer Success
 Career Success affects your life:Career Success affects your life:
 familyfamily
 IncomeIncome
 Self-esteemSelf-esteem
 Who you associate withWho you associate with
 Where you liveWhere you live
 What you learnWhat you learn
 Your energy levelYour energy level
 Your healthYour health

3. Career SuccessCareer Success
 Depends on skill acquisitionDepends on skill acquisition
 Hard SkillsHard Skills
 Soft SkillsSoft Skills
 Taking responsibilityTaking responsibility
 Making effective decisionsMaking effective decisions
 Managing timeManaging time
 Goal settingGoal setting
 PrioritizingPrioritizing
 PerseverancePerseverance
 CommunicatingCommunicating
 Working in teamsWorking in teams

4. Step One:Step One:
Developing Self-AcceptanceDeveloping Self-Acceptance
 Self-Esteem and Core BeliefsSelf-Esteem and Core Beliefs
 Know and Accept YourselfKnow and Accept Yourself
 Understand no one’s perfectUnderstand no one’s perfect
 Accept things that can’t change, and possess theAccept things that can’t change, and possess the
wisdom to know the differencewisdom to know the difference
 Possess CouragePossess Courage
 Acknowledge personal strengths whileAcknowledge personal strengths while
demonstrating humilitydemonstrating humility
 Acknowledge personal weaknessesAcknowledge personal weaknesses

5. Accepting PersonalAccepting Personal
ResponsibilityResponsibility
 Adopt a Creator roleAdopt a Creator role
 Master Creator languageMaster Creator language
 Make wise decisionsMake wise decisions

6. Accepting PersonalAccepting Personal
ResponsibilityResponsibility
ACCEPT SELF-ACCEPT SELF-
RESPONSIBILITY,RESPONSIBILITY,
seeing yourself asseeing yourself as
the primary cause ofthe primary cause of
your outcomes andyour outcomes and
experiencesexperiences
DO NOTDO NOT
see yourself as asee yourself as a
Victim, believing thatVictim, believing that
what happens to youwhat happens to you
is determinedis determined
primarily by externalprimarily by external
forces, fate, luck,forces, fate, luck,
and powerful othersand powerful others

7.  Adopt a creator roleAdopt a creator role
 BelieveBelieve youryour choices create outcomes andchoices create outcomes and
experiencesexperiences
 Believe external forces are not the determiners ofBelieve external forces are not the determiners of
your outcomes and experiencesyour outcomes and experiences

8.  Master Creator LanguageMaster Creator Language
 Accept personal responsibility for the resultsAccept personal responsibility for the results
 Avoid blaming, complaining, and excusingAvoid blaming, complaining, and excusing
 Make Wise DecisionsMake Wise Decisions
 Consciously design your futureConsciously design your future
 Avoid careless decision making and letting thingsAvoid careless decision making and letting things
happen by chancehappen by chance

9. Responsibility and ChoiceResponsibility and Choice
 Choice – key ingredientChoice – key ingredient
 Choices – conscious or unconsciousChoices – conscious or unconscious
 Seek solutionsSeek solutions
 Take actionTake action
 Try something newTry something new

10. Mastering Creator LanguageMastering Creator Language
 Your inner conversation/internal dialogueYour inner conversation/internal dialogue
 Inner critic – the voice that criticizes the individualInner critic – the voice that criticizes the individual
forfor everythingeverything that goes wrongthat goes wrong
 Everything is not your faultEverything is not your fault
 Inner Defender – the voice that deflects criticismInner Defender – the voice that deflects criticism
outwardoutward
 Blames others for everythingBlames others for everything
 Inner Guide – asks where self-responsibility liesInner Guide – asks where self-responsibility lies

11. Language of ResponsibilityLanguage of Responsibility
 VictimsVictims CreatorsCreators
 Make excusesMake excuses Seek solutionsSeek solutions
 BlameBlame Accept ResponsibilityAccept Responsibility
 ComplainComplain Take ActionTake Action
 Repeat ineffectiveRepeat ineffective Try Something NewTry Something New
behaviorsbehaviors

12. Language of ResponsibilityLanguage of Responsibility
VictimsVictims
““Have to do something”Have to do something”
Place blame—use the ‘you’Place blame—use the ‘you’
pronoun—not the ‘I’pronoun—not the ‘I’
pronounpronoun
““Try”Try”
““Give Up”Give Up”
CreatorsCreators
““Choose to do something”Choose to do something”
Say ‘I’ when referring toSay ‘I’ when referring to
their own problemtheir own problem
Commit and follow throughCommit and follow through
““Control through choice”Control through choice”

13. Academic ResponsibilityAcademic Responsibility
 Major Determiner Academic SuccessMajor Determiner Academic Success
 Allows Individuals Control of Factors that InfluenceAllows Individuals Control of Factors that Influence
Their LearningTheir Learning
 Establishes Optimum Conditions for LearningEstablishes Optimum Conditions for Learning
 Removes obstacles that Interfere with LearningRemoves obstacles that Interfere with Learning

14. Six Components of Self-ManagementSix Components of Self-Management
 MotivationMotivation
 Learning Style and StrategiesLearning Style and Strategies
 Time ManagementTime Management
 Physical EnvironmentPhysical Environment
 Social EnvironmentSocial Environment
 PerformancePerformance