This document provides guidance on unlocking one's potential. It discusses navigating complex global challenges through intellectual and personal growth. It outlines 10 steps to unlocking potential, including checking your ground, using common sense, modeling behaviors, writing things down, and doing the right thing. Success requires a plan, including learning, doing, and being nice. The overall message is that our story unfolds through the telling as we pour water into developing ourselves.

1. Unlocking Your
Potential

2. Focus On The Story

3. www.dwightfryer.com
Navigating our complex global and
digital world requires committed
excellence to intellectual and
personal growth.

4. Level Set
• Level Set – Where Are We?
• The Largest Economic Downturn Since The
Great Depression
• One In 10 With A Mortgage Face
Foreclosure
• Consumer Confidence Measures At New
Lows
• Unemployment Levels Highest In 25 Years
• Where Do We Go From Here?

5. Level Set
• Serious Times Provide HUGE
Challenges And Opportunities
• The Great Depression Lasted for
12 Years
• How Long Will Our Current
Drought Extend?
• Do We Have Plans and Actions
To Transform Our Lives?

6. "Any fact facing us is not as
important as our attitude toward it, for
that determines our success or
failure."
Norman Vincent Peale

7. Steps To Unlocking Your Potential
1. Check Your Ground
2. Leave the Kidnap Victim with Lucy
3. 40 Can’t Tell 20…
4. Common Sense
5. Beautiful Adults / Cute Kids
6. Branding the Franchise
7. Model It
8. Write it Down
9. Keep It Simple
10.Do The Right Thing!

8. Lesson 1: Check Your Ground

9. Lesson 1: Start Today!
•How do we measure success?
•To whom much is given…
•……much is required.
•Where and how you go is up to you!

10. The Greatest Generation

11. The Greatest Generation

12. The Best Of The Best!

13. Tennessee State University

14. A New Network Reaches Into Your Future!
TSU prepared me both academically and
socially to succeed in life. By following the goals
that I set, I realized that all things are
achievable. It was a great place for me to get an
education and offered the opportunity to interact
with a diverse group of students and professors.
Time spent in classes as well as the athletic
events, made attending TSU some of the best
years of my life.
Jeffery Hamer 1977-1981 BS

15. Lesson 2: Leave The Kidnap Victim With Lucy

16. "If you don't like
something, change it. If
you can't change it,
change your attitude.
Don't complain."
Maya
Angelou

17. Write The Ending From Where You Began
• Visualize How Your Life Will Unfold
• Hired Into Current and Past Job – Skills
• Completed School, College, Grad School,
other
• Chronicle Ideas / Organize Images /
Speak It

18. School Deficiency Challenge
Five Factors Explain 90 Percent
1. Two Nurturing Parents In Home
2. Reading Material Quantity &
Quality
3. Pages Read For Homework
4. Hours Spent Watching
Television
5. Days Absent From School

19. Lesson 3: Forty Can’t Tell Twenty…

20. Get Wisdom…
"We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King
"I have learned that success is to be
measured not so much by the position that
one has reached in life, as by the obstacles
which he has overcome while trying to
succeed."
Booker T. Washington
"None of us is as smart as all of us."
Ken Blanchard

21. Five Steps To Adulthood
1. Complete School
2. Leave Home
3. Achieve Financial Independence
4. Marrying
5. Having A Child

22. Emerging Adulthood
• Four Generations In Organizations
• Each Participates In Different Ways
• Capitalizing On This Provides
Advantages
• Millenials Who Become Leaders, Not
Followers Will Excel

23. How To Get Mo’ Water
• Learn New Techniques
• Select An Inner Circle – Choose
Carefully
• Develop Plans
• Embrace Work

24. Be Willing To Share & Receive

25. Lesson 4: Common Sense Ain’t So Common

26. Develop The Necessary Skills
• The Learning Required Is
Not Rocket Science
• Choose The Acquisition
Point Carefully
• Invest In Our Future

27. My grandfather once told me
there were two kinds of people:
those who do the work and
those who take the credit. He
told me to try to be in the first
group; there was much less
competition.-- Indira Gandhi

28. Dollars and Sense…
Annual $17,284
Per Semester
1. Tuition $ 2,942
2. Meal Plan $ 1,320
3. Dorm $ 1,580
4. Books $ 800
5. Travel & Spending $ 2.000
Total $ 8,642

29. Lesson 5: Beautiful Adults / Cute Kids

30. Possessions &
Needs
Cash
Flow?
Learn
Techniques
Dialogue /
Feedback
Make Lists
Develop Plans
Inner
Circle
Tools &
Processes
Measure
Success
Put the textile
together!
Look for angles to twist, places to learn, share, or help,
stops to improve, books to teach-entertain-develop-show,
methods to tell our stories, advocates to convince, and
spots to bless someone not like you!
Dwight Fryer

31. Top Five Careers
Women
1. Business
2. Health / Clinical Science
3. Social Science / History
4. Education
5. Psychology
Men
1. Business
2. Social Science / History
3. Engineering
4. Visual and Performing Arts
5. Computer Science

32. Lesson 7: Model It!
- It’s More Than Clothes
- Interview For Your Next
Job Every Day
- How’s Your Interview
Going?
- Would You Be Hired / Rehired?
- You Should Know This.

33. Lesson 8: Write It Down
Dream
Doubt
Dedication
Discouraged
Decisive
Distracted
Determined
Defeated
Desires
Delay
Choose Carefully!Choose Carefully!
PowerPower

34. Be Methodical

35. When I Was A Child…

36. Detailed Plan
Year Fall Spring Cum.
2010-11 14 16 30
2011-12 15 15 60
2012-13 15 15 90
2013-14 15 15 120

37. Strategic Plan
Per Semester Hours
1. Class 1 3
2. Class 2 3
3. Class 3 3
4. Class 4 3
5. Class 5 3
Total 15
***Internalize Class Descriptions***

38. Lesson 9: Keep It Simple, Smart!
1. Learn
1. What Does My Degree Curriculum Require?
2. Am I Becoming An Expert At Obtaining My
Degree?
3. Where Can I Intern And Gain Experiences?
2. Do
1. How Much Quality Study Am I Completing?
2. Which Methods Can Be Employed To Build
My Oral and Written Communication Skills?
3. Be Nice!
1. Who Knows Me and How?
2. How Are My Interpersonal Skills Perceived?

39. Pace your story...it takes time
• First words written in July 1998 after eight
years of mulling and talking
• Completed draft at Christmas 2002
• Book Deal signed in January 2005
• Publication to occur June 2006
• Use whatever may come…to enrich your
story and fortify others
1st Words Written
7/98 9/98 4/01 12/02 Summer/04 8/04 9/04 1/05 4/06
Relocation / Personal Challenges / RCRWA
Outline and storyboard Completed
1st draft for Christmas – making gravy
Iowa and Hurston/Wright F/U with contacts to Book Deal
Publication
The Legend of Quito Road Timeline

40. Reconnect With The Important
1. Faith
1. Know the tenets of our beliefs and values
2. Live It!
2. Family
1. Spend Quality Time With Those You Love
2. Just Do It!
3. Work
1. Work Creates Our Ability To Provide and Enjoy
2. Embrace It!
3. Exercise - The Place We Inhabit Must Be Strong
4. Spend Time Outdoors

41. Be Careful Who Joins Your Seed…

42. Children Come From Choices

43. Listen And Learn…

44. Stay Ready - Meningitis Facts
- Inflammation of lining of the brain and spinal
cord
- Effects of viral less severe than bacterial forms
- Routine early childhood vaccines protect
against pneumococcal and Hib forms
- If meningococcal bacteria cross into the
bloodstream, sepsis and widespread meningitis
will occur
- It can be fast moving, cause brain damage,
loss of limb, organ failure, and death in hours
- Consider immunization / learn symptoms

45. Morph The Terrible Into A Positive

46. Lesson 10: Do The Right Thing
Knowing What Right Is
Can Be Deceptive!

47. Spend Time Outdoors

48. Thousands of candles
can be lighted from a
single candle, and the
life of the candle will
not be shortened.
-- Chinese Proverb

49. www.dwightfryer.com
Navigating our complex global and
digital world requires committed
excellence to intellectual and
personal growth.

50. Steps To Unlocking Your Potential
1. Check Your Ground
2. Leave the Kidnap Victim with Lucy
3. 40 Can’t Tell 20…
4. Common Sense
5. Beautiful Adults / Cute Kids
6. Branding the Franchise
7. Model It
8. Write it Down
9. Keep It Simple
10.Do The Right Thing!

51. Success Requires A Plan
1.Our Story Unfolds
With The Telling
2.Learn, Do, & Be nice!
3.Pouring The Water

52. That’s My Story...I’m Sticking To It!
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