This document discusses the importance of perseverance, motivation, and having a growth mindset. It contains several quotes that promote these ideas, such as "You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change" and "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." It also lists attributes like adaptability, responsibility, and lifelong learning that are vital for success in one's career and life. The overall message is that continually striving for self-improvement and being willing to change are necessary to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals.

5. “You cannot expect to achieve new
goals or move beyond your present
circumstances unless you change.”
–Les Brown

7. “One may go a long way after one is
tired.” – Proverb

8. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is
many short races one after another.”
Walter Elliot
 Vital skill that we all need
to master in order to be
successful in this world
 The continued effort to do
or achieve something
despite
difficulties, failure, or
opposition
 Trials come in all forms
and they will ALWAYS be

9. Motivation
 The psychological feature that
arouses an organism to action toward
a desired goal and
elicits, controls, and sustains certain
goal directed behaviors
 What motivates you?

13. "It takes a lot of courage to release
the familiar and seemingly secure, to
embrace the new. But there is no real
security in what is no longer
meaningful. There is more security in
the adventurous and exciting, for in
movement there is life, and in change
there is power.“ Alan Cohen

16. “In three words I can sum up
everything I've learned about
life:
it goes on.” Robert Frost
…whether you choose to keep up or
not!

17. In order to play the game…

18. Career Rules
Life Skills Rules
 Adaptability
 Responsibility
 Lifelong Learning
 Expect the Unexpected
 Adaptability
 Interdependence
 Purposefulness
 Resourcefulness
 Resilience

19. Career Rules
 Job Security doesn’t exist
 Adaptability
◦ Change – domino effect
◦ Adapt or perish
 Responsibility
◦ This means YOU!
 Lifelong Learning
◦ Healthy response to change

20. Life Skills Rules
 Expect the Unexpected
◦ Not just a good skill, but a crucial skill
 Adaptability
◦ Curve balls can’t derail you
 Interdependence
◦ There are times in your life when it IS
appropriate to lean on others

21. Life Skills Rules
 Purposefulness
◦ Choose wisely
 Resourcefulness
◦ Find different ways to get your needs met
 Resilience
◦ If a door doesn’t open…

23. “Become addicted to constant and
never-ending self-improvement.” – Anthony
J. D’Angelo

24. What do you see in your mirror?

27. Procrastination
 The bad habit of putting off until the
day after tomorrow what should have
been done the day before yesterday. -
Napoleon Hill
 Creates higher levels of stress and
sends all those stress hormones
coursing through your body, wearing it
out faster

28.  The world
today is
littered with
an abundance
of distractions
that can
diminish an
individual’s
productivity

29. Where does all my time go??

30. “Bad habits are like a comfortable
bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out
of.”

31. “He that is good for making
excuses is seldom good for
anything else.” Benjamin Franklin

33. Cognitive distortions – AVOID!
 All-or-nothing thinking
“Either I find a job that pays $50,000 or my whole job
search is a waste of time!”
 Overgeneralization
◦ “I performed poorly in my last job interview. I’ll never
find a suitable job!”
 Mental filter
◦ Dwelling on that one answer to that one question in
an interview that didn’t go well
 Discounting the positive
◦ Job searching requires that we share the
positives

34. Cognitive distortions – AVOID!
 Jumping to conclusions
◦ Mind reading & fortune telling
 Magnification/Catastrophizing
◦ Blow things out of proportion
 Emotional reasoning
◦ Feel bad and find reasons to back that up
 “Should” statements
 Labeling
◦ “I’m a bad interviewer.” “I’m no good at
writing.”
 Personalization & Blame
◦ Blaming only yourself or blaming others

35. Don’t let negativity get to you!
 He was fired by a newspaper editor
because “he lacked imagination and
had no good ideas”
 His famous secret chicken recipe was
rejected 1,009 times before a
restaurant accepted it

36. What is your support system
like?

37. “You can learn a lot about a
person by the company that they
keep.”

38. Whether you choose to believe it or
not…
 We take on the
characteristics of the
people we surround
ourselves with
 We resemble the
members of our inner
circle in our
speech, actions, thoug
hts or mannerisms
 Surround yourself with
people that you can
LEARN from and
EMULATE!

39.  When life’s currents try to sweep you
underneath start kicking as hard as
you can, for as long as you can, until
you find yourself swimming in calmer

40. Attitude determines your Altitude

43. How far do you want to go in
life?
 Something as trivial as a bad attitude
can rob you of opportunities
 Your attitude is the key…
 Will help you…
 Look for the positive in a situation no
matter how dire the circumstances

50. Really want to put this
gratitude stuff into practice?

52. The most beautiful people
we have known are those
who have known
defeat, known
suffering, known
struggle, known loss, and
have found their way out of
the depths. These people
have an appreciation, a
sensitivity, and an
understanding of life that
fills them with
compassion, gentleness, an
d a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just
happen.