The document provides strategies for overcoming common negative success indicators for students. It lists indicators such as making excuses, tardiness, avoiding responsibility, partying over studying, apathy, lack of focus or goals, pessimism, and social isolation. For each indicator, the document suggests two positive strategies. For example, for making excuses it recommends looking at one's own mistakes and taking responsibility, while for tardiness it suggests leaving home earlier and double checking alarms.

1. Activity Sheet:
Overcoming Negative Success Indicators
NAME: Shuntavis Dixson
Directions: Below, you will find a list of some of the most common negative success indicators
for students today. Develop at least two positive strategies to overcome each indicator.
Making excuses and blaming others:
1. Look at yourself and see what you are doing wrong.
2. Be brave enough and take blame for something you do.
Tardiness (late for classes):
1. Leave home earlier than usual.
2. Double check your alarm at night to make sure it is set at a reasonable time.
Avoiding responsibility:
1. Realize that you are grown up, and there no one that is supposed to take care of you.
2. Make a chart of things that are a must to be done throughout the month, and scratch
them of each time one has been taking care of.
Partying over studying:
1. Stay away from friends that influence you to go to parties.
2. Cut partying down to a minimum, and at least make sure you study before and after you
party.
Apathy:
1. Find something that like to do and try to use that as a motivator to keep you interested.
2. If you’re not interested, try to ask questions and research about what you’re doing and see if
you can make it into something you like.
No focus or goals
1. Think to yourself about what things that you want out of life.
2. Write down some goals and things that distract you and eliminate them in process.
Pessimism:
1. Try trusting in others more without being quick to judge.
2. Find out what it is about that person or thing you don’t like and see what you can do to
change your attitude about it.
Social isolation (shyness):
1. Find some social clubs that are within the college and try to join them and try to open up to
people.

2. 2. Hang out more, try to make some friends so that way you can somewhat grow to speaking
more with groups of people.
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