ON COURSE Strategies for Creating Success in College

ON COURSE: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life Study Skills Plus Chapter 6: Gaining Self-Awareness © 2017 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.

Gaining Self-Awareness Successful Students… Struggling Students… • Recognize when they are off course • Wander through life unaware of being off course • Identify their self-defeating patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior • Remain unaware of their selfdefeating patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior • Rewrite their outdated scripts • Unconsciously persist in making choices based on outdated scripts © 2017 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.

Recognizing When You Are Off Course Self-Sabotage and Unconscious Forces • Habits? • Beliefs? • Inconsistencies? © 2017 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.

Self-Awareness: Identifying Your Scripts Anatomy of a Script • Emotional Patterns • Behavior Patterns • Thought Patterns © 2017 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.

Self-Awareness: How We Wrote Our Scripts HOW OTHERS RESPONDED TO US © 2017 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. WHAT SIGNIFICANT ADULTS SAID TO US OBSERVING BEHAVIORS OF SIGNIFICANT ADULTS

Rewriting Our Outdated Scripts IMPACT OF OUTDATED BELIEFS WE DO NOT SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE -Nin WE ARE WHAT WE THINK -Buddha DEEPLY EMBEDDED HABITS THAT ARE TOTALLY UNWORTHY OF US -Covey © 2017 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.

Believing in Yourself: Write Your Own Rules Three Success Rules • Show Up • Do Your Best Work • Participate Actively © 2017 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.