This document discusses perseverance through an analogy to a small sprocket. It notes that sometimes work flows smoothly, other times more effort is required even without visible progress. Determination can help influence how difficult tasks are approached. The document then points to characteristics of ants like integrity, initiative, and industry as examples of perseverance. It asks how students can persevere through the remaining days of school with those ant-like qualities in mind: doing work because it's right, needing no external motivation, and continuing until the task is complete.

1. Perserverance
Perseverance

2. What is the
WH
job of the
small
sprocket?

3. How are you as a student
like a spinning sprocket?

4. That’s life!
Sometimes things
flow smoothly and
you do not feel like you
are working too hard.

5. Other times you have to
work, work,
work, work,
work –
even when you feel like
you are not making progress.

6. And sometimes you feel
like life is spinning you.

7. Fueled by determination,
you can help determine
how you spin.

8. In nature, we can learn about the
sprocket principal from the ant.

9. What characteristics of the ant
enable it to succeed?

10. Contrast the ant’s initiative
and perseverance
with our
own human tendencies.
What prevents us from “spinning”?

11. Group Talking Points:
• INTEGRITY: The ant doesn’t need supervision.
It works because it is the right thing to do.

12. Group Talking Points:
• INTEGRITY: The ant doesn’t need supervision.
It works because it is the right thing to do.
• INITIATIVE: The ant starts to gather food
without being pushed. It doesn’t need
someone to show it the way.

13. Group Talking Points:
• INTEGRITY: The ant doesn’t need supervision.
It works because it is the right thing to do.
• INITIATIVE: The ant starts to gather food
without being pushed. It doesn’t need
someone to show it the way.
• INDUSTRY: The ant has a spirit of industry. It
works and works until the job is done.

14. As a student,
how can you persevere
through 40 more days of school?

15. Key Points:
• Work because it is the right thing to do.
• Don’t need someone to show you the way.
• Work and work until the job is done.

16. Images By
Flicker Creative Commons:
Gears By BinaryApe
Spinning top By jacquelinetinney
Color spin By buttersweet
Ants By vpickering
Red fire ants By rwsphoto
Old school By alamosbasement
Based of the book Habitudes by Dr. Tim Elmore.